- Traumatised by a miscarriage and unable to face telling
her husband that she had lost their baby, mother-of-two Lisa Montgomery
drew up a plan to make things better. She found a pregnant stranger, choked
her to death and hacked the eight-month-old foetus from her victim's body.
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- With chilling calm, she then rang her own husband, told
him she had suddenly given birth while out shopping and asked him to collect
her from the car park of a burger restaurant 35 miles from home.
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- Her actions could potentially earn her the death penalty
in the US.
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- Montgomery, 36, was last night in custody in Kansas charged
with the federal crime of "kidnapping resulting in death" after
confessing to murdering expectant housewife Bobbie Jo Stinnett, 23, and
taking her baby.
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- The baby girl, who despite her brutal and premature entry
into the world was recovered safe and well, was yesterday in the arms of
her father, Zeb Stinnett. His wife's grandmother, JoAnn Stinnett, said:
"There is no punishment that could be harsh enough for someone who
did that."
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- Sheriff Ben Espey, who led the search for the missing
baby after Stinnett was found dead at her home in Skidmore, Missouri, on
Thursday afternoon, revealed: "I don't think she was going to take
this child to try to sell it or move it. I think she was probably going
to take it because she had lost one through a miscarriage at about six
months."
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- The case horrified not only the public but also the hardened
police officers and FBI agents involved.
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- Espey, who admitted he was overwhelmed by the barbarity
of the assault, said the crime scene was "a pretty gruesome sight",
while Stinnett's mother, who discovered her daughterís mutilated
body, told investigators that "it appeared as though her daughter's
stomach had exploded", according to a court affidavit.
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- The document, released by prosecutors, suggested a high
degree of premeditation by Montgomery in the days leading up to the slaughter.
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- As a breeder of rat terrier dogs, Stinnett regularly
visited internet chat forums for canine enthusiasts where she not only
advertised that she had dogs for sale but also mentioned her pregnancy.
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- Posing as an interested buyer, Montgomery contacted her
using the false name of Darlene Fischer and adopted the fateful chatroom
identity "fischer4kids".
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- In return, Stinnett invited the woman to come to her
home and view the dogs for sale.
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- Stinnett wrote on the chatroom's message board on Wednesday:
"Darlene, I've e-mailed you with the directions so we can meet. I
do so hope that the e-mail reaches you."
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- On Thursday afternoon, Stinnett's mother, Becky Harper,
telephoned her daughter at 2.30pm.
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- The affidavit reveals: "Stinnett told her mother
she was expecting someone to come and look at her dogs and then stated:
'Oh, they're here. I've got to go'."
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- Less than an hour later, Harper found her daughter dead.
Clumps of blonde hair were entwined in her fingers, suggesting that she
had vainly battled her attacker.
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- Within hours, Montgomery was back home in the small town
of Melvern, over the border in Kansas, showing off what she claimed was
her own baby outside the bank as her husband Kevin watched quietly.
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- But her neighbours became suspicious after they saw television
reports that a baby was missing.
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- One woman told reporters in Melvern, admitting that she
telephoned police: "She was acting like that's her baby. You could
tell she loved it. I just thought that was strange, that it was a baby
that wasn't even 24 hours old and they were showing it off. We didn't know
she was pregnant, and all of a sudden she has a baby."
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- At the same time, FBI agents skilled in computer surveillance
tracked the mysterious Darlene Fischer to Montgomery's home address. When
confronted, she at first insisted that the baby was hers, but later relented.
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- Special Agent Craig Arnold said: "After being advised
of her constitutional rights and having waived those rights, Lisa Montgomery
thereafter confessed to having strangled Stinnett and removing the foetus."
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- Montgomery also told investigators that she had lied
to her husband about being pregnant, though it was unclear how she had
managed to mislead him. Espey declined to elaborate on his claim that she
had previously suffered a miscarriage.
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- Choking back tears, the sheriff added: "I am overwhelmed
by the fact that we are able to give this baby back to its family. It's
very hard for me to accept what's happened."
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- Foetal abduction is a rare crime. A woman in Oklahoma
was last year accused of shooting dead a six-months pregnant woman and
stealing her foetus, which later died. The alleged perpetrator was found
mentally unfit for trial.
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- In 2000, Michelle Bica of Ravenna, Ohio, invited a pregnant
acquaintance to her home, shot her dead and carved out her foetus. The
baby survived and Bica committed suicide.
