The program airs tonight at 8PM on MSNBC in place of Rachel Maddow's show.
Here is the link to Kansas.com, which brings us a story from the Kansas City Star.
There is a description of one scene that reminds me of Tim McVeigh, who was at Waco, then later bombed the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Scott Roeder was in the courtroom when Dr. Tiller was acquitted of trumped-up charges, only two months before Roeder killed Tiller.
This quote refers to footage of courtroom video that is included in the documentary:
And there, in the back of the courtroom, seated next to the leader of the anti-abortion group Operation Rescue, is Scott Roeder, the Kansas City man who — two months after Tiller was cleared on all 19 charges — walked into Tiller's church and shot him.
Read more: http://www.kansas.com/...
I do not have a great deal more to add.
I simply wanted to give you a heads up about the program tonight.
If I am the first to diary this, and it gets a lot of attention, it will be the first time I have done such a thing in my four years at Daily Kos.
Lately, I have been writing poetry, in diaries that get five or six recs and tips each.
But I like writing poetry, and some like reading it, so, I will present here a poem about this topic:
I live in Wichita.
I have lived in Wichita for eleven years.
Wichita seems like a nice place,
in many ways.
No hurricanes.
No earthquakes.
Tornadoes, but tornadoes are like lightning,
with a little common sense,
the odds are,
even in Kansas,
you will never get hit
by a tornado.
Such a nice place.
However.
Kansas has always been home to some of the most radical
radicals.
I do not know why.
John Brown.
Carrie Nation.
Her first use of a hatchet to destroy property occurred in 1900 when she invaded Wichita and wrecked several saloons.
(That quote is from Encyclopedia Americana, 1955 edition.)
Fred Phelps.
Tim McVeigh.
(Tim McVeigh was trained at Fort Riley, Kansas, and bought his bomb materials and built the bomb in Kansas.)
I do not know why
Kansas inspires radicals.
Maybe it is simply a boring place,
and people look extra hard
for something
interesting
to
do.
Thank you for reading.
I will try to watch the show on my computer, since I have no TV.
Or, I could watch it at the laundromat two blocks away.
One more unusual Kansan, Dennis Rader, Wichita's home grown serial killer.
He took more than fourteen years off from killing, which is very unusual for serial killers. Those who study such matters thought he must be dead, but when a book about him was in the works, and the local news reported on the book in the works, he started sending clues, and finally got caught.