Question for DU, when are we going to start calling the tea party terrorist

Just herd on Tom Heartman, 34 of the shootings this year were done by white men and women, 34.

Of the recent shootings the http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/08/1305400/-Shooting-in-Las-Vegas-leaves-five-dead-including-two-police-officers#

There had been reports that the couple had attended the Clive Bundy protest.

- See more at: http://omidsafi.religionnews.com/2014/04/14/shootings-kansas-jewish-community-centers-case-domestic-terrorism/#sthash.1nrPtbBA.dpuf As the news of the tragic shooting in the Jewish Community Center in Kansas City and Village Shalom, a Jewish retirement community, broke across the nation, here are a few thoughts and prayers that I wanted to share:

1) Silence, Grief, and prayers.

2) This is about all of us.

3) The shooter is not “mad”, “crazy”, “deranged”. This is a case of Domestic Terrorism.

Let us resist every attempt to soften the savagery of this attack by calling it the work of a single, isolated, lone madman. Yes, there are facts that still need to be collected, but there is a trail of evidence that’s hard to ignore.

This is not the work of one solitary crazed man. The SPLC has tracked 939 extremist KKK, white-supremacist, and other hate-groups. We have a lot of work to do.


Yet what makes me angry at progressive radio and tv, we're afraid to call this what it is, Domestic Terrorism.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/nullification-the-bundy-r_b_5186968.html

Armed Militia At Bundy Ranch

Flag-waving Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy refuses to pay cattle-grazing fees like other ranchers do, or even get a grazing permit, because he "doesn't recognize the federal government." The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), following years of federal court rulings, finally starts removing Bundy's cattle from public land. The state's Republican governor and Republican senator accuse the government of "intimidation" for enforcing the court's rulings.

Think Progress has a good take on what happened next:

Egged on by media figures like Fox News' Sean Hannity and Tea Party groups like the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity, Bundy quickly became a conservative celebrity -- including among right-wing fringe groups. By Wednesday, right-wing militia members began to arrive in Nevada to "provide armed response" to federal officials seeking to enforce the court order.

So my question is this, how much longer are we going to keep making excuses for these extremist right wing tea party people who are going around killing our government officials? I'm really getting discouraged.