9-11-06 -- an attempted suicide bombing in IA NOT reported in M$M

[bobbieinok]

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-oppoz084922734oct08,0,27561.story?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines

The terrorists who aren't in the news
Anti-abortion fanatics spread fear by bombings, murders and assaults, but the media take little notice
BY JENNIFER L. POZNER
Jennifer L. Pozner is founder and executive director of Women In Media & News, a national media analysis, education and advocacy group.

October 8, 2006


On Sept. 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of the terror attacks that devastated our nation, a man crashed his car into a building in Davenport, Iowa, hoping to blow it up and kill himself in the fire.

No national newspaper, magazine or network newscast reported this attempted suicide bombing, though an AP wire story was available. Cable news (save for MSNBC's Keith Olbermann) was silent about this latest act of terrorism in America.

Had the criminal, David McMenemy, been Arab or Muslim, this would have been headline news for weeks. But since his target was the Edgerton Women's Health Center, rather than, say, a bank or a police station, media have not called this terrorism - even after three decades of extreme violence by anti-abortion fanatics, mostly fundamentalist Christians who believe they're fighting a holy war.

Since 1977, casualties from this war include seven murders, 17 attempted murders, three kidnappings, 152 assaults, 305 completed or attempted bombings and arsons, 375 invasions, 482 stalking incidents, 380 death threats, 618 bomb threats, 100 acid attacks, and 1,254 acts of vandalism, according to the National Abortion Federation.

Abortion providers and activists received 77 letters threatening anthrax attacks before 9/11, yet the media never considered anthrax threats as terrorism until after 9/11, when such letters were delivered to journalists' offices and members of Congress.

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As we continue national debates on how to keep America safe from terrorism, journalists do us - and especially women - no good pretending that the threats come only from radical Muslims outside our borders.

[Phredicles]

1. Recommended - let's hear more about this.

Especially, what's the back story on this McNenemy? What organizations if any did he belong to?

[SlavesandBulldozers]

2. kick never heard this

[file83]

11. kick - Me neither.

[yellerpup]

3. Good find.

K&R! Terrorists were here before 9/11 and some of them committed murder in the name of Christian fundamentalism. :kick:

[bobbieinok]

6. this was discussed and linked at

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com

The other kind of terrorist
Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Hey, here's another addition to that gallery (inspired by Michelle Malkin) of terrorists who happen to be white fundamentalist fanatics:

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This is an extremely interesting site. I discovered DNeiwert at salon's tabletalk in the days before 12-12-00.

He's had lots of very negative, factually based information about Michelle Malkin. Since he did extensive research (for his book) on the Japanese internment camps in WWII, he was especially incensed by her book suggesting the internment of Muslims as a 'good idea.'

[yellerpup]

8. Thanks for the link.

Good info in there.

[rurallib]

4. I am from Iowa so I did hear of this - IRONICALLY

The building this idiot chose to target does not do abortions. It is a women's health clinic.
I never gave a thought of it being 9/11 when he did it and I don't think any of the locals casts mentioned that fact.
Here is a link to the discussion on the Iowa forum and there is another thread from there:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=152x10311

[progressoid]

10. Me too, but I didn't know until checking in @ DU...

To be fair, I don't watch much TV news or read the local rags. BUT, my wife does and she didn't hear about it either.

[Gregorian]

5. Good terrorists.

You see, those terrorists are carrying out the republican agenda, which makes them Good Terrorists.

I am getting very irritated with our judicial system. Or lack thereof.

[krkaufman]

7. I was thinking about this the other day...

... after seeing an old episode of 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' where a doctor was assasinated by an anti-choice radical/nutcase. I was wondering why the "providing material support to terrorists" clause of the MCA wasn't being applied to every Christian organization helping fund the radical anti-choice crowd, and why their every phone wasn't wiretapped sans warrants.

[intheflow]

9. Thanks for posting. K&R. n/t

[indepat]

12. RW terrorists who commit terrorist acts are not terrorists by 'puke

definition: neither are RW cabals who commit terrorist acts. :evilfrown:

[eppur_se_muova]

13. Extremism in the defense of nonsentient clusters of cells is no vice! nt

[MGKrebs]

14. We're not really looking for terrorists,

we're looking for Muslim terrorists.

How can they "detain" the Muslim lawyer from Portland for 14 days with no evidence against him, but let a punk from Wisconsin who threatens stadiums full of people off with an "interview"? How does one explain that?

[AntiFascist]

15. Right-wing domestic terrorists are never identified as such. n/t

[mirandapriestly]

16. Brilliant article, Propaganda warps our perceptions

Funny how laws have not been enacted to suppress our freedom and rights because we might be abortion clinic suicide bombers.