Holy fuck!

[ebonlock]

I'm sure this terrorist will be winging his way to Gitmo any second now...yep, any second...

A 27-year-old Austin man was arrested on Friday and charged with placing an unexploded bomb containing some 2,000 nails outside an abortion clinic in the state's capital.

The explosive device also included a propane tank and a mechanism "akin to a rocket," Austin Police Commander David Carter said.

The device was discovered on Wednesday in the parking lot of the Austin Women's Health Center, police said.

The Texas Joint Terrorism Task Force -- made up of federal, state and local law enforcement authorities -- arrested Paul Ross Evans, who authorities said was on parole for an unspecified crime.

If someone can explain to me how this isn't domestic terrorism I'd really like to hear it. I'd also like to know why this isn't getting any real coverage in the news.

Comments

[vonandmoggy.livejournal.com]

Wow...that'd despicable. And, yes, very disturbing that it's not getting any coverage. What kind of coverage would it have gotten had it gone off, I wonder?

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

One suspects that unless the bomber had an Arabic sounding name or was suspiciously dark-skinned it would never get much in the way of coverage.

[scoreboard.livejournal.com]

Silly broad, terrorists are brown.

That's why the guys who blew up the 16th Street Baptist Church, or the guy who bombed the clinic in B'ham in the 90s, or the guy who TOOK DOWN AN OFFICE BUILDING in 1995 in OKC? Not terrorists. But domestic insurgents in another part of the world, engaged in a civil war with a different sect of their own co-religionists? Terrorists.

Glad we could clear that up. Any chance I can apply for Irish citizenship based on the contents of my liver?

[ebonlock.livejournal.com]

And of course his target was a women's health center and we all know that only sluts and whores go there, so no big loss if it had gone off.

If you do move to Ireland and get a reasonably large cottage with a guest room I may ask to come stay there for a bit...at least to give me a chance to recover from the rage- and stupid-induced brain bleed.