If He'd Been A Muslim Or Minority-"They'd Be Calling For The Posthumous Beheading Of His Ashes"

Friday, February 19, 2010
Hypocrisy over IRS Bomber

If you hate the US government for collecting taxes from you and are willing to fly a plan into a Federal building, you just might be a terrorist.



But, nah, not if you're a white guy.



Some, who likewise are outraged at paying taxes, are eager to adopt this domestic terrorist.


If he'd been a Muslim or a member of another minority group, they'd be calling for the posthumous beheading of his ashes.


The end:
http://www.juancole.com/2010/02/hypocrisy-over-irs-bomber.html

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If we're really going to vest virtually unlimited power in the Government to do anything it wants to people they call "Terrorists," we ought at least to have a common understanding of what the term means. But there is none. It's just become a malleable, all-justifying term to allow the U.S. Government carte blanche to do whatever it wants to Muslims it does not like or who do not like it (i.e., The Terrorists). It's really more of a hypnotic mantra than an actual word: its mere utterance causes the nation blindly to cheer on whatever is done against the Muslims who are so labeled.
more:
http://www.salon.com/news/terrorism/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2010/02/19/terrorism

Joe Stack is no different than the bomber who straps explosives around his body, then walks into a public place and sets off the explosives. There is no difference, whatever.

It doesn't matter what Joe Stack's political point was. It appears that he didn't think he should have to pay taxes. No matter. The bomber in the public square has some sort of political view, too.

Who cares? Such an act is an act of terrorism, regardless of the politics involved. To seek to kill others in your attempt to make a point is terrorism. It is that simple.

here is how to do that. You'll be remembered for decades. Do not do as Joe Stack did. You will not make your point, and you will be reviled:

If someone wishes to use his or her own death to promote a point of view or to protest something, this photo shows the proper way to do that. Never involve others.

I need to get off DU.

It's fucking sickening how many are trying so hard to make excuses for this guy.

It's important.

And, we need to stay aware, it would be no less despicable an act if he'd been a hard-core lefty (which thank heavens he was not).

..... is to always be on trial for what other members of your group might do. There is no benefit of the doubt. Sadly it's something we learn early on in life.

for this asshole, and it's sickening. I knew there were anarchists here all along, but that crap shouldn't be tolerated. There is never a reason to target government employees, no matter who's in the WH.

I'd be just as disgusted and just as adamant about him being a terrorist if he had been a lefty targeting a defense contractor or whatever the hell.

That's the other red herring the excuse-makers are using... 'well you're just trying to score political points!' Fucking pathetic.

Terorrists are terorrists.

I'm disappointed is a monumental understatement. People trying to justify or rationalize this guy's behavior is appalling to me. Perhaps DU really isn't for me anymore. I've had personal and professional setbacks all my life, but it would never dawn on me to hurt innocents, no matter who they are.

I'm so disgusted right now, I can't see straight.

speak up. Without that, the direction of the forum will surely change in a bad way.

My sentiments exactly.

Many of these are the people that post little but anti-Obama rhetoric.

We actually have people on this board celebrating this guy who I'm sure has little in common with most of us. Most of us probably don't own a business. Most of us probably don't live in a swanky suburb. Most of us probably don't own a private plane. And most of us probably pay our damned taxes.

I was pretty confident I'd be able to pick out the DU'ers who would defend this disgusting, selfish asshole, and so far I haven't been wrong.

The guy who committed the shootings at Fort Hood was branded a terrorist, though he is an American citizen. A white man (assumingly Christian) crashes his plane into a government building and no one calls him a terrorist. They both committed horrible acts. What gives?

How it effects the economy.

The 9/11 guys flew two plans into buildings in the financial district of New York to make a point about the US global dominance both militarily and economically.

So some dumb fuck flies his small plan into a small building with no massive body counts and little to no effect upon the economy.

Honestly, what is difference? Size.

However, if the guy had changed course just a few miles he would have hit the souther district offices of the IRS. If he hit that, would he then be called a terrorist by the MSM?

The guy by all definitions, is a terrorist. Size in this case, certainly does not matter.