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betsuni

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8. Today saw ABC news

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Thu Jun 18, 2015, 09:32 AM

Jun 2015

A breathless story about big bad "off-the-charts dangerous" would-be terrorists the FBI arrested. One wanted to blow up a sports event but "didn't know how." Another "lunged" at the FBI with a kitchen knife when the FBI came to arrest him (close-up of the kitchen knife that was called a "butcher" knife). Seven of them arrested. But all of them have foreignish sounding names and are browish so TERRORIST EVERYBODY PANIC. And keep them out of the kitchen for god's sake.

But mass shootings by non-foreignish non-browish men with guns, well, that's different.

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Just a reminder, this is what a manhunt looks like when the suspect is Muslim: [View all] kpete Jun 2015 OP

Whatever it takes. TheCowsCameHome Jun 2015 #1

Be glad he's not a cop. In LA they shot up blue dodges full of little old ladies AtheistCrusader Jun 2015 #2

When the terrorist is a white supremacist, this is what you get: MohRokTah Jun 2015 #3

WMD in a major metropolitan area by a team of two vs 1 shooter in SC. linuxman Jun 2015 #4

Become even more relevant and compare and contrast deaths in the two instances. LanternWaste Jun 2015 #5

Distinction without a real difference. leveymg Jun 2015 #9

No, no neccesarily. linuxman Jun 2015 #10

They could have rolled out the Charleston PD M113 APC -- pic -- to search armed white neighborhoods. leveymg Jun 2015 #11

That picture is old as hell. based on the equipment, I'm guessing the early to mid 90s. linuxman Jun 2015 #13

I'm guessing less than 10 years ago, and the M113 has been replaced by something newer and costlier. leveymg Jun 2015 #15

Bullshit and you know it. linuxman Jun 2015 #16

Do you have to get nasty about it? End of discussion. n/t leveymg Jun 2015 #17

When did they call in the military? Oh right, not a police state just business as usual. Rex Jun 2015 #6

yep napkinz Jun 2015 #12

Here's what it looks like when two white guys escape from prison: Nye Bevan Jun 2015 #7

Today saw ABC news betsuni Jun 2015 #8

It's about creating a "them" vs. "us" for Fox News viewers and authoritarian personality types. GoneFishin Jun 2015 #14