x-post from WRI - Arson, Bombs, and Break-Ins at Women's Clinics Seek to Instill Fear

[maddezmom]

Bombs and fires at women's health clinics are happening where abortion rights are under assault.


May 31, 2012 |

"There's a history of terroristic violence by anti-abortion extremists, up to and including murders of doctors and clinic workers," Rachel Maddow said on Friday night, reporting on suspicious burglaries and fires at two women's health clinics in Georgia.

It looks like that violent history's new chapters are being written in tandem with the continual legislative incursion on reproductive rights.

Friday, the day of Maddow's broadcast, was the very same day the healthcare providers at Women With a Vision, a provider in New Orleans that serves the most marginalized members of the population, woke up to find their offices charred and blackened, their equipment, files and resources devoured by flames.

A statement on the clinic's Web site reads, in part:


We lost everything. We do not have an office to operate out of right now. Most of our office equipment and all of our educational resources were destroyed. Because of the targeted nature, we can only assume that this was intentional.

more:
http://www.alternet.org/news/155669/right-wing_terrorism%3A_arson,_bombs,_and_break-ins_at_women%27s_clinics_seek_to_instill_fear

[WriteWrong]

1. Don't we have whole agencies charged with stamping out terrorists, their supporters, and trainers?

Where's Homeland Security when there's a real job for them? There's a whole ideological training apparatus for these people that needs to be brought down.

[JoeyT]

2. Whether something is considered terrorism

depends largely on who's doing the terrorizing and who's being terrorized. White Christian males apparently cannot commit terrorism.

Shit we're lucky if they can even be bothered to treat it as a crime.

[LadyHawkAZ]

4. Heh

I just said basically the same thing- guess I could have saved myself some keystrokes.

[LadyHawkAZ]

3. Do we get to call them terrorists yet?

I would like to see even a quarter of the outrage and legal pursuit that we dump into the fearmongering of brown Muslim "terrorists" directed at the actual white Christian terrorists that have been operating so freely for decades. That would bring this shit to a halt real quick.