For those keeping score

[MichaelHarris]

"We don't know an awful lot about the victim"

Well they knew enough for this, "F.B.I. national spokesman Richard Kolko said the incident did not appear to be related to terrorism “based on the information gathered so far.”

So where are we now? Middle-aged white guy with a WMD in a Vegas hotel, not a terrorist. Shit like that happens every day. Hell man, my neighbor is building a death ray.

New stuff: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/01/ricin.hotel/ FBI guy was right, he wasn't a terrorist, he is an anarchist. "LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) -- Officers who found the deadly poison ricin in a Las Vegas, Nevada, extended-stay hotel room also discovered firearms and an "anarchist-type textbook" with an entry about ricin bookmarked, police said Friday." Here's a classic, "criminal in nature with no nexus to terrorism." WTF does that even mean?

Here's my thought, brown skin and a turbin on a plane, full blown Al Qaeda; fat middle-aged white guy in a hotel with ricin, anarchist. Was the Unibomber an anarchist? What about Timothy McVey?

My previous post: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2944356&mesg_id=2944356

[FightingIrish]

1. It's like reverse profiling

If he had the requisite Arabic name or skin color we would be in Threat Level Red. I just don't get it.

[MichaelHarris]

2. you couldn't get a roomfull of people to agree

but if you think about it more terror attacks in the United States have been committed by racist white guys. If someone took the time to do the math it would like 10,000 to 1. We'll spend trillions closing our borders but we continue to sell the shit out of guns and ammo to white guys full of hate.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Anarchists never have ever participated in any terrorist plot

not at all

McKinley comes to mind and so does a certain European Princeling in the city of Sarajevo

God on a stick as long as you are white and middle age... no problem...

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