The Most Common Type of American Terrorist Is a White Man With a Weapon and a Grudge

Frank responded by saying, "> Yes and he usually carries a badge".
I don't want to argue the point, but I do wonder why there is an
apparent rise in violence by police officers. Didn't we used to call
them "Peace Officers"? First, this is another case of the Ruling
Classes ability to divide and conquer. Cops are Working Class folks.
Just like the rest of us. But unlike many of us, their job is
directly linked to protecting the Laws of the Empire, and to hold safe
the elite members of the Ruling Class. In other words, we have a
section of the Working Class employed for the specific duty of keeping
law and order among their Working Class brothers and sisters.
Here's a personal example. My parents lived in a working class
neighborhood in Northeast Spokane. They had a double lot, and put the
one half into a truck garden. One night a carload of young men
clambered over the fence and vandalized the pumpkins and rows of
tomato plants. My parents shouted at them from their door, but they
were ignored. They called 911 and the police sent a car to check it
out...two days later.
On South Hill, in Spokane, one of the city's Pillars took his family
on extended vacation. He owned the major daily newspaper and the
number one TV and radio channels. While he was away, the city placed
a police car and a pair of officers in front of the estate, 24/7.
I should add that the incident of breaking and entering in South Hill
was far, far less frequent than the rapidly rising vandalism in my
parents neighborhood.
My point is that we need to remember who the government is put in
place to protect and promote. We seem to forget that many of our
laws, the ones that regulate our daily lives, are on the books because
law and order must exist in order for the nation's commerce to
flourish and prosper. Do you think the Ruling Class cares whether or
not our streets and highways are glutted and falling into disrepair?
Just as long as we figure a way to get to our jobs and keep the
economy rolling, they don't care if it takes us half the day to cross
the town. But try to get the Ruling Class to ante up some bucks to
ease congestion, and they rise up in anger. The Boeing company, long
protected and fawned over by Seattle and surrounding towns,screamed to
the high heavens when it was suggested that they help pay for the
increased congestion around their expanding facilities. The tax
payers were footing heavy costs to put in new sewers, water mains,
sidewalks, streets, etc. Boeing demanded to be held harmless,
explaining that they created jobs as their contribution. The city and
county held their ground. As a result, Boeing picked up their
administrative offices and moved their headquarters to Chicago. Now,
bit by bit, Boeing is divesting their Northwest holdings, farming out
work once done locally, around the globe. Boeing has moved to the
level of International Corporation, one of those entities that have
become larger and more powerful than most of the nations around the
globe.
But as I said, cops are members of the Working Class, too. And as
such, they reflect the changing values of the Main Stream Americans.
We are becoming more aggressive and more restless. We are less a
community, and more of a collection of self-interested individuals.
We are finding that in order to maintain our place in the Sun, we must
be strong and forceful. Many of us are now packing. Packing guns,
not packing our suitcases. Although it might be a good time to get
out of Dodge. We are seeing more explosive tempers and violence among
our own Working Class brothers and sisters.
There are reasons for this increase in violence, and there are
solutions. But turning on the cops and wasting our efforts trying to
resist them, is pure foolishness.
The hard truth is that nothing will change until we replace the Empire
and turn out the current Ruling Class. But do we have a better plan
to set in their place?

