Review Quiz: How many RW terror attacks have occurred in the US?

[LongTomH]

Everyone is rightfully horrified by the bombing and shooting incidents in Norway; but, how many bombing or shooting incidents have occurred in the US over the last two decades?

• The Federal Bldg bombing in OKC comes to mind, of course.
  
• Also the shooting of two guards at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, and
  
• the shootings at the Unitarian Church, and of course
  
• the shooting - in church of all places - of Dr. George Tiller

Sorry if the exact dates elude me at the moment; there have been so many incidents. The Norwegians are especially horrified, since this sort of thing has not become common in Northern Europe. I should say "has not yet become common in Northern Europe;" if a Tea Party style ultra right wing gets started in Northern Europe, this could suddenly become common.

Edited to add: And someone posted this about Tea Buggers showing up ARMED to a MoveOn event: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1554520

How long before one of the looney tunes takes a gun out and starts firing?

[Angry Dragon]

1. Small plane flown into IRS office in Austin??

[XanaDUer]

2. Who was that guy working for the CIA who blew up the man and his aide

Mike Townley?


He killed, by car-bombing his vehicle, Orlando Letelier and Letelier's female aide.

EDIT for clarity.

[XanaDUer]

3. Kick

nt.

[Fumesucker]

4. Olympic bombing and other attacks in Atlanta.. gay nightclubs and others..n/t

[XanaDUer]

10. Right Eric Rudolph

nt.

[DBoon]

5. attempted shooting up the Tides Foundation in San Francisco

only stopped when the Highway Patrol pulled the guy over for a traffic violation an found a small arsenal in his car

[Ezlivin]

6. Including the time a RWer is elected to office?

'Cause that's home-grown terrorism right there.

[saras]

7. Uncountably many - gay bashings, abortion harassment, neo-Nazi beatings...

[Creideiki]

38. Sadly most straight people don't recognize that gay bashing, abortion harassment, and anti-semitic/

anti-Muslim attacks are terrorist acts.

[Lucky Luciano]

8. Wasn't there a right wing maniac that killed three cops in Pittsburgh? nt

[MH1]

9. assassination of Dr Tiller

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

11. Fort Sumpter and many that followed it.

[roamer65]

12. What part of "Thou shalt not kill" do these rightards not understand?

They need to rounded up and sent to deprogramming camps.

They have incorrect thinking and it needs to be changed.

[libodem]

13. The Mormon car bombing

By the forgery guy. He was a conservative.

[XanaDUer]

17. I thought he did it not just for the money, but to embarrass the high-ranking

Mormon guys (I have no idea what they are officially called) in the Latter Day Church?

Although I'm sure he was no flaming liberal.

There's a book about the case, "The Salamander Letter".

[XanaDUer]

14. I'm not sure if this counts, but the far RW group, The Republic of Texas

was featured on a true-crime tv show I watch from time to time.

http://www.slate.com/id/1057

Needless to say, they were a bunch of F-ups who got caught, and the particular story on the TV show, "I Almost Got Away With It" was esp. hilarious b/c they all turned on the young man who got away and was on the run for a short period of time.

So, there IS no honor among thieves nor among RW idiots.

[libodem]

15. Does that truck dragging death in Texas count

Or Matthew Shepherd?

[Horse with no Name]

24. It should. The family of James Byrd would agree with you.

>>>snip
James Byrd, Jr. (May 2, 1949 – June 7, 1998) was an African-American who was murdered by three white men in Jasper, Texas, on June 7, 1998. Shawn Berry, Lawrence Brewer, and John King dragged Byrd behind a pick-up truck along an asphalt pavement after they wrapped a heavy logging chain around his ankles. Byrd was pulled along for about two miles as the truck swerved from side to side.

Byrd, who remained conscious throughout most of the ordeal, was killed when his body hit the edge of a culvert severing his right arm and head. The murderers drove on for another mile before dumping his torso in front of an African-American cemetery in Jasper.

[libodem]

16. Unibomber?

What was his persuasion?

[XanaDUer]

18. Hard to say

I think he was sort of more a hermit-type who despaired of modern society in all forms.

I'm trying to think of more cases where the perps were attempting to advance a clear-cut RW agenda using various forms of terroristic violence.

[libodem]

19. I know

They just executed a guy for killing random Muslims in the aftermathof 9/11. The victim was trying to avert his death. Count those killings.

[salin]

20. the bomb planted along the path of an MLKJr parade

[XanaDUer]

21. Alan Berg?

he was shot b/c he was Jewish and a liberal?

[Doctor_J]

22. A few hundred of our 2A Dems should have shown up at the MoveOn thing

and pointed their weapons at the baggers and said, "Make my day".

These terrorists are not going away on their own. we'll either defeat them or give in.

[LongTomH]

23. I should have mentioned Gaby Giffords and the people shot with her!

[krispos42]

25. The firebombing of an abortion clinic in Atlanta

Same guy who did the bombing of the Olympics in '96. I forget his name. Rudolph something?


Was the Fort Hood shooter a right-winger? Or was his attack not considered "political".

There's been lots of abortion-related shit. A RW sniper shot a doctor in New York, if I recall correctly.

[awoke_in_2003]

40. The Fort Hood shooter...

was a muslim.

[AsahinaKimi]

26. What about the

White powder stuff sent to various Senators, Congressmen, post offices ? (Antrax scare?)

[XanaDUer]

28. I've always believed that was a RW attack

nt.

