All Posts Tagged With: "domestic terrorism"
Nothing To See Here, Folks. Just (Another) Isolated Incident
Via TPM:
Roger Stockham, a 63-year-old Army veteran from California who was reportedly angry at the U.S. government, was arrested by police in Michigan and charged with allegedly threatening to blow up a Mosque in Dearborn.
Dearborn police allegedly found Stockham inside his vehicle outside the Islamic Center of America with a load of M-80s in his [...]
Terrorist attacks Jacksonville congregation
Yes, this is real. It happened 10 days ago, and the national media didn’t report it – only local media did.
On May 10th, a man brought a pipe bomb and a can of gasoline to a Jacksonville congregation during prayers and detonated it. Thank God no one was injured, but it’s still a rather frightening [...]
Sean Hannity Praises Terrorism
Sean Hannity let a little accidental truth slip in.
HANNITY: See, can I add one thing? I think we won the debate.
DREIER: We did win the debate.
HANNITY: When you think about the vast majorities that they have in Congress and they had to bribe, backroom deals, corruption, that’s all because the tea party movement, the people [...]
Utah IRS Building Evacuated
I hope this is a hoax and not something worse:
Hazardous materials crews were on the scene Monday at the IRS building in Farr West, Utah, where two people were removed on stretchers and several others were undergoing decontamination showers.
The FBI released no information about the incident at the facility in Farr West, near Ogden about [...]
The Right Continues To Embrace Terrorists
Do you remember Prof. Ward Churchill?
In January 2005, Churchill’s work attracted publicity because of the widespread circulation of a 2001 essay, “On the Justice of Roosting Chickens”. In the essay, he claimed that the September 11, 2001 attacks were a natural and unavoidable consequence of what he views as unlawful US policy, and he referred [...]
Is Hasan a Terrorist?
I was having a discussion at work the other day about the Ft. Hood killings. One of my co-workers said, “He’s a terrorist.” I disagreed with him and stated my definition of terrorism. Primarily, it deals with the motive of the act being designed to terrorize a populace into forcing a political change. Israel, Northern [...]
12Nov2009 | liberalgeek | 29 comments | Continued
Food For Thought
Liberals have taken a lot of criticism from conservatives over opposition to some terrorism policies, mainly indefinite detention without trial and torture. Balkinization does a thought experiment: what if we treated domestic terrorists like Roeder the same way we have treated international terrorism?
In particular, consider the following questions:
(1) Should the United States be able [...]
Oklahoma Teabagger Arrested for Twitter Threats
Via Wired.
Daniel Knight Hayden, 52, was arrested by FBI agents who identified him as the Twitter user CitizenQuasar. In a series of tweets beginning April 11, CitizenQuasar vowed to start a “war” against the government on the steps of the Oklahoma City Capitol building, the site of that city’s version of the national “Tea Party” [...]
Deep Thought
Bush declared that “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”
Two-thirds of Republicans approved of Bush in Gallup’s final poll
60% of Republicans have a favorable opinion of Rush Limbaugh (Gallup again)
Rush wants America to fail
Al Qaida wants America to fail
So, how long before the Beck/McVeigh brigade start collaborating with the jihadists? They’re [...]
11Mar2009 | xstryker | 4 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
