Why don't Republicans care about American terrorists?

[redqueen]

I don't mean the white supremacist KKK type of Republicans... we know why they don't care... but the Republicans who've been duped by the pablem spewed about family values -- those who wouldn't be welcomed by the white supremacist groups -- why don't they care about American terrorists? Or maybe they do... and they just need someone to tell them about it, since the whore media isn't saying jack squat about the issue.

Do you know who William Krar is?

If you don't, don't you wonder why? Surely we all know that if he'd been a Muslim or an Arab, news of his arrest and his cache of weapons would have been announced from the front steps of the Justice Department in a press conference that we'd have seen clips from for days on all the newswhore outlets.


The American Taliban

Levitas is a writer, researcher and expert on the activities of racist, anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi organizations and the author of The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right recently released in paperback by St. Martin's Press (Griffin).

According to Levitas, who has testified for nearly two decades as an expert witness in state, federal and Canadian courts, the Krar case is only the most recent and dramatic example of the threat posed by domestic terrorists. James Kopp, who was found guilty in 2003 for the 1998 shooting of Dr. Barnett Slepian in Buffalo, New York, was affiliated with the shadowy underground anti-abortion network the Army of God. Matthew Hale, leader of the white supremacist group the World Church of the Creator, is due to stand trial in Chicago this year on charges of soliciting the murder of a federal judge. And Rafael Davila, a former Army National Guard intelligence officer from Washington State, is awaiting trial in Spokane, Washington on espionage-related charges for allegedly stealing – and then planning to distribute – highly classified military documents to white supremacists in North Carolina, Texas and Georgia.

"Americans should question whether the Justice Department is making America's far-right fanatics a serious priority. And with the FBI still struggling to get up to speed on the threat posed by Islamic extremists abroad, it is questionable whether the agency has the manpower to keep tabs on our distinctly American terror cells," Levitas told me.

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17637">http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17637

[BrainRants]

1. Because most American terrorists = Republicans.

Can't bite the hand that feeds you.

[FreedomAngel82]

10. So true

And "Homeland Security" doesn't consider them terrorists group. But if a democratic group is going around trying to find the truth about the 2004 election they're considered a terrorist group. Ugh! How many people do they have to kill before people realize they are terrorists?! :argh:

[aintitfunny]

2. Because American Terrorists vote Republican (n/t)

[redqueen]

3. Yes, but many Republicans, if they knew about this,

I think would be very interested to know why the FBI doesn't go after these terrorists. I think enough Republicans would be threatened by these groups to make some waves with those that hold all the power, and hopefully get at least the appearance of some attention to the problem.

[FreedomAngel82]

11. Do you really think that?

If they are an anti-abortion group the republicans will embrace them. Please. They'll never talk about this and they'll continue to kill people in the name of God.

[redqueen]

14. I was referring to the white supremacist groups in that post.

However even some moderate Republicans wouldn't embrace terrorists who kill doctors and terrorize women.

[Steel City Slim]

4. Could It Be Because....

....so far the anthrax has only been sent to liberals?

[illflem]

5. You must have missed this article

Administration now says Americans pose bigger threat than Iran, North Korea


WASHINGTON A Department of Homeland Security internal report that assesses terrorist organizations, their anticipated targets and preferred weapons concludes that the threat to the United States presented by North Korea and other countries long described as "state sponsors of terrorism" is declining.

"In the post-9/11 environment, countries do not appear to be facilitating or supporting terrorist groups intent on striking the U.S. homeland," says the draft report, which is intended to help the Homeland Security agency define its spending priorities through 2011.

Of the six nations identified by the State Department as terrorist sponsors, five of them are described by Homeland Security as a "diminishing concern." Those five are North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Libya and Cuba. The sixth country on the list, Iran, is highlighted as a likely threat over the next five years.

"Only Iran appears to have the possible future motivation to use terrorist groups, in addition to its own state agents, to plot against the U.S. homeland," the report says, adding that "ideologically driven nonstate actors" are the biggest threat to the United States.

EDITED BY ADMIN: COPYRIGHT

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/31/news/terror.html

[redqueen]

7. This is talking about American-based terrorists, yes...

but not white supremacists... which is more what I was aiming at.

Thanks, though.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. But which Americans?

Anti-war groups or anti-abortion groups?

[Moderator]

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[leftofthedial]

6. they're on the same team

they also engae interrorism because of the same issues the neotheocons use to divide us.

Domestic terrorism is good for the repukes.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

8. Don't forget abortion clinic bombers and the radical anti-choice groups!

[redqueen]

9. Exactly!

I'm willing to wager those groups aren't mentioned in the article quoted in post 5, either!

[Commendatori]

12. They don't generate votes.

The last thing hayseeds need is a new enemy.

[dave123williams]

15. McVeigh; not a Democrat.

[The Magistrate]

16. The Reason, Ma'am

Is that these groups are simply the armed wing of the Republican Party. To indulge in Freudian jargon for a moment, they are simply its Id, acting out what the great mass of Republican voters, and office-holders, fantasize doing themselves....

[redqueen]

18. But Sir, there are Republicans who are minorities...

wouldn't they have a personal interest in wondering why these groups, which may far outnumber the other kinds of terrorists, aren't investigated?

I think they might... :shrug:

[zbdent]

17. They do care about American "terrorists"

Don't you remember that they want to prosecute PETA, tree-huggers, environmentalists, and the teachers unions? To name a few . . .

[Al-CIAda]

19. This is what the opposition gets for not exposing the LIES of 9/11

and the PNAC agenda. The 'terror' card will be played over and over until it is exposed for the fraud it is -and the 'leaders' who chose to manipulate the citizenry through its treasonous deception.

[redqueen]

20. If we can make this issue more visible, though...

I think we can do an end-run around it, in a way.

If enough Republicans care about white supremacists having large stocks of weapons and plans to use them, they may rattle enough cages to get something done.

[redqueen]

21. Kick for a few more comments...

and for anyone who doesn't know who Krar is.

[Terran1212]

23. They do. They have "support our troops" bumper stickers

Don't take too literally