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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 04:40 PM Mar 2016

A domestic terror attack just happened in Los Angeles and no one noticed

http://deadstate.org/a-domestic-terror-attack-just-happened-in-los-angeles-and-no-one-noticed/

A terror attack has gone unnoticed in the eyes of the media last week after three Ku Klux Klan members assaulted Hispanic men and women in a Los Angeles public park.

According to The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, the men were yelling racial slurs and “heil Hitler” while flying a Confederate flag in Stephen Sorensen Park. The men then attacked three Hispanic teens, prompting the family of one of the teens to intervene in the fight. The white supremacists produced knives in response and started to threaten the family members....

“The only time the word terrorism or terrorist is used is when the perpetrator happens to be an Arab or a Muslim,” said Abed Ayoud, legal and policy director for Washington DC-based think tank American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.

“When the perpetrator happens to be a white American then the terminology is changed. So if it’s a white person then often we will hear that they have mental issues, they are troubled, different descriptions for their mental state.”


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A domestic terror attack just happened in Los Angeles and no one noticed (Original Post) KamaAina Mar 2016 OP
That's terrible. Those White Supremacists are terrorists and they are anti-American. Cleita Mar 2016 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Beaverhausen Mar 2016 #2
Sure they did. Cleita Mar 2016 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author Beaverhausen Mar 2016 #6
That's at Pearson Park in Anaheim, not Stephen Sorensen Park in Lake Los Angeles muriel_volestrangler Mar 2016 #16
My mistake Beaverhausen Mar 2016 #17
The self defense claim is bullshit. Initech Mar 2016 #8
they obviously were being provocative and pissed people off, the reaction they wanted Fast Walker 52 Mar 2016 #10
! Phlem Mar 2016 #12
The KKK sucks ass but the far left doesn't have to spin every story snooper2 Mar 2016 #3
Snooper, I think you got it. See my post #18 for how I learned about it in real time. Hekate Mar 2016 #19
Couldn't we just pack those nuts up and send em to Syria? JonathanRackham Mar 2016 #4
Best idea yet. Cleita Mar 2016 #7
the republicans have opened the door KT2000 Mar 2016 #9
Trump... Helen Borg Mar 2016 #11
A white anti-government terrorist ran over a federal agent & smashed in a federal building yesterday 951-Riverside Mar 2016 #13
When it's white supremacists, it's not terrorism 99th_Monkey Mar 2016 #14
K&R. JDPriestly Mar 2016 #15
I read it in the LA Times, a major newspaper, and saw it on TV. It most certainly is no secret in CA Hekate Mar 2016 #18
"That most definitely made the news." In SoCal. Not even in NorCal. KamaAina Mar 2016 #22
I remember the Oklahoma City bombing day very well..... rgbecker Mar 2016 #20
it's a known fact that So Cal cops have had a relationship olddots Mar 2016 #21

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
1. That's terrible. Those White Supremacists are terrorists and they are anti-American.
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 04:46 PM
Mar 2016

They don't believe in our government or that they should honor its institutions or obey its laws. Any other group would be considered subversives. Back in the day, they used to confine themselves to their compounds and shoot each other. Now they are coming out an attacking innocent civilians. They are no different than the IRA in the UK back in the days of The Troubles, although the IRA actually had a legitimate gripe against the UK. Those Aryan Brotherhood and KKK have none.

Response to KamaAina (Original post)

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
5. Sure they did.
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 05:00 PM
Mar 2016
I'm certain that those hispanics, many of who are probably undocumented, wanted to draw attention to themselves.

Response to Cleita (Reply #5)

muriel_volestrangler

(101,271 posts)
16. That's at Pearson Park in Anaheim, not Stephen Sorensen Park in Lake Los Angeles
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 07:54 PM
Mar 2016
3 Charged With Hate Crimes After Racially Motivated Attack in Lake Los Angeles Park: DA

Three men pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges related to an alleged racially motivated attack on Hispanic victims at a Lake Los Angeles park the previous week, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.

Ian Justine Plankey, 20, Richard Lawrence Daulton, 19, and Kevin Matthew Stewart, 25, were each charged with two felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon and one felony count of assault by means of force likely to produce great bodily injury, the DA’s office stated in a news release.
...
The victims were playing soccer and speaking Spanish when the alleged attack occurred on the afternoon of Feb. 28 at Stephen Sorensen Park, prosecutors said.

Three white men approached the members of the group, harassed them “and eventually began assaulting them, beating them up,” according to Deputy Maxwell with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

http://ktla.com/2016/03/02/three-charged-with-hate-crimes-after-racially-motivated-attack-in-lake-los-angeles-park-da/

Unless you were saying that the media can only cope with one Southern California race-related violent incident at a time?

Initech

(100,041 posts)
8. The self defense claim is bullshit.
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 05:08 PM
Mar 2016

I've been reading a lot about this since that happened so close to home. What it sounds like to me - and don't quote me on this - was that the KKK provoked the counter protestors which started the whole brew ha ha. If they're claiming self defense they really don't have anyone to blame but themselves.

