Again we have extremist and we must not assign their beliefs and actions to every Muslim.

I’ve said this before and now again, it would be like assigning the beliefs and actions of the Westboro Baptist Church to all practicing Christians in this country.

http://web.youngmuslims.ca/onl.....oks/jihad/

Look toward the end, jihad is not supposed involve killing women, children, elderly and others. The Boston Boneheads weren’t even following their own insane rule book. This was framed as Jihad but really was an act of violence against innocent people with no justification, obviously, but specifically, through islam.

Hobbes once wrote that life is nasty, brutish and short. You seem to embody two thirds of that philosophy, but it remains to be seen if you are short.

Mr. Carter, various etymologies have been applied to “cracker”. That Florida cowboys used bullwhips in roundups, because our vegetation did not permit the free use of lassos, is one of them.

And, sorry, when you give specious statistics like those to demonize icky brown people that you hate, you wholly justify the Georgia cracker jokes.

And of course it should keep extreme white nationalist and extreme anti-abortion groups under surveillance, for the same reason. And, once again, what ‘extreme’ means is not amenable to an absolutely strict definition.

In a liberal democracy, secret police, informers, wiretapping, etc are abhorrent. Sadly, they are necessary. We have mechanisms for trying to keep the abuses of privacy which will necessarily follow, within limits.

In the meantime, if you’re a Muslim fundamentalist, a white nationalist, a militant anti-abortion campaigner, a radical leftist, but not a terrorist … use your brains, such as they are, and don’t say things that could ignite less stable members of your group to go out and commit violence.

I don’t hate Muslims. As a Christian I’ve been taught that hate is wrong. But I have to tell you that when Muslims do an act of terror it sort of sticks in my craw. There’s an old saying that goes something like this: hate the sin, but not the sinner. I am pretty sick and tired of people apologizing for poor behavior on the part of militant Muslims. These people were hating Americans long before the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, and long before drones were used.

Oh and by the way, the term “Cracker” comes from the state of Georgia. It was when men who drove teams of mules “cracked” whips over their heads to get the mules moving.

And a great deal of them would probably ignore the action all together.

We need to understand, and not to say you do not this is not directed at you, all Muslims do not support violence.

We simply must remember as all Christians do not support the lies of bigotry and divide amongst our countrymen, neither do all Muslims support bombing and killing of innocent people.

It’s really sad to hear that they want to start surveillance on all Muslims, if we were to live by that rule of thumb then according to the sins of the hate groups that claim to be Christian we might as well put all Christians under surveillance…doesn’t make any sense does it?

That’s how ridiculous it is for us to put all Muslims under surveillance as well.

Reynardine -”Youngsters who have a turbulent and disjointed growing-up often keep themselves alive through it by telling themselves fairy tales. “- You are making excuses for murderers!
Further-”What do you get when you cut a Florida Cracker brain in half?” What a caustic remark!

Ian-According to the US DOJ under 2% of guns used in crime are from gun shows. These murderous thugs acquired their Ruger with destroyed serial numbers,from the street, as do 37% of all criminals.

Aadila-Though you think you are a genius,it’s time to grab your dictionary,”not a perjorative term.”Or, just right click.The Sandy Hook murderer committed matricide to acquire his weapon.He did not go shoot up the local PD.He chose a soft target where he would be unopposed.

Homegrown or sleeper cells, Newtown, Boston, Aurora, Columbine, How do you spell homicidal maniac?

Thank You.
There was more, but, well, new Hays regulations, which I will follow: I won’t be mean, or use gutter language in describing the various bodily waste/end functions wandering around this area stalking minorities.
I have read your posts.
It becomes very obvious after a while when they escalate.

As another exercise or two, has anyone attempted to find if there is an “Oathkeeper” faction in their area?
If you find one: have you noticed that their group is closed and they do not list member’s names, that membership requires being sponsored by another already in that group, and, if you do the math, you realize that 46 or 48 members for a small community could very well include just about every single Law Enforcement officer there? Let alone the conversation you had with a retired “railroad cop” about his buddies: one convicted of B+E, who is their “go to” guy if they want a lock picked for whatever reason: “We got one guy who does (this: lock picking), and another who does (that: “electronic” or computer “work”)….”.

This guy is retired: why is he organizing Felons, and promoting/forwarding their criminal activity for which they were Convicted?
Even going so far as to provide hundreds of esoteric and strange locks from his “collection” for this guy to practice on.

You start to realize that some Law Enforcement (whether “retired” or not) will actually collaborate with Felons to help them break into something, or someone’s property to ascertain whether the completely fabricated accusations about someone are “true” or not… or, as has been noted, breaking and entering to set someone up: local garages and deer blinds broken into, and myself blamed by name.
Or stealing property of the State (roadsigns), and trying to get someone else to display it in their garage, as has happened to myself as well: yes, touched only by the edges by myself, saved and reported, as well as that individual attempting to involve myself with automatic weapons (a PPSh 41), who has tried to get you to go to “Snowdog” and other “events”, and was burning crosses way out in the woods with a local High School graduating class, etc..
Duuuhhhhhh….

Hey, Law Enforcement! Have you ever looked into the local (living/lived on the main drag here) with the Kepi caps and Confederate Battle Flags on his hats, T-shirts, and hanging in his garage who made a fortune selling “super dirt” fertilizer to grow 20′+ castor plants with the stated intention of tripling the size and output of those particular plants a couple of years ago?
Y’all don’t get it.
He even had a control group removed from the others to show the actual size they will only grow to in this climate.
What can you make from castor?
Ask the Senate.
Duuuhhhhhh….

I say there’s a Major Problem Here, I want out, I didn’t ask for this….

. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm.....s-violence

And I’m pretty sure Mark Potok has a better sense of what is and isn’t a racial slur than you do. Pay attention and you might learn something.

By the way “cracker” means a loud mouth and it goes at least as far back as Shakespeare. If you have ever heard someone from Ireland speak of lively conversation as “craic”, that’s the same word.

They are old-timey residents of Florida. And they often use the ‘cracker’ term as one of pride.

There is some anectodal evidence that one of the bombers is gay or bisexual. What conclusion should we draw from this, that it was an act of extremism based on sexual preference? “Facts is facts” right?

Before anyone gets weird on me, I supported gay rights way back when, when it wasn’t fashionable or in any way mainstream. There was a time in our country’s history when if you used an ACT UP shirt or bumper sticker it was dangerous. It was a time when gay people were being blamed for HIV. People would insult you on the street for speaking up for decency. It would draw the hate. But then as now, I follow what’s right.

And I just don’t think it’s right to associate Islam with people who perform acts of terror in the name of Islam. Islam specifically prohibits such acts. Why must you search for collective identity in this based in religion, Sam? What is the validity of doing so?