Home-grown terrorism?

[alleyallen]

Saw this in the Houston Chronicle. Not sure what to make of it, and at times, they seem to paint with a bit of a broad stroke.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/5642403.html

How or what, if anything, could we or should we do if this proves to be true?

 

[Football_Bat]

Praise the Lord and pass the ammonium nitrate.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Break out the duct tape?

 

[Football_Bat]

According to the trend mentioned in the piece, though, we're not due for our next big liberal shift until 2020. So isn't this year a Ford-Carter-like anomaly? I could see lots of parallels.

 

[jgmacg]

Unplug Yawn's computer.

 

[fishwrapper]

Unplug Yawn's computer.

That made me laugh.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Well, it would have been helpful to have been dealing with this threat over the past seven years, but, when you have GOP congresscritters addressing militia groups (Hello, Ms, Chenoweth), and running with white supremacists on the border, and the Ashcroft DOJ pulling back on terrorism of any kind, things can get lost.

 

[KP]

The comments on that page will get interesting.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Well, according to some people, if they're not Muslims, they're not terrorists.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Google "William Krar" to meet a real prize.
Of course, he wasn't going to burn down the Brooklyn Bridge with a blowtorch.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Well, according to some people, if they're not Muslims, they're not terrorists.

I believe the correct pronunciation is MOO-slums

 

[Smallpotatoes]

Well, according to some people, if they're not Muslims, they're not terrorists.

I believe the correct pronunciation is MOO-slums

Touche

 

[PeteyPirate]

Muzz-lins

 

[Armchair_QB]

Muzz-lins

Those are blankets.

 

[digger]

Not trying to stir up trouble, but, the article seems to claim that the left has never had these type of groups? Do the black panthers count? What about the other radical groups in the 60s?

I'm on the left, and I'd say they were too. But I'm not sure what counts as "paramilitary'' either.

What about SLA (patty hearst)? I'm just asking if the starting point for their premise was off base.

 

[alleyallen]

Not trying to stir up trouble, but, the article seems to claim that the left has never had these type of groups? Do the black panthers count? What about the other radical groups in the 60s?

I'm on the left, and I'd say they were too. But I'm not sure what counts as "paramilitary'' either.

What about SLA (patty hearst)? I'm just asking if the starting point for their premise was off base.

That's kinda the point I was trying to make originally. Whoever at the Chronicle wrote the column seems to make it appear as a wholly one-sided affair. I seriously doubt that.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

The Weathermen certainly qualify, although they primarily blew themselves up. There was Karl Armstrong and the bombing of the math building in Madison. The Panthers are more problematic; they were the victims of state terror as much as they were anything else, and their crimes were largely just that, crimes, not political acts in any way.
The SLA was a glorified prison gang marinated in faux-Marxist rhetoric. Mostly, Cinque and the bunch wanted to rob people. Not that much removed from the Mansons.

 

[Alma]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. It's not one-sided. It's citing a trend as it relates to shifts from Republican-to-Democratic presidencies, with the obvious, needed exception of Gerald Ford.

It could happen again.

 

[Smallpotatoes]

http://www.michaelsavage.com/orwellian-journalism.html

A few weeks ago, I heard Michael Savage take issue with this set up guidelines from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Since most of us are professional journalists, so any of us have a problem with anything on that list?
And why would anyone not think that certain acts committed by white supremacists, anti-abortion groups, etc. are acts of terrorism?