Yesterday a group of religious extremists in Michigan were arrested for conspiracy. They had planned to kill a police officer and then attack his funeral with RPG's and IED's.
This is a terrorist attack, right?
You'd think. Except the religious nuts in question this time aren't Muslim… they are "Christian". (I use the quotes because the conspiracy and their beliefs don't strike me as being particularly Christ-like.) Also, their religious affiliation wasn't mentioned in the indictment.
I have to wonder… is this BECAUSE they are Christians? Or claim Christianity, at any rate? If a Muslim extremist group commits an act of terrorism, aren't they identified as a Muslim extremist group and accused of terrorism? Then why aren't these guys?
They can't even claim that they didn't KNOW the religious affiliation of the group. Take a look at their website http://hutaree.com/. I mean, right at the top of the page is John 15:13 (Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends), about halfway down on the right is group's logo, CCR, and under that is what the acronym stands for (Colonial Christian Republic) and their insignia is the CROSS. You know, guys, when Jesus said that his followers had to take up the cross, I think that this ISN'T what he had in mind.
Also, when you look at the indictment http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2010/images/03/29/stone.pdf, they are named as being members of the organization "CCR" without any explanation as to what the acronym stands for. Creedance Clearwater Revival? Crazy Creeps Reorganized? Granted, I haven't seen a lot of indictments in my time, but when they contain an acronym like this, don't they usually follow it with a parenthetical explanation of what it stands for?
I think that what we're seeing here is an example of what has come to be called "soft racism". My favorite explanation of this was on The Daily Show several years ago. Jon Stewart was presenting a piece on corporate criminals, who are almost uniformly white. He was talking the piece over with the show's "senior black correspondent, Larry Wilmore (meaning he was the only black correspondent on the show at that time), and Stewart said "So what you're saying is that the face of American crime is now white?" And Wilmore, with a smile said "No, not really. But it's good to know that you think that it used to be black."
It also rather forcibly reminds me of the Oklahoma City bombing fifteen years ago. Very little is made of the fact that this terrorist, Timothy McVeigh, was a blond haired, blue-eyed white boy.
This is a terrorist act. WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE NOT BEING INDICTED AS TERRORISTS?
I think that part of the problem lies in the fact that we are reticent to define exactly WHAT constitutes terrorism. The reason for this, I believe, is that if we DO define terrorism as something other than "Something that we don't like that brown people do", then we'll have to start prosecuting the war on terror here. Home grown, all-American groups like the KKK will have to start being prosecuted as terrorists.
To my brothers and sisters in Michigan… please DEMAND that your government prosecute these people as terrorists. Don't be blinded by the fact that they claim the same religion as you.
Peace.
Rev. Randal
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When I made my ramble about the Hutaree Militia, I mentioned how much I liked white people. Still do, even if they don't like me much!!
But cats like these goobers don't really like anyone. They imagine a world where they are the chosen few and everyone else, including other white folks, burn wherever the undesired burn.
They are feeble in spirit. That is why they simply give up and don't compete in life. They want to come up with a world where they aren't the bullied but the bullies. It is always about Senior Prom for these cats and there are many more of them coming in from the way out. A large part of it is due to the rhetoric on the right, burning to make people like Glen, Rush and Sarah rich.
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