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- Stinnett's killing presented her family with their third
major tragedy in four years.
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- In October 2000, Stinnett's cousin Wendy Gillenwater,
25, was beaten to death by a boyfriend. Six months later, another cousin,
Branson Perry, 20, vanished during an errand.
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- FBI agents working on a child pornography case in Alabama
found what appeared to be a written account of his rape, mutilation and
murder on an internet chatroom. No one has been charged in the case.
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- Bobbie Jo and Zeb Stinnett wed only a year ago. The minister
who married them, Reverend Harold Hammon, of Skidmore Christian Church,
will officiate at Stinnett's funeral.
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- He said: "They were just a nice young couple. The
only one who can figure this one out is God. You can't explain it, you
can't understand it."
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- ©2004 Scotsman.com
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- http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1447782004
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- Comment
- From Jim Mortellaro
- 12-19-4
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- Lisa Montgomery makes a case for abolishing Abortion
and the controversy surrounding this issue, once and for all. As does Scott
Peterson who was charged with murdering the unborn fetus of his wife as
well as the murder of his wife. This means to this writer, that late term
abortion is in fact ... murder. This is according to the law and courts
having made the decision. Lisa Montgomery is being charged with murder,
having strangled her victim, then cutting open her abdomen and removing
the unborn fetus.
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- So why are we not in the process of defeating Roe vs.
Wade? What do liberals have now, with which to defend their side of the
issue? And just how true is it that the liberal claim that more than 90%
of American women are in favor of abortion on demand? This issue of abortion
is finally (in my opinion) ready for referendum. I do not believe that
abortion is favored by the majority of American women or Americans in general.
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- The law is clear. If a person can be charged with the
murder of a fetus not yet 7 or 8 months in term, then the abortion of such
a fetus is also murder. Or did I get this wrong? I don't think so. It is
my belief that abortion is wrong except under certain conditions, such
as rape and incest. As a man, I am not supposed to have a right to an opinion.
But as a man, I do have a right to speak of my own feelings on the matter.
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- If I were a woman, and had been raped or suffered incest,
I would carry the child to term. But then, I am not a woman. Some of you
will say, "Thank God!" I also believe that it is not God's opinion
to abort either.
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- The time is perfect for a National referendum. Do you
agree?
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- Jim Mortellaro, Jr.
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- Comment
- By Alfred Lehmberg
- AlienView.net
- 12-20-4
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- If ~he~ were a woman... that's enough easy discredit
right there, isn't it?
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- No, Sir. I don't agree.
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- In fact, I don't think I have ever read anything more
senseless, irrational, authoritarian, outmoded, unthinking, reactionary,
biased, inappropriate, canted, insipid, insentient, or just plain ~stupid~...
than the preceding.
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- Abortion is not ~desired~ by anyone, especially a late
term one. It is the profoundly tragic result of at least one person (though
~one~ person at the last) coming to the conclusion of a choice for which
they are going to have to pay, for years, a lot of emotional freight. The
~key~ in the immediately preceding is the person's 'individual' choice
to pay that price. It is not Mr. Mortellaro's (or Jerry Falwell's or George
Bush's) blithe choice to airily make. He would obviously intrude his more
omniscient, moral, and perfect will on the will of a complete stranger
-- generations of complete strangers.
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- Moreover, Mr. Mortellaro performs the usual faux-intellectual
slight of hand of the Bush-league neocon as he jams together bad apples
and spoiled oranges for an especially disjunctive, deconstructive, and
socially corrosive 'fruit salad' as fatuous in execution as it is authoritarian
in concept. The extremely rare occurrence of a mental incompetent murdering
an innocent for her unborn child has nothing, what-so-ever, to do with
back alley dirty-coat hanger abortions pandemic before Roe vs. Wade. It,
in no way, is a justification for moralistic sociopaths to impose their
pompous and officious wills on others who ~refuse~ to validate their divisive,
hate mongering, and disingenuous (...and Oh, so convenient...) faith.
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- Where was Mr. Mortellaro in the last 50 years of mandated
reproductive ignorance, facilitated by similarly affected blue-nosed dim-bulbs
in our public schools, that produces these unwanted pregnancies? Where
was Mr. Mortellaro on the taxes that would have been needed to rescue these
innocents from their dangerous sexual ignorance? Where was Mr. Mortellaro
in any discussion regarding the insanity of using sex to sell everything
from tampons to lip gloss and then being ~surprised~ when many of the customers
go on to have a little of that sex they have ground into their intellectual
genitals near every moment of their waking lives.
