I hadn’t either. Come to think of it, I hadn’t really heard any theories. What I heard was pretty much that they were hunting for the person responsible, and then that they caught him.
Uh, I think it might’ve been early stories like these that led people (including liberals) to tentatively cross off Islamic terrorists as the culprit(s). Even though, yes, it is possible for an Islamic terrorist or radical to be a white guy (a la Johnny Walker Lindh).
I’m pretty liberal… guess I missed the meeting where we all decided that it was a Teabagger. I’m always the last to hear about these things.
Speaking of teabaggings, Curtis, how’s yours so far?
Ya mean like the link in Curtis’s link, “… And the fact that the suspect, videotaped, is a white male in his 40s …”.
The one that shows the CCTV of the White guy acting suspiciously and doing a Superman disguise change. Ya know the White guy that was the initial suspect? Can’t imagine why folks would speculate of just which group of angry White folks might be planting bombs. I mean it’s not like White folks ever bomb things! :rolleyes:
Can’t imagine how Curtis could’ve noticed that, three paragraphs is so much more than any average human can read in one siting.
CMC fnord!
Our little Curtis is growing up ::wipes tear::
Two observations, in no particular order, except that I have to put them in some order because I have yet to master the fourth spatial dimension:
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Anyone who says that there were not a few speculations about this being a right-wing terrorist is deluding himself. Of course there were – here and elsewhere, And of course they came, generally, from folks on the left.
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Anyone who says that there was a strong, definitive claim that this was the work of the right-wing or the fault of Tea Partiers is deluding himself. In the absence of information, people speculate. Even here, a place that leans decidedly left, the strongest “claim” was Freudian Slit’s, who clearly (and explicitly) says he’s more joking than serious.
Minor point for the OP: it’s TIMES Square. Times, plural. Named for the New York Times, which was headquartered there. I don’t know what the fuck Time Square is. The junior high school version of Time Cube maybe? Anyway Tea Party rhetoric aside, it goes without saying that anybody who immediately blamed this on the Tea Party was being premature. It’s stupid, but people of all stripes jump to conclusions.
And how the fuck did you come by that knowledge? You weren’t even born yet, much less listening to Rush. If I had to make a blind guess I’d say he probably blamed it on Middle Eastern terrorists, which would be accurate. That was everybody’s default assumption during the '90s, too. And that explains why everybody assumed the Oklahoma City bomber was an Islamic terrorist, and we know what happened there.
The webcam will reveal this to be the sound of quickly turned pages of The Decline of the West.
Y’know, I never made that connection before. Ignorance fought.
Like many people I suspected an Angry White Guy was responsible after hearing that the suspect was a middle-aged white guy, but reconsidered after hearing that the bomb was situated outside Viacom. You go with the information you have.
Funny how the media have largely ignored the other Muslim immigrant in the story.
A lot of people probably don’t. The Times moved its headquarters a long time ago and only came back recently when it moved into its new building.
Not true, and I have to say this reflects your bias toward thinking history started after George W. Bush took office. Islamic terrorism has been around for the last couple of decades, and made major attacks starting in the 1990s. Since then, and especially since 2001, most of the major attacks and attempts have been made by Islamic terrorists. But there’s a lot of history before that which you’re not aware of or ignoring, and even in the last decade, there are more domestic terrorist attempts than attempts by Al Qaeda and their ilk.
Here’s a helpful document: it’s an FBI report on terrorism. It focuses on 2000 to 2005, but near the end there’s a listing of terrorist incidents in the U.S. from 1980 to 2005.
The full list includes some attacks by Muslims, but it’s nowhere close to a majority. I don’t have time to count but it’s a tiny minority. The busiest single year for attacks in this period was 1982. Only one of the 51 terrorist incidents that year involved Muslim extremists. Other attacks were made by various Puerto Rican nationalist groups, the Jewish Defense League (I count six of those), Omega 7, various socialist-sounding groups, and Justice Commandos of the Armenian Genocide, among plenty of others.
Thank you, Bricker. Succintly put.
(Note: “Omega 7”, in Marley’s quote, was an anti-Castro Cuban-exile extremist group, quite nasty)
It’s almost perversely apt, how diverse and inclusive is terrorism in the US. :dubious:
Except it’s more theo-political than that- the first ever fapwa.
Allegedly.
I should’ve explained that, but I couldn’t stop looking at that name and wondering if they stole it from a Tom Clancy novel.
I thought Omega-7 was some kind of militant fatty acid.
Is that what Curtis LeMay was actually referring to? Interesting that what he concludes with is, “It could be anything.”
Parts of Times Square are being evacuated right now because somebody saw a quote-unquote suspicious package. [My reaction: “Must be the Naked Cowboy’s.”] It’s at 45th and Broadway, so it’s about a block away from the weekend crap bomb.
But considering what his examples were, it’s pretty easy to guess his line of thinking.
NYC is such a shithole with trash everywhere that I defy anyone to walk five blocks and not see at least one suspicious package.
Cripes, are you ever right about anything?. You can’t walk near Times Square without bumping into an army of street cleaning personnel.
I was in Times Square a couple of years ago and was struck how it was much cleaner than I expected.
Now Rand, he has never visited NY, because it’s difficult to afford vacations on his snowmobile salesman salary.
I don’t believe that the package you are trying to sell me is marijuana. It looks like oregano. I am suspicious.