We love lone wolves.
I would like to introduce my latest guest blogger, who would like to make a specific point about terrorism. I have demonstrated that the vast majority of domestic terrorism is committed by the right—yet it seems like I may have understated the case due to different definitions of what constitutes domestic terrorism. As I think about a certain family that are held in high esteem by the Stupidparty, who are in actuality little more than a bunch of domestic terrorists—this Bundy family also give us a glimpse of what the future might look like if a Stupidparty leader becomes President—it is not like Trump is shy about threatening and promoting violence.
Welcome Eric Varney who has his own blog The Smoking Section
Varney starts by discussing Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who would be labelled as a leftie, is also correctly labelled as domestic terrorist, but it is this benchmark that is then badly undermined by the fact that similar villains are not labelled as domestic terrorists. But that is only the beginning of the hypocrisy…
(This is an older Blog entry from ‘Coffee, Cigarettes, & Politics,’ written on 12/08/15. This was imported as an effort to keep all my work together. Thank you for reading and enjoy.)
When you choose to open fire on a group of people, you’re committing terrorism. Except, that’s not the FBI’s definition of terrorism. When people hear the word ‘terrorism,’ they think of words like ‘Muslim’ or ‘Extremist’ It might even conjure up memories of the Shoe Bomber or 9/11.
Names like James Holmes, Jared Lee Loughner, Ted Kaczynski, and Robert Deer come to my mind. Only one of the four names mentioned has been classified a domestic terrorist. The other three were counted as lone wolves. Now, I only bring up Ted Kaczynski because he was classified as a domestic terrorist and that is representative of what this country used to do when faced with a monster.
Between 1978 and 1995, the man dubbed ‘the Unabomber’ had killed three and injured twenty-three in his mail bombing campaign. He gets counted as a domestic terrorist. Just three dead! Of course, we hadn’t yet reached the twilight zone where there were more mass shootings than days in the year and were trying to paint a group of people as terrorist. This trend didn’t start happening until some time had went by after the World Trade Center attacks. The military industrial complex, always looking for a way to go to war, had worked it’s way deeper into our patriotic fabric, altering it forever.
Jared Lee Loughner and James Holmes killed more people each than Ted and both got classified as lone wolves , all because they were white and the crime was committed with firearms. Let’s get real, if both shooters had been brown they wouldn’t be classified as mentally ill, the less intelligent half of this country would call them terrorists, all without a care to the actual facts behind the events or the facts about the ruthless people who commit these violent acts,.
And then there’s Robert Deer. “No more baby parts.” The former peeping Tom said. His shooting comes on the heels of divisive rhetoric coming from the recent Republican debates and conservative slanted pseudo-news repeating it into their echo chamber.
And now there’s the recent violence in San Bernardino. From the very first second it was called a terrorist attack because the shooter, in this instance, was brown. Every time there is a mass shooting committed by a brown person, it gets called terrorism. Black shooters are called ‘thugs’ or ‘gangsters.’ White shooters are called ‘mentally disturbed.’
It’s almost as if this country is going out of it’s way to isolate the definition of terrorism to only include people of Middle Eastern descent. I can see why that is, too, because half this nation is itching to go to war. If we considered all mass shootings to be the terrorist attacks that they are, it would treat all mass shooters equally, like the pieces of crap that they are. It would work against the latest trend to blame Islam for extremist groups like ISIS. But, to borrow this from the more intelligent half of this nation: Blaming Islam for ISIS is like blaming Christianity for the KKK.
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