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May. 10th, 2007 08:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bryant130 homemade hand grenades, a grenade launcher, another 70 hand grenades rigged to be fired from a rifle, a machine gun, a short-barrel shotgun and 2,500 rounds of ammunition.
Muslim radicals planning an attack on an army base? Nah. Five militia members in Alabama plotting to kill a bunch of Mexicans.
Oddly, this does not get as much press as the Muslims. Some domestic terrorism is just more interesting, I guess.
Muslim radicals planning an attack on an army base? Nah. Five militia members in Alabama plotting to kill a bunch of Mexicans.
Oddly, this does not get as much press as the Muslims. Some domestic terrorism is just more interesting, I guess.
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Date: 2007-05-10 01:01 pm (UTC)Also: domestic anti-abortion terrorism is never interesting.
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Date: 2007-05-11 04:37 am (UTC)Especially when it happens on the five year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.
You want the news to pay attention to a cluelessly unsuccessful suicide bomber? Maybe if his truck had exploded, or if he'd killed someone. Or if he'd been dark-skinned, non-Christian, or attacking something more important than a women's health clinic - say, a bank or a doctor's office that treated men.