You might not realize it as you watch major networks or read major newspapers but a white Christian terrorist planned to use napalm against Americans a couple of days ago. He was arrested before Jerry Falwell’s funeral and had created a rather nasty bomb for use against protesters at the funeral. The news reports that briefly surfaced had state troopers describing this device as a “slow burn” (and thus apparently much less harmful) device but it was essentially napalm, which is a slow burning explosive designed to inflict maximum pain and suffering on its victims.
Here is a link to an article which includes this interesting tidbit:
Benson said Uhl was in Liberty’s Army ROTC program and was studying to become an Army chaplain. Gaddy said investigators in Fauquier County were interviewing several people who had been in an ROTC program with Uhl in high school and may have been involved in making the bombs. One is now in the Army, he said.
The sheriff said Campbell County authorities informed the Falwell family and Liberty security personnel of the arrest Monday night, and gave security personnel photos of other possible suspects in case any of them showed up at the funeral.
Now imagine if these had been Muslims, or - horror of horrors - eco-terrorists (considered equally dangerous by HSA). The headlines would have been blaring out how a major terrorist plot had been thwarted, how our nation is at risk and how we much redouble our vigilance and give up a few more liberties. But no, they were just Christian boys, good ‘ol boys, and heck even in the army, so it is OK.
There have been more rightwing terror plots in this country that Islamic terror plots since 9/11 and the high profile Islamic terrorists have turned out to be folks like the ones in Miami who could barely dress themselves or the Fort Dix group who chose their target based on pizza deliveries. Note to those guys, btw, it is likely one of the first rules in the terrorist manual that one does not attack well-armed and highly trained troops. To consider these guys any kind of terrorist threat is ludicrous.
But the rightwing groups have apparently read that manual and taken it to heart. Napalm for civilians is their choice, or bombs and clinics. But for a more thorough breakdown of all of this head on over to Rick Perlstein’s blog where he spells it all out.
Oh, and let’s also remember that Liberty University and Regent University are closely linked and that 150 members of Gonzalez’s Justice Department are graduates of the Regent Law School and this is the guy who wrote the pro-terrorism memo and considers the Geneva Conventions “quaint” and who also treats the Constitution like a disposable diaper.
The threads connecting all these people together are substantial and ought to scare the living shit out of any sane American.