Why are terrorists Eric Rudolph or Matthew Hale never called terrorists?

[NNN0LHI]

Poll question: Why are terrorists Eric Rudolph or Matthew Hale never called terrorists?

[AussieDave]

1. Because Rudolph and Hale aren't furriners

and they aren't swarthy and don't wear rags or towels on their head......

[Poppyseedman]

2. Matthew Hale

is actually a white supremacist. Close cousin of a terrorist, but they target races or religions.

Maybe the quotient on death and dismemberment isn't high enough to call Eric Rudolph a domestic terrorist or if Rudolph would just convert to Islam, he would be a called terrorist.......

[NNN0LHI]

7. Did Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols kill enough people to qualify?

They are never described as terrorists by our media either.

Don

[Poppyseedman]

8. Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols

were both described as "domestic terrorist" numerous times in the media

Not real sure there is a distinction between domestic and just a plain old terrorist

[NNN0LHI]

10. Are you sure?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ned=tus&q=%22Timothy+McVeigh%2BTerry+Nichols%2Bterrorist%22&btnmeta%3Dsearch%3Dsearch=Search+the+Web

Your search - "Timothy McVeigh+Terry Nichols+terrorist" - did not match any documents.

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=tus&q=%22Timothy+McVeigh%2BTerry+Nichols%2Bterrorist%22&btnG=Search+News

Your search - "Timothy McVeigh+Terry Nichols+terrorist" - did not match any documents.

[Poppyseedman]

17. My google seems to be working fine

http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%22Timothy+McVeigh+%2B+terrorist%22&btnG=Search

[ucmike]

3. cause they support "the culture of life"...i guess.......

more likely cause they're not brown.

[ucmike]

4. also, cause they're not far from bushco's "base"

[havocmom]

11. That needs to be a selection on the poll! Gets my vote X

[gratuitous]

5. Because their skin is white

And they endorse conservative causes.

That was an easy one -- got any other questions?

[lonestarnot]

13. Yes I think this is unfortunately the answer.

[ikojo]

6. They are male, white and Christian.

Christians are never referred to as Christian Extremists or Christian Clerics. Even Jews in Israel who commit terrorist acts are called Jewish Extremists by the government/corporate media in the US.

[ET Awful]

15. Hale isn't a Christian.

Other than that, you're absolutely correct.

[Walt Starr]

9. Oddly enough, Hale was convicted under anti-terrorism laws

Go figure.

[xultar]

12. Because they are WHITE and not BROWN. n/t

[NNN0LHI]

14. John Walker Lindh looked pretty white after they cleaned him up

But he was not a Christian as these boys were.

Don

[ET Awful]

For those under the mistaken opinion that Hale is a Christian, he is NOT

He is the leader of the "World Church of the Creator" which explicitly describes themselves as anti-christianity.

See their own site for descriptions:

http://www.creator.org/faq.html

He is in no way Christian.

[Kansas Wyatt]

16. Because they are on the RIGHT WING.