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The National Lawyers Guild and the Society of American Law Teachers are urging citizens to get involved to oppose the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007, which could make it out of a U.S. Senate committee and be voted into law on the floor by Christmas.
It was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Oct. 23 on a cowardly vote of 404-6, and critics say it will likely lead to the criminalization of beliefs, dissent and protest, and invite more draconian surveillance of Internet communications.
This bill would establish a Commission to study and report on "facts and causes" of "violent radicalism" and "extremist belief systems." It defines "violent radicalism" as "adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose of facilitating ideologically based violence to advance political, religious, or social change."
The term "extremist belief system" is not defined; it could refer to liberalism, nationalism, socialism, anarchism, communism, etc.
"Ideologically based violence" is defined in the bill as the "use, planned use, or threatened use of force or violence by a group or individual to promote the group or individual's political, religious, or social beliefs." Thus, "force" and "violence" are used interchangeably.
If a group of people blocked the doorway of a corporation that manufactured weapons, or blocked a sidewalk during an anti-war demonstration, it might constitute the use of "force" to promote "political beliefs."
The bill charges that the Internet "has aided in facilitating violent radicalization, ideologically based violence, and the homegrown terrorism process in the United States by providing access to broad and constant streams of terrorist-related propaganda to United States citizens."
This provision could be used to conduct more intrusive surveillance of Internet communications without warrants.
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Though the Bush administration blames Iran for "terrorism" in Iraq and elsewhere, the evidence of violent meddling is actually stronger against U.S. ally, Saudi Arabia.
Still, the administration and the U.S. press corps routinely describe the oil-rich kingdom as "moderate" and a friend of "reform." In reality, however, Saudi Arabia's mix of religious extremism and political repression has made it a breeding ground for the likes of Osama bin Laden and scores of suicide bombers.
For the full story of this double standard in the Middle East, go to the independent ConsortiumNews.Com.
During the week of August 20 - 24, 2007, a military exercise known as operation Noble Resolve will be taking place in and around the city of Portland, Oregon, involving the scenario of a nuclear attack on the city.
Bloggers are pointing out that large scale "terrorist" attacks for some reason always seem to occur during precisely this type of exercise. The exact same scenario, at the exact same time and in the exact same place.
"If I lived anywhere NEAR Oregon I'd be really nervous right about now," one blogger says. "I for one will be paying close attention to operation Noble Resolve this month."
On the morning of September 11, 2001, NORAD and the US Air Force were conducting several "war games" exercises in the north-eastern U.S., including operations Vigilant Guardian, Vigilant Warrior, Northern Guardian and Northern Vigilance. One of these exercises involved the scenario of a hijacked airliner being flown into a building. During this training operation, 4 commercial airliners were actually hijacked; 3 of them were flown into buildings and the 4th crashed in a field in Pennsylvania.
On the morning of July 7, 2005, Scotland Yard's Anti-terrorist Branch was running an exercise based on simultaneous bombs going off at railway stations in London. While this exercise was happening, "terrorists" bombed the London subway system. Simultaneous bombs went off precisely at the railway stations where the exercises were happening - at the exact same time.
You DO NOT want to be in Portland, Oregon this summer
The question is, who is behind these attacks? Is al Qaeda a rogue CIA front organization with connections to defense contracters in Alabama? Stay tuned...
The House caved into President Bush Saturday and voted to expand the government's abilities to eavesdrop without warrants on foreign suspects whose communications pass through the United States. The 227-183 vote, following the Senate's approval Friday, sends the bill to Bush for his signature.
U.S. House Approves Foreign Wiretap Bill
A former Reagan official has issued a public warning that the Bush administration is preparing to orchestrate a staged terrorist attack in the United States, transform the country into a dictatorship and launch a war with Iran within a year.
Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, blasted Thursday a new Executive Order, released July 17, allowing the White House to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies and giving the government expanded police powers to exercise control in the country.
Roberts, who spoke on the Thom Hartmann radio program, said: "When Bush exercises this authority [under the new Executive Order], there's no check to it. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule."
"The American people don't really understand the danger that they face," Roberts said, adding that the so-called neoconservatives intended to use a renewal of the fight against terrorism to rally the American people around the fading Republican Party.
