Fox News has finally yelled fire in a crowded theater

There were two terrorist attacks in America over the weekend, but don’t expect the mainstream media to call them that. On Friday, 48-year-old Georgia resident Dennis Marx was scheduled to appear at the Forsyth County Courthouse in Cumming, Georgia, to face charges on 11 different felony counts.

Forsyth arrived at the courthouse on-time, but while in his truck, he threw “homemade spike strips” onto the road, and tried to run over a policeman. After police opened fire on him, Forsyth began shooting at them from his truck, and proceeded to throw tear gas grenades, smoke grenades, and pepper spray grenades at them. After a three minute long firefight, a SWAT team surrounded Marx, ultimately killing him.

Meanwhile, yesterday in Las Vegas, an armed couple screaming about “revolution” opened fire and killed two Las Vegas policemen inside of a local pizza joint. After shooting and killing Officer Alyn Beck and Officer Igor Soldo, the couple took their weapons and covered their bodies with the Gadsden Flag, a yellow banner with contains a coiled snake around the words, “Don’t tread on me.” The flag is named for Christopher Gadsden, the Revolutionary War general who designed it. It’s also a very popular symbol with the Tea Party movement.

After killing the police officers, the couple then fled to a local Wal-Mart, where they killed an innocent bystander, before ultimately taking their own lives in an apparent murder-suicide. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, neighbors said the couple often spoke about mistrust for and killing of police officers, and “going underground” until the time was right. Neighbors also told the Review-Journal that the husband claimed he had been kicked off the Bundy Ranch during the protests there last month.

And back in April, Frazier Glenn Miller, a well-known right-wing extremist and member of the KKK, shoot and killed 14-year-old boy and his grandfather at a Jewish Community Center near Kansas City. Miller then drove to a Jewish retirement home, and killed another person. As police arrested him, Miller screamed out “Heil Hitler.”

Frazier Glenn Miller, Dennis Marx and the Las Vegas shooters were right-wing extremists and domestic terrorists. It’s that simple. Unfortunately, the media refuses to acknowledge right-wing extremism and domestic terrorism in our country, even though they pose a bigger threat to our national security than jihadists and Islamic extremists.

According to the New America Foundation, as of April of this year, 21 people had been killed in the United States in attacks motivated by Islamic extremism since 9/11. Meanwhile, 34 people had been killed by right-wing extremist attacks during the same time period.

The fact is, right-wing extremism is on the rise, it’s dangerous, and it’s now a major terrorist force in America. Right-wing extremist and militia groups aren’t the fringe groups they used to be - now Fox so-called News makes members of these groups like the ones who showed up at the Bundy Ranch into media stars and heroes. But while the facts speak for themselves, the mainstream media (CNN, MSNBC, FOX, The New York Times etc…) refuses to acknowledge the truth.

Can you imagine how outraged the media would be right now if Dennis Marx had been a 48-year-old brown Muslim guy? Fox So-Called News would be calling for heads to roll if the Las Vegas shooters had been a Muslim couple. And, news coverage would’ve been wall-to-wall if Frazier Glenn Miller had screamed out “Allah Akbar” instead of “Heil Hitler.” Instead, you have Conservative pundits like Sean Hannity running around, arguably egging on right-wing extremists.

In the nearly 13 years since 9/11, al Qaeda has not successfully pulled off another terrorist attack on U.S. soil. But right-wing extremists have. The first step to solving a problem is always being able to admit that you have it. It’s time for the media to start calling attacks like those in Las Vegas, Cumming, Georgia, and Kansas City what they are: right-wing-extremist-fueled terrorist attacks.

Comments

ChicagoMatt 11 years 44 weeks ago
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Has anything from the past 40 or so years given you any indication that people will stop voting against their own interest, particularly in red states?

As a native Southerner and country-boy, I think many people who do not come from those areas really underestimate the animosity they have towards the rest of the country. If they know an idea is popular in liberal circles, they will oppose it on principle. You'd only need a handful of non-union areas in the USA to ruin it for the other pro-union areas. "You want $50 an hour in Seattle? Fine. We'll just relocate to Georgia."

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chuckle8 11 years 44 weeks ago
#2

Chi Matt -- Do you totally ignore history?

Quote Chi Matt:You're trying to revive something that's never coming back. For whatever reason - Reaganomics, elitist consporacy, internal corruption, immigration, etc..

Everything you have mentioned has been worse than it is now and has come back. Why do you not think it will not be coming back?

Quote Chi Matt: I'll bet most people think things were better when they were growing up, and a return to those things is desireable.

Why do you say people "think" things were better? You do not have to think it. You can actually measure it. The strongest mathematical measure is the gini coefficient which is a measure of economic inequality. Richard Wilkinson used a much easier metric for economic inequality -- the ratio of the top 20% to the bottom 20%. Richard Wilkinson shows how economic inequality damages a society. You really need to go to his TED talk

http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson

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Ou812 11 years 44 weeks ago
#3

Public High School in Maryland

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Aliceinwonderland 11 years 44 weeks ago
#4

ChicagoMatt says of private-sector unions that they are "destined to be small, local, relatively insignificant, and archaic." Really! I say, the hell they are. Such self-fulfilling prophecies only become self-fulfilling if we want them to, or if we're too lazy or stupid to prevent the preventable.

I think it's just dandy that you and your little family are enjoying a nice, comfortable, middle class standard of living; hooray for you! But I hope you'll pardon those of us less willing to accept a status quo that isn't serving us; even if it's serving you, your privileged pupils and their well-heeled parents.

And by the way, as I've already stated, I don't give a flippin' damn if those Confederate jerk-offs secede from the Union. They can just keep on inbreeding, thumping their bibles and living their backwards little lives without the rest of us interfering! Suits me fine. - AIW

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chuckle8 11 years 44 weeks ago
#5

AIW -- I am always afraid of portrayals by the corp media.

Quote Alice: --- I don't give a flippin' damn if those Confederate jerk-offs secede from the Union. They can just keep on inbreeding, thumping their bibles and living their backwards little lives without the rest of us interfering!

As always, I do not want to abandon all the progressives in the confederacy. Even the RWNJs have been brainwashed by the 1% (ex-slaveowners) of the confederacy. If the Texas repug platform outlawed the teaching of critical thinking, can you imagine what the schools of the conferacy are teaching.

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Aliceinwonderland 11 years 44 weeks ago
#6

Chuck, I'm not talking about progressives. I'm talking about those yahoos Matt describes. Progressives don't thump bibles or hang onto backwards belief systems that are anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-nonwhite, anti-this and anti-that. And progressives don't preach the small-government mantra like those Confederate yahoos do, while taking more money from the government than the blue-state liberals they love to hate.

So for my anti-confederate rant, you accuse me of being part of corporate media?! Okay I'll admit, it wasn't my finest moment in terms of diplomacy or tact… but hey, gimmie a break! - AIW

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chuckle8 11 years 44 weeks ago
#7

AIW -- My point was secession. If you support the secession of all those RWNJ, then you are dumping a bunch of progressives overboard. Incidentally, I like your words better than RWNJ -- diplomacy be damned.

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Aliceinwonderland 11 years 44 weeks ago
#8

Like the baby with the bathwater, eh? Damn...

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