 

Fast Walker 52

(7,723 posts)
10. they obviously were being provocative and pissed people off, the reaction they wanted
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 06:29 PM
Mar 2016

That being said, apparently the KKK asked for police protection and didn't give it.

The video of the incident is freakishly weird, with flagpoles being used to stab people and blood all over.

Phlem

(6,323 posts)
12. !
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 06:42 PM
Mar 2016


Those hispanic teens can be out of control, especially when their parents are around.

but seriously......







Hekate

(90,562 posts)
19. Snooper, I think you got it. See my post #18 for how I learned about it in real time.
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 12:39 AM
Mar 2016

There's no cover up and it's no secret.

JonathanRackham

(1,604 posts)
4. Couldn't we just pack those nuts up and send em to Syria?
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 04:56 PM
Mar 2016

Let Isis have em for a weekend......................

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
7. Best idea yet.
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 05:04 PM
Mar 2016

When I was forced to work side by side with family members of those swastika heads, I often suggested that they should go join the Marines or Army. They could have all their guns and shoot up all the brown people to their little hearts desire. I didn't bother to mention that a lot of their fellow warriors would also be brown people and those ME fighters they would be up against would probably clean their clocks.

KT2000

(20,568 posts)
9. the republicans have opened the door
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 06:22 PM
Mar 2016

to idiots like this. They have glorified racism and this is the result.

 

951-Riverside

(7,234 posts)
13. A white anti-government terrorist ran over a federal agent & smashed in a federal building yesterday
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 06:50 PM
Mar 2016


LAGUNA NIGUEL (CBSLA.com) — A motorist possibly disgruntled with the government struck a man outside a federal building in Laguna Niguel Thursday, raising security concerns.

About 4:30 p.m., a police cruiser was chasing a car toward the Chet Holfield Federal Building at 24000 Avila Road, according to witnesses.

The vehicle made it through the concrete barriers and hit a federal employee, possibly a security guard, in the back of the federal building. Paramedics rushed him to a hospital with unknown injuries.

The suspect was arrested. Witnesses said they saw him scoping out the parking lot earlier in the day and was asked to leave.


http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/03/03/driver-mows-down-man-outside-federal-building-in-laguna-niguel/

LAGUNA NIGUEL, California -- A driver with an alleged grudge against the government struck and injured a federal investigator Thursday before slamming into the exterior of a federal building in Orange County, authorities said.

About 4:30 p.m., the driver struck the investigator outside the Chet Holifield Federal Building in Laguna Niguel and crashed into a maintenance garage near the side of the facility, according to a law enforcement source who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The driver, identified as Geoffrey Rickner, 45, of Laguna Niguel, was allegedly motivated by antipathy for the federal government, according to the source, who was not authorized to speak on the record about the incident.

The driver was taken into custody at the scene, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said. Both the driver and the injured federal employee were taken to a hospital in unknown condition.

The Orange County Sheriff's Department also responded to the scene and deployed its bomb squad to survey for explosives, sheriff's Lt. Mark Stichter said.


http://www.officer.com/news/12177941/driver-deliberately-plows-into-federal-building

Notice how the media calls this white terrorist a "driver" and a "motorist".
 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
14. When it's white supremacists, it's not terrorism
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 07:00 PM
Mar 2016

Just like in Oregon recently, armed robbery of public lands, threatening local officials while armed,
and destruction of pubic property somehow equated to the M$M as the perps being "activists" or "militants"...
... NOT DOMESTICE TERRORISTS really?

Oh did I mention that the perps were also white supremacists?

YUUGE double standard here. One for black/brown people, and another one entirely for whites.


JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
15. K&R.
Fri Mar 4, 2016, 07:40 PM
Mar 2016

White Americans aren't terrorists, no matter how many people they kill. They are just having emotional problems and need help.

Let's get real. Hate is hate no matter the color of the hater. Death is death no matter the color of the victim. Injury is also injury no matter the color of the victim. Or religion may I add.

Hekate

(90,562 posts)
18. I read it in the LA Times, a major newspaper, and saw it on TV. It most certainly is no secret in CA
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 12:37 AM
Mar 2016

So what is your source so aggrieved about? The KKK is a nasty ugly thing that we thought was in the past, and it shows up in SoCal this week. That most definitely made the news.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
22. "That most definitely made the news." In SoCal. Not even in NorCal.
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 03:28 PM
Mar 2016

Let alone back East. Whereas if the attackers had been Muslim... 24/7/365.

rgbecker

(4,820 posts)
20. I remember the Oklahoma City bombing day very well.....
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 11:45 AM
Mar 2016

Everyone assumed it was a muslim terror attack. When they caught Tim Mcvey with the evidence, the story quickly turned to deranged mental case. His Michigan militia friends were just out of control junior high school like weirdos.

 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
21. it's a known fact that So Cal cops have had a relationship
Sat Mar 5, 2016, 11:56 AM
Mar 2016

with the Klan for decades . The climate for this racism is kept alive by the supply and demand for "policing " .

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