Why is our government and the USA media ignoring home grown terrorists?

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1229/p02s01-usju.html

The terror threat at home, often overlooked

As the media focus on international terror, a Texan pleads guilty to possessing a weapon of mass destruction.

By Kris Axtman | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

HOUSTON – It began as a misdelivered envelope and developed into the most extensive domestic terrorism investigation since the Oklahoma City bombing.

Last month, an east Texas man pleaded guilty to possession of a weapon of mass destruction. Inside the home and storage facilities of William Krar, investigators found a sodium-cyanide bomb capable of killing thousands, more than a hundred explosives, half a million rounds of ammunition, dozens of illegal weapons, and a mound of white-supremacist and antigovernment literature.

"Without question, it ranks at the very top of all domestic terrorist arrests in the past 20 years in terms of the lethality of the arsenal," says Daniel Levitas, author of "The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right."

But outside Tyler, Texas, the case is almost unknown. In the past nine months, there have been two government press releases and a handful of local stories, but no press conference and no coverage in the national newspapers.

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[NNN0LHI]

1. This seems a bit more important that Kobe, Laci, and Michael Jackson

What do you think?

Don

[sistersofmercy]

28. I've never understood why anti-abortionist aren't considered

domestic terrorists. They've blown clinics up, set fires and assassinated doctors, sounds like terrorism to me. But again it's the white christian republican thing. There was a case of a mother of two setting fire to a clinic when I lived in LA. Her actions damaged hundreds of thousands of dollars to medical equipment and the building, she got two years probation.

[XanaDUer]

2. Also read

"A Force Upon the Plain" by Stern.

Delves into this matter as well.

[mikehiggins]

3. Because they're stupid?

They ignored OBL as well until he came knocking on their front door.

[RBHam]

4. The Left Wing Media in action!

Boy, are they ever biased.

[G_j]

5. amazing

this is not headline news??

"Without question, it ranks at the very top of all domestic terrorist arrests in the past 20 years in terms of the lethality of the arsenal,"

the first I've heard of it. this is an important story, thanks.

:shrug:

[meow2u3]

6. Homegrown terror seems to be....

....the hit squads of the misruling class in Texas--and Washington!

[dodgerartful]

7. The fact that there are a few "homegrown

terrorists" being overlooked is just fine thank you very much. There are those among the people who see violence as the only way to affect change. Hats off to them.....

[NNN0LHI]

8. Why did this scumbag get a lawyer and a trial while Padilla got the brig?

That is the question here. My guess is that this fellow in Texas had a light complexion, while Padilla was on the brown side. Can't think of no other reason.

Don

[picus9]

9. There are homegrown terrorists on the Left too.

Weathermen, and certain elements of the Black Panthers as well. Not to mention various anarchy groups

[NNN0LHI]

10. Give me some examples of the terrorism these groups have caused...

...during the last 30 years. And Republican Timothy McVeigh was not affiliated with any of these groups. But he was affiliated with the Republican party and the NRA.

Don

[NNN0LHI]

22. Have you thought of any yet picus9? No? Didn't think you would

Kind of blows your theory all to hell. Don't it?

Don

[DBoon]

13. "were" not "are"

Weathermen and Black Panthers has long since been eliminated by the police - though I would disagree with you on the Black Panthers, while prone to violence, there were not a terrorist organization. They did arm themselves in "self defense", a serious mistake, and were generally not the nicest people around, however they did not commit acts of violence against civilians to spread fear and gain political power.

I know of no domestic leftist groups whose aim is mass murder of civilians. Radical animal rights and environmentalists tend to property damage, not murder.

I mean if you want to go way back, radical trade unionists did commit "acts of terror", however we need to go back almost 80 years for this (e.g., plot to blow up the Los Angeles Times building).

[rman]

19. And point out where their fortified bases are

bases of far RW extremists are a dime a dozen.

[gulliver]

11. They've forgotten registered Republican Tim McVeigh

This would seem to be another major Bush vulnerability. The Republican parties demagogy against the government, the NRA's characterization of police as jackbooted thugs,... Republicans would not be in power without such poisonous lies from their irresponsible, brazenly lying leaders.

Republicans need to wake up and smell the bacon. They are being lead by lying cretins who don't care how many terrorists they create.

[PSR40004]

12. If they're over looking it how did they arrest him..

I don't see how you can say this story proves the gov't is ignoring home grown terrorist, after all they arrested him...

Now does the media ignore it? I hadn't heard about it.

[gulliver]

14. Um. Bush never talks about them.

And since they are mostly conservative leaning that's no surprise.

When is the last time Bush said that we need to secure America from white separatists? He won't do it. It would cost him the job he stole. He needs their votes. They are part of his base.

[NNN0LHI]

15. I guess you forgot when Ashcroft needed to have a special news...

...conference from Russia during the middle of the night there to announce the arrest of Jose Padilla a year and a half ago? Do you remember seeing any Ashcroft news conference about this guy? I don't. Why is that?

Don

[artr2]

16. They vote Repukkk

nt

[NNN0LHI]

17. Ding, ding, ding. Give that man a cupie doll for telling the truth n/t

[ninkasi]

18. Isn't it also possible...

that Dubya also thinks that if he can't steal another election, these people will be the ones to start the riots if a Democrat wins? Maybe he thinks of them as his private army, ready to cause bloodshed and chaos here at home. They are extremist right-wing groups; the very ones who have tasted the blood that the rest of us have been bleeding due to the neocons.

That's how bad things have gotten, that I suspect what used to be my government would stoop to counting on extremist groups like this to keep them in power.

[RBHam]

20. Give that boy a prize!

When martial law is declared, the Brownshirts will not be disarmed, they'll be deputized.

[otohara]

21. US Media Is So Pathetic

so Michael Jackson..a PA system for Massah Bush

[G_j]

23. kick

:kick:

[Terwilliger]

24. because they're white Christians?

or, white Americans anyway

"Tim McVeigh? Oh, he was just a sweet boy who was misled"

"Osama bin Laden?? SLAY THE EVILDOER!! MY GOD AND MY COUNTRY!! RAH! RAH! RAH!"

[RBHam]

26. In a letter to the Calgary Sun

An American called McVeigh a "misguided patriot" and blamed OKC on the "strident Liberal agenda" that was sure to produce such "resistance" to the "tyrannical" policies of the Government...

[sistersofmercy]

27. Bingo!

It is sickening to me that this discrimination has been allowed to exist. It's been going on for decades, this anti-Arabic, anti-Muslim campaign of the media and it started under Reagan. There exists good and bad in all societies, cultures, religions etc. In the past twenty years or so, virtually all the stories pertaining to Arabic and Muslim people have been negative with very few positive stories making it into our media. I believe the multitude fail to comprehend this factor.

[G_j]

29. if it's true that the American "multitude" backed the invasion of Iraq

then it follows that the multitude are racist. The acceptance of the "wars" (Afghanistan included) is most definitely racist at it's core. The recent rise of racist neo-fascism in Europe shows once again that the number one enemy to humanity is humanity.

Why oh why do humans insist on giving power to the "pig" (no offense to the four legged creature!) in their natures?
There is a choice.

[tom_paine]

25. Because the Imperial Family does NOT implicate or investigate allies

The Anthrax Assassin and the Plame Leaker are allies in good standing of the Imperial Family, therefore they have nothing to worry about from the sham-investigations of Reichsmarschall Ashcroft.