Alabama Dept. of Homeland Security says SDMB is hotbed of potential terrorists

Well, they didn’t single out the SDMB specifically. But they did put out a website listing groups that were likely spawning grounds for terrorists, groups which included gays, anti-war organizations, environmentalists, animal rights advocates and abortion opponents.

The website has been taken down. Here’s a link to the story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070528/ap_on_hi_te/web_site_terror;_ylt=AuYaBfWVm0Ax1EoNVtaR27wjtBAF

Interestingly, I saw no mention of right wing militias, the only group in America that has actually spawned a “let’s blow things up good” terrorist (Timothy McVeigh).

Overall, the list is so stupid that I can’t believe even Alabamians were that dumb. (And that’s saying something.) Alabama, did Texas put you up to this?

Just curious, how many states even have a Department of Homeland Security? And what exactly gives the State of Alabama the right to shut down websites?

Well, some of the anti-abortionists have as well, they just don’t use a much explosive at a time.

The website that was shut down belonged to the Alabama Department of Homeland Security. It was theirs to shut down.

Alabamaniacs are crackers, Texans are peckerwoods. Very different.

My mistake. It’s early on the day after a 3 day weekend.

All of them.

Your pre-911 thinking is a danger to America.

I hear ya!

Alabama needs its own Department of Homeland Security because they know if we ever decide to give up part of the country to the enemy, they’re going to be high on the list of expendable states.

I don’t know if I buy “all of them”. They all have HS contacts, but it doesn’t appear that they all have a state department called DHS.

Especially since the only two “terrorist incidents” in Alabama in recent years were both caused by people that are the political opposites of the ones from that website.

Those being Eric Rudolph’s bombing of a Birmingham abortion clinic, and the busting a month or two ago of a right wing militia that had been stashing hardcore military equipment (like missile launchers and machine guns) in preparation for attacks on hispanics.

Imagine this: If GWBush were to retire to Alabama instead of Texas, the average IQ in each state would increase.

ALF has been know to blow up something now and again.

I blame Willie.

Read the OP’s list again.

Don’t like our mother-fuckin’ website, don’t read it. Don’t like my mother-fuckin’ State, keep your ass out.

*At the Bama Breeze
You can shoot some pool down there
You can act the fool down there
You can play it cool down there

At the Bama Breeze
You’re one of our own down here
You never drink alone down here
God, I feel at home down here*~~Jimmy Buffett

Wanna come drink some beer and shoot some pool, dance some and maybe mess around a little about midnight, that’s cool.

The rest of you pinko-commie weak-ass liberal whiney lilly-livered Bush bashin’ Democrat votin’ motherfuckers can take your fat asses to California or New Jersey or some shitty place like New York.

Makes sense to me. When I read those articles in the university paper, I always get the idea gays want to blow things.

Whoops. I thought that said abortion supporters. Weird for them to be bunched with the rest of the groups in that list. “One of these things is not like the others” indeed.

Still, the recent bust of the milita group counts. Remarkably, none of the press called them “terrorists”, despite the fact that they were more heavily armed than the guys they got who were wanting to attack Fort Dix.

That’s a fairly frightening story, Evil Captor. A bunch of non-“traditional” groups singled out for negative attention by a state department - anyone else reminded of Senator McCarthy, communist witchhunts and blackballing?

John, darlin’, that’s a pretty feeble attempt to evade the charge of spreading ignorance. Y’all were caught with the ignorance red-handed, y’all take the beating for it. Then we can be friends again (and we still like your barbecue).

(And btw, 'Bamians have no business calling anybody else’s asses fat. You folks are one of the nation’s leaders in obesity, along with Texas, West Virginia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Indiana and Michigan. The average blue-state ass is skinny compared to yours.)