Anti-Abortion Violence Missing In Government's Main Terrorism Database

[rdean]

WASHINGTON -- The federal government's main database of global terrorism includes tens of thousands of attacks over the last seven years, a survey of strikes by Islamic extremists, secular anarchists, animal rights activists and eco-terrorists.

But missing among the statistics are numerous cases of anti-abortion violence in the United States, an omission that raises questions about what defines terrorism and underscores how sensitive the issue of reproductive rights remains -- even when dealing with statistics.

As the conservative blow back over a 2009 Department of Homeland Security report warning of rising right-wing extremism illustrated, even talking about a link between certain ideologies and violence can cause political problems.

Katherine Spillar, executive vice president of the nonprofit Feminist Majority Foundation, has tracked violence against abortion providers for 25 years. She said she's dismayed that the government has omitted shooting and arson incidents that she said clearly come under the heading of terrorism.

"The violence that is orchestrated against abortion providers in this country is for a political purpose, to terrorize and intimidate them and to have an impact on the political arena -- the courts and lawmakers," she said. "We would like a more definitive characterization of this violence as terrorism."

She added: "There has been a reluctance to call a terrorist act a terrorist act."

Is The Government Omitting Anti-Abortion Violence From Its Main Terrorism Database?

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We already knew this, right? Republicans hate being exposed even more than they hate Muslims, blacks, Hispanics, women's lady parts and gays.

 

[Auld Phart]

Remarkable

2009, Dems owned the House, the Senate, and the Oval Office....

but it's the Republicans fault that anti-abortion violence isn't included on a terrorist list.

 

[rdean]

Remarkable

2009, Dems owned the House, the Senate, and the Oval Office....

but it's the Republicans fault that anti-abortion violence isn't included on a terrorist list.

For all of a couple of months. The Republicans held all three for nearly 5 years and look at the damage they did. They even used reconciliation three times and can't seem to remember what they used it on. No one wants to remember creating deficits.

 

[The Great Goose]

It's not a terrorist attack. At most, it's a hate crime.

 

[TNHarley]

It's not a terrorist attack. At most, it's a hate crime.

They are terrorist attacks by the very definition.

 

[Auld Phart]

Remarkable

2009, Dems owned the House, the Senate, and the Oval Office....

but it's the Republicans fault that anti-abortion violence isn't included on a terrorist list.

For all of a couple of months. The Republicans held all three for nearly 5 years and look at the damage they did. They even used reconciliation three times and can't seem to remember what they used it on. No one wants to remember creating deficits.

For all of a couple of months.

Dems held Congress for 2 years before Obama took the Oath, and 2 years after.

Held it long enough to force Obamacare and the Stimulus on us.

but they didn't have time to add anti-abortion types to the terrorist list?

 

[Pete7469]

Is it possible that it's because the frequency is non-existent?

 

[S.J.]

Another idiot trying to equate a handful of nut cases with millions of organized terrorists with a goal of killing everyone who doesn't subscribe to their ideology. FAIL.

 

[The Great Goose]

It's not a terrorist attack. At most, it's a hate crime.

They are terrorist attacks by the very definition.

its just another mass killing. It wasn't done to create terror but to assuage the assailants own emotions.

 

[TNHarley]

It's not a terrorist attack. At most, it's a hate crime.

They are terrorist attacks by the very definition.

its just another mass killing. It wasn't done to create terror but to assuage the assailants own emotions.

Terrorism isn't done, necessarily, to promote terror.

 

[SuperDemocrat]

What terrorism? The only thing we have is a few unnconnected mass shooting that could, for all we know, work related violence. Clearly all of these shootings were work related violence. No terrorism whatsoever.

 

[S.J.]

What terrorism? The only thing we have is a few unnconnected mass shooting that could, for all we know, work related violence. Clearly all of these shootings were work related violence. No terrorism whatsoever.

 

[toxicmedia]

Remarkable

2009, Dems owned the House, the Senate, and the Oval Office....

but it's the Republicans fault that anti-abortion violence isn't included on a terrorist list.

For all of a couple of months. The Republicans held all three for nearly 5 years and look at the damage they did. They even used reconciliation three times and can't seem to remember what they used it on. No one wants to remember creating deficits.

For all of a couple of months.

Dems held Congress for 2 years before Obama took the Oath, and 2 years after.

Held it long enough to force Obamacare and the Stimulus on us.

but they didn't have time to add anti-abortion types to the terrorist list?

I hear that "Dems held Congress for 2 years before Obama took the Oath, and 2 years after" stuff all the time.

The two years after Obama took office are the only part relevant to Obama.

During those 2 years Republican Senators filibustered EVERYTHING they could, in historically unprecedented numbers.

Don't act like Democrats were free to get anything done

 

[FA_Q2]

Remarkable

2009, Dems owned the House, the Senate, and the Oval Office....

but it's the Republicans fault that anti-abortion violence isn't included on a terrorist list.

For all of a couple of months. The Republicans held all three for nearly 5 years and look at the damage they did. They even used reconciliation three times and can't seem to remember what they used it on. No one wants to remember creating deficits.

For all of a couple of months.

Dems held Congress for 2 years before Obama took the Oath, and 2 years after.

Held it long enough to force Obamacare and the Stimulus on us.

but they didn't have time to add anti-abortion types to the terrorist list?

