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In reply to the discussion: The Top Ten Differences Between White Terrorists And Others [View all]solara
(3,894 posts)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.