Official: Spokane MLK Day Bomb 'WORST DEVICE I'VE EVER SEEN'

[yodermon]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/official_spokane_mlk_day_bomb_worst_device_ive_eve.php?ref=fpblg

A bomb found along the route of a Martin Luther King Day parade in Spokane, Wash., on Monday was a sophisticated device with the potential to devastate, an official on the case tells the AP.

"They haven't seen anything like this in this country," the official said. "This was the worst device, and most intentional device, I've ever seen."

The official also said the device was rigged to a remote detonator.

Officially, the FBI has not released many details about the bomb, other than that it was viable and could have caused multiple casualties.

[Enrique]

1. shouldn't there be a big hysteria over this bomb?

like all the politicians commenting and grandstanding, constant coverage on TV and all kinds of experts helping us make sense of it. That seems to be what normally happens with attempted terrorist attacks.

[aquart]

2. Only if we thought furriners did it. BUT WE DON'T.

We think American-born white guys did it. So hush.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. We need dog whistle words so we don't offend them.

[Jackpine Radical]

44. Besides, they were aiming it at celebrants of MLK Day,

so that the worst that could have happened would have been the deaths and maimings of a bunch of liberals and socialists.

[dsharp88]

45. I think you nailed it.

[fatbuckel]

52. It`s hard to call them terrorists and raise the panic level if they aren`t Muslim.

[crim son]

64. Nailed it. n/t

[warren pease]

7. The one lone nut theory serves the purpose well...

... the purpose being to continue pretending that all that racial profiling of muslims makes any kind of sense.

If you admit publicly that something is very wrong in the bowels of this country, then you have to publicly do something about it.

Is the FBI, BATF et al really ready to launch an all-out war on home-grown right wing extremists who use the so-called Tea Party as cover for domestic terrorism?

Far easier to preserve the fiction that the country is under constant threat from brown people with semtex in their pants.

Plus, it gives the helpful TSA screeners the ongoing excuse to cop feels on anybody who refuses to have nekkid pitchers taken of them by the full body scanners.

To continue the fairy tale of "one nation, indivisible...," it's always going to be one lone nut with three names who gets the blame. That way, nobody has to talk about the support system in place to provide funding, arms, technical expertise, pay legal fees, etc.


wp

[malaise]

12. Moving along

No Muslims or A - RABS here. :sarcasm:

[HowHasItComeToThis]

29. AND GO AFTER THE RIGHTWING NUTS???? OH NO NO NO

[Richard D]

50. There was no Koran in it.

Just another isolated incident.

[NOLALady]

53. Yep.

There should be a big hysteria.

Nope, hysteria is hushed when it's the homegrown terrorists. Nothing to see here.

The terrorists will strike again and yet again until they get the attention they are seeking.

[SharonAnn]

57. Nah. It's probably just racists who want to kill people who are different from them.

It's not "outsiders".

That would be terrible.

It's just the usual racists.

[Warren Stupidity]

60. bombs don't kill people....

[eppur_se_muova]

3. Impressive work for a talented amateur.

I'm sure they had no training or assistance whatsoever. :sarcasm:

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Don't worry, people. It was just probably an isolated case of a mental guy involved.

Nothing to connect it to decades of racial hatred or anything. Probably a Satan worshiper.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. An atheist Satan worshipper.

No, a gay atheist Satan worshipper.
No, a gay atheist hippie Satan worshipper.
No, a gay atheist hippie Democrat Satan worshipper.
No, a gay atheist hippie Muslim Democrat Satan worshipper.
No, a gay atheist hippie Muslim Democrat anti-gun, pro-abortion Satan worshipper.

[The Backlash Cometh]

16. I think you just about covered it.

LOL!

[KamaAina]

20. No, a gay atheist hippie Muslim Democrat anti-gun, pro-abortion, tree-hugging Satan worshipper.

:P

[axollot]

61. No. A black, gay atheist, hippie, Muslim Democrat, anti-gun, pro-abortion, eco-terrorist satan worsh

dang.
ran out of space.

Thanks for the giggle. Hate bigots.
Cheers
sandy
x

[OnyxCollie]

35. Shit,

that's everyone I know.

[Enthusiast]

37. No, a gay, black, hippie

, Democrat, atheist, Muslim, anti-gun, pro-abortion, Satan worshiping, environmentalist liberal.

[The Backlash Cometh]

43. Ah, yes. A self-hating black man.

Good one.