Old-line Republicans like Roberts have become increasingly disenchanted with the neoconservative politics of the Bush administration, which they see as a betrayal of fundamental conservative values.
According to a July 9-11 survey by Ipsos, an international public opinion research company, President Bush and the Republicans can claim a mere 31 percent approval rating for their handling of the Iraq war and 38 percent for their foreign policy in general, including terrorism.
"The administration figures themselves and prominent Republican propagandists ... are preparing us for another 9/11 event or series of events," he said. "You have to count on the fact that if al Qaeda is not going to do it, it is going to be orchestrated."
Roberts suggested that in the absence of a massive popular outcry, only the federal bureaucracy and perhaps the military could put constraints on Bush's current drive for a fully-fledged dictatorship.
"They may have had enough. They may not go along with it," he said.
The radio interview was a follow-up to Robert's latest column, in which he warned that "unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the U.S. could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran."
Roberts, who has been dubbed the "Father of Reaganomics" and has recently gained popularity for his strong opposition to the Bush administration and the Iraq War, regularly contributes articles to Creators Syndicate, an independent distributor of comic strips and syndicated columns for daily newspapers.
Reagan Official Says White House Peparing New September 11 Attack
Read his syndicated column on the subject here:
This is a wake-up call that we are about to experience another 9/11-WMD.
Paul Craig Roberts: A Wake-up Call
The United States is about to be hit by a terrorist attack, and this is no conspiracy theory.
Even the mainstream Associated Press is reporting it, and it's all over cable news.
But there are serious doubts that this domestic attack is going to come from al-Qaida, and certainly not from the branch of al-Qaida operating now in Iraq.
And the intent will be to shift the focus of the U.S. news media and the public's attention away from the investigations of the White House and Karl Rove.
Sources tell the Locust Fork News and Journal that the Homeland Security Department is warning U.S. contractors such as Haliburton to prepare to move in when the attack happens.
But what may come as a shock is that, just like in the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, the attackers will not be from Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan. They will be from Saudi Arabia and possibly Iran, and they just might prove to be trained by a company operating out of Enterprise, Alabama, owned by Chief U.S. District Judge Mark E. Fuller.
Yes, that's the same judge who ordered former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman jailed for seven years two weeks ago. It's the same judge who refused to investigate jurors who were surfing the Web and sending e-mails during the trial, which can only be interpreted as reading news coverage and discussing the case in violation of every standard jury charge delivered by any court in the U.S. justice system.
If the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals does not reverse the Montgomery court's ruling on that basis alone, and soon, the people of America will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that a grave injustice has been done and that the justice system has been seriously compromised for political and economic purposes.
And if there is a domestic terrorist attack and all investigative roads lead to Alabama this time, the charge that someone in the Bush cabal is behind this will not just be dismissed as a conspiracy theory by a few bloggers.
Watch for environmentalists to be framed in this attack. That trial balloon is being floated in the report and on cable news.
The Democrats, lawyers and inside the Washington beltway crowd who are simply hoping to ride out Bush's remaining year and a half in power and allow the pendulum to swing back better wake up. This system is not working, and it is going to take a great shock to tear it down and rebuild it again.
We wish it were not true. But we are afraid that is where we are - unless the evil bastards behind these schemes decide to back off now and stop what they are planning to do. You are on the verge of spawning a revolution like nothing history has ever seen.
If you want to keep the stock market climbing and the world safe for democracy, we beg you to back down now and stop this fascist nonsense. Are you not rich enough already? Do you really want to bring on the end of the world as we know it?
The Alabama Department of Homeland Security has finally caved in to pressure from civil liberties activists and taken down a Web site that included environmentalists, animal rights advocates, abortion opponents, libertarians, gay rights activists, anti-war organizations and even those who oppose gun control and a strong federal governmentin in a list of groups that "could" or "might" include or spawn dreaded domestic "terrorists."
We reported this story on May 10, well before the Associated Press got around to telling people about it - after it was taken down: http://www.homelandsecurity.alabama.gov/tap/home.htm.
We've also been saying that this would happen for years, and posted a column on it almost two years ago on June 5, 2005 under the headline: Everyone Who Opposes Bush Is A Terrorist?.
