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solara

(3,894 posts)
25. Are you serious?
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 04:45 AM
Nov 2012

You really cannot think of any others?

James Holmes in Aurora at the theater during the premier of Batman

Charles Carl Roberts IV - West Nickel Mines School- Amish children

Or what about the attacks on LEGAL abortion providers?

March 10, 1993: Dr. David Gunn of Pensacola, Florida was fatally shot during a protest. He had been the subject of wanted-style posters distributed by Operation Rescue in the summer of 1992. Michael F. Griffin

July 29, 1994: Dr. John Britton and James Barrett, a clinic escort, were both shot to death outside another facility, the Ladies Center, in Pensacola. Rev. Paul Jennings Hill was charged with the killings. Hill received a death sentence and was executed on September 3, 2003. The clinic in Pensacola had been bombed before and was also bombed subsequently, in 1984 and 2012.

December 30, 1994: Two receptionists, Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols, were killed in two clinic attacks in Brookline, Massachusetts. John Salvi was arrested and confessed to the killings.

January 29, 1998: Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer who worked as a security guard at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, was killed when his workplace was bombed. Eric Robert Rudolph

October 23, 1998: Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot to death with a high-powered rifle at his home in Amherst, New York.[10] His was the last in a series of similar shootings against abortion providers in Canada and northern New York state which were all likely committed by James Kopp

May 31, 2009: Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed by Scott Roeder as Tiller served as an usher at church in Wichita, Kansas

According to statistics gathered by the National Abortion Federation (NAF), an organization of abortion providers, since 1977 in the United States and Canada, there have been 17 attempted murders, 383 death threats, 153 incidents of assault or battery, and 3 kidnappings committed against abortion providers.[12] Attempted murders in the U.S. included:[8][13][14]
August 19, 1993: Dr. George Tiller was shot outside of an abortion facility in Wichita, Kansas. Shelley Shannon was charged with the crime and received an 11-year prison sentence (20 years were later added for arson and acid attacks on clinics).
July 29, 1994: June Barret was shot in the same attack which claimed the lives of James Barrett, her husband, and Dr. John Britton.
December 30, 1994: Five individuals were wounded in the shootings which killed Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols.
October 28, 1997: Dr. David Gandell of Rochester, New York was injured by flying glass when a shot was fired through the window of his home.[15]
January 29, 1998: Emily Lyons, a nurse, was severely injured, and lost an eye, in the bombing which also killed Robert Sanderson.


And there are more.

What about The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama which was bombed on Sunday, September 15, 1963 as an act of racially motivated terrorism. The explosion at the African-American church, killed four young girls.

Or.. the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, where white supremacist Wade Michael Page opened fire and killed six members of the congregation.

Or.. When on January 8, 2011, a week into her third term, Gabrielle Giffords was a victim of a shooting near Tucson, which critically wounded her while thirteen people were injured and six others were killed in the shooting, The media called this a violent rampage but if it had been perpetrated by someone who looked middle eastern, you bet it would have been labeled an act of terrorism.

And yes, I think the violence done for so many years by the KKK could definitely be called acts of terrorism.

I could be wrong but I believe every one of these despicable acts was perpetrated by a white person.

And, I would call every single one of these incidences terrorist attacks. Just because the MSM doesn't call then acts of domestic terrorism, doesn't mean they are -not- acts of terrorism. These violent acts are often labeled 'hate crimes'. or 'violent rampages' but how can a hate crime be differentiated from a terrorist attack?

Seriously.


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How many terror attacks have been conducted by someone caucasian former-republican Nov 2012 #1
how many terror attacks have been perpetrated by someone non-white since HiPointDem Nov 2012 #2
thank the war on drugs for that former-republican Nov 2012 #4
for "terror", i mean. HiPointDem Nov 2012 #8
never heard of Anders Breivik? quinnox Nov 2012 #15
you don't have to go so far afield. this isn't terrorism either: HiPointDem Nov 2012 #29
Giffords shooting, theater shooting, many arrested planning on killing the President Angry Dragon Nov 2012 #20
The only one on your list that qualifies as "terrorism" Confusious Nov 2012 #39
Terrorism Angry Dragon Nov 2012 #44
Yea Confusious Nov 2012 #46
Eric Rudolph. JohnnyRingo Nov 2012 #24
Are you serious? solara Nov 2012 #25
Jared Loughner and his terrorist attack near my home in Tucson? Suji to Seoul Nov 2012 #36
Doesn't fit under the definition. Nt Confusious Nov 2012 #40
tell that to the dead people. Suji to Seoul Nov 2012 #45
They're dead Confusious Nov 2012 #47
Thank you. Scuba Nov 2012 #38
Scott Roeder AtheistCrusader Nov 2012 #26
the asswipe that politically assasssinated the kind meek doctor in a church graham4anything Nov 2012 #32
Most of them quakerboy Nov 2012 #34
Well - judging by your name, you may just recently have come out of the bubble, BlueMTexpat Nov 2012 #37
look at most of the names , I don't think most were white former-republican Nov 2012 #3
that's because the white ones aren't called "terror plots". which is the point of the HiPointDem Nov 2012 #5
Because they have a predisposition former-republican Nov 2012 #6
unemployed retarded black people are disposed to blowing up subways? news to me. HiPointDem Nov 2012 #7
lol former-republican Nov 2012 #9
some of the people arrested for these 'terror plots' have been described as HiPointDem Nov 2012 #12
The FBI has infiltrated mosques , have snitches in prisons ( large muslim population there) , etc.. former-republican Nov 2012 #13
"dragged in" by whom? HiPointDem Nov 2012 #17
Sometimes the FBI , sometimes by a snitch that has something to gain by handing over former-republican Nov 2012 #23
retarded crazy people are potential terrorists? how so? HiPointDem Nov 2012 #31
Many(most?) of those were COINTELPRO operations Ash_F Nov 2012 #10
That's not really correct former-republican Nov 2012 #11
I am not sure I follow what you are suggesting 100% Ash_F Nov 2012 #14
No you didn't follow me former-republican Nov 2012 #16
OK, actually I did. Ash_F Nov 2012 #18
richard reid, the 'shoe bomber,' was a career criminal whose career criminal father HiPointDem Nov 2012 #21
you're saying because some of them went to mosque that in itself makes them HiPointDem Nov 2012 #19
No I'm saying in this day and age most terror attacks are conducted by Muslims former-republican Nov 2012 #22
I think you misunderstood the point of the OP. AtheistCrusader Nov 2012 #27
Funny thing about the IRA wars: they were run by provocateurs. HiPointDem Nov 2012 #28
And the article explains exactly why you are suffering under this delusion. NT Democracyinkind Nov 2012 #42
I consider JustAnotherGen Nov 2012 #30
How about Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck and the other far right extremists in the media graham4anything Nov 2012 #33
this is simply factually not true. cali Nov 2012 #35
What part is factually untrue? Democracyinkind Nov 2012 #41
I disagree, I think the characterizations are spot on Fumesucker Nov 2012 #43
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