Near Total Media Blackout - Fringe RW'er tries to blow up Congress

[ck4829]

Tenn. Federal authorities announced today that a white supremacist was sentenced to 30 years in prison for attempting to acquire nerve gas and explosives in a plot to destroy government buildings.

Demetrius Van Crocker, a farmhand from McKenzie in West Tennessee, was arrested in 2004 after he tried to buy the weapons from undercover federal agents.

The 40-year-old divorced father of two told agents his dream was to set off a dirty bomb in Washington D-C while the House and the Senate were in session.

A federal jury convicted Crocker in April of five charges of attempting to acquire chemical weapons and stolen explosives with intent to harm individuals or damage a building.

...

Crocker also told an agent he wanted a helicopter license so he could spray or bomb black neighborhoods in Jackson with poison gas and spike drugs with poison to kill black people.

http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=5741527

Please K&R, we MUST get get the word out.

[Eric J in MN]

1. Animal rights and environmental groups are the #1 domestic threat...

...according to Bush's FBI.

[nam78_two]

29. Those damn vegans!

Always terrorizing people with their damn tofu or something!


K&R

[spooky3]

31. kittens are menacing the country!

Just look at my vicious fosters:





They must be stopped!

[Q3JR4]

33. Awwww,

I'm not a cat person, but those pictures are adorable.

[spooky3]

36. they say thanks!

[japple]

39. You're right--THEY MUST BE STOPPED RIGHT NOW.

It oughta be against the law to be that precious. I'm in love. :loveya:
Good on you for fostering kitties. God bless you and the sweet little ones.

[spooky3]

40. Thanks!

:hi: Wish us luck in finding them a good "forever" home!

[Katzenjammer]

37. But this sad bastard isn't a terrorist either, really. He's crazy.

Or at least if the description of his ambitions is correct, he's crazy. No proper terrorist would have such diffuse, unrealistic "goals". Those're the kind of loose, grandiose, unfocused animosities you get from someone who's suffering from paranoid schizophrenia.

His sentence should have been custody in a secure asylum, not a regular prison. But that wouldn't help out the careers of our intrepid Homeland Security drones, would it.

[Gregorian]

2. No wonder it wasn't covered. He's not a member of Al Qaeda.

George must be pissed. If only he'd been Iranian.

edit- We'd have seen coverage then! FOX to the rescue!

[More Than A Feeling]

Kick and Recommend!

Homegrown American terrorists that have nothing to do with Al Qaeda? That's unbelievable! Just another librul conspiracy, I tell's ya! :sarcasm:

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Crockerpot should have run on a GOP ticket - he'd fit right in.

Or if not, another right wing talk show host is in the making................

Wonder how many animals he abused (or fathered) on the farm?

[eppur_se_muova]

4. So ... the WMD's have been found - in TN, and TX. (xpost)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2853079&mesg_id=2853225

[BlueStorm]

5. And everyone thinks it just the Ay-rabs who are terrists!!!

We got one right here!! There's a terrorist, hang him!!! No, send him to Gitmo!!!












Oh, wait....he's a Republican and white. I wonder what kind of punishment he'll get?

Being sent to a country club prison?

Blue

[wtmusic]

10. Suddenly profiling makes sense

Can we put all white Republicans on the no-fly list?

[BlueStorm]

15. Either that or require that they go through those backscatter machines

at the airport.

God I can't think of anything else.

Blue

[Tactical Progressive]

6. Media is waiting for a Dem terrorist

so that they can report on this Repub nutcase with an 'extremists from both sides' storyline.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. Buh buh buh buh

haven't we been told repeatedly "that while not all muslims are terrorists, so far all terrorists have been muslims"? Isn't that part of the creed? I guess these must have been muslim white supremacists.

[magellan]

8. Was this guy another freeper?

Or is he just being hoisted up onto the pedestal over there now?

[Jim Sagle]

9. Little Green Footballs isn't on the case yet.

I'm sure it's just an oversight.:sarcasm:

[DBoon]

11. I wonder what handle he used on Freerepublic

I image he must have been one of their regulars

[Blue_Tires]

23. that's my question as well

[Kelly Rupert]

12. Deluded crazies with half a plan aren't worth covering,

whether they're Al-Qaida wannabes in Miami or Tim McVeigh wannabes in the hills.

[tabasco]

13. Ohh-kay. If I were a government worker I think I might like to know

about people getting busted IN THE ACT of attempting to acquire dynamite to blow my ass up.

Call me crazy.

If this were an environmentalist it would be all over corporate media.

[lumberjack_jeff]

24. Sounds like he was a bit more than aspirational. n/t

[Kelly Rupert]

38. I doubt it.

The only useful thing he had actually "acquired" was from FBI agents, which is hardly the same as actually acquiring anything. Replying to someone PMing you on your racist forum, telling you they can help you get things you need isn't quite the same as doing all the legwork yourself. I don't see any evidence of an actual threat, just a potential one.

[tabasco]

49. Good for you. Why not get a job with the FBI?

Then you can tell them you have ESP and know when someone attempting to acquire dynamite is serious or not.

[The Count]

46. Whereas innocent Jose Padilla got a press release from Ashcroft himself

yeah, that makes sense....

