Cassi Creek: We are
safely distant from the horror that rocked Boston yesterday, or so we believe. Our locale is unlikely to become a target for
international terrorism. That is
something to be grateful for. If this
area sustained mass casualties such as happened yesterday in Boston, every
emergency room between Bristol and Memphis would be overwhelmed.
While there
are few places large enough in TN oattract foreign terrorism, there are few
places small enough to be without some hate group or another. Some locales have multiple groups.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/hate-map#s=TN TN has anti-Islam groups, white separatists,
black separatists klans, neo-Nazis, anti-immigrants, and Chrstian Identity
groups. Those are the top of the compost
pile. We also have any variety of political
reactionary you can name.
While we are
not the most heavily infected with the seeds that spawn domestic terrorism, we
are not without risk. The easily
availability of firearms makes some sort of ambush or assault more likely than
it should be. The local population’s
predliction toward listning primarily to Fox News as a source of pseudo news. Is
likely to suggest local targets.
My first
thought yesterday was to blame domestic or foreign-borne young immigrants to be
the Boston murderers. Today, no group
has claimed the credit for Jihad; no military unit has firmed up a link to
Africa, the Arabiann peninsula, or any other Islamic source. The Obama admin has maintained a careful reistance
to labeling the event as “terrorism” and linking it to Benghazi. That’s OK, my walking partner Mike has
already inked the newer update to another go-round by the teavangelists to bring the Ben Ghazi
event back to life. That’s a good indication
of what they really want, any excuse to damage the Obama Presidency. When those GOP bastards can resurrect the
four who died three, they may have the proper platform to use. Until then, let them shut up and at least
pretend that they care about anything beyond enriching the already super rich
and keeping their seats in Congress
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