The trouble with the focus on Al Qaeda, is that our most dangerous terrorists are all home grown; more likely to be connected with the military (McVeigh and the Anthrax attacks), fundamentalist Christian Taliban then to be Arab or "leftist."
The irony is that the people in this country promoting terrorism all claim to be promoting a war on terrorism. The targets; Jews (just now) (forever and always a target for left and right), Obstetricians (Tiller) as O'Reilly calls him "the baby killer", Arabs (Cheney's campaign, Faux news), "Gays," people charged with enforcing the law (McVeigh again) and "liberals" (the anthrax attacks).
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/01/oreilly-tiller/ And yes Faux has it half right, they are to blame for that incident.
I used to think the security at the Holocaust Museum was excessive, now I see it is just enough.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/livecoverage/sections/metro/ James Von Brunn
Too bad we have instigators and propagandists inflaming already delicate and angry people. This fool who just opened up on the Holocaust Museum was 80 years old and had been in jail a good part of his life. This was a fool who should have learned something, but never learned anything except resentment and more hate. A lot of penitence he's been practicing.
The man who killed Tiller was financed for years by people calling that doctor a mass murder, and the man who egged him on, only commented that he was sorry the man hadn't prepared his soul for his maker. We can call these people lone gunmen, but they are supported by networks of hateful, violent fanatics; People who pose as full of love and charity but whose hearts aren't much different from Bin Laden's. "Right to life" is an oxymoron in their hands.
Forgive me I'm pissed. I'm just glad some friends of mine weren't at work. One of them is as old as the gunman and still works there at least twice a week. Some people I'm very close to work there doing research from time to time.
And I've known and admired some Obstetricians and OBGYN nurses. Never met one of them who was a baby killer, even when he/she performed abortions. When love and open mindedness are met with fanaticism and anger, the result is death and madness.
This was an act of terrorism. And it is working. Tillers clinic shut down along with a few of the other remaining ones.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,523803,00.html
http://socialistworker.org/2009/06/09/pro-life-terrorists
Chris