Attempted mass-murder by terrorist obviously not newsworthy because he's christian

[DetlefK]

http://www.alternet.org/plot-level-village-isnt-news-when-targets-are-muslim-and-plotter-christian

Robert Rankin Doggart, a former congressional candidate from Signal Mountain, Tennessee, was caught on tape and on social media talking about wiping out a Muslim community in upstate New York. The buildings Doggart planned to destroy included a mosque, a school and a cafeteria.

Doggart proposed burning the buildings down and personally killing the residents with his assault-rifle.
Doggart actively recruited other people to join him in the attack.

Sounds like terrorism?

Calm down, it's not. Because he's not a Muslim.
"Doggart was allowed to plead guilty only to interstate communication of threats and faces a maximum of five years in jail."

"One big reason for the lack of media coverage was that neither the FBI nor the US Attorney’s office put out a press release about Doggart’s arrest. In contrast, the FBI office in Knoxville, the one that handled this investigation, has posted press releases for numerous other recent arrests, such as for drug crimes and robbery charges."

"However, when a Muslim is arrested in a sting-type operation, as we saw recently in Brooklyn, the FBI touts that arrest to the media with a detailed press release. We have also seen US attorneys hold press conferences to announce the arrest of Muslims, as we witnessed recently with the six Minnesota men charged with planning to join ISIS. But not here."


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Imagine a Muslim openly calling for the death and destruction of a christian community, recruiting other people for his attack, and practicing the shoot-up with his assault-rifle.
Would he get away with "interstate communication of threats"?
Would his arrest go without press-releases?
Would it go without wall-to-wall coverage in national media?

[Fast Walker 52]

1. this story is so incredibly sick, on multiple levels

certainly we can bet this guy watched a lot of FoxNews and listened to right-wing radio

[Dont call me Shirley]

2. He's an upstanding citizen. The media can't ruin his sparkling reputation...

[malthaussen]

3. Hey, if they really let it all hang out, they'd award him the Medal of Freedom.

Dude simply did overtly what many others would like to do, but are too chickenshit. Surpised he was indicted at all.

-- Mal

[madokie]

5. I know one of the ones who you would be referring too

my neighbor. He'd love to be right there with this cretin
Course he'd not own up to it though.

[bigbrother05]

4. If it were a Muslim, Faux'd be demanding he be sent to Gitmo for interrogation

[Helen Borg]

6. Just a bad apple!

[blackspade]

7. Christians cannot be terrorists by definition.....

Because....Jesus....and stuff.

[mountain grammy]

8. Corporate media has decided all Muslims are terrorists

and all black neighborhoods are lawless. Nothing happens in the white Christian world that is worth more than a couple of minutes of air time since Tim McVeigh blew up a couple of hundred innocent people. After all, white Christians are all Americans, you know, like the Texas biker gangs, and all brown people are Muslims, you know, like our president. This is the message our corporate propaganda machine spits out at us every day with selective news, not objective news and, in the case of fox, outright lies.

American exceptionalism comes from the media.. all the "news" except reality.

[Ford_Prefect]

9. He's in Tennessee and was going to kill some Yankee Muslims. He's a Patriot with a big mouth

and wouldn't have been arrested if he'd been just a bit more subtle about it.

There are far too many people for whom the above remarks are true. It may as well be 60 years ago in some parts of our nation. Dick and Ronnie got them stirred up. Then W promised them the world and brought them into the White House. The oligarchs used them to take congress and many State Houses. The only thing missing is the uniforms and the jackboots...and they've got those at Walmart and Cabela's.

[Mnemosyne]

10. Definitely tired of the so obvious propaganda against Muslims, yet claiming it's the 'Xtians' being

"persecuted". Let them live with the shit Muslims have had to put up with since 9/11. They are clueless and dangerous.