[buddysmellgood]

14. You really do need the beard and olive skin. White kids killing other children in

American high schools are much, much more terrifying in reality, but they just don't sell coke and lip gloss. Crazy ass unibomers, Tim McVVeys, Freepers with an-thracks...that stuff just kills lots of people. It doesn't sell Bud light.

spell correctly at your own peril

[CJCRANE]

16. A similar story in the UK

that also involved far-right activists and strangely never hit the mass media:

http://www.pendletoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=8&ArticleID=1806619

"TWO Pendle men have appeared before Pennine magistrates accused of having "a master plan" after what is believed to be a record haul of chemicals used in making home-made bombs was found in Colne."

<snip>

"The 22 chemical components recovered by police are believed to be the largest haul ever found at a house in this country."

<snip>

"...search of Jackson's home had uncovered rocket launchers, chemicals, BNP literature and a nuclear biological suit."

[leftchick]

17. Why is he not being waterboarded at GITMO?

he clearly fulfills w**'s requirements as an enemy combatant and detainee in the war on terra.

[drm604]

18. K&R

:kick:

[corkhead]

19. apparently his skin isn't dark enough for him to be a terrist

but imagine the coverage if his name was Mohammad

[chill_wind]

20. Great comments. Does this completely epitomize the sorry abject state

of our totally corporate whore media ONCE AGAIN- or what?!

K&R.

[Skidmore]

21. Prime article to send to KO.

[raccoon]

22. K&R. nt

[NewJeffCT]

25. Is he a registered Republican?

I'm guessing yes.

[Kellyiswise]

26. Isn't he a terrorist? And shouldn't he be sent to GITMO for further interrogation?

And why hasn't the media publicized this as a way of deterring further such attempts?

[Poiuyt]

27. Remember Remember the Fifth of November

Sounds like Guy Fawkes. He wanted to blow up Parliament while it was in session.

[volstork]

28. K&R!

[warrens]

30. Sounds like a typical moderate Repuke

It's the really crazy ones, like Santorum and Hayworth, that I worry about.

[klook]

32. "...sentenced to lifetime supervised release."

So how come he doesn't get the full Gitmo treatment? Is plotting to set off a dirty bomb and release nerve gas in our nation's capital a benign offense?

[Counciltucky]

34. And the "liberal media" likes to paint DEMOCRATS as "terrorist sympathizers."

And I keep telling people that we're not terrorist sympathizers.

And I would never claim that the Republicans are terrorist sympathizers, either.

Mainly because they're not sympathizers but actually terrorists.

[BR_Parkway]

35. K&R - here's what I sent to my email list (only half of the are "choir"

the other half are freeper types we love to bombard)

They finally catch an ACTUAL terrorist, back in 2004. Trying to buy stuff to blow up Congress.

Patriot Act help with this? NOPE
How bout those wiretaps? NOPE
Bombing the crap out of some other country? NOPE
Spending Billions per month? NOPE

Just good old fashioned police work by the FBI, not even Homeland Security (aka Big Brother)

But wait a second you say, you never saw anything about this on the news? No Breaking headlines? No White House press conference? No ominous musical score on FAUX news to remind you to be afraid while they continued to prop up this failed misAdministration?

WELL OF COURSE YOU DIDN'T

You see, it was a WHITE guy - one of those Right Wing, NASCAR loving, wife beating good old fashioned Gawd-fearing Americans from Tennessee. No swarthy guy with a beard and an accent, no Koran in his hip pocket, illegally here by getting sponsored by one of those left leaning Hate America first groups or slipping through a porous border. OMG, after all those years of telling us that the homos were the root of all evil and mayhem in the world - this guy didn't even have the decency to be a big old queer - and a divorced one at that, wonder who is responsible for destroying the sanctity of his marriage? Just one more straight boy heading to prison where, who knows, he might finally get to find out what's behind some of those deep dark fantasies that made him loudly make sure everyone knew how straight he was.

And once again, every single thing about this guy, the arrest and the lack of reporting points out how utterly and completely wrong Bush has been - the reverse Midas touch - every single thing he touches turns to shit.

http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=5741527

[Jeffersons Ghost]

41. you got my vote and I'm exactly one step behind your OP on the Greatest Page...

but I'm still about ten votes behind your NO. 1 OP in second position... Some things are simply more important than winning first place on the Greatest Page at DU. great post ck4829. keep up the goOd work

[ck4829]

44. I gave you my vote too, and I am urging more people to do the same.

[ComerPerro]

42. so is he not being treated as a terrorist?

[BuyingThyme]

43. Why are the authorities always targeting white folk

while them 10,000 brown-folk sleeper cells continue to sleep among us?

[The Count]

45. 30 years? No "heck of a Job"??? Why not free on bail like the Anthrax freeper?

Everyone knows white men cannot possibly be terraists.

[uppityperson]

47. IF he'd suceeded, who do you think would've beenblamed?

Not for the death penalty, but he should never be up for parole. Sick sick sick.

Amazing google searching in the news, 3 hits. Amazing.

[nicknameless]

48. Similarly with the fake anthrax guy, Chad Conrad Castagana.

What's with the news blackout of this guy's photo?
This weekend, several papers ran the story of his indictment, WITH A PHOTO OF HIS HANDS ONLY.

Maybe it screws up their profiling criteria?

:eyes:

[Ian David]

50. See related thread: There have been at least *19* attempted acts of terrorism in the US since 9/11

Oh my God. There have been at least *19* attempted acts of terrorism in the US since 9/11
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2868784

[DoYouEverWonder]

51. Everyone knows

it's not terrorism unless you are Muslim.

:sarcasm:

[rpgamerd00d]

52. Why the hell wasn't he arrested on Terrorism charges? Hmm? Because he is white?