Should we bomb Alabama?

[Onlooker]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2031467,00.html

Now that we know there are terrorists in Alabama, we should consider launching a military campaign to weed them out. We could bomb the suburbs and rural areas where we think they are, and then march in there with our troops. I'm sure the people would line the streets, waving the American flag to welcome the troops.

[bryant69]

1. Montana probably has more. Be easier to pacify too.

Bigger though.

Bryant
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[Ilsa]

7. Oh, please, my husband would love a job patrolling the

wilds of Montana. And he'd do most of it on foot with his fishing gear nearby.

[havocmom]

17. And you will have to cross ME

Not nice. And I would be most interested to hear about the terrorists we have here.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

2. Yes.

We must defeat Alabamistan!

[sasha031]

3. are yes the guy in white sheets are back

this is so terrible, a dark time in history

[Burning Water]

4. Oh, great,

another Southern bashing thread.

I think the Alabama authorities are on it.

[Onlooker]

6. It's not a southern bashing thread ...

It's bashing our hypocritical approach to terrorism. The same post could have been made if the bombings took place in Massachusetts.

[BR_Parkway]

10. But Alabama is still closer to oil rigs than Massachusetts.

[Burning Water]

18. Nothing hypocritical

about it (Well, let's not go into a detailed discussion of the war, OK). In the USA, the powers that be have the ability, a monopoly of force, to go after terrorists as a criminal procedure. No need to bomb the place. The government is set up to protect the people of the USA. It is not, however, set up to protect citizens of other countries that attack us. It is not set up to protect the other countries. This is the whole idea of the nation-state.

Now, there are those who disagree with the concept of the nation-state, who want international institutions like the Un, and the ICC to preserve peace. Unfortunately, that's not the way the world is currently set up. But the government of Alabama, and the FBI, can handle the situation alright.

And speaking of hypocrisy, I very much doubt this thread would have been posted if the bombings had taken place in Massachusetts. But I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

[Coexist]

8. I don't see it as southern bashing,

I see it as a parallel for our foreign policy idiocy.

Would you feel better if the OP had said New York State. Don't forget about Lackawanna's terrorist cell.

[_testify_]

9. I don't think that's what the OP meant

It was more along the lines of 'by neocon logic, we ought to be able to bomb Alabama'.

I lived for awhile in Alabama. It is the most beautiful place I have ever been, but many of the people there diminish its beauty. IMO, of course.

[mrcheerful]

5. Yeah as long as the troops are wearing their white sheets and have the

swastika arm bands they will be welcome with open arms and plenty of confederate flag waving. Funny how all the chruchs burned were black yet who did MSN say it was that burned them, yep the good old racist liberals.

[rkc3]

11. Racist liberals - that's the best oxymoran I've heard in a while.

[QC]

12. "all the chruchs burned were black"

Nope--you might want to research the story a bit.

[mrcheerful]

15. I did and saw this little bit of info, taken from OP's resource btw

Four Baptist churches scattered ten or twenty miles around the tiny town of Boligee, near the Mississippi border, were burnt in this manner on Tuesday night. All had black congregations. upon reading down farther i saw this...Last Friday five churches in Bibb County, farther to the east, were destroyed or badly damaged by fire. Of those, four had predominately white congregations and the fifth was mainly black. Sounds like these 5 were mixed which would tick the KKK off also. Remember no chruch is safe if it hasn't got a 100% white congergation from KKK harassment.

[QC]

16. The first group of burnings hit 1 black and 4 white congregations.

The common features are that all of the churches are Baptist, rural, and located near highways.

[Burning Water]

19. Funny how

you're wrong. 4 of the first 5 churches were white.

I repeat, this is a Southern bashing thread. If it didn't start that way, it is rapidly degenerating into one.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

22. 5 were black, 4 were white....

all were Baptist.

