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Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love
By Jeff Fecke | April 27, 2007
There was an attempted terrorist attack in Austin, Texas, where religious extemists planted an improvised explosive device at a health clinic. You didn’t hear about it because the extremists are Christian, not Muslim, and the clinic they were trying to bomb provides abortions:
A package left at a women’s clinic that performs abortions contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death, investigators said today.
“It was in fact an explosive device,” said David Carter, assistant chief of the Austin Police Department. “It was configured in such a way to cause serious bodily injury or death.”
Now, if this were a Muslim who’d planted this bomb, the right wing nuttosphere would have gone into overdrive with DHIMMITUDE AND OMG AND BROWN PEOPLE AND AAAAAAIEEEEEE! And that would just be Fox.
Meanwhile, this merits but a four-paragraph story from the AP and virtually no coverage from anyone–because, after all, it was just a women’s clinic. And who goes there? Women.
Of course, had any fetuses been hurt, that would be a different story.
Topics: Abortion, Terrorism | 2 Comments »
April 30th, 2007 at 9:03 am
I was somewhat surprised that the local media didn’t go completely over the top with their coverage either. Austin’s a fairly tolerant, low crime area. To have anything like this is fairly unusual.
April 30th, 2007 at 11:04 am
excellent mahavishnu reference, doood. dates you, what?