domestic terrorism

Chris Davis is concerned that a red America in political exile could become radicalized and even violent:

You know how Palin keeps going on and on about Obama hanginng out with a domestic terrorist? I will assume you know she's talking about Ayers, and Obama was 8 years old when Ayers committed a crime, paid his time, and became a leader for good in his church and community.

I just got an autodial message from the McCain campaign saying that Obama is directly tied to domestic terrorism, mentions various bombings from 40 years ago, and the murder of a judge. I waited, laughing, until the end to hear the name of the 527 pushing this thing. It isn't a 527, folks. It was McCain/Palin and was cited as such.

I have become more and more convinced that the whole “hate crime” debate has become so heated as to be ridiculous and meaningless and that, in the end, it’s not necessary to have a distinction of a crime as a “hate crime” because such crimes are already covered under the terrorism statute of the Federal code.

Alarming is the only way to describe the story of Briana Waters in today's Salon. Waters is a Berkeley, CA mother and violin teacher who made a documentary on some environmental activists a few years ago. Now she's a convicted of terrorist, awaiting sentencing for at the most holding a walkie-talkie, and at the least for associating with her documentary subjects.

Over at Science Daily, comes the PSH:

In “Guys and Guns Amok: Domestic Terrorism and School Shootings from the Oklahoma City Bombing to the Virginia Tech Massacre” (Paradigm, 2008), UCLA professor of education and cultural critic Douglas Kellner argues that school shootings and other acts of mass violence embody a crisis of out-of-control gun culture and male rage, heightened by a glorif