A man has been arrested in connection with the bombing of a Planned Parenthood office in Wisconsin over the weekend. Local authorities in Grand Chute, Wisconsin made the arrest last night:
Police say they have arrested the person they think placed a homemade explosive device that went off Sunday and damaged Planned Parenthood’s Gillett Street clinic.
Police said today they identified the man after reviewing surveillance footage.
The man was booked into the Outagamie County Jail on Monday evening on a probation violation. No charges have yet been referred to prosecutors.
“The focus today is to determine what else we can discover that might link this person to the situation,” said Grand Chute Police Chief Greg Peterson.
Police identified the man through his vehicle, a white SUV, which was involved in a crash later that night close to the site of the Planned Parenthood office, and towed away. They tracked down the owner of the vehicle and he matched the description on the surveillance tapes. So good police work contributed to the arrest.
The man has not yet been charged. In addition to local law enforcement, the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division have opened investigations into the case. The DoJ investigation falls under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.
The Planned Parenthood clinic reopened today. This is but one of several thousand incidents of violence at abortion clinics or women’s health clinics over the past 30 years.




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No terrorism charges????
OK, let’s see all the people who condemned the ELF as “terrorists” after they burned some SUVs at a dealership and burned down a building at the University of Washington come on out and condemn this latest abortion clinic bomber as a “terrorist” as well.
Guess ‘terrorism’ is in the eye of the beholder. The MIC probably can’t make much money by providing ‘security’ to Planned Parenthood, can they?
No charges yet all – given that the FBI and the ATF are involved he’ll be charged and go to jail. It is however extraordinarily unlikely IMHO that he would be charged as a terrorist, as only Muslim religious fanatics who hijack planes or environmentalists who commit arson are seen as “terrorists” in the eyes of the US establishment.
Maybe Planned Parenthood should apply to the Department of Homeland Security for funding for a security force, via a no-bid contract that goes to Blackwater er “Xe”, and we’d see not just the money appear but laws passed that would make it an act of terrorism to so much as fart within a mile of one of these clinics …
Of course of those several thousand incidents, not one can be in any way attributable to ongoing rightwing hate speech, incendiary language used by rightwing/fascist media “figures” (I’m looking at you Rush & Billo), nor by any inflaming & outrageous language used by fanatical “church leaders.”
These thousands of incidents just, you know, happen…
Nothing to see here, kiddies, move along now… *Just* a Planned Parenthood clinic being targeted and bombed… you know: *just* another day in the neighborhood. And anyway, the Slutty McSlut Sluts had it coming! /s
A pro-drug law breaker.
Must be right wing.