http://commonsense.ourfuture.org/gut_feeling?tx=3 Gut feeling
Submitted by Rick Perlstein on July 12, 2007
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff has a "gut feeling" about an imminent terrorist attack by the end of the summer.
So do I.
He can't point to a "specific threat." I can. Consider the fact pattern this spring and summer.
• April 26: 150 state, federal, and local cops raid four militia compounds in Alabama, one of them trip-wired with grenades, sweeping up a rocket launcher, 2,500 rounds of ammunition, and 130 grenades.
• April 25: nail-bomb found in an Austin abortion clinic parking lot "configured in such a way to cause serious bodily injury or death."
• May 1: Washington DC Minuteman and Freeper in good standing found with stash of semi-automatic weapons and explosives after his arrest at an immigration march.
• May 20: Aryan Nations member Jason Kenneth Hamilton kills wife, police officer, and church sexton at a Moscow, Idaho courthouse, wounding three others, then killed himself.
• May 22: Liberty University students arrested for possession of napalm bombs at Jerry Falwell's funeral.
Now this: Operation Rescue activists disrupt the business of the U.S. Senate, crying, "No Lord but Jesus Christ!" as a Hindu delivers the ceremonial invocation. See the video above - but more, importantly, read statement below, which does not even recognize the act as civil disobedience; the only people who broke a law, it clearly implies, are the senators who refused to step in to join them, thus betraying "our Founding Fathers":
Theology has moved from the church house onto the floor of the United States Senate, and has been arrested.
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I also have another gut feeling: no one in the national media will really much care.