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Originally Posted by unkated
While I have no disagreement with what was said above, this statement I cannot accept:
- Timothy McVeigh, and his assistants, who blew up the Morruh Federal Building in Oklahoma City were nice white christian terrorists, born and raised in the United States.
- The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, was a nice white christian terrorist, born and raised in the United States.
- Eric Rudolph, the Olympic Park bomber was a nice nice white christian terrorist, born and raised in the United States.
- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon bomber is Muslim, but is a naturalized US citizen, having lived in the US since he was 9. He certainly does not look particularly arab.
- Dylan Roof, a nice nice white christian terrorist, born and raised in the United States, killed 9 people in a Charleston, SC church this past June (2015) hoping to start a race war by his own admission.
This list does not include the nice christian white people in the US who seem to have gone off their rocker, taken guns and opened up in classrooms (college to grade school), movie theatres or elsewhere for some mental illness.
So, shall we put a watch on all those nice white christian folk, too?
So, yes, it is racist blindness (IMHO) to concentrate your security efforts on one set of potential targets while ignoring others with no better track record.
Uncle Ted |
Hmmm.
You did note the bit about
'recent' - and the specificity of
'terrorist attacks'
McVeigh and Kaczynski are hardly recent, even if one bends the definition beyond breaking point.
As for the loons going on shooting rampages in the US, well, they are
serial or spree killers and not terrorists. Yes, even Roof.
Which leaves the Tsarnaevs, who are both muslim and terrorists ... and
should, therefore, have been profiled.
YMMV
Phil