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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI am listening to TV coverage now. Amazing how now it is being called a Bombing and
no longer being called a terrorist act.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)Either way someone is trying to terrorize the general public.
Skittles
(153,220 posts)I'm just naive enough to not think in those terms but it almost fits.
Skittles
(153,220 posts)but it seems that the word terrorist is specifically reserved for, you know, THOSE people.........not homegrown nutcases
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)Skittles
(153,220 posts)not by a LONG shot
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)domestic terrorism. That's what EVERY story talked about.
Skittles
(153,220 posts)please
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)You can think it didn't happen, and that it's all some racial game. But thinking doesn't make it so.
Skittles
(153,220 posts)bye bye
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)RZM
(8,556 posts)I mean, yes he was called a terrorist there, but it doesn't change the fact that he was never called a terrorist.
Or something
RZM
(8,556 posts)Nigerian and Pakistani, respectively.
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)a bomber yes, a terrorist no.
Remember this happened in my state and I followed the story close
No problem with my memory either.
How about a link where he was referred to as being a terrorist from back then in one of our papers
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)Go find it yourself.
Response to Common Sense Party (Reply #23)
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Skittles
(153,220 posts)then he was mostly referred to as the OKC bomber - you are correct; I lived in Texas and remember wondering about that.....you are correct
madokie
(51,076 posts)in comparision to the other reply I got, thanks
For the most part yes he was referred to as the OKC bomber not the okc Terrorist. I'm sure some did use the terrorist word when they referred to him but most did not.
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)Was he called the Oklahoma City Bomber? Yes, he was. Just as the D.C. Sniper was not called the "D.C. Terrorist." We also don't hear of the "Underwear Terrorist," do we? Sometimes they use the term 'Bomber' to describe the specific method these terrorists used. I do not understand why some people insist on bringing some racial element into this.
If you honestly think that McVeigh was not called a terrorist, or that the OK bombing was not referred to as an act of terror, then your memory is not quite as sharp as you think.
http://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/mcveigh+terrorist/since1851/allresults/1/allauthors/oldest/
PD Turk
(1,289 posts)It seems it's always the "9-11 terror attacks" but when it comes to McVeigh it's "The Oklahoma City Bombing"
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)of jet airplanes with box cutters and flying them into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania."
Do you honestly think that a significant number of the American public--or the U.S. media--consider the Oklahoma City bombing to be anything other than an act of domestic terrorism?
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)n/t
Myrina
(12,296 posts)The elder brother was 'naturalized' or something several years ago, don't know if that's the same as taking the Citizenship test.
CincyDem
(6,407 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)n/t
CincyDem
(6,407 posts)I don't know if it's true but it always seems that knowing how the event is described is indicative of the perpetrators.
defacto7
(13,485 posts)subterranean
(3,427 posts)The 1993 attack on the World Trade Center is usually called a bombing even though it was perpetrated by non-white Muslims.
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)As if we should care about hurting the feelings of killers and attempted murderers.
RZM
(8,556 posts)piedmont
(3,462 posts)RZM
(8,556 posts)Union Scribe
(7,099 posts)...that the bombing was "domestic and not terrorism." I saw it just tonight on the local news (reading viewer comments from their FB page I think).
Me:
Skittles
(153,220 posts)even some DUers just don't seem to notice the difference
Renew Deal
(81,882 posts)The press just fills in the blanks