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Nope, no terrorist attacks in the USA 2000 - 2008. Though there was quite a bit of state sponsored terrorist attacks in Iraq from 2003 on.

April;30 0 0 United StatesElettsville, Indiana The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed responsibility for causing over $500,000 in damages to construction equipment in Elettsville, Indiana. Fourteen pieces of logging and construction equipment were destroyed by the perpetrators, who filled gas tanks with sand, cut fuel and hydraulic lines and set a tractor-trailer filled with wood chips on fire. Graffiti found at the scene read, "Go develop in Hell," "ELF" and "This machine is evil." The equipment was being used for a state-run project to build a four-lane highway in the area. In their written statement, the group writes, "the government and developers are mad with greed and there will be no limit to what they destroy until we take away the profit from their schemes."[48]

# United States United States, September 11: Attacks kill 2,997 , and many more later from exposure to toxic dust in a series of hijacked airliner crashes into two U.S. landmarks: the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, and The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth plane, originally intended to hit the United States Capitol Building, crashes in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, after an apparent revolt against the hijackers by the plane's passengers.

# United States United States: Anthrax attacks on the offices the United States Congress and New York State Government offices, and on employees of television networks and tabloids.


# United States United States, May: Luke Helder injures 6 by placing pipebombs in mailboxes in the Midwest. Motivation to protest government control over daily lives and the illegality of marijuana and promotion of astral projection

# United States United States, July 4: An Egyptian gunman opens fire at an El Al ticket counter in Los Angeles International Airport, killing two Israelis before being killed himself.
# Israel

United States United States, October: John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo conduct the Beltway Sniper Attacks, killing ten people in various locations throughout the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area from October 2 until they are arrested on October 24.


March 3 0 9 United States United States: Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, an Iranian-born graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, drives an SUV onto a crowded part of campus, injuring nine.


July 28 1 5 United States USA:A woman was dead and five others were hospitalized this afternoon after a shooting at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building in downtown Seattle by a man who declared he was "angry with Israel."[10]

August 30 1 16 United States United States: An Afghani Muslim hit 19 pedestrians, killing one, with his SUV in the San Francisco Bay area.

October 26 2 United States A pair of improvised explosive devices are thrown at the Mexican Consulate in New York City. The fake grenades were filled with black powder and detonated by fuses, causing very minor damage. Police investigate the connection between this and a similar attack against the British Consulate in New York in 2005.[105]


July 27 2 7 United States Knoxville, Tennessee. Knoxville Unitarian Universalist church shooting, Jim David Adkisson kills 2 people and injures 7 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

17 1 4 United States Dalton, Georgia An explosion at a personal injury law firm in downtown Dalton, Ga., injured four people, including at least one lawyer, and resulted in the death of the apparent bomber in what a federal law enforcement spokesman described as a suicide attack.[212]

December 12 2 2 United States Woodburn, Oregon. Woodburn police Capt. Tom Tennant, and Oregon State Police bomb technician Bill Hakim were killed, and Woodburn Police Chief Scott Russell was critically injured after a bomb exploded at the West Coast branch of Wells Fargo in Woodburn. Customer Service Manager Laurie Ann Perkett was taken, and later released from the hospital after being hit by shrapnel. The explosion happened just before 5:30 p.m. while Hakim and Tennant were trying to open the bomb, which Hakim felt confident was not a bomb. Officers were on the scene investigating a bomb threat called in to the bank at 10:19 a.m., when the explosion occurred. Joshua Turnidge and his father, Bruce Turnidge were charged with the murders.[314]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/teenage-bomb-threat-suspect-was-an-internet-prank-phone-call-star/

He's being strategic.
Don't bring attention to them, unless you want more.

Like the usual bomb threats cities receive. Don't publicise them unless you want others to follow for the attention.

Interesting point he made though, that there isn't enough attention on those groups as marginalised. Weird - I don't recall him making a point about them - perhaps it's a slight reference to the marginalising influence of these groups by the Republicans? Or maybe he's into placating them - which is typical of Obama.

>> ^Asmo:
>> ^SDGundamX:
Considering that Hitler and the Nazis were only able to accomplish their rise to power through assassinating political opposition and terrorizing the streets with gangs of thugs, I think the comparison is a bit overly dramatic.

You may want to check your history, the fascists rose to power on the backs of anti-Semetic sentiment and nationalism linked to the time of the Great Depression. It wasn't until they were in power that the thugs/assassination started...