[Burning Water]

25. So.

What's your point?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

26. Just correcting the mis-statement.

:shrug:

[mrcheerful]

29. Seems that you missed this part of the article,

predominately white congregations, the fifth was mostly black. Predominately means mostly white with some members of another race, we presume black. The southern purists which largely make up the KKK would see any church with black members as race mixing. So I wasn't exactly mis-stating a thing, seeings how the KKK see's any interaction with blacks as race mixing and there fore the whites in the church are considered the same as or less then blacks. Know the enemies mind and it will make you see the light. So as far as the KKK is concerned they just burned black churchs. BTW, notice none of the churchs that had all white members with no race mixing weren't burnt, thats the real clue.

[peacebaby3]

31. Very, very few churches in AL are "white only" churches. You will find

a lot more churches that are strictly African American because a white family is a lot less likely to attend a church that is predominately "black." The same is not true about a black family attending a "white" church. AL has one of the largest African American populations per capita in the country and if these people were trying to target "blacks", they would have had no problem finding 100+++ more rural, "black" churches to burn before targeting churches that have one or two African American members of their congregation. They probably drove by a couple of AME or Good Shepard, etc. churches to get to the Baptist churches they burned down.

There is absolutely no evidence that this is a racial incident and no reason for anyone to insinuate that it is without any proof. Most of what is known now actually would contradict it being racially motivated so I would wait to see before I start making such assertions.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

32. ditto what peacebaby said. nt

[Zenlitened]

13. It'll be a cakewalk. A slam-dunk.

Six months, tops.

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[0007]

35. ...but how much...mon...money will it cost?

[Just Me]

14. There are 27 times more incidents of domestic terrorism than,...

,...international terrorism in this country. Seems to me we should be spending our resources to address our own problems rather than bomb other nations because of a handful of their crazies (most of whom weren't even from their nation). But, that's just me.

[raccoon]

20. No, we should bomb ALBERTA.

The name SOUNDS like Alabama, and besides, they have those oil sands.

:silly:

[malmapus]

21. Yeah, we need to fight them there

So we don't have to fight them here...*cough*andgetthoseoilsands*cough*

[raccoon]

23. They're hiding WMD in haystacks and igloos. nt

[SSX]

24. Anyone ready to make the link?

Coretta honored at a Missionary Baptist Church. All of the churches torched were Baptist. Black SUV. (Governments favorite mode of transportation). Tin foil hats firmly in place.

[obreaslan]

27. Don't you mean Al Abama?

Sounds fishy to me. :crazy:

:sarcasm: of course.

[phusion]

28. lol!! n/t

[peacebaby3]

36. LOL! I missed this earlier. Too funny! n/t

[KamaAina]

30. We'll all try to stay cool and calm, when Alabama gets the Bomb!

Who's next? Who's next? </tom-lehrer>

[madinmaryland]

33. But, but, but, I thought we were fighting them over there

so that we would not have to fight them here!

:sarcasm:

[peacebaby3]

34. Wow, that was a poorly written article. It definitely had an agenda and

actually had a mistake as well. The article states:

"Alabama is where the Ku Klux Klan’s first members were recruited."

This is actually not true. The Ku Klux Klan was founded by Nathan Bedford Forrest shortly after the Civil War in Pulaski, TN and its first members were from different areas and were veterans of the confederacy. I have no doubt that they probably recruited members in AL after the organization was founded, but its first members were not "recruited" from AL. The resurgence of the Klan was around 1915 in Stone Mountain, GA by a guy named Simmons.

There is no denying the history of race in AL, but it is way too early to have an article with this tone.

On edit: No. I would prefer you not bomb AL. If you do, please leave us people on the Gulf Coast alone. We have already experienced a bombing from mother nature this past hurricane season.

I do understand your point though. Don't worry if they are caught, they will be executed since our legislature passed a law making it a capital offense if you commit a "terrorist act" (with no definition of what is considered a terrorist act)so "fry 'em all" AL will get revenge.

[billyskank]

37. No

Southlandshari lives there.