See? You can beat City Hall - or even an Imperial President's loyal minions in a fucked up state like Alabama where the masses mostly accept this abuse of their rights now in the name of the God of security.
Is the Roman goddess of security, Securitas, turning over in her grave?
The Alabama Department of Homeland Security (ALDHS), established in June of 2003, has recently constructed a website that defines Domestic Terrorists as those who oppose gun control and a strong federal government, according to ChrisBrunner.Com and a the new Website at homelandsecurity.alabama.gov/tap/home.htm.
Under the heading “Anti-Government Groups,” the site displays a flag that is widely considered one of the first symbols of American patriotism and reads, “In general, these terrorists claim that the U.S. government is infringing on their individual rights, and/or that the government's policies are criminal and immoral. Such groups may hold that the current government is violating the basic principles laid out by the U.S. Constitution…”
While Anarchism is defined by a lack state control and Communism is a maximization state control, two polar opposite concepts, the page that follows reads, “Anarchists groups are the 21st Century’s version of left wing or communist groups of the last. Anarchists believe that any government or organization that has power over others …will eventually become corrupt and abusive.”
If I’m not mistaken, the idea that government, if not kept in check, will become corrupt and abusive was first made popular in this country by our founding fathers, not a bunch of terrorist anarchist groups. This was the very reason for the implementation of the United States Constitution! In fact even Section 35 of the Alabama Constitution warns of this danger is it declares, “the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression.”
The Alabama.gov site continues, “Most of these groups operate around larger urban areas and colleges/universities … Some are focused on issues such as World Trade, International Debt, and military involvement in foreign cultures … The theme is always the same. Big [government] is bad. Rich are using the poor to stay rich. Our government in particular is using its power immorally.”
In short, if you oppose gun control, taxes, military intervention, most of our national debt being held by foreign nations, or just a large federal government, you might be a terrorist!
The very idea that those who value their personal rights and liberties are being labeled terrorists by the State of Alabama is not only absurd and egregiously offensive, it completely contradicts the ideals our federal and state governments were founded on! The people of Alabama should be outraged!
These Alabama.gov pages can be reached by visiting the Alabama Homeland Security TAP Course, clicking on "Domestic Terrorists," and then on "Anti-Government Groups."
The only good news to come out of the Cho Seung-Hui massacre on the Virginia Tech campus is that it got Don Imus and the paternity of Anna Nicole Smith's baby out of the cable news cycle - at least for now.
One of the reasons I don't chase university teaching jobs anymore is because I've had students about as screwed up as this quiet, loner from South Korea. I had to report one student to university police at Loyola in 2002 for wearing a heavy army jacket to class - on a hot New Orleans spring day. He was a rebellious kid who sat in the back of the room and disturbed class, and I suspected he had a 9 millimeter under that jacket.
To make matters more suspicious, he was from Columbine, Colorado. Ouch!
It was no fun at all having to negotiate with the university counseling service about him after that incident.
Imagine being a professor and getting writings like the one's described here and then living through the horror when the shit goes down.
Virginia Tech Gunman Writings Raised Concerns
For some of the best reporting in the country on this big story, check out the Collegiate Times online.
Heartache: 32 Fallen
And, is it now about time to start talking about gun control maybe?
Candidates Mute on Gun-Control
A federal judge struck down President Bush's authority to designate groups as terrorists, saying his post-Sept. 11 executive order was unconstitutionally vague, according to a ruling released Tuesday and reported by the Associated Press
The Humanitarian Law Project had challenged Bush's order, which blocked all the assets of groups or individuals he named as "specially designated global terrorists" after the 2001 attacks.
We can only assume this also means liberal activist groups, including environmental groups and peace groups. It's a major setback for Bush's authoritarian view of the world and a victory for Constitutional freedoms everywhere.
Some Americans are so afraid of terrorism that they're willing to trade off their "unalienable rights" for a small measure of additional security. But George W. Bush's massive investment in a "Big Brother-style" data base of phone calls made by some 200 million Americans may not only intrude on constitutional rights but lessen the nation's safety by diverting money better spent on more practical strategies, like hiring translators and inspecting cargo.
For the full story of the downside risks from Bush's scheme, go to the independent ConsortiumNews.Com.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced strong questioning today by Sen. Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other members, in the attempt to determine whether President George W. Bush's program to spy on Americans via the National Security Agency is legal - or not.