No one is preventing these people from peacefully demonstrating. The cops have arrested no one. My guess is there was a threat on the RNC (bomb threat or otherwise) which set off the searches.

Your guess is wrong, the people raided were listed in the illegally confiscated notes of a journalist (it was sifted the other day). There was no probable cause to search the journalist, his gear (camera, laptop etc) was confiscated without receipt and all of a sudden there are raids on the protest organisers...
Sounds like the Gestapo to me...
You know what else is really scary? The amount of people who not only turned a blind eye to the actions of the Nazi's but who actually made up excuses for their excesses.
The one chance you guys get is that the democratic system is still in place (for now) and you make effect your own regime change at the next election. G'luck!


Just to come back to this... apparently arrests were made at these raids (there weren't any mentioned at the time I posted). However, the media is reporting the police made the arrests based on paid informants and it seems that several of the arrests were justified (some of the people involved were clearly not planning "peaceful" protests).

I will agree I was oversimplifying when speaking about the Nazis. My intent wasn't to provide a detailed history lesson of the rise of the Nazi party. I will simply contest the idea that the Nazis did not resort to violence until after they gained power. You can "check the history" yourself on wiki:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_German_Workers_Party

>> ^SDGundamX:
Considering that Hitler and the Nazis were only able to accomplish their rise to power through assassinating political opposition and terrorizing the streets with gangs of thugs, I think the comparison is a bit overly dramatic.


You may want to check your history, the fascists rose to power on the backs of anti-Semetic sentiment and nationalism linked to the time of the Great Depression. It wasn't until they were in power that the thugs/assassination started...



No one is preventing these people from peacefully demonstrating. The cops have arrested no one. My guess is there was a threat on the RNC (bomb threat or otherwise) which set off the searches.


Your guess is wrong, the people raided were listed in the illegally confiscated notes of a journalist (it was sifted the other day). There was no probable cause to search the journalist, his gear (camera, laptop etc) was confiscated without receipt and all of a sudden there are raids on the protest organisers...

Sounds like the Gestapo to me...

You know what else is really scary? The amount of people who not only turned a blind eye to the actions of the Nazi's but who actually made up excuses for their excesses.

The one chance you guys get is that the democratic system is still in place (for now) and you make effect your own regime change at the next election. G'luck!

^^ Godwin's law in full effect.

Considering that Hitler and the Nazis were only able to accomplish their rise to power through assassinating political opposition and terrorizing the streets with gangs of thugs, I think the comparison is a bit overly dramatic.

No one is preventing these people from peacefully demonstrating. The cops have arrested no one. My guess is there was a threat on the RNC (bomb threat or otherwise) which set off the searches.

THE MESSAGE IN THIS VIDEO IS HOW OPPRESSIVE AND FASCISTIC AN ISLAMIC SHARIA GOVERNMENT IS---not only to women but everyone who values Democratic Freedoms. Iran happens to be currently explicitly threatening unleashing unbridled violence via "bomb threats" on the world of Democratic values and any country trying to insitute such values as is the current situation in Iraq---which Iran is trying to de-stabilize in order to take over Iraq. I do not support the Islamic extremists in Saudi Arabia either or any other Muslim asshole fanatics. Thank Be To Goodness that they are not be-heading people in Afghanistan anymore. Those of you who think "Islamic Law" is "Just" should go and live in an Islamic country under "Sharia Law" and see how much freedom of "speech" or otherwise you would have.

I think Coupland and pho3n1x would definitly wind up "in the bus" and then jail in this so-called "most stable and secular Islamic state". TELL ME WHAT'S "SECULAR" ABOUT THIS "ISLAMIC" DRESS CODE ? Kudos to Garsh for his comments.

pho3n1x does not know what being oppressed is. The "this is not your country" comment suggests no one has the right to freely speak about the obviously oppressive policies of another country---and that IS stupid. Women beware of pho3n1x.

I could not stand the angry squawk of that oppressive and stupid Burka clad woman harassing women going about their daily business. Maybe that's the kind of "dress code" you like pho---let's put a burka on you and shut your mouth with Sharia Law.

I have close Iranian friends who know how bad the current situation is in Iran and are glad to be out of Iran.

The inability for the media or the city to admit that they perhaps overreacted is just amazing. Constantly going on about how they had never heard of said cartoon, how it could have well been a bomb, how it's no laughing matter.

I mean, how could you even think that a flat, flashing cartoon icon could be a bomb threat?