KPFT Targeted: Bullet Pierces Studio Window of Pacifica's Houston Station

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Source: Democracy Now!

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
KPFT Targeted: Bullet Pierces Studio Window of Pacifica's Houston Station

A bullet pierces the studio window of Pacifica Radio station KPFT. It's not the first time the Houston station has been targeted. KPFT is the only radio in the country whose transmitter was blown up twice - shortly after it went on the air in 1970 - by the Ku Klux Klan.

A drive-by shooting targeted Pacifica Radio station KPFT in Houston early on Monday morning. A single bullet blasted through a Plexiglas window into the station's studio at 1:00 a.m. No one was injured in the shooting but the bullet came within 18 inches of Mary Thomas. She was a hosting a music program at the time.

Station manager Duane Bradley said the shooting might have been political. If so, it would not be the first politically motivated attack on KPFT. More than 35 years ago, the Ku Klux Klan blew up the station's transmitters twice within the Houston station's first year on the air.

In October 1970, five months after the first bombing, KPFT's transmitter was bombed for a second time just as the station was broadcasting folk legend Arlo Guthrie's song "Alice's Restaurant."

Read more: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/15/1432245

[derby378]

1. Remember Alan Berg!

He may have been an abrasive SOB at times, but he stuck it to the "other side" time after time - and was finally machine-gunned by neo-Nazis for it. (And for being Jewish.)

[TomInTib]

2. I was home on leave and listening the 2nd time.

I cannot believe this is still happening.

I used to do a lot of fund-raising for KPFT and worked on all of the Pledge Drives.

You would not believe the verbal abuse we would get from the wing-nuts.

[Kali]

11. I have some internet aquaintences from KPFT

heard the GM talking to Amy Goodman this afternoon. It happened during a Zydeco show late at night ( :wtf: )

But actually it was after quite some hours of more "controversial" programming.

[melody]

3. Pacifica stations get this kind of harassment all the time from the wingnuts

They're shot at, bombed, threatened with bombing, sent suspicious packages, etc, etc.

So much for the idea of "terrorists" ... most terrorists are in the far-right camp.

[Catherine Vincent]

4. I read about that.

That doesn't sound good.

[tom_paine]

5. Now the KKK has lost the white suits and joined the Loyal Bushies

KKK ideals are much more mainstream, disguised as BushPutinism.

[noel adamson]

6. Good advertising for KPFT; a solid endorsement of it's overall message.

If people like the shooter hate them they must be right and if they hate them enough to shoot at them they must be really correct.

[KansDem]

7. So, why are these terrorists allowed to walk among us?

...the only radio in the country whose transmitter was blown up twice - shortly after it went on the air in 1970 - by the Ku Klux Klan

I wouldn't think membership in this terrorist organization is all that secret. Just raid one of their rallies and arrest them all! Send them to GitMo for waterboard interrogation--no lawyers, no defense witnesses or evidence, no habeas corpus. Yet, they're allowed to roam freely among the law-abiding population. Why?

[kineneb]

8. because they are righty-whities...

just imagine if they were from some ethnic/"minority" group... the FBI et al would be on their tails immediately... remember it took a civilian lawsuit to drive that Neo-Nazi group out of its Idaho compound, it had been there for some time and law enforcement did nothing.

[loves_dulcinea]

9. because they purport to be xian

and i won't say the rest.

[AX10]

10. I am sick and tired of this shit from the GD right wing.

Hell, go to Shelton (Connecticut) on Howe Avenue and there are houses and cars with confederate flags, anti-immigrant, anti-non white paraphernalia all over. :puke:

[rudy23]

12. These days you can't tell who's in cahoots

'cause now the KKK are wearin' three piece suits