Tag: domestic terrorism

Hate Crimes Are Terrorism

Filed in National by on December 15, 2015 26 Comments
Hate Crimes Are Terrorism

It’s time to call “hate crimes” what they really are – Terrorism. There really is no difference. Here’s a list of reported incidents against Muslims and Mosques since the San Bernardino attack….

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Nothing To See Here, Folks. Just (Another) Isolated Incident

Filed in National by on January 31, 2011 19 Comments

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 […]

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Terrorist attacks Jacksonville congregation

Filed in National by on May 20, 2010 13 Comments

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 […]

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Sean Hannity Praises Terrorism

Filed in National by on April 1, 2010 15 Comments

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 […]

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Utah IRS Building Evacuated

Filed in National by on March 1, 2010 11 Comments

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 […]

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The Right Continues To Embrace Terrorists

Filed in National by on February 23, 2010 29 Comments

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 […]

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Is Hasan a Terrorist?

Filed in National by on November 12, 2009 29 Comments

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 […]

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Food For Thought

Filed in National by on June 3, 2009 16 Comments

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 […]

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Oklahoma Teabagger Arrested for Twitter Threats

Filed in National by on April 26, 2009 20 Comments

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 […]

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Deep Thought

Filed in National by on March 11, 2009 4 Comments

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 […]

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