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marmar

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Thu Oct 22, 2015, 01:33 PM Oct 2015

This is right-wing terrorism: The frightening new rise of church and clinic arson — and ............


from Salon:


[font size="4"]This is right-wing terrorism: The frightening new rise of church and clinic arson — and why you won’t 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 doesn’t 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 there’s 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 it’s 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 OP
just like we didn't hear about all the attacks on women's health clinics, the anthrax mailings to niyad Oct 2015 #1
Give it 10 years Runningdawg Oct 2015 #2
PM kick marmar Oct 2015 #3

niyad

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1. just like we didn't hear about all the attacks on women's health clinics, the anthrax mailings to
Thu Oct 22, 2015, 01:41 PM
Oct 2015

them, etc.,

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