I hear that "Dems held Congress for 2 years before Obama took the Oath, and 2 years after" stuff all the time.

The two years after Obama took office are the only part relevant to Obama.

During those 2 years Republican Senators filibustered EVERYTHING they could, in historically unprecedented numbers.

Don't act like Democrats were free to get anything done

And filibusters have what to do with this report?

 

[Auld Phart]

Remarkable

2009, Dems owned the House, the Senate, and the Oval Office....

but it's the Republicans fault that anti-abortion violence isn't included on a terrorist list.

For all of a couple of months. The Republicans held all three for nearly 5 years and look at the damage they did. They even used reconciliation three times and can't seem to remember what they used it on. No one wants to remember creating deficits.

For all of a couple of months.

Dems held Congress for 2 years before Obama took the Oath, and 2 years after.

Held it long enough to force Obamacare and the Stimulus on us.

but they didn't have time to add anti-abortion types to the terrorist list?

I hear that "Dems held Congress for 2 years before Obama took the Oath, and 2 years after" stuff all the time.

The two years after Obama took office are the only part relevant to Obama.

During those 2 years Republican Senators filibustered EVERYTHING they could, in historically unprecedented numbers.

Don't act like Democrats were free to get anything done

Perhaps you'll be kind enough to point out the bill filibustered by the pubs that kept these anti-abortion terrorists off the database?

or the one that Bush vetoed preventing their addition.

 

[FA_Q2]

It's not a terrorist attack. At most, it's a hate crime.

They are terrorist attacks by the very definition.

its just another mass killing. It wasn't done to create terror but to assuage the assailants own emotions.

Terrorism isn't done, necessarily, to promote terror.

It pretty much is though the INTENT behind the violent act is what truly makes an act terrorism.

Terrorism Definition

The key here is that the violence was aimed at intimidating and changing public policy. That means that not all abortion clinic shootings are going to fall under terrorism or that it is necessarily a Terrorist action. Many are though and I find it rather unusual that they would not be included in a list of terrorist actions. The OP's assertion that it is republicans blocking it is rather silly IMHO though.

 

[whitehall]

The Hussein administration won't even refer to international jihad terrorism as "terrorism". What makes y'all lefties think that "talking about a link between certain ideologies and violence" is important? We already know that the "black lives count" movement supports violence and the currently relatively quiet "occupy wall street" movement promoted rape and drug abuse while it was camping in a park in New York. Calling a maniac who shoots up a PP abortion mill a "terrorist" is as ridiculous as as calling a bank robber or a burglar a terrorist. You can expand the definition of "terrorist" if you want to but it only makes you look foolish.

 

[jknowgood]

Remarkable

2009, Dems owned the House, the Senate, and the Oval Office....

but it's the Republicans fault that anti-abortion violence isn't included on a terrorist list.

For all of a couple of months. The Republicans held all three for nearly 5 years and look at the damage they did. They even used reconciliation three times and can't seem to remember what they used it on. No one wants to remember creating deficits.

For all of a couple of months.

Dems held Congress for 2 years before Obama took the Oath, and 2 years after.

Held it long enough to force Obamacare and the Stimulus on us.

but they didn't have time to add anti-abortion types to the terrorist list?

I hear that "Dems held Congress for 2 years before Obama took the Oath, and 2 years after" stuff all the time.

The two years after Obama took office are the only part relevant to Obama.

During those 2 years Republican Senators filibustered EVERYTHING they could, in historically unprecedented numbers.

Don't act like Democrats were free to get anything done

Like I said, Obama isn't a leader. That's why he couldn't get anything done.

 

[mikegriffith1]

What a sad, sick OP. For one thing, "anti-abortion violence" is minimal and practically non-existent. And to compare jihadist terrorism against innocent Americans with violence against doctors and nurses who kill babies for profit and who lie to the mothers about the nature and risk of their "procedure" is pathetic.

 

[toxicmedia]

Remarkable

2009, Dems owned the House, the Senate, and the Oval Office....

but it's the Republicans fault that anti-abortion violence isn't included on a terrorist list.

For all of a couple of months. The Republicans held all three for nearly 5 years and look at the damage they did. They even used reconciliation three times and can't seem to remember what they used it on. No one wants to remember creating deficits.

For all of a couple of months.

Dems held Congress for 2 years before Obama took the Oath, and 2 years after.

Held it long enough to force Obamacare and the Stimulus on us.

but they didn't have time to add anti-abortion types to the terrorist list?

I hear that "Dems held Congress for 2 years before Obama took the Oath, and 2 years after" stuff all the time.

The two years after Obama took office are the only part relevant to Obama.

During those 2 years Republican Senators filibustered EVERYTHING they could, in historically unprecedented numbers.

Don't act like Democrats were free to get anything done

Like I said, Obama isn't a leader. That's why he couldn't get anything done.

Obama couldn't get anything done because Republicans have not sent him anything to sign.

Then when he takes executive action, Republicans belly ache about him being a tyrant and violating the Constitution!

Obama's problem is that he is naïve.

He thought "Yes We Can" was something he could unite Democrats and Republicans on. He did not realize that Republicans would say "No we won't"

Washington is tied up right now, and I'm voting Republican for President because it's time Republicans stop blaming Obama, and start working, and see if what they have planned will actually work;

Back seat driving is easy. They can go on all day about "if only he would have"