Washington Post update on TN shooting

[shenmue]

Washington Post story here

The incident will be investigated as an act of domestic terrorism.

[MohRokTah]

1. Yet 9 African Americans shot dead in church by a racist white man who stated he was killing them...

because they are black and black people have to go is STILL not called an act of terrorism.

[shenmue]

2. Different stories.

[MohRokTah]

3. Same crime, terrorism. eom

[shenmue]

4. Different stories.

[MohRokTah]

5. Same crime.

[shenmue]

6. Please stop thread-jacking.

[MohRokTah]

7. Then simply stop responding to me.

[shenmue]

8. Wow.

You're on ignore. Keep jacking threads.

[MohRokTah]

9. Then I guess you'll stop responding to me.

[840high]

11. Grow up.

[joshcryer]

15. Stay classy.

[kcr]

10. No one is allowed to respond to your threads?

I think Mo's response was entirely on point.

[B Calm]

12. I think I'll side with shenmue on this one. Mo needs to grow up!

[BKH70041]

13. You really ought to stop and read some of the comments being made elsewhere.

What's being said to you is only mildly ridiculous compared so many of the opinions being expressed by others, most of which should have never seen the light of day.

Really, just do it. It'd be "point and belittle the fucking goofy comments" laughable if it weren't for the fact that the things being said revolve around an event where people died.

[cherokeeprogressive]

16. He'll get the death penalty. I don't get the big deal over what they call what he did. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. From the FBI

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FBI Statement on Shootings at Military Facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee
Washington, D.C.
July 16, 2015

FBI National Press Office

The FBI’s Knoxville Field Office, along with the Chattanooga Police Department and other law enforcement partners, are working jointly to investigate today’s shootings at a military recruitment center and a reserve center in Chattanooga, Tennessee in which four individuals were killed and three injured. The shooter, Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, is also deceased. While it would be premature to speculate on the motives of the shooter at this time, we will conduct a thorough investigation of this tragedy and provide updates as they are available.

[Maedhros]

19. If it turns out Abdulazeez is affiliated with ISIL or Al Qaeda,

then this isn't really terrorism - it's an attack on a military installation by an enemy with which we are at war.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. By the crazy defnitions that law enforcement uses

it will be terrorism. Mind you (looking over my shoulder for the itchy finger alerter), if this kid was white with a last name of oh Smith...the T word would never ever had been spoken.

Yes, I am that cynical anymore.

[Maedhros]

21. "Terrorism" means nothing more than "violence by Muslims."

NOTHING MORE.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. or other minorities

[Maedhros]

23. Glenn Greenwald does an excellent job of exposing the rank hypocrisy

surrounding our treatment of "terrorism":

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/19/refusal-call-charleston-shootings-terrorism-shows-meaningless-propaganda-term/

That is the crucial backdrop for yesterday’s debate over whether the term “terrorism” applies to the heinous shooting by a white nationalist of nine African-Americans praying in a predominantly black church in Charleston, South Carolina. Almost immediately, news reports indicated there was “no sign of terrorism” — by which they meant: it does not appear that the shooter is Muslim.

[nadinbrzezinski]

24. That he does

right now doing my policy for the week, with climate change. The national Institutes puts out there reports that none covers, except us little indie media.

[Maedhros]

17. OK, so this is domestic terrorism, but the Charlotte shootings weren't?

Anyone care to speculate as to why? (Hint: look at the respective shooters' names).

[olddots]

18. Fox News must be ecstatic

its bad enough when something like this happens but the war merchants are kicking into high gear .