Americans seem to be OK with terrorists, as long as they are white.

[riqster]

http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2014/01/17/americans-seem-to-be-ok-with-terrorists-as-long-as-they-are-white/

" His name is not Abdul Ibrahim, it is Andrew Scott Boguslawski. He was caught with weapons, ammo, dozens of bombs, and other tools of the terrorist trade in Ohio a few weeks ago. He looks to be an average American on the surface. The media has been pretty restrained in their reporting, treating it like a normal criminal case. No one is freaking out.

His name is not Muhammed Bin Arjara, it is Mark Kulis. He is one of those “sovereign citizen” nutbars, and was also busted for having illegal weapons and explosives. The media has been pretty restrained in their reporting, treating it like a normal criminal case. No one is freaking out.

His name is not Abou Ben Adhem, it is Chris Christie. His administration put millions of Americans at risk by shutting down part of the George Washington Bridge (a known terrorist target) on 9/11 of last year. The media has been pretty restrained in their reporting, hardly even mentioning the al-Quaida connection at all. No one is freaking out.

But just imagine the hue and cry and universal brouhaha had any of these three mutts been swarthy males with “foreign-sounding” names. The “news” media would be in 24/7 panic-inducing, fear-mongering, hair-on-fire, freakout mode. The cops would be deploying all manner of special weaponry. Americans would be told to use extra caution, to look under our beds, to be “vigilant”.

But since these are honkie dudes with “normal” names, America pretty much yawns.

Gentle Reader, this is nonsense. The skin color of someone who does you harm makes no difference whatsoever when you are lying in an ambulance or morgue. And paying undue attention to someone’s skin color or religious background when trying to decide if they are a threat makes it far more likely that somebody else you aren’t looking at will blow you to Kingdom come.

Or, of course, the whole “Global War on Terror” schtick could just be a con job, a cynical manipulation of the public so as to enrich the rich and gull the gullible; and maybe we should just calm down and treat all terrorists as common criminals, like we are those two lily-white curs in Ohio… Naah. Couldn’t be."

Source material at the link.

[El_Johns]

1. KR

[riqster]

2. TY

[PowerToThePeople]

3. GWB, Cheney, et al. n/t

[riqster]

4. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the list is long and goes way back.

[bobclark86]

5. No, Chris Christie isn't a terrorist...

A piece of shit, petty asshole bully? Yes. Using bombs to kill people in order to enact a radical change in government? No.

The media doesn't care -- because viewers don't care -- unless people die. Lots of them. Pretty little white girls with blonde pigtails and freckles, or barely-legal teen girls with big tits and an "easy" streak.

Or if the person attempting to do it is brown. That, too.

[riqster]

7. Well, he certainly gave aid and comfort to the enemy.

Fucking up traffic and stranding people on an al-Quaida target on 9/11. The media is pretty much ignoring that charming little peccadillo.

[bobclark86]

9. I'm getting really sick of tossing out shit like

traitor and terrorist at every little fucking thing.

FReepers do that shit. Be better than them.

[riqster]

12. I'd point out that what his administration did is what I said.

You can quarrel with the phrasing, not the substance.

[Initech]

6. Not to mention Americans seem perfectly fine with white collar terrorists.

*COUGH* Koch Brothers *COUGH*

[riqster]

8. Oh hell yeah. Poisoning a town's water supply???

[malaise]

10. Excellent post

I am actually frightened by the way both the media and ReTHUG politicians have ignored the gravity of the Christie sabotage of those lanes.

[Paladin]

11. K&R.

White, hyper-conservative, domestic terrorists present a far bigger threat than anything Al Qaeda is cooking up, these days.