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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUS Press once again Declines to Call White Terrorism in Kansas, Nevada, White Terrorism
US Press once again Declines to Call White Terrorism in Kansas, Nevada, White TerrorismBy Juan Cole | Apr. 14, 2014 |
(By Juan Cole)
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Thus, we had the horrible day-before-Passover attack on two Jewish community facilities outside Kansas City, KS allegedly committed by a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, which left 3 people dead. My heart goes out to the innocent victims of hate. I put Kansas and terrorism in a search of Google News and did not get a single hit on this incident, which tells me that no US news services are describing it that way. Heck, the LA Times said authorities are cautioning that it is too soon even to call the shootings a hate crime. Since the shooter is said to have shouted Heil Hitler, Im going to go out on a limb and say it was a hate crime. And Im also pretty sure it was a form of terrorism.
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But a where a lone gunman committing a hate crime is a Muslim, theres a demand to use the T-word. Moreover, there is the peculiar American practice of laying collective guilt on all Muslims for what any one wacko amongst them does. White people get a pass on having violent and destructive wackos among them. (In fact, almost all American Muslims are normal law-abiding and productive citizens many are physicians and other professionals, business people, etc.; it isnt their fault if West Asia is going through some turmoil these days; Europe went through a lot of turmoil and violence 1914-1945 and we dont think Europeans in general are weird.)
Or then you have the stand-off between armed far right wing extremists in Nevada and the Bureau of Land Management.................. They openly admit to being armed private militias with names like Praetorian Guard, and they are breaking the law and trying to intimidate government officials. But Federal authorities are treating them with kid gloves. Even though they are certainly organized and deploying terror to make a political point, no one is calling them terrorists. (The Oklahoma City bombings caused LE to be cautious in confronting the far right extremists; maybe thats why they are monitoring millions of innocent people instead, who they know wont push back.)
This is the way the US Federal Code defines domestic terrorism:
the term domestic terrorism means activities that
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
(B) appear to be intended
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
Note that the Federal Code doesnt mention anything about the terrorism having to be committed by an organization (though the KKK and the Patriot militia movement are organizations). And it doesnt say anything about the definition not applying to white people.
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US Press once again Declines to Call White Terrorism in Kansas, Nevada, White Terrorism (Original Post)
kpete
Apr 2014
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genwah
(574 posts)1. I don't understand. How can white X-ians be "terrorists"?
for calling out radical right-wing domestic terrorists for the bigoted cowards that they are.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)3. I'd settle for them just calling it terrorism.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)4. the Tea Party terrorists need a history lesson ...
everyone know terrists are brown!
(if I have to tell anyone this is sarcasm . . .)
napkinz
(17,199 posts)6. the greatest threat is right here at home ...