The rampant property damage isn’t protected speech. They also do sometimes use bombs and guns, e.g. the Olympic Park bombing and the murder of Dr. George Tiller (in his church no less!). Yes, they throw in the pro forma calls for peaceful protest, but rhetoric like this from the founder of Operation Rescue sure makes violence sound morally acceptable:
George Tiller was a mass-murderer. We grieve for him that he did not have time to properly prepare his soul to face God. I am more concerned that the Obama Administration will use Tiller’s killing to intimidate pro-lifers into surrendering our most effective rhetoric and actions.
Put another way, the FBI has no qualms calling environmental militants like Earth First! and ELF terrorists, and they have a much lower body-count than the anti-abortion folks.
