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December 04, 2006

Trying to blow up Congress doesn't even rate the New York Times nowadays

Picture this:

A 40 year old man is attempting to hatch a secret plot to use chemical weapons to attack the United States Congress while they're in session. He's buying up ingredients for what he thinks will create sarin nerve gas. He's also purchased what appears to him to be blocks of C-4 explosives from undercover agents.

This man is working overtime to wage severe destruction against a major US target.

US citizens didn't get splashy news coverage of the conviction of this man for this attempted terrorist attack because he's an extremist Muslim who is now detained quietly in US custody. After all, Bush says we can't reveal this information because it would help the terrorists, right?

Uhhh...wrong:

Demetrius "Van" Crocker of McKenzie, convicted in April of attempting to obtain a chemical weapon and possession of stolen explosives, was sentenced to 30 years in prison Tuesday by U.S. District Judge James Todd in Jackson.

Crocker, who told undercover FBI agents of his desire to explode a briefcase bomb while Congress was in session, was found guilty by a jury in about 90 minutes in April.

The 40-year-old farmhand and father of two was convicted of accepting what he thought were ingredients to make Sarin nerve gas and a block of C-4 explosive from undercover agents in October 2004.

This story was relegated to some back page spot in a small newspaper because this isn't a Muslim extremist. He's a (likely Christian) right-wing extremist.

And it sure doesn't rate the coverage that the group of Imams who didn't get to fly did even after they were cleared by the FBI.

I'm wondering if those who fear extremist Muslims blowing up shit on airliners will now have the same fear of 40 year old rightwing farmers.

Somehow I doubt it.

(Via Dave at Orcinus)

Posted by Carla at December 4, 2006 04:07 PM