Gonzales Faces Tough Questions on Spying
If you care about individual liberties, watch it live on C-SPAN and make up your own mind as to whether the program is legal or warranted.
It is pretty clear to me that the president has already admitted breaking the law. He just doesn't admit that what he did and is still doing is against the law. He is asserting, through the Justice Department, that he is above the law, while saying he is NOT above the law.
This is classic double-speak right out of George Orwell's book 1984. This is Big Brother, and it is a mystery why anyone calling themselves a conservative could support the administration on this issue. I thought conservatives and libertarians wanted the government out of our bedrooms, not listening in on our telephone conversations, land lines and cell phones, and reading our mail and e-mail.
The misleading defense of this specific NSA program is that only calls to and from abroad are included. But that ignores the larger issue of other agencies of the federal government, including the Pentagon, spying on peace groups, environmental groups, journalists and yes even bloggers.
If the Senate Judiciary Committee wants to get to the bottom of how this administration has broken the law rising to the level of impeachment of the president and the vice president, the inquiry should be exanded to include the other domestic spying programs. The probe should not just be limited to an inquiry of the NSA's sweeping program of searching for key words in phone calls and e-mails.
As has already been reported widely, most of the NSA's requests for a followup investigation by the FBI have been dropped because the target was clearly not associated with any real terrorists or al Qaeda.
But what I have been saying over and over again since before this Web site was started is that the Bush administration is intent on characterizing as a "terrorist" any activist who disagrees with Bush's policies.
Carefully read this post from Sept. 26, 2004, along with the links.
No One Likes a Critic; Democracy Demands Criticism
We suspect, although it is not yet coming out in the press, the media, or in the questioning of the Senate Judiciary Committee, that when administration officials say they are only looking at "al Qaeda" and "terrorists" and "their associates," what they mean is any opponent of the administration, especially peace advocates, animal rights activists and groups and individuals who oppose the administration's radical views that pose a grave risk to the national and global environment.
Federal prosecutors announced six arrests Thursday in what they described as a nine-year investigation into several arson cases and the toppling of an electrical transmission tower allagecly by environmental protesters in the Pacific Northwest, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Those charged were said to be loosely connected as followers of the Earth Liberation Front, or ELF, a so-called "radical" environmental group.
The arsons took place at two lumber company sites and a poplar farm in Oregon, and at an animal-inspection service in Olympia, Wash. The tower was knocked down 26 miles east of Bend, Ore., on Dec. 30, 1999, according to the facts in the case.
Those arrested range in age from 28 to 40 and are from Virginia, Arizona, New York and Oregon.
Rod Coronado of Tucson, who described himself as an unofficial spokesperson for the ELF and the related Animal Liberation Front, said he could not comment on the specific charges faced by the six, but said he thought federal authorities were "grasping at straws."
"This is the government prioritizing what it believes is something important to corporations and industry who have political friends," said Coronado, who is under a federal indictment in Arizona on charges of conspiracy to (dog forbid) stop a mountain lion hunt.
Coronado said many ELF followers believed "environmental destruction is preventable only through such direct action."
The FBI and the Building Industry Assn., a Washington, D.C.-based group, have offered as much as $100,000 for tips leading to the arrest and conviction of eco-vandals, but authorities did not say whether rewards were a factor in the arrests.
Charged in the 2001 fires at the poplar farm and at a lumber company in Glendale, Ore., were Stanislas Gregory Meyerhoff, 28, and Daniel Gerard McGowan, 31. Meyerhoff is a student at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Va., and McGowan is from New York City. They face a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted of arson and using incendiary devices.
Meyerhoff was also charged, with Chelsea Dawn Gerlach, 28, of Portland, in the sabotage of the electrical tower. Gerlach faces a maximum of 20 years in prison if convicted of conspiring to destroy an energy facility, prosecutors said.
Kevin M. Tubbs, 36, and William C. Rodgers, 40, face up to 20 years each in the 1998 fire at the federal Animal and Plant Health Inspection Services facility in Olympia.
