What is it about White, Christian US culture that breeds these extremists?
Why do these wacko killers receive so much support from a broad swath of society (ie the new US ambassador to the UN spoke favorably of the bombing of the UN building)?
And why does the US government refuse to acknowledge this local, homegrown problem, instead focusing on a war against those who wear turbans, live in foreign lands and practice other religions and saving all their harsh rhetoric for those foreigners?
[quote] April 9, 2005 Eric Robert Rudolph, the former fugitive who evaded capture in the North Carolina mountains for more than five years, has agreed to plead guilty to bombings that killed two people and injured more than 150 others at abortion clinics and at the 1996 Olympics here, the Department of Justice said on Friday. As part of his plea agreement, Mr. Rudolph revealed the whereabouts of more than 250 pounds of dynamite and of a buried bomb more than twice as powerful as the one that went off here in Centennial Olympic Park. . .
. . . was to be Mr. Rudolph’s first trial, for a 1998 bombing at a Birmingham abortion clinic that killed an off-duty police officer and maimed a nurse. . . . Mr. Rudolph was also charged for bombings outside a family planning clinic and a gay club in Atlanta in 1997. . .
But he fled, evading bloodhounds, heat sensors and even volunteer paramilitary brigades for five years . . . For a time, Mr. Rudolph’s success as a fugitive reframed the conflict, from criminal vs. the law to local boy vs. federal intruders. It made him a celebrated underdog, with T-shirts being sold bearing the phrases “Run Rudolph Run” and "Hide and Seek Champion."[/quote]
nytimes link
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[quote]McVeigh may be reviled as the worst terrorist mass murderer in American history by most, but to some he remains a patriot - a warrior unjustly being put to the sword. Undaunted by the weight of prosecution evidence, McVeigh supporters come largely from the underground hate groups which exist right across the length and breadth of the United States.
One of those principal organisations is Aryan Nations, an offshoot of the Ku Klux Klan. During interviews, Timothy McVeigh suggested that much of his inspirations stemmed from the racist thinking and the beliefs of the Aryan Nations group. Now a leader of Aryan Nations has been telling The World Today this morning that not only do they regard McVeigh as a patriot, they say his only failure was not killing enough people. . .[/quote]
abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s311111.htm
[color=red]Do you think all that changed after 9/11, and domestic, homegrown US terrorist groups are no longer a threat? Think again[/color].
[quote] Since Sept. 11, the nation’s attention has been focused on possible threats from Islamic terrorists. But home-grown terrorists have been steadily plotting and carrying out attacks in unrelated incidents across the nation, according to federal authorities and two organizations that monitor hate groups.
The people and groups range from white supremacists, anti-government types and militia members to eco-terrorists and people who hate corporations. They include violent anti-abortionists and black and brown nationalists who envision a separate state for blacks and Latinos. And they have been busy.
“Not a lot of attention is being paid to this, because everybody is concerned about the guy in a turban. But there are still plenty of angry, Midwestern white guys out there,” says U.S. Marshals Service chief inspector Geoff Shank. . .
“There’s been a very, very heavy focus nationally on foreign terrorism since 9/11,” says Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., which has tracked hate groups since 1971. “The reality is that, meanwhile, domestic terrorism has hummed along at quite a steady clip. It … still poses a very serious threat.”[/quote]
usatoday.com/news/nation/200 … orism_x.ht m
[quote]In May 2003, white supremacists in Texas were caught with a sodium cyanide bomb, other bombs, illegal weapons, hate literature, fake I.D., and chemicals, including hydrochloric acid and nitric acid. In mid-November, three people pleaded guilty to related charges, while seized documents indicate that there are other co-conspirators at large. The feds have served “hundreds of subpoenas across the country,” and the plot has been included in the President’s daily intelligence briefings.
But most of us have never heard about it. The only media that saw fit to report about this terrorist plot within the US were a few newspapers and TV stations in Texas. The Web-based news outlet WorldNetDaily ran a story about it, but Google News shows that there hasn’t been a word in the New York Times, Washington Post, LA Times, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, or any other big media outlet. Why have the media decided that this is a non-story? It’s hard to say, but we can say with certainty that if Muslims had been caught with these weapons of mass destruction, fake I.D., gas masks, and books on making explosives, it would’ve been front-page news for days. . .[/quote]
thememoryhole.org/terror/tyler-terror.htm
Above are a few photos of some of the 100 bombs, bomb components, machine guns, 500,000 rounds of ammunition and chemical weapons seized from US domestic terrorists in Texas in 2003, as described at the above link.
And, [color=red]in case you
