Predictably we have yet another gun related incident……..this time in Tennessee and the FBI is investigating the deaths of 4 Marines as an act of domestic terrorism.
My question is why is the attack in Tennessee domestic terrorism and the attack in South Carolina is being investigated as a hate crime?
The horrific shooting in Tennessee caused the deaths of 4 Marines and 1 sailor is in the hospital (now dead) and the shooter is dead. The media is in the middle of regurgitated every scrap of information they can find on the shooter…..but his motive is unknown….why? The shooter is dead……unlike the shooter in South Carolina.
The shooting in South Carolina has been covered from the race angle……which quickly deteriorated into a conversation on the Confederate flag and its place in history……….as I have stated South Carolina shootings and deaths are a hate crime according to the FBI……I have no problem with that but why is it not also an act of domestic violence? I am sure that there is no law that says the investigation cannot go in two directions……
Meanwhile back to Tennessee, Chattanooga to be exact, the shooter attacked two location and killed 4 people…..now the FBI has decided that it was an act of domestic terrorism. Unfortunately the killer is dead and we cannot ask him of his motivations….all we have is speculation.
My problem is the domestic terrorism thing…..why is Tennessee domestic terrorism and South Carolina not? Both attacks were with a gun and people died.
Does it have something to do with race…..race of the attacker? A boy did the killing in South Carolina and a Kuwaiti did the killing in Tennessee. Is it that a white boy is incapable of committing an act of terrorism? So he is a psychopath but not a terrorist, right?
Maybe it is in the name…..if Dylann Roof had been named Daood al-Rauf then he would be a terrorist.
I ask again…..what makes one an act of domestic terrorism and the other a hate crime?
This one’s easy… The difference. the ONLY difference, is in the agenda of the one making the determination, and the announcement to the press… That’s all… All those in power care about is how it is PERCEIVED, not how it actually IS; their purpose is only to use the incident to create the mind-set in the public they are currently pushing… so, what it’s called depends solely on their political agenda…
Period.
Easy, see?
gigoid, the dubious
well said……you are right easy…..chuq
I have noticed articles appearing in the media saying that they are now looking at the possibility that this horrendous act was actually a terror attack after all ….. after all the evasiveness and pussyfooting they seem to finally be coming around. They tried everything in their bag of tricks to brand this action as everything other than what most people instinctively knew it was but they are reportedly finally coming to their senses and seeing it for what it really was. Maybe there is hope after all.
They do whatever they can to keep the storyline going…..even change the rhetoric….