Sarah Kendall Harvey, 28, an administrative assistant at Northern Arizona University, was charged in a 1998 fire at a Medford, Ore., lumber company that caused an estimated $500,000 in damage. She faces up to 20 years in prison, if convicted, no guarantee considering the Bush Justice Department's track record to date in these kinds of cases.
A similar case in LA resulted in a $100,000 settlement recently between the FBI and a plaintiff falsely accused of firebombing an SUV dealership.
Full LA Times story
U.S. authorities warned New York officials that a team of "terrorist operatives" planned to attack the subway on Sunday with remote controlled bombs hidden in briefcases or baby strollers, according to documents obtained by Reuters.
"A team of terrorist operatives, some of whom may travel to or who may be in the New York City area, may attempt to execute an attack on the New York City subway on or about October 9, 2005," the joint FBI/Homeland Security bulletin said.
The bulletin said bombers may have planned to hide explosives in briefcases, suitcases or baby strollers.
U.S. officials said the claim that spurred the raids came from an informant who suggested there was an operation involving more than a dozen operatives in Iraq and the United States. A U.S. counterterrorism official said authorities were forced to act because the intelligence was unusually specific, came within months of the July 7 London bombings and involved a U.S. city known to be a target for Islamist militants.
Full Reuters Report
If it is a suitcase nuke, as predicted by Dr. Hugh Cort of the Professor and the Doc show on Locust Fork Radio, goodbye New York.
President George W. Bush was seen on cable news this morning signing the CAFTA trade agreement, in what CNN's White House correspondent called "a gloatfest," since the bill only passed in the U.S. House of Representatives by two votes. Are you feeling the screws turning yet?
Meanwhile, the Birmnigham Snooze did manage to eke out a story of sorts today on the sneaky visit of U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Although it just demonstrates the pathetic and rear-end kissing nature of mainstream journalism these days.
Even in my early days in journalism at the University of Alabama's Crimson White student newspaper, I would have been laughed out of the newsroom for reporting that a government official such as Gonzales was "pleased with Martin and the direction the U.S. attorney's office is taking."
So he is pleased that the U.S. attorneys office in Birmingham has lost every high profile case to come before it? And to change the subject, they indict former Jefferson County commissioner Chris McNair, who lost his daughter in the 16th Street Church bombing, for some renovation work on the photography studio dedicated to the memorial of his daughter?
Aren't you so pleased that the Birmingham News is pleased with the pleasing idiots who are running the country? I guess it beats hiding out in the bushes and catching a Democrat in an affair with a reporter, eh? How's that circulation doing these days? Do you think people are pleased with your pleasing BS?
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting has issued an Action Alert against New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman for his July 22 column: "Giving the Hatemongers No Place to Hide."
Friedman says the federal government, in the form of the State Department, should "produce a quarterly War of Ideas Report," to "focus on those religious leaders and writers who are inciting violence against others." He also wants the government to include "excuse makers," which, according to FAIR, includes "a majority of Americans, according to recent polls."
I must say I used to love reading The New York Times and admit that I have reported and written for that once great newspaper. Perhaps this entire episode can be chalked up to post-9/11/Jayson Blair stress syndrome, but I stopped reading Mr. Friedman's columns a couple of years ago when he flip-flopped on the war in Iraq. You see he was for it and against it, sort of like Sen. John Kerry on the funding for the war, about the time I was trying to tell the national desk that something was fishy in Bush's D.C.
The Times plans to start charging for editorial columns in September, so Mr. Friedman's audience will no doubt shrink considerably at that time. Somehow I doubt the FAIR action alert will do any good anyway, since all the activist's e-mails will just go unread by the management at the paper. And besides, the State Department will ignore Friedman. Why shouldn't we?
I'm sure there were newspaper columnists all over the land who stood with McCarthy and his blacklist during the Red Scare in the 1950s. Luckily, they are long forgotten.
I hate to say I told you so - again. But for all the new readers lurikng here (and they are legion according to our Moveable Type Blog Stats), we've written for months about the Bush administration's tactics to investigate activist Americans as terrorists.
Everyone Who Opposes Bush Is A Terrorist?
One of these days someone will start listening to us.
Alarming Volume of FBI Files Collected on Activists
FBI Terrorism Unit Monitored Activists' Web Sites
Which story do you like best, the New York Times version or the Washington Post's? Who is winning the battle as the national newspaper of record?
