White American terrorists are terrorists who are White Americans. Most are White supremacists, like Dylann Roof and the Klan, or anti-government, like Tim McVeigh and George Washington.
According to the FBI:
“‘Domestic terrorism’ means activities with the following three characteristics:
- Involve acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law;
- Appear intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination. or kidnapping; and
- Occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S.”
The Baltimore police department fits that definition.
So does the Ferguson police department, given how they left Michael Brown’s body lying there in the street in the middle of a Black neighbourhood for several hours.
So does Dylann Roof, given how he left one person alive so she could tell others.
None of these three, though, fit the definition of the “federal crime of terrorism” since they did not go after the government or its employees.
As of this writing:
The FBI does not see Roof as a terrorist.
Nor does President Obama. Compare:
- Dylann Roof, White, kills 9 Blacks at a church – gun control issue.
- Wade Michael Page, White, kills 6 Sikhs at a temple – gun control issue.
- Tsarnaev brothers, Muslim, kill 3 Whites and 1 Asian at a race – a terrorist act against people of the United States and Boston.
The White press is divided over whether Roof is a terrorist. It tends to regard White American mass killers as mentally ill, “troubled”, “lone wolves”, “isolated incidents” and so on – terms they rarely apply to Muslims.
A study by UCLA professor Travis Dixon found that of the domestic terrorists reported by US television news (ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and Univision) from 2008 to 2012, 81% were Muslim. Yet, during that very same period, the FBI reported that only 6% of domestic terrorist suspects were in fact Muslim.
It seems that Obama and the media are mainly using the Whitespeak Dictionary definition:
terrorist (n) – a Muslim who kills White people.
The worst terrorist attacks on US soil since 9/11 (according to the New American Foundation, a think tank that studies Al Qaeda, among other things):
- Fort Hood (2009): 13 dead
- Charleston Church shooting (2015): 9 dead
- Sikh Temple shooting (2012): 6 dead
The Boston Marathon bombing, which the White press makes a huge deal of, is in a tie for fourth place with two other cases you hardly ever hear of: Ali Muhammad Brown and the White supremacists David Pedersen and Holly Grigsby.
According to the same think tank, Muslim extremists have killed 26 people in the US since 9/11, while non-Muslim extremists have killed nearly twice as many: 48. And they are not even counting the Chapel Hill shooting earlier this year because they see that as a parking dispute.
The Department of Homeland Security used to have a group that studied White supremacist and anti-government terrorists. It was disbanded in 2009 when it tried to come out with a report that Republican lawmakers did not like.
– Abagond, 2015.
Sources: FBI (2015), New American Foundation (2015), The Dixon study (2015), New York Times (2015), Clutch (2015), Democracy Now (2015).
See also:
- examples
- Whitespeak
Any chance for a post on this report? and how this group got disbanded?
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McVeigh wasn’t a white supremacist?!
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interesting report that comparing various types of deaths including right wing extremism—cars seem to be the biggest killers in the U.S.
https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/24/greatest-obstacle-anti-muslim-fear-mongering-bigotry-reality/
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev seems pretty white to me.
He’s also a Muslim. Islam is a religion.
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@ gro jo
From what I understand, McVeigh was not part of any White supremacist group, but he was a huge fan of William Pierce’s “The Turner Diaries”, a White supremacist novel that radicalized him. Pierce sees the US government as representing Jewish interests – thus “anti-government” and “anti-Semitic” are pretty much the same thing.
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@ Lord of Mirkwood @ Tiramisou
Whether Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is White is debatable. I would argue he is not, that in the US since at least 2001 you cannot be both White and Muslim at the same time, that Muslims have been racialized as an out-group, regardless of skin colour.
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Abagond,
Does James Holmes fit the description of domestic terrorist?
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@ Jefe
Probably not – it is already six years out of date. Currently I am more interested in the Amnesty report on US policing.
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@ A.R.
No. He was apparently just plain nuts. He was under psychiatric care.
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I added George Washington to the post.
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Agabond: excellence as usual. How do you do it over and over and over like this?
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How was George Washington antigovernment terrorist?
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Oh you mean against the British?
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@abagond
Do you think if a White American who converted to Islam committed an act of terrorism, the media would label them a terrorist? Or do you think, as you say, they would be labelled “mentally ill” or “troubled”? Furthermore, do you think the media would portray them as white, or as some time of “other” do to their conversion to Islam?
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Wait, how is only the Sarniaya twins considered terrorists? That is odd. To me they look “white” enough to not be considered terrorists.
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The pic in the blog looks like Paul Walker with a mustache sorta.
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White terrorist?? I’ve never heard of such a thing. Only people of color can be terrorist right? Or so I’ve been told.lol
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http://rt.com/usa/270142-white-americans-terror-threat/
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http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2015/06/28/right-wing-extremism-a-greater-threat-in-north-america.html
This is a concern in Canada as well.
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Whiteness is an invisibility cloak that’s why that shooter in Las Vegas was able to bring all those guns in that hotel in Las Vegas and no one is suspicious, that’s why the Austin bomber was able to go to Home Depot and buy the materials for his bombs. The Governor of Texas and the law enforcement of Austin never called this latest monster a what he really is a terrorist. White people that commit acts of terrorism is America are not allowed to be called terrorist.
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It’s my personal opinion but I believe white men have done more mass shootings than any other race. It’s not black men shooting up movie theaters and schools and churches.
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Last weekend at a festival in California in the town of Gilroy. Santino Legan. And today in El Paso, Texas. Patrick Crusisus. 18 people are said to be dead. He wrote in his manifesto that he hated Hispanics and was upset about their invading the country.
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Listening to Tim Wise and he talked about how hate speech is allowed on college campuses and how many young white youth are being radicalized by social media and indoctrinated by white nationalism.
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Another shooting last night in Ohio.
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So, is it mental illness with these shooters or are they just evil?
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We will never address the evil of gun violence in America without first addressing the elephant in the room which is white supremacy.
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omg
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I just read that out of the worst 10 mass shootings in the United States, 5 have happened since 2016.
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@Kiwi
By current Russian ‘standards’, Dzokhar Tsarnaev isn’t — or wasn’t — ‘white [enough]’. The people from the Caucasus mountain region, being actually Caucasians – pun intended – are often being referred to as ‘Blacks’ there in Russia.
Worst still [ha-ha], he’s a Chechen and a Muslim. All in all, the tale of Tsarnaev brothers is another example of Russian artificial terrorism they had bred to bring to the West.
It’s interesting, though, that one of Russian emperors had declared a trade of black slaves carried on by Russians to be regarded as a crime equal to piracy. That imperial decree had been announced decades prior to actual abolition of slavery for Russian Whites.
Trivia: [Black Imperial Court Servants used to have higher ranks and sometimes whites were taking the positions officially named ‘[Black’] Arab of His Magisterial Court] https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1_%D0%92%D1%8B%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%B9%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%B4%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0
More trivia: Caucasian Blacks [from a region of the Caucasus Mountains]:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abkhazians_of_African_descent
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Ohio is getting to me, it’s coming ‘back east’
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@v8driver
I told you these things should be exported to Russia.
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They went first over there
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Nope. Unless performed by government, mass killings are a rare thing in Russia. And I am talking about so to say ‘private initiatives’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purge
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PS
Click to access sartre-erostratus.pdf
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Another shooting in Midland-Odessa. 5 dead, 20 wounded today.
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Another shooting in Midland-Odessa. 5 dead, 20 wounded today. The white male shooter is dead.
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Seth Ator is the dead shooter in the Midlan-Odessa shootings. I wonder why the mainstream media is being so tight lipped about just now showing his face and saying his name?
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