Can't We Just Call It What It Is - An Act Of TERRORISM?

They catch the guy who tried to blow up an airplane on Christmas, and dubbed him the "underwear bomber." The whole right wing nutcase machine was all over this, especially claiming that Obama was too slow to act in this matter. Of course, I'm not sure what Obama had to do with it anyway. But, the underwear bomber was for sure a "terrorist" because he was, uh, Muslim, and most definitely al-Qaeda.

Fast forward to Joseph Andrew Stack's suicide bombing of an IRS building in Texas, and the right wing nutcase machine can't bring itself to identify the actions of this man as terrorism! Because, of course, he's white, Christian and therefore, how could he possibly be a terrorist. Oh, and our newest senator, Scott Brown, brushes the whole thing aside commenting that no one likes to pay taxes!

No one stopped this man. As John says over at his blog, "maybe its time for the Obama administration to un-ban the DHS report on domestic rightwing extremism."

Paralleling the current national climate, rightwing extremists during the 1990s exploited a variety of social issues and political themes to increase group visibility and recruit new members. Prominent among these themes were the militia movement’s opposition to gun control efforts, criticism of free trade agreements (particularly those with Mexico), and highlighting perceived government infringement on civil liberties as well as white supremacists’ longstanding exploitation of social issues such as abortion, inter-racial crimes, and same-sex marriage. During the 1990s, these issues contributed to the growth in the number of domestic rightwing terrorist and extremist groups and an increase in violent acts targeting government facilities, law enforcement officers, banks, and infrastructure sectors.

It's unfortunate that the nutcase group cannot accept the fact that a terrorist act is a terrorist act, regardless of who perpetrates it. And the gall of these people in trying to turn this man into a hero (and here) infuriates me, because it will simply embolden others to take out their rage against innocent people in this country.

Wake up, you idiots, before someone decides to take "you" out because they are "mad" at you for some reason or another. I'm less afraid of some foreigner of color with a strange last name, and more afraid of the American nutcase group when it comes to violence and terror.

And just so we are clear on our "talking points," remember, the al-Qaeda (and everyone who is Muslim) hates America because they despise our "freedoms and this great county" and that is why they are "attacking" us, but the white guy that flies a plane into a building is a hero because his point is that America is a pile of shit. Yeah, I see no discrepancy here (cough, bullshit, cough).