Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts

Saturday, January 8, 2011

You Right Wingers Happy With Your 'Second Amendment Remedies' Now?

When it comes to hate speech, while you have the right to say it, it doesn't add anything positive to the political discourse of the nation. All it does is fuel animosity and hatred. As a person of African descent I know all too well that unchecked hate speech far too often leads to escalating violence which can ultimately lead to death or genocide. 


Monica Roberts October 30, 2009   'The Canadians Have a A Point-Hate Speech Should Be Regulated

Been watching the unfolding story involving Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) who is fighting for her life in a Tucson hospital after an assassination attempt yesterday that killed six people and wounded 19 others.


One of the six people killed was a nine year old girl who ironically was born on September 11, 2001. 

I'm in total agreement with Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik about the current toxic political climate probably being a factor in this mass shooting.

‎"When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And unfortunately, Arizona I think has become sort of the capital. We have become the mecca for prejudice and bigotry."

Let's review the evidence, because this crap has been building for some time.  

We have a Democratic congressmember who has held a GOP leaning district since 2006.   It has a concentration of Tea Klux Klan members and anti-immigration Minutemen since it borders Mexico.   It was targeted by Caribou Barbie in the last election cycle that Rep Giffords still won by 4000 votes.

Next door in Nevada you have a losing US senate candidate advocating for 'Second Amendment remedies' if they lose the midterm elections

The Tea Klux Klan violence and brownshirt tactics were most prevalent in Democratic districts in 'red states'.  Congresswoman Giffords had during her health care town halls one conservafool drop a gun out of his pocket during the event.  




Rep. Giffords had the front glass door to her Tucson office either shot or kicked in.   Her GOP opponent in this election cycle, Jesse Kelly, has an M16 shooting event promoted with the lines 'Get on Target for victory in November.  Let's Remove Gabrielle Giffords From Office'.


Only hours after she was shot, a mysterious package was found outside her office.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was one of the early favorites on the Democratic side to take on Sen. John Kyl in the next election cycle.

So if you can't beat her fair and square in an election shoot her, and let your GOP governor pick her replacement for the AZ 8th District. 

So are you happy with your 'Second Amendment remedies' now? 

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Chris Rock Was Right-Be Afraid Of Al Cracker

Chris Rock caught some flack a few years ago for his joke in which he stated he was more afraid of Al Cracker than Al Qaida.

But like many jokes uttered by comedians, some have an element of truth to them.

Black people for starters have a long list of reasons to fear Al Cracker. The two centuries of terroristic behavior, lynchings, and race riots aimed at us before and after emancipation are the starting point of that distrust, loathing and fear.

The sadly long list of terrorist acts committed on American soil have overwhelmingly been planned and executed by white people such as 1995 Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

That list also includes notorious civil rights era bomber 'Dynamite Bob' Chambliss, whose grisly resume includes the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church one that killed four young girls and earned a certain city in Alabama the nickname 'Bombingham'

Eric Robert Rudolph executed the July 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olympic Park bombing that killed Alice Hawthorne and several others at a lesbian nightclub and two abortion clinics before he was captured May 31, 2003.

The recently arrested Hutaree militia members and IRS suicide pilot Joseph Andrew Stack highlight the growing anger of white people wallowing in privilege who mistakenly believe in the wake of the historic 2008 election of an African American president they need to use violent '2nd Amendment means' as Nevada Republican senate candidate Sharron Angle called it to 'take their country back'.

So yes, when large numbers of conservative white people utter the words 'state's rights', peddle fear and loathing of brown people, immigrants and people who practice a religion other than Christianity to bamboozle other less educated white folks into voting Republican November 2 and not care about the potential deadly consequences of their actions to the non-whites they are demonizing, then I and other non-whites have historically based good reasons to be afraid of Al Cracker.

Monday, April 19, 2010

15th Anniversary Of Oklahoma City Bombing

At 9:02 AM CDT 15 years ago, 5000 pounds of explosives inside a rented truck were detonated by domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh near the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

The explosion McVeigh set off was heard 30 miles away, but the emotional shock wave covered the entire country.

The terror attack killed 168 people including 19 children, destroyed half of the building and injured another 800 people.

The anti-government hate that fueled it is alive and well. It's only increasing in intensity since an African-American moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with his family.

Domestic terrorists in this country are disproportionately part of one ethnic group, and the terrorism as pointed out in a 2009 Homeland Security report is predominately coming from the right wing.

We need to be cognizant of that fact as we remember what happened 15 years ago today in Oklahoma City.

The anti-government rhetoric is even more polarizing and more racist than it was during the Clinton administration.

We also need to spend as much time and effort cracking down on domestic anti-government terrorists as we do keeping an eye on al-Qaeda and breaking up their terror cells.

Friday, February 26, 2010

When Is A Terrorist Attack NOT a Terrorist Attack?

One of the things I've been pondering since the attack on the building in Austin housing the IRS is this question.

Why is it that when Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan killed 12 of his fellow soldiers and wounded another 31 at Fort Hood back on November 4, the T-word came out with no hesitation and the obligatory slamming of Islam soon followed?

But flip the script and you have a white male burn his house down, leave an anti government manifesto on the Net, and dive bombs a plane into a federal building housing the IRS, or another white male in 1995 instigates the destruction of another federal building in Oklahoma City, the MSM twists itself into a pretzel to avoid calling it a terrorist attack or say it's the work of a lone individual?

To delve further into Bizarro world, the same conservapeeps decrying the foiled Christmas underwear bomber and giving the president 'soft on terris' grief on it are calling this vanilla flavored one a hero.

Hmm.

So when is a terrorist attack NOT a terrorist attack?