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- What do liberals have ~now~, with which to defend their
side of the issue? Well - first of all we have the suspiciously facile
and fatuous knee-jerk moralistas such as Mr. Mortellaro provide ready examples
of their pointlessly unrealistic two-color, sexually immature, and self-serving
world view. You see, with many of them, it's not so much the right to life
of the unborn infant that is the real issue with them at all. Its the lost
~opportunity~ for another docile and easily manipulated 'employee' to turn
a wrench for minimum wage in one of their sweatshop factories. An overlarge
population ~guarantees~ same. This is the real reason our population is
out of control and why the sexual ignorance is facilitated in our disingenuous
society, I suspect.
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- Additionally we liberals have the courage to stand up
to these ardently presumptuous proponents of the new American Theocracy
and say, "we reject your faith as untested, we abhor your politics
as insane, and we detest your worldview as unwarranted." That will
be enough; get ready for it.
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- Abortion ~is~ bad. ~Worse~ is one who would presume to
think for another when they are largely responsible for the government,
institution, or religion precipitating the ignorant thoughtlessness to
begin with and ~provoking~, almost ensuring, an unwanted pregnancy.
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- To close, the referendum alluded to by Mr. Mortellaro
should be one against theocratic neocons who protest a world they made
with their own chubby little hands and still happily profit from.
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- "I struggle to the last with thee; from hell's heart
I'd stab at thee; for hate's sake I'd spit my last breath at thee..."
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- Sincerely, put a sock in it.
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- www.AlienView.net
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- Comment
Alton Raines
12-20-4
A typical liberal response -- attack, polarize and then try to make the
irrational rational. Mr. Lehmberg would like to void the opinion of Mr.
Mortellaro by pushing him over into the same ilk as a Jerry Falwell or
a NeoCon Theocratic Reconstructinist/Dominionist nut. A "boogie man"
always helps when your viewpoint is weak. Cheap ploy. Seems to be the "method"
of arguing an issue today... just polarize and slander!
I think Mr. Mortellaro's simple viewpoint of "Thou Shalt Not Kill"
has nothing to do with male or female rights issues whatsoever. Abortion
is murder because it's a human life (it will never be anything but) premeditatively
snuffed out against its will. Takes a pretty thick skull not to get that
one. Did religious wisdom help Mortellaro arrive at this understanding?
Maybe so. Does that even matter? Certain people want to see all religious
wisdom, especially that which comes from the Biblical traditions, wiped
out or made inconsequential. They seek lawlessness, in the end. But even
without this strain of wisdom, millions of people world wide have the natural
wisdom to see abortion as murder, simply by logic and rationale.
When people who love, cherish and defend the sanctity of human life are
the 'scary people' everyone should be worried about, some serious mind
control is at work.
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- Comment
- By Alfred Lehmberg
- AlienView.net
- 12-21-4
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- A typical liberal response -- attack, polarize and then
try to make the irrational rational. Mr. Lehmberg would like to void the
opinion of Mr. Mortellaro by pushing him over into the same ilk as a Jerry
Falwell or a NeoCon Theocratic Reconstructinist/Dominionist nut. A "boogie
man" always helps when your viewpoint is weak. Cheap ploy. Seems to
be the "method" of arguing an issue today... just polarize and
slander!
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- Lehmberg: Perhaps a "typical liberal response",
but certainly a more cogent, logical and coherent one, Sir. One capable
of the minimal amount of detection necessary to see that ~you~ readily
employ what you accuse in this paragraph, and in the bumptious defense
of the weaker position, too. A NeoCon Theocratic Reconstructinist/Dominionist
nut would smell as sweet by any other name Mr. Raines, and by all appearances
Mr. Mortellaro walks and quacks with a remarkable similarity to same.
Mr. Mortellaro's insentient opinion ~deserves~ to be voided.
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- Lehmberg: A cheaper ploy, Mr Raines, is to justify in
any way the specious parallels Mr. Mortellaro labors to draw while whining
about ~imagined~ "polarization" and ~ephemeral~ "slander"
because someone is willing to stand up to the bald neoconic hypocrisy that
Mr. Mortellaro abundantly implies, fronts for, and precipitates. Moreover,
Sir, making the "irrational rational" is not the preferred method
of the *liberal* as the activities of one Karl Rove clearly illustrate.
