Christian Fundamentalist Terrorism

from HuffPost:






Shannyn Moore
Just a girl from Homer.

Christian Fundamentalist Terrorism



It's shocking to write. But it's time to start calling it what it is.

When Jim D. Adkisson walked into the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church with 76 rounds and a shot-gun, he killed 2 people and was charged with murder. His motive was "he hated the liberal movement" and was upset with "liberals in general as well as gays." He should have been charged with terrorism.

Today, George Tiller, the Wichita doctor was killed INSIDE the lobby of his Wichita church. Reformation Lutheran Church became a crime scene; fundamentalist terrorism.

The right wing media hacks make targets of the left. The fundamentalist reverends blather their intolerance of other Americans. Their marriages are in jeopardy if the GLBT community can walk down an aisle. Their children are going to be molested if you have to rent to a same sex couple. Fear...fear...fear the queer.

Bill O'Reilly's hit piece on Dr. Tiller is a training tape for Christian Fundamentalist Terrorists. Never did he ask the woman interviewed how she, as a 13 year old, got pregnant or where her parents were when she went underwent an abortion at Dr. Tiller's clinic. I'm sure O'Reilly's drivel will insist on personal accountability for the murderer. I'm sure he won't be in line for any "accountability" for calling the doctor "Tiller the baby-killer" or his clinic a "death mill."

Are anti-choice groups celebrating today? An abortion doctor is dead so women won't have unwanted pregnancies!

The "war on terror" needs to include domestic terrorists.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/christian-fundamentalist_b_209521.html

I really dislike anything that plays into the right wing talking points. "War on" anything. Terrorism. I'll admit that most of the things that are talking points are actually projections of the authoritarians themselves. But still, I would prefer we use alternate ways of describing the situation. Forced domination? Violent advocation? Is advocation even a word?

The reason I hate the word terrorism is that it's not really an issue. We're far safer from terrorism than when we jump in a car and drive around. Magnitudes safer. So it's not even valid. However, that doesn't diminish the evil that the right is and has perpetrated upon the world.

Just because the word has been used by a pack of dribbling idiots to describe everyone they dislike does not strip the actual meaning from the word.

No, I agree. I think it's frustration from having to deal with hypocrites and cheats and bullies. It's worse than first grade.

which I think is a brilliant phrase. It sounds less scary and I think it also implies that we're not 100% innocent and they're not 100% psychotic, evil creatures. "Conflict" makes it sound like both sides have some legitimate issues to bring to the table. "Conflict" also suggests that discussions rather than war and killing can be helpful.

Have you read Drew Westen's book? You sound like you'd be interested in it.
http://www.amazon.com/Political-Brain-Emotion-Deciding-Nation/dp/1586484257

I've since admitted that it is terrorism. However, I would bet that Naom Chomsky focuses on semantics for a good reason.

I'll give the book a look!

the pulpits of the christofascists plant the seeds; hate-radio does the watering.

Say it loud and long.

What is with the 70's porno mustache?
:evilgrin:

the dumb American audience started cheering.

I have not seen that movie yet. :o
is it any good.

To the rest of us here in the reality-based community, it is what it is.

:kick:

...as proof that the public doesn't want abortions, rather than proof that their 20 plus year campaign of terror has in actuality, worked fantastically.

Terrorizing doctors into giving up their practices, if they happen to assist in the providing of abortion services, seems to actually work pretty well.

Even though it is still technically legal, there are large parts of the US where getting an abortion is close to impossible only because the providers have been intimidated into leaving.

and sending them to Gitmo?