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Harry Monroe

(2,935 posts)
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 12:06 PM Apr 2013

Well, that didn't take long....

McConnell is creaming his pants at the prospect of new security regulations and curtailing of liberties. I'm sure he is hoping to use this as an excuse to ramp up the fear and once again have us compliant as we were after 9/11 in order to advance their hidden "agenda". Sorry Turtle man, ain't gonna work this time. I'm hoping the American people have grown a brain stem by now and see the second "act" for what it is.

Mitch McConnell on Boston Bombings: Americans have become complacent about terrorism

By Ben Armbruster on Apr 16, 2013 at 11:20 am

"Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in a speech on the Senate floor on Tuesday commemorating the Boston Marathon attacks said that some Americans have become complacent about terrorism in such a way that is reminiscent to the time before the 9/11 attacks:

MCCONNELL: On 9/11 we forever disabused of the notion that attacks, like the one that rocked Boston yesterday ,only happen on the field of battle or in distant countries. With the passage of time, however, and the vigilant efforts of our military, intelligence and law enforcement professionals, I think it’s safe to say that for many, the complacency that prevailed prior to September 11th has actually returned. And so we are newly reminded that serious threats to our way of life remain. And today again we recommit ourselves to the fight against terrorism at home and abroad."

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2013/04/16/1872941/mcconnell-boston-complacent/


Interesting that he's already pointing the "fickle finger of fate" away from America, when all the facts are not in yet on whether this was homegrown terrorism or now. Let the hype and hysteria begin!!

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Well, that didn't take long.... (Original Post) Harry Monroe Apr 2013 OP
I'm not complacent. 12/14 was a perfect example of why the tools of terror need to be curbed. nt onehandle Apr 2013 #1
Neither am I, but I refuse to live in fear like they expect us to Harry Monroe Apr 2013 #2
Was he referring to Bush, Cheney and Condi as being complacent before 9/11? Frustratedlady Apr 2013 #3
but didn't warlord obama kill OBL datasuspect Apr 2013 #4
It's back after Bush kept us so safe post 9/11. Life Long Dem Apr 2013 #5
+1,000,000,000,000 Dawson Leery Apr 2013 #6

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
3. Was he referring to Bush, Cheney and Condi as being complacent before 9/11?
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 12:18 PM
Apr 2013

Why would he refer to us? We had no reason to be complacent.

 

Life Long Dem

(8,582 posts)
5. It's back after Bush kept us so safe post 9/11.
Tue Apr 16, 2013, 12:22 PM
Apr 2013

Yep.

Terrorism in the United States

Attacks by date

May 2002Mailbox Pipe Bomber: Lucas John Helder rigged pipe bombs in private mailboxes to explode when the boxes were opened. He injured 6 people in Nebraska, Colorado, Texas, Illinois, and Iowa. His motivation was to garner media attention so that he could spread a message denouncing government control over daily lives and the illegality of marijuana, as well as promote astral projection.

2002 July 4: 2002 Los Angeles Airport shooting Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, a 41-year-old Egyptian national, kills two Israelis and wounds four others at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport.[40] The FBI concluded this was terrorism, though they did not find evidence linking Hadayet to a terrorist group.[41]

October 2002 Beltway sniper attacks: During three weeks in October 2002, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo killed 10 people and critically injured 3 others in Washington D.C, Baltimore, and Virginia. The pair were also suspected of earlier shootings in Maryland, Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, and Washington state.[42] No motivation was given at the trial, but evidence presented showed an affinity to the cause of the Islamic jihad.

2006 March 5: Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar injured 6 when he drove an SUV into a group of pedestrians at UNC-Chapel Hill to "avenge the deaths or murders of Muslims around the world".[43]

2006 July 28: Seattle Jewish Federation shooting, Naveed Afzal Haq, an American citizen of Pakistani descent, kills one woman and shoots five others at the Jewish Federation building in Seattle. During the shooting, Haq told a 911 dispatcher that he was angry with American foreign policy in the Middle East.[44]

2007 October 26: A pair of improvised explosive devices were thrown at the Mexican Consulate in New York City. The fake grenades were filled with black powder, and detonated by fuses, causing very minor damage. Police were investigating the connection between this and a similar attack against the British Consulate in New York in 2005.[45]

2008 February: In the first reported incident of animal-rights extremists physically assaulting the family members of animal researchers, six masked activists attempted to force their way into the home of a University of California, Santa Cruz, researcher and injured the researcher's husband.[46][47]

2008 March 3: Four multimillion-dollar show homes place in Woodinville, Washington, are torched. The Earth Liberation Front is suspected.[48]

2008 March 6: A homemade bomb damaged a Recruiting Office in Times Square[49]

2008 May 4: Multiple pipe bombs exploded at 1:40 am at the Edward J. Schwartz United States Courthouse in San Diego causing "considerable damage" to the entrance and lobby and sending shrapnel two blocks away, but causing no injuries. The F.B.I. is investigating links between this attack and an April 25 explosion at the FedEx building also in San Diego.[50]

2008 July 27: Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting: Jim David Adkisson enters the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee with a shotgun, killing two and injuring several congregants before being tackled to the ground. Adkisson stated to the police and in a manifesto that he desired to kill Democrats, liberals, African Americans and homosexuals. Adkisson pled guilty to the crime in February 2009 and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.[51][52]

2008 August 2, August 3 University of California-Santa Cruz molecular biologist David Feldheim's home was firebombed. A car belonging to another researcher from that university was destroyed by a firebomb in what is presumed to be related. FBI is investigating incidents as domestic terrorism related to animal rights groups.[53][54]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States


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