Something’s terribly rotten in Kansas. The abortion fight morphed out-of-control and really has surpassed all belief — and that was BEFORE Dr. Tiller got shot again.

This fight has exposed a great deal of corruption between Planned Parenthood, the governship and Dr. Tiller’s very, very deep-pocketed abortuary. It involves a pesky Attorney General named Phill Kline who launched over 107 indictments of Planned Parenthood and 30 against Tiller, then Kline’s eventual ouster due to Tiller’s monied influence, then the new AG dropping everything, and all kinds of murky efforts and to supress the evidence Kline had built.

Tiller’s late term abortion practice is, in fact, illegal in the state of Kansas and everyone knows it. One cannot perform a late-term abortion there except when the health of the mother is in serious jeopardy, and a concurring opinion of a doctor who has no monetary stake in the abortion must be acquired. Tiller openly drove a Mack Truck through this health-of-the-mother exemption, and he bragged about it, and he bragged about how the money he derived from his practice kept the political wheels greased for himself. He boasted he’d performed over 60,000 abortions past 24 weeks (these can run up to $5,000 a piece) and used that money to insulate himself poltically.

He was no great and good hero, always more racketeer than anything else.

When the rule of law no longer means anything, as it ceased to when Tiller bought it openly, results like this murder are completely unsurprising. Some dude, angry that the law and civil society has failed at a critical task, will take matters into his own hands.

Sunday’s result was inevitable given the level of corruption in Kansas over this. In the gunman’s thinking, it was left as the only resort.

What a tragic powderkeg!