Carl Jarvis




On 2/12/15, Frank Ventura <frank.ventura@littlebreezes.com> wrote:
> Yes and he usually carries a badge.
> Frank
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Blind-Democracy [mailto:blind-democracy-bounces@octothorp.org] On
> Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2015 7:02 PM
> To: Blind Democracy Discussion List
> Subject: Re: The Most Common Type of American Terrorist Is a White Man With
> a Weapon and a Grudge
>
> In general I agree that in our world, the good ol' USA, an angry white male
> with a gun represents Terror.
> But then you never met my ex-wife!
>
> Carl Jarvis
> On 2/12/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
>> The Most Common Type of American Terrorist Is a White Man With a
>> Weapon and a Grudge Michelle Goldberg on February 11, 2015 - 12:01 PM
>> ET
>>
>> From left, Yusor Mohammad, Deah Shaddy Barakat and Razan Mohammad
>> Abu-Salha
>> (Facebook)
>> Yesterday, an outspoken white atheist murdered three Muslim students
>> in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We don't yet know for sure whether
>> this was a hate crime or whether the killer, Craig Stephen Hicks, had
>> some other motivation; police have said the crime may have grown out
>> of a dispute over parking. We do know that had Hicks been a Muslim and
>> his victims atheists, few would be waiting for all the facts to come
>> in before declaring him a terrorist. We know that there would be the
>> usual calls for other Muslims to condemn the killings, coupled with
>> the usual failure to take note of the many Muslims who did. And we
>> know that demands for Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins to distance
>> themselves from Hicks are largely facetious, because no one really
>> blames them. Violence perpetrated by Muslims is almost always seen as
>> part of a global conspiracy, whereas white men like Hicks are usually seen
>> as isolated psychopaths.
>> There is, of course, some truth there. An organized jihadist movement
>> exists; an organized cadre of terroristic atheists does not. Yet in
>> the United States, Islamophobia has been a consistent motivator of
>> violence.
>> Hicks's killing of Yusor Mohammad, her husband, Deah Shaddy Barakat,
>> and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, should not be treated like a
>> man-bites-dog story, a reversal of the usual pattern of terrorism.
>> After all, Muslims in the United States are more often the victims of
>> ideological violence than the perpetrators of it.
>> According to the latest FBI statistics, there were more than 160
>> anti-Muslim hate crimes in 2013. Mosques and Islamic centers have been
>> firebombed and vandalized; seven mosques were attacked during Ramadan
>> alone in 2012.
>> Several Muslims, or people thought to be Muslim, have been murdered or
>> viciously attacked. In 2010, a white college student and
>> self-described patriot tried to slash the throat of Bangladeshi cab driver
>> Ahmed Sharif.
>> The white supremacist who slaughtered six people in a Sikh temple in
>> 2012 may have thought he was targeting Muslims. So, apparently, did
>> Erika Menendez, the homeless New Yorker who pushed a man named Sunando
>> Sen in front of a subway train that same year.
>> In most cases, the perpetrators have been disaffected, disaffiliated
>> losers rather than part of any movement, but they've picked up broader
>> currents of hatred and conspiracy theorizing. (The same can be said of
>> some lone-wolf Muslim terrorists like Man Haron Monis, the fraudster
>> and criminal who took hostages in Sydney last year, or the Tsarnaev
>> brothers, who bombed the Boston marathon in 2013.) We don't yet know
>> if Hicks was driven by lonely fanaticism, but if he was, he's not as
>> much of an anomaly as he might at first appear. Explicitly atheist
>> violence is unusual, but Hicks still fits the profile of the most
>> common type of American terrorist: a white man with a weapon and a
>> grudge.
>>
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>> Most Common Type of American Terrorist Is a White Man With a Weapon
>> and a Grudge Michelle Goldberg on February 11, 2015 - 12:01 PM ET
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>> From left, Yusor Mohammad, Deah Shaddy Barakat and Razan Mohammad
>> Abu-Salha
>> (Facebook)
>> Yesterday, an outspoken white atheist murdered three Muslim students
>> in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We don't yet know for sure whether
>> this was a hate crime or whether the killer, Craig Stephen Hicks, had
>> some other motivation; police have said the crime may have grown out
>> of a dispute over parking. We do know that had Hicks been a Muslim and
>> his victims atheists, few would be waiting for all the facts to come
>> in before declaring him a terrorist. We know that there would be the
>> usual calls for other Muslims to condemn the killings, coupled with
>> the usual failure to take note of the many Muslims who did. And we
>> know that demands for Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins to distance
>> themselves from Hicks are largely facetious, because no one really
>> blames them. Violence perpetrated by Muslims is almost always seen as
>> part of a global conspiracy, whereas white men like Hicks are usually seen
>> as isolated psychopaths.
>> There is, of course, some truth there. An organized jihadist movement
>> exists; an organized cadre of terroristic atheists does not. Yet in
>> the United States, Islamophobia has been a consistent motivator of
>> violence.
>> Hicks's killing of Yusor Mohammad, her husband, Deah Shaddy Barakat,
>> and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, should not be treated like a
>> man-bites-dog story, a reversal of the usual pattern of terrorism.
>> After all, Muslims in the United States are more often the victims of
>> ideological violence than the perpetrators of it.
>> According to the latest FBI statistics, there were more than 160
>> anti-Muslim hate crimes in 2013. Mosques and Islamic centers have been
>> firebombed and vandalized; seven mosques were attacked during Ramadan
>> alone in 2012.
>> Several Muslims, or people thought to be Muslim, have been murdered or
>> viciously attacked. In 2010, a white college student and
>> self-described patriot tried to slash the throat of Bangladeshi cab driver
>> Ahmed Sharif.
>> The white supremacist who slaughtered six people in a Sikh temple in
>> 2012 may have thought he was targeting Muslims. So, apparently, did
>> Erika Menendez, the homeless New Yorker who pushed a man named Sunando
>> Sen in front of a subway train that same year.
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>> In most cases, the perpetrators have been disaffected, disaffiliated
>> losers rather than part of any movement, but they've picked up broader
>> currents of hatred and conspiracy theorizing. (The same can be said of
>> some lone-wolf Muslim terrorists like Man Haron Monis, the fraudster
>> and criminal who took hostages in Sydney last year, or the Tsarnaev
>> brothers, who bombed the Boston marathon in 2013.) We don't yet know
>> if Hicks was driven by lonely fanaticism, but if he was, he's not as
>> much of an anomaly as he might at first appear. Explicitly atheist
>> violence is unusual, but Hicks still fits the profile of the most
>> common type of American terrorist: a white man with a weapon and a
>> grudge.
>>
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