OK, last week we were simply laughing at Josh Feuerstein, for his silly little temper tantrum against Starbucks for their coffee cups.
This one is not so funny.
Here, Joshua Feuerstein is practicing stochastic terrorism. He is literally calling for violence against Planned Parenthood and its staffers. Classy, no?
I tried to link directly to Feuerstein’s own video, but the chickenshit took it down. The clip is in this Cult of Dusty rant about Feuerstein, so despite Josh’s efforts, his words will live forever…
RE-EDIT: The new link to Josh Feuerstein’s video has also been taken down. The Cult of Dusty video is still up, and it has Josh Feuerstein’s words in their entirety.
x YouTube VideoTo quote from the video:
Planned Parenthood has hunted down millions and millions of little innocent babies, stuck a knife into the uterus, cut them, pulled them out, crushed their skull with forceps, ripped their body apart, sold their tissue, and threw them bleeding into a trash bin.
I say, tonight, we punish Planned Parenthood. I think it’s time that abortion doctors should have to run and hide and be afraid for their life.
That is a death threat, my fellow Kossacks. He’s too chickenshit to do it himself, so he was hoping that someone in his audience would do the dirty deed for him. As far as I’m concerned, there’s little moral difference.
From Hemant Mehta, of the Friendly Atheist blog at Patheos:
It was only a matter of time before a video like this came to light.
Joshua Feuerstein, who gained notoriety this month for complaining about Starbucks’ red cups, apparently once encouraged his followers to go after doctors who provide abortion services
To be clear, this video was made long before this weekend. It appears to have been posted about two weeks after the first anti-Planned Parenthood video came out this summer. Still, what Feuerstein says is appalling and it’s nowhere to be found on his own social media accounts as far as I can tell. (It wouldn’t be the first time he’s deleted a video that spurred backlash from even his own followers.)
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Making this even more frightening is the fact that Feuerstein has posted videos before in which he brandishes a gun and urges his followers to make sure they know how to use their own. This sort of extremist rhetoric is nothing new to people who have watched him for a long time.
It’s irrelevant when this video was created. You still have a conservative Christian sending a message to his mob that they should punish doctors providing an important — and legal — service for women to the point where they’re running for their lives.
Now normally, I’m a free speech kind of guy, but this crosses the line. The FACE Act is federal law, that among other things, prohibits the use of force, or the threat of force, to interfere with the operations of a clinic that provides reproductive health services to women. Joshua Feuerstein attempted to incite his audience to direct violence. Not just direct violence, but immediate violence. Remember, he said
“I say, tonight, we punish Planned Parenthood. I think it’s time that abortion doctors should have to run and hide and be afraid for their life.”
He was playing the stochastic terrorism game, rolling the dice, hoping for a snake-eyes that would mean that a lone wolf like Robert Dear would strike out and commit an act of violence against one of their clinics or staff members. Maybe in this case, he didn’t get the snake-eyes, but every time he rolls, he increases the odds, so he’s absolutely complicit in what happened in Colorado Springs.
Joshua Feuerstein made a death threat against Planned Parenthood, by means of stochastic terrorism. So I am calling for the arrest and prosecution of Joshua Feuerstein for violation of the FACE Act.
Joshua Feuerstein belongs in prison. He has blood on his hands.