[Vision2020] The Three Faces of Domestic Terrorism

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> On Dec 10, 2015, at 4:39 PM, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
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> I think that your article is a little slanted. While it is probably  right is labeling attacks on abortion clinics as right wing, most of the shootings have been done by kooks who are nether left or right. I am not a fan of Donald Trump, but as near as I can tell you have misstated his position. I think he has advocated only a temporary ban, until a policy can be determined on how to deal with the treat.
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> -----Original Message-----
> Subject: [Vision2020] The Three Faces of Domestic Terrorism
> From: "Nicholas Gier" <ngier006 at gmail.com>
> To: vision2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Date: 12/10/15 21:04:34
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> Good Morning Visionaries:
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> For those who do not take the Daily News, here is my column from today. Attached is the long version, which will be published in the Idaho State Journal and the gringo Los Cabos Daily News. In it I discuss the San Bernardino shooters and my suspicions that, once again, the FBI failed us in identifying potential terrorists.
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> nfg
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> Three Faces of Domestic Terrorism
> By Nick Gier, the Palouse Pundit
> Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, speaking about his decision to open his city to Syrian refugees, said that he was more afraid of domestic attacks rather than those inspired by Islamic militants.
> A mass shooting data base (limited to a minimum of four deaths) gathered by the journal Mother Jones supports Rawlings' position. In 73 mass shootings since 1982, Islamic militants were involved in only three.
> Professors Charles Kurzman and David Schanzer have published a broader study that identified Islamic terrorists as responsible for 50 deaths since 9/11. In stark contrast they found that " right-wing extremists averaged 337 attacks per year in the decade after 9/11, causing a total of 254 fatalities ." Americans are five times more likely to be killed by a right-wing terrorist than a jihadist.
> Kurzman and Schanzer contacted 382 law enforcement agencies and found that "74 percent reported anti-government extremism as one of the top three terrorist threats in their jurisdiction," while only "39 percent listed extremism connected with Al Qaeda or like-minded terrorist organizations."
> The federal government defines domestic terrorism as acts "intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping." Please note the significant "or" in this definition.
> Anti-abortion extremists definitely come under this definition, and since 1977 they have been responsible for 11 murders, 17 attempted murders, 42 bombings, and 182 arsons.
> The three killed in Colorado Springs by Robert Lewis Dear have been added to this list, because his anti-abortion views have now be verified. This was evident from his cry "no more baby parts" as he entered the Planned Parenthood office, and the fact that he had previously vandalized a similar facility in South Carolina.
> To those who say that doctors who perform abortions are the real terrorists, I simply remind them that abortions until fetal viability are legal in the U. S. I would also point out that our moral, legal, and religious traditions have not considered the fetus a person at conception. For more see www.webpages.uidaho.edu/ngier/abortion.htm.
> Since 9/11 there have been almost weekly attacks on American Muslims and their mosques. These assaults can be categorized as acts of domestic terrorism " to intimidate or coerce a civilian population." Hundreds of mosques have been either vandalized or burned down. Copies of the Qur'an have been either burned or shot through with bullets. Pigs' heads have been thrown into mosques or onto Muslim property.
> The third face of domestic terrorism in America is seen in race-based attacks. On October 22, 2015, St. Louis police reported arson at seven African-American churches, presumably as retaliation for protests about the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson. The Council on American Islamic Relations immediately responded with a statement: " Whenever a house of worship is targeted in this manner, Americans of all faiths should feel the spiritual injury and stand with those under attack."
> The largest Christian terror organization in U. S. history is the Klu Klux Klan. Using data from Tuskegee University's Records and Research Division, it has been determined that 3,446 African Americans were lynched over 86 years.
> The most recent racially motivated mass shooting occurred on June 17, 2015 at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina. After sitting with congregants in a prayer meeting, Dylan Roof opened fire and killed nine. His website contained typical white supremacist propaganda and a picture showed Roof wrapped in the Confederate flag.
> Reverting to the horrors of Germany's dark past, Donald Trump is calling for the registration of all American Muslims and the closing of their mosques. Given the violence actions against Muslims and Planned Parenthood, the same perverted logic could be used to shut down churches that preach hate against Muslims, gays, and lesbians.
> Nick Gier of Moscow taught religion and philosophy at the University of Idaho for 31 years.
> A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
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> -Greek proverb
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> "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! 'Have courage to use your own understand-ing!-that is the motto of enlightenment. 
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> --Immanuel Kant 
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