(June 24, 2016 at 6:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(June 24, 2016 at 5:19 am)paulpablo Wrote: My point was that they aren't white and aren't being called terrorists in one article. What relevance does the date or charges added have? The term "Terrorist" was still around way back in November 2014
They were initially charged with only technical weapons violations.... probably, and this is just a guess... because the FBI informant who sold them the bomb may have entrapped them or seemed to. It took quite a while to straighten that out.
I suppose you could ask the reporters and editors why they chose the words they did.
Also I was unable to find a follow up story to the April, 2015 piece. Probably plea-bargained out.
The charges or the dates have no relevance.
The point is that it's not due to their skin colour that they aren't called terrorists.
The IRA are known as terrorists, the kkk and so on.
For some reason these people get called militia members which can basically be another word for terrorists anyway.
People who commit violence at soccer games often get called hooligans whereas people who commit street crimes may get called thugs.
Terrorist is a negative stereotype of mainly being Muslim these days rather than any skin colour, there are a few notorious white Muslim terrorists.
My guess is as good as anyone else's as to why this group of white people and those two black people didn't get called terrorists in these two articles but
1 it doesn't bother me because it's not like the articles are making the suspects look innocent.
2) the articles are clearly stating that these are members of a militia which plotted to bomb something.
I think it's basically race baiting to look over articles and speculate on racial conspiracies where white people never get called terrorist just on the basis of one news topic.
I suspect the reason why the media calls them militia men and not terrorists is because the media in general likes to consistently use catchy labels and titles for things for headlines, these people have always been known as "those crazy militia members" and the fact that militia can be used interchangeably with terrorists anyway.
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