Feds:Alabama Right-wing terrorists were preparing machine-gun attack on Mexicans

[IChing]

Five members of a self-styled Alabama militia were denied bond Tuesday after a federal agent testified they planned a machine-gun attack on Mexicans. A sixth man accused of having weapons and explosives components in his home was approved for release.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Armstrong said he could not grant bond because of the agent's testimony and the large number of weapons ... that were seized in raids last Friday.

Fox News described it as "a small arsenal ... that included a rocket launcher, 130 hand grenades and 70 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) similiar to the kind used by insurgents against American GIs in Iraq," along with "enough live ammo to fill a U-Haul trailer." And David Broder thinks lefty bloggers aren't civil.

In a broad sense, as with the bomb found outside the Austin abortion clinic last week and as with hundreds of other acts of right-wing domestic terror -- a far more serious threat statistically than terrorism caused by Islamic radicals or foreign groups -- the fringe right's propensity to engage in terrorist tactics are a natural consequence -- a predictable consequence of their "eliminationist" rhetoric -- rhetoric based on the idea that your political opponents don't just disagree with you, but are undermining your culture/nation/race and threatening your existence, and therefore must be destroyed>>>>snip

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/51370/

[BOSSHOG]

1. They were just exercising their second amendment rights

Their planned actions are just what the founding fathers intended. Machine guns, handgrenades, mowing down Mexicans all for the sake of safety. Please NRA get these guys lawyers and march for their "rights."

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Sounds like frat pranksters to me!

Rush fans.

[Wickerman]

6. wow, sounds like you read some of the websites I found when searching

for the Alabama Free Militia.

These guys though, are dead serious.

http://www.opinionbug.com/?p=1938
{excerpt}
This extreme violation of our rights as human beings much less citizens is proof perfect that the Alabama Free Militia is very much needed and had every right to use extreme force in protecting themself and more should take action against the ATF and FBI and any members of any government agency which does not believe in bearing arms to defend yourself should be laid to rest with EXTREME FORCE until all members are freed and their arms returned. Their is no reason why the free people should not have adequate firearms to protect themself from the government persecuting them. What good are peashooters against military tanks and the long arm which covers all truth in the press to protect thir fabricated laws.

[Parche]

10. AL-BAMA-KIDA

[Texas Prison Boss]

15. *rolls eyes*

Yet more mischaracterization of the NRA and gun rights advocates in general. Got to love it....

[RC]

2. These guys ain't terrorest 'cause they is white folk.

Yeah, right. :sarcasm:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. It's only a thought crime. We shouldn't legislate thought crimes.

Don't these people understand the difference between motive and intent?

:sarcasm:

[IChing]

5. The pope doesn't appreciate your joke

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=811841&mesg_id=811841

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. The pope can suck it.

[nealmhughes]

8. They were in the mountains, and it appears from local TV (Huntsville) that their

"compound" was a travel trailer.
They also appear to have been "drifter" militia types who had somehow found one another.
This is not common knowledge, but the SE USA has a huge Mexican and Central American population, who, for the most part are fairly well integrated into the society at large. Thank God for them, our restauants are autentico now and we also can get Cokes with cane sugar and Jarritos fruit sodas, as well as local fresh tortillas in North Alabama!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

9. Where do you get the coke with cane sugar?

[nealmhughes]

12. Any Mexican or Central American grocery in the South, anyhow.

Here in North Alabama all you have to do is look for a sign in Spanish that appears to be a store, and voila, there they are! Not sure about other parts of the country, but I do know that Jarritos are available in every bodega in NYC.

[madrchsod]

17. sam`s club in the latin neighbor hoods in large cities

while i was working in chicago at a sam`s club i watched pallets of mexican soft drinks being sold. jarritos is pretty much sold all over the country.

[Texas Prison Boss]

14. Why is it that....

...people use frivolous things like the undeniable joys of ethnic foods to somehow justify cultural and demographic displacement?

On the actual topic, these guys were idiots and it's a good thing they got caught. They reacted in a criminal manner to a real threat (illegal immigration) and thus did far more harm than good.

[enid602]

11. nice folks

I'm going to go way out on a limb here, and assume that the Alabamans are white. Heavy firepower, ammo and use of explosive devices are dead giveaways.

[IChing]

13. Gee, it on all the channels now they even stopped the Reagan love fest

to talk about these terrorist.




:nuke: :sarcasm: :rant:

[madrchsod]

16. why are`t they in gitmo?

[aikoaiko]

18. by and large gun owners hate criminals like these men...

...even if they also hate illegal immigration.