Digby: MLK Parade Bomb Not Isolated Incident, Part of Domestic Terrorism Trend

[marmar]

Hullabaloo, via AlterNet:



MLK Parade Bomb Not Isolated Incident, Part of Domestic Terrorism Trend


Luckily incomplete this time:

A backpack bomb with the potential of killing or injuring dozens of people was found Monday along the route of a Martin Luther King Day “unity march” in downtown Spokane, Wash., authorities said today.

“It was a device that clearly was intended to harm or kill people,’’said Frank Harrill, a senior FBI agent and spokesman for the bureau’s Inland Northwest Joint Terrorism Task Force.

The FBI posted a $20,000 reward Tuesday and released three photographs, including one of the black Swiss-Army backpack that contained the destructive device.

Harrill would not discuss the type of explosive or its construction, including whether the backpack contained an explosive shield intended to spray shrapnel toward potential victims. He also declined to say if the device was intended to be detonated remotely or by a timer.

“It was set to detonate during a unity march on the King Holiday, so, obviously it had political or social overtones,’’ Harrill said.

I keep hearing that there has been no political violence over the past two years and that it's terribly unfair to keep claiming that paranoid, right wing conspiracy talk has anything to do with anything. Earlier today, I saw Gary Hart have to turn his comments against violent rhetoric into an abstraction, explaining that he meant that something will happen in the future. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/442968/mlk_parade_bomb_not_isolated_incident%2C_part_of_domestic_terrorism_trend/

[xchrom]

1. 'they're' -- and that could mean any number of things -- having a war.

the rest of us not so much.

i think that depends on how much this -- 'random' violence continues to happen.

[rurallib]

2. Digby can really get to the point

Even her post missed some I think -
like the poor cabbie that got his throat slit
or the mosque burning in Tennessee
or the guy in Maine that was building a "dirty" bomb. His wife shot him saving a lot of trouble.

[DCKit]

3. Yeah, but WE'RE bad people for talking about THEIR terrorism, and should STFU. nt