Remember that previous to 9/11 the worst act of terror on U.S. soil was from a right wing extremist.
A package left at a clinic that performs abortions contained an explosive device that investigators said Thursday could have been deadly.
The incident came just days after a national abortion group alerted providers around the country to an increased risk of violence.
The device, found in a duffle bag Wednesday, “was configured in such a way to cause serious bodily injury or death,” said David Carter, assistant chief of the Austin Police Department.
The bomb, which was found in the parking lot of the Austin Women’s Health Center, comes on the heels of last week’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling which banned a controversial type of abortion and was viewed as an anti-abortion victory.
Culture of life my ass…..
The shooting death of 32 people at Virginia Tech was performed by a left wing extremist.
Railing against the rich, Christianity and people of privilege. Sounds like the average liberal.
Jay, besides the fact that Cho was just effin crazy, he compared HIMSELF TO JESUS – not that he was railing AGAINST Jesus. I know Malkin must radiate heavy duty stupid beams that are hard to resist, but try using a tinfoil hat or something.
Rheinhard and I suppose that a person who plants a bomb that killed 168 people was as sane as can be.
My comment wasn’t serious. It was just in response to Oliver’s stupid fucking attempt to attach politics to the Oklahoma City bombing.
Now cue the usual gaggle of stupid-asses that will say Oliver is correct and blah blah blah blah.
“It was just in response to Oliver’s stupid fucking attempt to attach politics to the Oklahoma City bombing.”
The Oklahoma City bombing was politically motivated. How can you possibly argue it wasn’t?
Yeah, right, CSS, a protest against the Republican loss in the off year election…
Oh, wait… They won.
Politically motivated. Right.
And Cho was imitating Christ’s gunning down of Roman soldiers in the Gospel of MindFuck.
McVeigh was an extremist, a nutty right-wing extremist whose act was almost completely motivated out of politics like all terrorists are. Ditto for Eric Rudolph and people in groups like The Weather Underground on the extremist left.
To pretend otherwise is kinda silly, and typical of the conservative movement.
OK, Oliver, we get it, the bomber left behind a Bush / Cheney bumper sticker on the package. Or was it Hoover / Curtis?
wow, there are really some dumb-as-shit trolls here…
we need to start profiling fright wing christians. they are also terrorists.
OWs statement is only true because of the ‘American soil’ thing IMO.
Reverend Jim Jones was a good US leftist, SF Democrat and murdered many more than McVeigh.
And actually the only thing I know that Mcveigh was protesting was Waco – which hardly makes him a righty – in iso.
And Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan was for big centralized government, and he killed people all the time. And what about Dracula? Dracula was a liberal (clearly an effete snob) and he’s one of the most famous murderers in history.
Therefore, McVeigh and the attempted Austin bomber get a pass.
Please name a mainstream conservative, Republican, or otherwise who supports abortion clinic bombings or Timothy McVeigh’s actions.
(I didn’t think so.)
Please name a mainstream liberal, Democrat, or otherwise who supports Cho’s murderous rampage, or Jim Jones, or violence by The Weather Underground or Earth First, or rioting at certain rallies.
(I didn’t think so.)
So both sides can get bent on those assertions.
However…
Please show me mainstream Muslims around the world that support the WTC bombings, Palestinian terrorists, car bombings in Iraq or beheading those who “insult” Islam.
Is there a difference? I think so.
But the “Right Wing Terror” thing is a pretty good hook Ollie, my boy.
“Reverend Jim Jones was a good US leftist, SF Democrat and murdered many more than McVeigh.”
Around the effin bend …
Whether you like it or not, domestic terror groups are just as dangerous as foreign extremists. A white supremecist group was caught in 2003 with a sodium cyanide bomb, other bombs, illegal weapons, a ton of ammunition and fake ids including Defense Intelligence Agency and UN.
I don’t dispute that pidge. THey should be found and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I just get annoyed the demogoguic political attachements people make when these things happen by the way out there extremists. (It goes both ways.)
The only terrorism with broad support and/or lack of condemnation by people who may never become a terrorist themselves comes from one direction.
Actually, numerically most domestic terrorist attcks are from left wing groups – enviro extremists and PETA-like extemists.
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Its true. The Rev Jones was a SF Democrat and a good progressive. Why do you think it was the “Peoples’ Temple”? Read up on it.
Dugger,
The way you tally this shit is beyond bizarre. Jim Jones, liberal terrorist? What a fevered brain bunch of bullshit.
Jones was acrazy fucing cult leader. You know he was an ordained minister in the Disciples of Christ, a mainstream Christian denomination?
Can we call him a Christian terrorist, now?
You’re a fucking idiot.
“The only terrorism with broad support and/or lack of condemnation by people who may never become a terrorist themselves comes from one direction.”
Yup, I’m totally opposed to branding whole groups of people terrorists based on the actions of a few except when it comes to, you know, this one group of people I don’t like.
Actually, numerically most domestic terrorist attcks are from left wing groups – enviro extremists and PETA-like extemists.
Well, if you want to talk raw numbers, there are far, far more acts of going through the express checkout lines with more than 12 items.
