Showing posts with label domestic terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label domestic terrorism. Show all posts

07 June 2012

CHICAGO ARSON AT 'VELVET ROPE' GAY CLUB

The wave of domestic terrorism continues, this time at THE VELVET ROPE, in Oak Park.
The blaze Sunday morning gutted the Velvet Rope, at 728 Lake St. The club's owner, Frank Elliott, said derogatory messages were scrawled on the wall inside the burned-out club. Authorities were seen removing a piece of a wall and loading it onto a truck.

Authorities have not said whether they believe the business was targeted because it was a gay club.
I have no idea whether any of these arson events are connected, or if there's a copycat factor. Even one individual acting alone is committing terrorism when the intent is to cause terror in any community. Period.

SEE ALSO: ATLANTA ANTICHOICE ARSON
ANTIGAY HATE MURDERS UP YEAR-OVER-YEAR

29 May 2012

SCARY STUFF: ATLANTA ANTI-CHOICE FIRES, POSSIBLE DOMESTIC TERROR (UPDATE: ANOTHER IN N.O.?)


Atlanta area fires and burglaries are hitting pro-choice advocates, and seem to target speech as well as clinics:
Federal agents are investigating two fires in the past week at women's clinics in metro Atlanta, authorities said. ...

The two fires, along with several burglaries that struck women's clinics in recent months, have raised concerns that the clinics are being targeted by vigilantes.
The physicians who were victims of the burglaries and Sunday's fire did not perform abortions but they had all visited the statehouse this session to discuss the impact of abortion-related legislation, said Dr. David Byck, president of the Georgia Obstetrical and Gynecological Society.

"We are concerned that each of these physicians spoke with lawmakers during the session and that each then became targets of felony crimes," Byck said in a statement.
This looks like either one person or a group at work to silence these doctors. That does constitute terrorism, by definition, no?

UPDATE: Here's another case of arson at a Women's education, advocacy, and community center in New Orleans. Again, this one is deliberate, going after the information materials (speech). I am not saying they are directly connected, but it's worth exploring the angle, while the feds are at it. This group seems to have overturned a law that made prostitutes subject to sex-offender registry, somehow based on a 205-year-old statute. FBI, please get on this.

Related: TN'S ANTI-CHOICE SCARLET LETTER BILL
CHICAGO CLUB 'VELVET ROPE' FIRE IS ARSON