The Fort Hood Attack... Terrorism?

I want to do a little non-scientific poll here, so I hope people will respond with their thoughts. Do you feel that shooting at Fort Hood was A. A crime, similar to school or office shootings B. A terrorist attack on American soil, similar to 9/11 C. An act of domestic terrorism, similar to the OK City bombing D. Something else

Mental illness is not terrorism

Sen. Joe Lieberman is calling the shootings at Ft. Hood the worst terrorist act since 9/11. So are the racist right media. The latter is to be expected, Fox News has repeatedly stated that all Muslims are enemies of America and for a while last year propagated the rumor that Barak Obama could not be President because he was Muslim. But Joe Lieberman is Chair of Homeland Security. His statements ...

Fantastic article by Bruce Schneier on terrorism. http://ping.fm/THVde

Catch-up - 11-12 November 2009

... few and the illegally-immigrating masses , unworthy of the mission the other evangelicals see as their duty. This sort of stew makes for articles like "Oh, look, the Fort Hood shooter was under investigation for terrorism before! Why didn't they catch him?" , and having to say, “Because there was no indication he’d do this.” as the answer. “But, his superiors were worried that he was an ...

Nothing Good Will Come of This

... Friday. Why, why, why do we want to take the people behind a wanton act of war, try them as though they were common criminals, and do so in a city that is in itself a major target for terrorism? Why do we want to take men who believe their deaths will make them martyrs, and put them on exhibit in known locations in the middle of a major city? Why do we want to risk an additional attack, with ...

Facebook crowdsourced investigation exposes vaccine denials

..., and within less than five seconds, I found these keywords in their meta keywords tag: Smallpox Antiviral, Smallpox Drug Development, Smallpox Vaccine Development , Infectious Disease Development, Biological Warfare Terrorism... [and so on] Now, maybe I'm just seeing things because I haven't yet been vaccinated against H1N1, so perhaps I'm suffering from double vision or something, but ...

Breaking News: Obama Turns Coat on Troops in Afghanistan

... does it have to be made that he doesn't care about a single serviceman's death? How much more complicit do the alphabet networks have to be, as they whitewash domestic terrorism, lionize islamic psychopaths and suddenly have no interest in taking titillating pictures of dead American Soldiers and Marines (as the did during the Bush Administration)? Obama is both an economic illiterate and a ...

Guess the state!

"Atheists exist!" billboard relocated after billboard-specific death threats to the owner of the property next to it. But it's not terrorism when white male Christians do it. View Poll: Guess The State!

...; more than 100 acres in Virginia; and a 36-story glass office tower in New York. Confiscating the properties would be a sharp blow against Iran, which has been accused by the U.S. government of bankrolling terrorism and trying to build a nuclear bomb. A telephone call and e-mail to Iran's U.N. Mission seeking comment were not immediately answered. Nor was a call to the Alavi Foundation. It is ...

LAST NIGHT HERE - KiyoharuxKyoxGaraxMao - Solo/Dir en grey/Merry/Sadie

T: LAST NIGHT HERE A: lara @ vulgarities B: Solo/Dir en grey/Merry/Sadie P: KiyoharuxKyoxGaraxMao R//W: NC-17, AU, language, implied violence/prostitution/abuse/drug use, "terrorism" lol . D: I own nothing but the storyline and any original characters mentioned. C: I'm sick, leave me alone. MAO Every look was like a fire burning my skin and I didn't know how you did it. Eyes like a ...