Consider, Sir, you yourself ignored salient points in my initial response
to Mr. Mortellaro to prosecute the fatuous case to trot out here. ~That~
is weakness, Sir. ~That~ is the cheap ploy. ~That~ is your "boogie
man," Mr. Raines.
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- I think Mr. Mortellaro's simple viewpoint of "Thou
Shalt Not Kill" has nothing to do with male or female rights issues
whatsoever.
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- Lehmberg: ~Individual~ rights, Mr. Raines. That is
the bone of contention here. You and Mr. Mortellaro seemingly collude,
[s] ...for our own good of course... [/s], to erode them at an accelerating
rate. Shame on ~you~, Sir.
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- Abortion is murder because it's a human life (it will
never be anything but) premeditatively snuffed out against its will.
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- Lehmberg: The ~moment~ the same concern and compassion
is visited upon persons in this nation at the end of life as at the beginning
of life I'll be as rabid a right-to-lifer as Pat Robertson. Until then,
I'll ponder the premeditated murder of persons in this nation without health-care,
premeditated murder by pharmaceutical corporate behemoths who rush drugs
into production (we won't even talk about tobacco), premeditated murder
of real people in phony wars of crass adventurism and empire, the premeditated
murder of people by machine guns and crack cocaine (provided by the CIA,
see Gary Webb and ~his~ premeditated murder), or the slow-death premeditated
murder of 25,000 children a day (world wide) due to starvation, children,
I add ~also~ rushed into production. There are dozens of other "premeditations",
Sir. Where is your outrage about all of _that_ premeditation, Mr. Raines?
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- Takes a pretty thick skull not to get that one.
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- Lehmberg: Not so thick, Mr. Raines. Actually it takes
considerable softening up spelled out by decades of an educational system
more interested in producing malleable employees than critical thinkers,
a mandated sexual ignorance, discouraged birth control, and facile moralists
such as yourself and Mr. Mortellaro, Sir. Predictably, you have it backwards.
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- Did religious wisdom help Mortellaro arrive at this understanding?
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- Lehmberg: No Sir, not in my opinion. What was required
was the staunch neo-conservatism of the reactionary ideologue, an inability
to put himself in another's shoes, an unwillingness to appreciate that
taxes are what is paid to have a quality civilization, and his *business*
degree. He's not alone.
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- Maybe so. Does that even matter?
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- Lehmberg: In a word, yes. Of course it matters. What
a thoughtless statement.
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- Certain people want to see all religious wisdom, especially
that which comes from the Biblical traditions, wiped out or made inconsequential.
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- Lehmberg: No sir, I just want it the ~hell~ out of my
statehouse, not because I'm anti-religion, at all, but for the preservation
of both the state ~and~ a person's religion of choice. Presumably, you
and Mr. Mortellaro would mix, and so destroy, both.
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- They seek lawlessness, in the end.
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- Lehmberg: No sir. Not "lawlessness", just
the preclusion of a legislated morality, world/people hating (~in~ the
end) reactionary sociopaths who would cheerily relieve others of dwindling
choice, and an imposition of a faith that I cannot respect, refuse to validate,
and stand righteously against.
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- But even without this strain of wisdom, millions of people
world wide have the natural wisdom to see abortion as murder, simply by
logic and rationale.
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- Lehmberg: ...Neatly discounting millions more with a
~learned~ wisdom who see abortion as another hard, even regrettable, choice
to make in some very trying times attendant to an over-bloated world of
violence, suffering, and complacency... that a ~working~ couple is hard
pressed to pull together -- a world Mr. Mortellaro seems to blithely facilitate
Mr. Raines. Your "natural" wisdom is fractious, convenient, complacent,
and canted.
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- When people who love, cherish and defend the sanctity
of human life are the 'scary people' everyone should be worried about,
some serious mind control is at work.
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- Lehmberg: That's a laugh. Scary people are as scary
people do, Sir. Moreover, "serious mind control" is electing
as President a dumb-assed-dry-drunk-double-deserter with an inferiority
complex, a paucity of intellect, and delusions of dangerous grandeur.
Now ~that's~ scary.
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- ...Queue up your own sock, Mr Raines.
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- www.AlienView.net
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