Sometimes people are walking pro-abortion arguments

This pro-life moron earned the distinction of being named Keith Oberman's "Worst Person In The World" tonight on his "Countdown" program on MSNBC. Well done.

The driver of a car that ended up inside the lobby of the Edgerton Women's Health Center early Monday morning was in the Scott County Jail Monday night.

"An individual drove a car through the front double doors ... proceeded through the second set of doors and parked their car right smack in the middle of the waiting room," said Tom Fedje, president of the Edgerton Women's Health Center.

He added that Monday's incident is the most shocking he's seen in his 33 years at the center.

Davenport firefighters were sent to the health center, 1510 E. Rusholme St., at 4:31 a.m., after early detection devices in the building alerted emergency dispatchers of the fire.

David Robert McMenemy, 45, address unavailable, was charged with second degree arson and was being held late Monday on $13,000 bond.

Chief Mark Freese, of the Davenport Fire Department, said the incident still is under investigation, but firefighters think the car caught fire after going into the building. A hydrocarbon-sniffing dog will investigate the car for accelerants.

"Until we actually understand what this guy's motive was to drive through the door in the first place, everything up to this point is speculation," he said.

Mr. Fedje also said it appears the car was driven into the building intentionally.

He said he speculates that the driver's beliefs led him to damage the building. The health center does not do abortions and does not get involved in making referals to abortion clinics, Mr. Fedje said. The center has a large obstetrical program and has delivered more than 17,000 babies at Genesis Medical Center.

Though the D/A article was garbled and started talking about a fire without any prior mention of it, this zealot apparently drove his car into the lobby, and then set it ablaze.

The man was still on the scene when firefighters arrived, Chief Freese said. He had exited the building and said he wanted to talk to someone.

The first floor of the two-story building has smoke and water damage and the second floor has some smoke damage, Chief Freese said.

"The whole building smells smoky," Mr. Fedje said. "The first floor sustained major damage in the waiting room. You're not just talking about carpet and chairs. You're talking about a significant loss."

The 25-foot counter where patients register also was damaged and Mr. Fedje said he hadn't yet spoken to engineers to find out if the building was structurally damaged.

"The building is only three years old. It's a beautiful building," he said. "We're very proud of it. I have a hard time understanding why a person would do these sorts of things."

The Women Infant Children program, a government-run program that provides nutritious foods for low-income women, infants and children, is run out of the health center. About 4,300 Scott County WIC clients receive checks for food products each month. They can continue to receive those at the Friendly House, at 1221 Myrtle St. in Davenport.

"Who can be against pregnancy care? Who can be against WIC care?" Mr. Fedje asked.

Edgerton leases the building from Genesis Medical Center, and Mr. Fedje said he is working with Genesis to find clinical space while the building is repaired.

*UPDATE*
A commenter to this original post said that assuming this guy was some anti-abortion freak was "foolishness" and read me out for doing so.

Of course, there's really no other conceivable reason some idiot would do what this guy did.

Turns out, of course, that my assumption was correct, as a piece in the QC Times explains....

A Michigan man described as a bookworm by relatives has wandered the Midwest since August, looking for a medical clinic to attack with his 2004 Saturn compact car, authorities said.

It was dawn Monday when David Robert McMenemy approached Edgerton Women’s Health Center in Davenport, which he mistakenly believed provided abortions.

He entered the center’s driveway off East Rusholme Street and then took a few moments to turn and configure the car to face straight into the lobby, Davenport Fire Marshal Mike Hayman said.

The 45-year-old crashed the Saturn into the central lobby, coming to rest at the counter. When the car did not immediately burst into flames as he may have expected, police said he took gasoline that he had poured into a Gatorade bottle and spread it over the interior. "I lit it," McMenemy told investigators, and he exited the structure to surrender himself to startled Davenport firefighters.

"He came out and said to our guys, 'There’s no one in the vehicle, and that’s my car. I did it,' " Hayman related. "Our commander on the scene was very surprised, and he took McMenemy to a squad car and turned him over to police."

The health center would have been destroyed if its sprinkler system hadn’t activated, police reported. Damage estimates were not available late Tuesday.

McMenemy, listed at 6-foot-5 and 270 pounds, remains in the Scott County Jail.

He made a preliminary appearance in court on Tuesday morning, and the judge decided not to set bail because the resident of Wayne County, Mich., is considered a flight risk and is likely to reoffend, Scott County Attorney Bill Davis said, adding that McMenemy has no apparent ties to Davenport.
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He faces a charge of second-degree arson because first-degree arson requires that the building be occupied. There are no additional charges that are appropriate, including terrorism, Davis said, but he noted the case could be taken up by federal authorities.

McMenemy is described as "laid back" and a "bookworm," a woman who identified herself as his niece in Sterling Heights, Mich., told Lourdes Duarte, a reporter for Fox 2 News in Detroit. The niece described McMenemy as her favorite uncle and noted this is not normal behavior for him.

He took his car and left the Detroit suburbs some months ago and the family hasn’t seen him since, Duarte said she was told.

So, again, a more than worthy winner of the "Worst Person In The World" award, though he'd be a strong contender for "Stupidest Religiously Delusional Criminal" as well, though he has a lot of competition both in this country and in the mid-east.

Seriously, this guy has been driving around the country for over a month trying to find an abortion clinic to destroy, and the guy finally attacks a clinic that has nothing to do with abortion? Wow.