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Subject: 
Terrorist Attack on US Soil!
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Wed, 1 Sep 2004 19:28:17 GMT
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Brad Karger has been arrested in connection with the pipe-bombing of a medical research company. Nowhere in the article to I see the word “terrorist” or “terrorism.” I note also that Mr. Karger was charged last year for attempting to blow up the same building. How interesting.

How do you suppose the article would have been different if Mr. Karger were of recent Arab descent or, perish the thought, of Iraqi heritage? Or what if Mr. Karger were a Palestinian who detonated a pipe bomb somewhere in Israeli-controlled Gaza?

Similarly, how often do the media describe abortion clinic bombings as terrorist attacks?

It’s all on par with this still-under-reported incident. Does this suggest a lack of even-handedness in the application of anti-terrorist protections? Or does Homeland Security like to pretend that terrorist threats only originate with non-US citizens or from outside the country?

Dave!



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(...) (URL) Reuters editorial policy> forbids them to use those words. But you can still use them if you like. Don (20 years ago, 1-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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