[Kweli4Real]

65. Actually the failed bomber was ...

I gay, Black, hippie, Democrat, atheist, Muslim, pro-abortion, satan-worshiping, environmentalist liberal who staged the attempt so that real 'mer-cans would get the blame from gay, Black, hippie, Democrat, atheist, Muslim, pro-abortion, satan-worshiping, environmentalist liberals.

I got this from a good and trusted source ... fox"news".

[seabeyond]

19. +1. move along. nothing to see. nt

[Lucky Luciano]

34. ...and DEFINITELY a pot smoker too! nt

[Enthusiast]

38. That goes without saying.

Just saying. :hi:

[NightWatcher]

6. No big whoop, it was just aimed at black people (most likely by white people)

Move along there's nothing to see

[Jamastiene]

8. K&R

[patrice]

9. K&R & Shared.

[HeroTwins]

10. The Acts of Domestic Terrorism by the Far Right continue to pile up

1. Teabaggers bomb bank in Oregon http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/20/bruce-turnidge-josh-turnidge-oregon-bank-bombing-_n_786447.html
2. Teabagger flies plane into IRS http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/us/19crash.html
3. Teabagger and son in Arkansas kill cops http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20100522-Father-son-who-killed-2-5687.ece
4. Teabagger has shootout with cops on way to Tides Foundation http://dagblog.com/persecution-politics/why-did-california-shooter-try-attack-tides-foundation-3455
5. Teabagger attacks Florida School Board http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-viral-video-school-board-shooting,0,6135370.htmlstory
6. Teabagger shoots Congresswoman Giffords and kills 6 others. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/08/national/main7226347.shtml
7. Teabagger places bomb on MLK route http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20110119/UPDATE/110119015/1001/UPDATE


How long can the media go on ignoring the connection between these dots?

[TheWraith]

27. Your list is missing a lot.

The assassination of Dr. George Tiller.
The murders at the Unitarian church in Tennessee.
The arson attack on the mosque construction site in Tennessee.
The killing of three police officers in Pittsburgh by a rabid right wing Obama hater.
The murder of a security guard at the Holocaust Museum.
Mail bombs sent to Janet Napolitano and other administration officials.
Rocks thrown through the windows of the offices of Louise Slaughter and the Monroe County Democratic Committee.

If you want to reach back far enough, the sending of anthrax letters to Democratic senators and "liberal media" targets.

[thesquanderer]

41. No, it's only Terrorism if it's committed by a Muslim, silly. (n/t)

[TheMadMonk]

47. As long as they need to. Which will most likely be when some idiot touches off...

...a full blown race riot.

No prizes for guessing what the media will do with that.

And if the riots last any appreciable length of time, there's a lot of teabagger types who will do "their bit for the country" by going "Nigger hunting".


You only have to look at the oficially sanctioned race baiting in the country: The way police forces treat darker skinned folk (even before we get to matters like Rodney King); the entirely disproportionate incarceration rate of African Americans; the disproportionate response to black on white crime, compared to the response to white on black; Katrina; Schooling; Higher education; and non-blue collar job prospects.

I truly believe, someone (several someones) want open conflict (if not outright warfare) in the streets of the USA. And I am NOT talking about knuckle dragging, mouth breathers in the tea party rank and file, but extremely powerful people who intend to use such a conflict to push aside all those pernickety legal impediments to their assuming their natural place, not at the top of the heap, but entirely separate from and ABOVE that heap.

[tpsbmam]

54. To be fair, we don't know if

the bomb was by some teabagger asshole or some white supremacist asshole. Yeah, there's a difference. There's also lots of overlap so time will hopefully tell.

Welcome to DU, HT!

:hi:

[ejpoeta]

11. and yet.....

even though this happened monday, which i only know because i watched rachel maddow today, i first heard about it yesterday. why is this not all over the news??!!

[Celtic Raven]

28. I refer you to reply #2

The corporate media have had enough of Teabaggers being scrutinized since the attack on Giffords. At least there a young man with known mental health issues was arrested.
The placement & construction of this bomb point to someone with knowledge of what is needed to guarantee the most lethal outcome. The backpack was placed on a metal bench backed by a brick wall so the force of the blast would be directed into the people along the street.
Sick fuck to be sure, and the media just don't want to talk about it.

[Fumesucker]

13. K&R, thanks for posting..

[felix_numinous]

15. This is what FBI and police need to be concentrating on

-domestic terrorism, not drug war, not peace activists. THIS.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Why I have called this a hell of an escalation and

our entry into real low level hot civil war.