[awoke_in_2003]

41. and the various congress people...

were all democrats.

[grantcart]

27. hundreds - most go unreported

This one was only three blocks from my home.

He was ranting about Obama but that has been minimized, and since no children actually got killed it was just swept under the rug.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/oct/08/carlsbad-police-respond-to-reports-of-shots-at-a-s/

Now to be fair most of these are done by insane people and they simply find right wing fanaticism to be in harmony with their insanity.

But that of course raises a much more interesting question.

[NYC Liberal]

29. 18 in only the last few years. A list:

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/terror-arizona-just-another-isolated

-- July 2008: A gunman named Jim David Adkisson, agitated at how "liberals" are "destroying America," walks into a Unitarian Church and opens fire, killing two churchgoers and wounding four others.

-- October 2008: Two neo-Nazis are arrested in Tennessee in a plot to murder dozens of African-Americans, culminating in the assassination of President Obama.

-- December 2008: A pair of "Patriot" movement radicals -- the father-son team of Bruce and Joshua Turnidge, who wanted "to attack the political infrastructure" -- threaten a bank in Woodburn, Oregon, with a bomb in the hopes of extorting money that would end their financial difficulties, for which they blamed the government. Instead, the bomb goes off and kills two police officers. The men eventually are convicted and sentenced to death for the crime.

-- December 2008: In Belfast, Maine, police discover the makings of a nuclear "dirty bomb" in the basement of a white supremacist shot dead by his wife. The man, who was independently wealthy, reportedly was agitated about the election of President Obama and was crafting a plan to set off the bomb.

-- January 2009: A white supremacist named Keith Luke embarks on a killing rampage in Brockton, Mass., raping and wounding a black woman and killing her sister, then killing a homeless man before being captured by police as he is en route to a Jewish community center.

-- February 2009: A Marine named Kody Brittingham is arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate President Obama. Brittingham also collected white-supremacist material.

-- April 2009: A white supremacist named Richard Poplawski opens fire on three Pittsburgh police officers who come to his house on a domestic-violence call and kills all three, because he believed President Obama intended to take away the guns of white citizens like himself. Poplawski is currently awaiting trial.

-- April 2009: Another gunman in Okaloosa County, Florida, similarly fearful of Obama's purported gun-grabbing plans, kills two deputies when they come to arrest him in a domestic-violence matter, then is killed himself in a shootout with police.

-- May 2009: A "sovereign citizen" named Scott Roeder walks into a church in Wichita, Kansas, and assassinates abortion provider Dr. George Tiller.

-- June 2009: A Holocaust denier and right-wing tax protester named James Von Brunn opens fire at the Holocaust Museum, killing a security guard.

-- February 2010: An angry tax protester named Joseph Ray Stack flies an airplane into the building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas. (Media are reluctant to label this one "domestic terrorism" too.)

-- March 2010: Seven militiamen from the Hutaree Militia in Michigan and Ohio are arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate local police officers with the intent of sparking a new civil war.

-- March 2010: An anti-government extremist named John Patrick Bedell walks into the Pentagon and opens fire, wounding two officers before he is himself shot dead.

-- May 2010: A "sovereign citizen" from Georgia is arrested in Tennessee and charged with plotting the violent takeover of a local county courthouse.

-- May 2010: A still-unidentified white man walks into a Jacksonville, Fla., mosque and sets it afire, simultaneously setting off a pipe bomb.

-- May 2010: Two "sovereign citizens" named Jerry and Joe Kane gun down two police officers who pull them over for a traffic violation, and then wound two more officers in a shootout in which both of them are eventually killed.

-- July 2010: An agitated right-winger and convict named Byron Williams loads up on weapons and drives to the Bay Area intent on attacking the offices of the Tides Foundation and the ACLU, but is intercepted by state patrolmen and engages them in a shootout and armed standoff in which two officers and Williams are wounded.

-- September 2010: A Concord, N.C., man is arrested and charged with plotting to blow up a North Carolina abortion clinic. The man, 26-year--old Justin Carl Moose, referred to himself as the "Christian counterpart to (Osama) bin Laden” in a taped undercover meeting with a federal informant.

[XanaDUer]

30. Thank you

Good info, and I am bookmarking it.

[libodem]

37. Extensive

And exhaustive list. Good work.

[MadMaddie]

31. Don't forget the bomb that was left on a park bench in

Oregon or Washington state on the day a march was supposed to happen.

They need to be identified as Christian terror groups...

[snot]

32. I'd also be interested to know

how many have died in the US from violent RW attacks vs. from islamic attacks,

and

now many have died worldwide from US gov't-sponsored violence ostensibly to fight islamic terrorism vs. from islamic attacks.

[Gregorian]

33. George Bush and his gang of thugs used terrorism to try and change the politics of a nation.

They are terrorists.

And I'll add to it the fact that they used anthrax as one of their weapons. I know I'm taking the liberty to claim their guilt. I think I can do that with relative certainty.

[BobbyBoring]

34. 9/11 was the biggest

The Anthrax thing was no joke either!

[RC]

35. That was "weaponized", military grade Anthrax

Now how is some flake going to get a hold of something like that?
The first suspect proved he was innocent. The next suspect was conveniently suicided to keep him was proving his innocence?

[ThomWV]

36. Timothy McVay (or however it was spelled)

[Creideiki]

39. The Ricky Byrdsong anti-African American motivated murder

and ensuing reign of terror through Illinois and Indiana.