Why Are Politicians Afraid To Call It What It Is "Domestic Terrorism"....

[global1]

When the press or MSM interviews these politicians - they start to stammer and carefully choose their words and try to evade the question by changing the subject. Why are they so afraid to call it what it is? What are they worried about?

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

1. Another poster already addressed this earlier today, in terms of the media, rather than politicians.

They know that part of the constituency APPROVES of this form of terrorism. Many of them actually feed that approval, fanning it in trying to win elections.

[Eleanors38]

5. IOW, terrorism as practiced here is now legitimized. nt

[valerief]

2. Their Jesus dollars. nt

[Eleanors38]

3. It doesn't fit the narrative. Further, the Far Right frightens all into silence.

Twice within 10 minutes NPR referenced the "far right;" once in regard to the immigrant politics of Germany, the other in regard to the immigrant politics of France. In both instances, the quoted spokespersons of the far right made statements which were considerably more "moderate" than the standard-issue upchuck from the American GOP.

No mention was even made of anti-immigration politics in the U.S., and DEFINITELY no reference to domestic politics as "far right."

MSM WILL not use these expressions because they are a shrinking format in an old mass-media culture, and because they are cowed. No investigative reporting, no leadership, no watch-dog on politics. If you want "your side" to get play, you will have to make the play; in fact, if you make no play you will he held in contemptuous disregard as an impotent non-player.

BTW, most mention of the PP attack WILL be couched in gun politics. That is Narrative®, and prevents MSM from looking at both domestic terrorism, and any approaches other than Titanic deck chair arranging.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. The Power Players could care less.

They make money of the foibles of man kind.

[linuxman]

6. Mike Huckabee has.

[CoffeeCat]

7. If you delve into the Patriot Act...

...there is a clause about "enemy combatants". The definition is very loose. So loose in fact, that anyone opposing or demonstrating against US-government interests (marching in an anti-war protest) can be declared an "enemy combatant."

I think that the right wing nut jobs were well on their way to manufacturing traps for liberals, progressives and those who would dare to protest the government. They laid the foundation with the Patriot Act.

The problem is--and it is a problem that was unforeseen on their part--is that they have created a rabid, ignorant, hair-on-fire demographic. And it's not the liberals. It's the Fox-News-listening sheep who have been whipped into a fear-based, irrational lather. They're the racist, xenophobic, low-information crowd--and right-wing propaganda (spewed from talk radio and Fox) has created an unintended Frankenstein.

They conservatives who believed that liberals would be the problem, didn't anticipate that their own fans would morph into a monster. So, they've got to be very careful how they word their responses. Even though these crazies with guns are terrorists, they can't say it, because the wrong animal is in the trap. They can't punish their own followers.

You can bet that if it was liberals, or pro-choicers, or Sanders supporters with guns, shooting up people--the results would be very different. So would the media's positioning of these situations.

It's very sick to watch all of this play out. The Republican party has created a zombie horde of idiocy. They should have known that filling uneducated, stupid people with fear and hate would create a monster. But they didn't. They also didn't anticipate Trump--who is the darling of this crazy horde.

Very sad to watch.

[onecaliberal]

8. The media isn't going to call them out, they are partners is spreading their memes

Across the country. The politicians know it will affect their donations.

[rocktivity]

9. The problem is the source of its radicalization

Representatives of the Republican Party and conservatives can't be having domestic terrorists crediting the Republican Party and conservatives for radicalizing them!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026872573


rocktivity

[Populist_Prole]

10. It's an oxymoron to them

And, as others have noted upthread, it fits the MIC narrative.

[oberliner]

11. Huckabee: Planned Parenthood shooting is 'domestic terrorism'

Washington (CNN)Mike Huckabee called the Friday shootings at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado an act of "domestic terrorism."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/29/politics/mike-huckabee-planned-parenthood-domestic-terrorism/