[Renew Deal]

18. Why isn't anyone talking about this?

And why is DU the only place that is?

[ashling]

21. Spokane is right across from Courdelane ID

hangout for the Arian Nation.

My wife use to do weatherization monitoring in Spokane area and some in ID. She made this connection as soon as she heard of it.

She talked about it to her government classes today - none of them had heard a thing about it.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

23. Spokane is easily the most depressing place in America

Bleak, broke and depressing, I got stuck there for several months for work in the late 90's. The mayor was good for a laugh though... who was caught trying to lure boys on the internet with the promise of sporting goods for blowjobs. Naturally a conservative republican...

[MadMaddie]

24. I remember that Mayor

It is a bleak place.

[martymar64]

36. I lived there for a few years - it is very depressing

I have some very good friends there but I'm not crazy about the town itself. It reminds of a PNW version of Fresno or Amarillo.

[grendelsd]

49. Ah Jim West

He was my scout master. Don't get me started about boys sleeping in his tent. Most interesting part was I went to his troop to finish my Eagle scout because my old scout master was falsely accused of indecent liberties (yes just like the south park episode).

As a person who grew up there, yes Spokane is dismal.

[me b zola]

22. K&R

[bullwinkle428]

25. Rachel has an update on this, coming up in a few minutes.

[malaise]

26. Rachel about to discuss

with Bob Herbert

[Major Hogwash]

30. Wow.

This is pretty bad. Looks like there is a real sicko whacko out there.

[Bjorn Against]

39. Probably several real sick whackos...

If this bomb really was as sophisticated as it sounds then it is hard to believe it is the work of a single person.

[Swagman]

31. this sounded like a horrible bomb at the time and I've been totally puzzled at the

complete lack of 'sensationalist' reporting. Is it because it was on MLK Day ?

[TheMadMonk]

51. The Who the day is for; the people he gave a voice to; who was targetted;...

...and almost certainly who did it.

Making this a news item of note, can only be detrimental to the political climate being fostered (with the media's help) by the far right. Report it with a minimum of fuss, because no report at all might cause some people to kick up enough fuss to bring the matter to the attention of the dear peepul. And let it die a death under the weight of another Charlie Sheen meltdown.

[spicegal]

32. I am also stunned this isn't getting more coverage.

Guess there wasn't enough carnage to spark the interest of the national news media. I think it's pretty scary.

[StarburstClock]

56. I'm not surprised, it's really easy to control a few elite press corporations

Somebody told them to keep a lid on it so they have. The "media" is a complete fraud, a shell of what used to be a real way of disseminating information. The only things that get through their corporate filters are things they think will help them sell commercials.

[Vurz]

33. Area used to be a hotbed of domestic terrorists

They probably just went underground in the 1990s and 2000s to avoid lawsuits. Luckily no one was hurt by this bomb.

[obxhead]

40. I'm so glad we are still fighting them over there so we don't have

to fight them here.

Domestic terrorism threats will continue and pose much more danger than the people we are killing in Afghanistan and Iraq imo.

[fascisthunter]

42. Trust me.... Stochastic Terrorism and Right Wing Media have nothing to do with this

:sarcasm:

[mistertrickster]

46. Later, it will be found that a book of Marx is found in the suspect's apartment. Case closed. nt

[drm604]

48. First I've heard of it.

I missed Rachel last night, but you'd think this would have been all over the media.

[StarburstClock]

55. The "media" is a few elite corporations who censor reality and sell products

They lost what little credibility they had when they all decided to treat torture as a topic of debate. The "media" will exploit anything regardless of how despicable it is and censor whatever their propaganda masters tell them to ignore.

Bluntly stated, the "media" are whores, nothing real comes from them except their desire to sell themselves and the product they're pushing.

[gateley]

58. There was a package detonated in Seattle on Queen Anne Hill but there's been

no follow up at all that I can find. Just the breaking news that there was a suspicious package, that the bomb squad blew it up, and then no further word. :shrug: So.... was it not a continuing story because it was somebody's laundry or because it was another intentional device?

Actually I'm thinking it was no big deal because the location doesn't make any sense if someone wanted to make a statement or injure people, but just the same...

[defendandprotect]

59. Racism is still alive and well in America - !! And MLK, Jr.'s messages still feared by elites--!!

[Warren Stupidity]

62. Another bomb-grabbing post.

You don't support the right to keep and bear bombs?

If bombs are outlawed only rightwing nutjobs will have bombs.

[Citizen Worker]

63. How did this bomber get through airport security?