Meanwhile, we can't wait to read the entries from our Web sites in the FBI file.
Note to self: Call the A.C.L.U. Monday morning.
Four blasts rocked the London subway and tore open a packed double-decker bus during the morning rush hour Thursday, sending bloodied victims fleeing in the worst attack on London since World War II. At least 40 people were killed, officials said, and more than 360 wounded in the terror attacks.
Headlines:
Four London Blasts Kill 40, Injure 350
London Police Say They Had No Warning
Analysis: A New and Bloody Chapter for al-Qaeda?
U.S. Ups Alert to Orange for Transit
G-8 Leaders Vow Victory Against Terrorism
Responsibility Claim Is Posted on Militant Site
Rush-Hour Strike Wounds Up to 1,000; Blair Sees G-8 Link
Apparently the Secret Service just did not want to interrupt President Bush's bike ride in Maryland on Wednesday when they failed to tell him that a plane had entered Washington air space and was on the verge of being shot down.
CNN implied as much in its coverage on Thursday, but never came right out and said it and the best I can tell, never posted a story about it on its Web site.
The Washington Post reports today that D.C. officials were also in the dark in this story:
D.C. in Dark While Plane Was Intercepted
I guess Vice President Dick Cheney was running the country from his bunker at the Carlisle Group compound in Alexandria, Virginia.
The AP did report it this way, under the headline:
White House Defends Handling Capital Alert
Over at the Washington Post's Web forum, one reader makes a joke about it, saying "Let the prez have his play time."
Indeed.
By dog it looks like the false alarm evacuation of the White House and the Capitol today appears to be the big news of the day, certainly on cable news. Here's the latest from AP.
Will it dominate the evening network news and make page one of the papers on Thursday? At least it's better than Michael Jackson, but I suspect there are real Americans out there with real problems not being addressed today. Any takers?
After spending more than $4.5 billion on screening devices to monitor the nation's ports, borders, airports, mail and air, the federal government is moving to replace or alter much of the antiterrorism equipment, concluding that it is ineffective, unreliable or too expensive to operate, the New York Times plans to report on Sunday.
Among the problems:
* Radiation monitors at ports and borders that cannot differentiate between radiation emitted by a nuclear bomb and naturally occurring radiation from everyday material like cat litter or ceramic tile.
* Air-monitoring equipment in major cities that is only marginally effective because not enough detectors were deployed and were sometimes not properly calibrated or installed. They also do not produce results for up to 36 hours - long after a biological attack would potentially infect thousands of people.
* Passenger-screening equipment at airports that auditors have found is no more likely than before federal screeners took over to detect whether someone is trying to carry a weapon or a bomb aboard a plane.
* Postal Service machines that test only a small percentage of mail and look for anthrax but no other biological agents.
The federal government will likely need to spend as much as $7 billion more on screening equipment in coming years, according to government estimates.
Safety obviously doesn't come cheap. Maybe we should be doing more to make friends instead of enemies around the world, eh?
The Department of Homeland Security does not list radical right-wing domestic groups as terrorists, but does classify groups on the left that way, according to a list obtained by Congressional Quarterly.
It lists left-wing domestic groups such as the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) as terrorist threats, CQ reports, "but it does not mention anti-government groups, white supremacists and other radical right-wing movements, which have staged numerous terrorist attacks that have killed scores of Americans."
"DHS did not respond to repeated requests for comment or confirmation of the document’s authenticity," CQ reports.
The conspirators behind the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people and wounded more than 500, were inspired by radical right-wing movements. Eric Rudolph, the man charged with carrying out the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta, which killed one woman and injured more than 100, was a member of the radical anti-abortion group Army of God. Initially, Rudolph was the object of a massive North Carolina manhunt in connection with a Birmingham, Ala., abortion-clinic bombing that killed a police officer and seriously maimed a nurse.
No wonder the radical militias in the U.S. support the Bush administration. It seems they sanction the activities of the Army of God, while those who work to protect animals and the environment are labeled as terrorists.
I hate to say I told you so, but we predicted this in the Southerner Daily News back in Sept. 2004 in a column headlined:
No One Likes a Critic; Democracy Demands Criticism
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