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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 07:26 AM
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Right Wing Terror Our Government Ignores

But instead our government doesn't even blink in it's exclusive quest to try to implicate left leaning groups.

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Terror From the Right
Almost 60 terrorist plots uncovered in the U.S.

By Andrew Blejwas, Anthony Griggs and Mark Potok

Ten years after the Oklahoma City bombing left 168 people dead, the guardians of American national security seem to have decided that the domestic radical right does not pose a substantial threat to U.S. citizens.

A draft internal document from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that was obtained this spring by The Congressional Quarterly lists the only serious domestic terrorist threats as radical animal rights and environmental groups like the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front. But for all the property damage they have wreaked, eco-radicals have killed no one — something that most definitely cannot be said of the white supremacists and others who people the American radical right.

In the 10 years since the April 19, 1995, bombing in Oklahoma City, in fact, the radical right has produced some 60 terrorist plots. These have included plans to bomb or burn government buildings, banks, refineries, utilities, clinics, synagogues, mosques, memorials and bridges; to assassinate police officers, judges, politicians, civil rights figures and others; to rob banks, armored cars and other criminals; and to amass illegal machine guns, missiles, explosives, and biological and chemical weapons. What follows is a list of key right-wing plots of the last 10 years.

www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=549
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MrBenchley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 07:33 AM
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1. It's the NRA!
Worth noting that the gun lobby has openly courted this sort of loony....
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zbdent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 07:35 AM
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2. KKK, neo-nazis, church-bombers, anti-govt. militias, etc.
Not covered by the Homeland Security as "terrorist organizations".

PETA, GreenPeace, the ACLU, teachers unions, etc., however . . .
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