Piggly-Wiggly: hotbed of terrorism.
I don’t think it was mainstram Muslims who hid, fed and sheltered Eric Rudolph while he was a fugitive in North Carolina.
You mean when he was a fugitive in the mountains for several years? What mainstream group do you think it was? Did any mainstream group cheer his actions across the Christian world?
I know he and support from some racist radicals, but I don’t recall the Catholic League or the Republican Party of Georgia etc. endorsing his actions.
Again- for Dugger or Oliver or any of the rest of you who want to make the political ‘other side’ own these crazies- just stop.
Neither side supports the idiots who do these things- I don’t care if they supported your favorite candidate in every election for the past 40 years.
Oops. should be “he had support from some racist…”
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Don’t read this. it will hurt
“Jones warned that a cataclysmic period of race war, genocide, and ultimately nuclear war was nearing. Jones taught that Nazi fascists and Ku Klux Klan white supremacists would put people of color in concentration camps. As the messiah, Jones offered a place of refuge in his church, and the “promised land” in Jonestown. Utilizing a powerful metaphor from the Book of Revelation in the New Testament, Jones taught that American capitalist culture was irredeemable “Babylon.” There was no point in trying to reform its corrupt institutions. Instead the elect had to withdraw to a place of safety to survive the destruction after which they would emerge to establish the perfect communist society.”
“1978 – Jonestown” by Catherine Wessinger
Thus, actually you could call Jones a left wing Christian terrorist. Yes.
“Thus, actually you could call Jones a left wing Christian terrorist.”
As opposed to a crazy fucking cult leader who’s brain was stuffed with a garbled, grab bag of bullshit from anything and everything that ever crossed his fevered path?
Only a jackass would ascribe a coherent political viewpoint to a nut like Jones.
McVeigh had a clear political ax to grind informed by a specific political movement.
“Only a jackass would ascribe a coherent political viewpoint to a nut like Jones. ‘
I thought desribing him as leftist, which he clearly was, eliminated any consideration of his being coherent.
Bottom line, this leftist SF Democrat killed many more Americans than Tim McVeigh.
By the way per MIPT, looking at North American terrorist indicents since 9/11: about 55 attributable to left wing groups, about five to right wing groups.
By the way per MIPT, looking at North American terrorist indicents since 9/11: about 55 attributable to left wing groups, about five to right wing groups.
And 133,719 attributable to Piggly-Wiggly shoppers!! And nearly 14 percent of those with expired coupons!!
Dugger: “Bottom line, this leftist SF Democrat killed many more Americans than Tim McVeigh.”
That leftist was a Christian who killed based on his religion. Tim McVeigh killed based on his politics. There is a huge difference.
It would be similar to blaming vegetarians for the 13 million killed by Hitler in his concentration camps and not his politics / religion.
Uh, oh, here it comes: Hitler was a liberal.
Awesome …
“Jones taught that American capitalist culture was irredeemable “Babylon.
RASTAFARIAN TERRORISM
Dugger, stop being so bloody childish.
“Uh, oh, here it comes: Hitler was a liberal.
Awesome …”
Wouldn’t be the craziest thing I’ve read today.
Everybody. Please. Just. Stop.
Here’s an idea: People that think that randomly shooting or blowing up innocent people is justified by their so – called ideology are nuts.
Period.
They are not representative of, and certainly don’t speak for any respectable Party or ideology — from the Libertarians to the Syndico – Anarchists.
It’s Oliver that’s trying to stick the right wing label on nut jobs.
Why buy into it?
“Here’s an idea: People that think that randomly shooting or blowing up innocent people is justified by their so – called ideology are nuts.
Period.
They are not representative of, and certainly don’t speak for any respectable Party or ideology”
Wrong. If you ideology says gays should be killed and their blood will be on their hands, then the ideology can be blamed when someone kills gay people.
In this case, the ideology says a lump of cells has rights while the women they are inside do not. Therefore, it can be blamed when someone tries to kill to enforce that ideology.
They are not representative of, and certainly don’t speak for any respectable Party or ideology”
But you’re right, CSS. Now disagree with that. Jeebus, can I say anything you agree with?
White is white
Black is black
Tall is tall
small is small.
Anything?
Gimme a fucking break…
“They are not representative of, and certainly don’t speak for any respectable Party or ideology”"
So you are saying Christianity is not a respectably ideology?
Wow. Never thought we would agree on that point.
So you are saying Christianity is not a respectably ideology?
I’ll make this simple enough for even the “Great Strowbridge” to understand: You. Are. An. Imbecile.
Me: “So you are saying Christianity is not a respectably ideology?”
The Idiot: “I’ll make this simple enough for even the “Great Strowbridge” to understand: You. Are. An. Imbecile.”
You just said any ideology that allows people to kill innocent people isn’t respectable. Christianity is such an ideology. Therefore, according to your logic, Christianity isn’t respectable.
Q.E.D.
ANd don’t forget that Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot, were all LEFTIST/ATHEISTS who murdered HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS, collectively. Yet we never hear about their evils to the extent that Hitler is discussed. Why is that?