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[font size="4"]This is right-wing terrorism: The frightening new rise of church and clinic arson and why you wont hear about it on Fox News[/font]
Right-wing extremists are setting churches and clinics ablaze. It's a scary -- and vastly undercovered -- story
AMANDA MARCOTTE
While Donald Trump is bragging about closing mosques to fight Islamic terrorism, there has been an under-reported surge of right-wing terrorism recently in the U.S.
Since July, when anti-choice crusaders released hoax videos that falsely claimed that Planned Parenthood sells fetal body parts, there has been a rash of arsons at clinics, at least one of which doesnt perform abortions. Just this week, police in New Hampshire arrested a teenager threatening a Planned Parenthood with a hatchet. After the racist church shooting in Charleston in June, itself an ugly act of domestic terrorism, there were a series of fires at black churches across the South.
And now St. Louis law enforcement fears that theres an arsonist on the loose in the city, setting fire to churches with predominantly black or racially mixed congregations. This is on top of what the Southern Poverty Law Center was already calling a resurgence in domestic terrorism across the United States.
That we are living in an era of major conservative backlash is not news. From the wholesale assault on reproductive rights to the dramatic increase in restrictions on voting to the bizarrely enduring Donald Trump campaign, the evidence everywhere suggests that right-wing America is freaking out and lashing out. They can feel their control over the country, which has a black president and legal gay marriage now, slipping out of their fingers.
The temper tantrum has grown so massive its threatening even the Republican party, which is being torn apart by purity tests and fury over even the slightest hint of cooperation with liberals, who are seen as a subversive threat to be stomped out instead of fellow citizens to work through your issues with. ................(more)
http://www.salon.com/2015/10/22/this_is_right_wing_terrorism_the_frightening_new_rise_of_church_and_clinic_arson_and_why_you_wont_hear_about_it_on_fox_news/
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This is right-wing terrorism: The frightening new rise of church and clinic arson — and ............ (Original Post)
marmar
Oct 2015
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niyad
(112,424 posts)1. just like we didn't hear about all the attacks on women's health clinics, the anthrax mailings to
them, etc.,
Runningdawg
(4,494 posts)2. Give it 10 years
unless something drastically changes the USA will look like N Ireland 30 years ago.
marmar
(76,976 posts)3. PM kick