While we worried about refugees.....

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Hopefully, this will remind (or make clear to) Americans that the biggest terrorist risk in this country is not from islamic jihadists (and certainly not from thoroughly vetted refugees), but from right-wing home-grown christian terrorists (who are almost exclusively white and male). A lot of our politicians, especially Republicans, don't want to admit that -- but that is the reality.


(Photo of terrorist being taken into custody is by Reuters. CBS News identifies him as Robert Lewis Dear, age 59.)

http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/2015/11/27/colorado-springs-shooting/76454812/
http://jobsanger.blogspot.com/2015/11/terrorist-strikes-in-colorado-springs.html

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http://www.juancole.com/2013/01/murders-terrorism-numbers.html

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No, we don't know for sure the motive of the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooter. It's always possible that he was a former employee who'd been fired or something. But contrary to the wingnuts suddenly showing tremendous reluctance to pass any judgement about events today, common sense suggests that a shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in one of the centers of anti-abortion activity in the country might just have some connection to right wing domestic terrorism.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2015/11/why-fbi-is-on-scene-of-planned.html


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If this turns out to be a pro lifer I had better fucking see microphones pushed in the face of every leader of the pro life movement demanding they condemn this, the same way they do with leaders in the Black and Muslim communities. If fucking collective responsibility is good enough for one group its good enough for all.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2015/11/27/1454824/-Open-thread-for-night-owls-Media-need-to-call-Planned-Parenthood-attacks-what-they-are-terrorism#comment_58426898