Are Islamist’s The Only People Capable Of Committing Terrorism.….

A fed­er­al jury sen­tenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death. Tsarnaev, 21 and his broth­er Tamerlan were accused of plot­ting and car­ry­ing out the Marathon Bombing using a pres­sure cook­er bombs as their weapon of choice. Tamerlan was killed in a shoot out with Police while Tsarnaev was cap­tured and charged with mul­ti­ple Terrorism charges for which he received the death penal­ty in Massachusetts, arguably the most lib­er­al state in the Union.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faced 30 charges relat­ed to the Boston Marathon bomb­ing, the killing of MIT police offi­cer Sean Collier, and the ensu­ing Watertown fire­fight in April 2013. The Marathon bomb­ing killed three peo­ple and injured at least 264 oth­ers.
Dylan Storm Roof tar­get­ed the African American com­mu­ni­ty. He took all the steps nec­es­sary plan to exe­cute African Americans even as they wor­shiped in Church. Clearly these peo­ple were killed because of their col­or. Reports indi­cate Roof said he had to car­ry out his “Mission” even as the kind­ness of his vic­tims forced him to rethink the das­tard­ly act he was about to commit.

“MISSION”
Who was involved in Radicalizing Dylann Storm Roof ? The term “Mission” sug­gest he had co-con­spir­a­tors. If not in exe­cu­tion cer­tain­ly in it’s devel­op­ment. Who autho­rized the “Mission”? Does any­one believe this sil­ly look­ing lit­tle mis­cre­ant thought out, planned and exe­cut­ed that plan, even as he wore and dis­played sym­bols of Racism?
I do not?
“TERRORISM”
“Terrorism is the use of vio­lent acts to fright­en the peo­ple in an area as a way of try­ing to achieve a polit­i­cal goal”.
How does the Act com­mit­ted by Dylann Storm Roof dif­fer from that com­mit­ted by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?

“OUTRAGE”
Where is the nation­al out­rage sim­i­lar to that we heard when the Tsarnaev broth­ers took those inno­cent lives in Boston?
When Anglo-Soxons kill peo­ple of col­or here in America there is a sys­tem­at­ic effort to nuance and mod­i­fy the ter­ror­ist intent of the killer, talk­ing instead about Guns, men­tal-health, pover­ty and oth­er periph­er­al issues. Obama too , in his con­tin­ued effort not to offend, tip­py-toed around this mas­sive Act of Terrorism choos­ing instead to talk about gun-control.
This has noth­ing ‚to do with gun con­trol, (did­ly squat), this is Terrorism based on race.
Nowhere in the def­i­n­i­tion of Terrorism does it say acts of ter­ror are con­fined to Islamist’s alone.

“INCONSEQUENTIAL TOOL OF HATE”
Dylan Storm is a 21 year-old incon­se­quen­tial instru­ment of hate. A liv­ing man­i­fes­ta­tion of the hate which hate produces.
The source/​s from which Dylan Storm learned to hate are very much in place today as they were before he gunned down 9 mem­bers of the community.
♦The Confederate bat­tle Flag still flies over the State’s Capital Building.
♦ South Carolina boasts (19) rec­og­nized Hate Groups, more than any oth­er State in the Nation.
♦ South Carolina is one of just five States which does not have a a Hate Crime Statute.
♦ South Carolina pro­duced Joe Wilson the imbe­cile Congressman who shout­ed out “you lie” at Barack Obama as he addressed the Nation in a state of the union address.

The lit­tle hate­mon­ger who took the lives of 9 peo­ple was arraigned on Friday on nine counts of mur­der .That’s all good but where are the Terror charges, what am I miss­ing? The Judge allowed dece­dents fam­i­ly mem­bers who so desired to speak at the arraign­ment. Literally all who spoke told the accused they for­gave him.
It’s their right to free them­selves of hate but for­giv­ing and going back to the way things were isn’t working.
Forgiveness is a prod­uct of repen­tance and sup­pli­ca­tion. It does not pre­ced­ed these Acts it suc­ceeds them…

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HISTORY BEHIND MOTHER EMANUEL CHURCH.

As we’ve been hear­ing, Emanuel AME Church in Charleston was well-known long before it became the site of a mas­sacre by a sus­pect who’s linked to white suprema­cy. The church has a deep his­to­ry in the civ­il rights move­ment. And yes­ter­day, President Obama not­ed its roots in an ear­li­er bid for freedom.

PRES BARACK OBAMA: This is a church that was burned to the ground because its wor­shipers worked to end slavery.

MONTAGNE: The pres­i­dent was speak­ing about an event in 1822. One of the church’s founders, a freed slave named Denmark Vesey, was con­vict­ed for plan­ning a slave revolt, a revolt that was nev­er car­ried out. He was exe­cut­ed. The tree where it’s believed he was hanged still stands in Charleston. Historian Douglas Egerton wrote a book about Denmark Vesey.

DOUGLAS EGERTON: He had one of those amaz­ing sto­ries that if it were a movie or a nov­el, one would not believe it. When he was about 13, he was pur­chased to be sold into the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which is mod­ern day Haiti. He liked the cap­tain who had bought him, a man named Joseph Vesey, who had used him briefly as a cab­in boy. And Vesey set­tled in Charleston as an importer of nau­ti­cal goods.

MONTAGNE: All right, so he was skilled. And as I under­stand it, he bought his freedom.

EGERTON: He played the lot­tery, and he won about $1,800. And so he bought his free­dom, and the deed was signed on New Year’s Eve 1799. So he went to sleep that night and woke up in the new cen­tu­ry as a free man, but his wife and his chil­dren remained slaves.

MONTAGNE: So as the rare free black man among most­ly black peo­ple who are slaves, what was his role exact­ly in con­coct­ing a plan for a slave revolt?

EGERTON: The plan was ini­tial­ly to rise up on July 14, 1822, that was Bastille Day. And the idea was that as church bells tolled mid­night, urban slaves would slay their mas­ters as they slept and then fight their way to the docks and sail the next morn­ing to Haiti.

MONTAGNE: And Haiti, it must be not­ed, had been freed through a slave revolt.

EGERTON: Yes, so this made Vesey’s plot unusu­al in North America in that it was not kind of a typ­i­cal rebel­lion. It was a mass exo­dus. It was a mass escape. Vesey under­stands that non­com­bat­ants — which is to say women, chil­dren, aged — are going to die when his men rise up. But of course, their goal is not to kill whites. Their goal is to get away.

MONTAGNE: Tell us about the tri­al itself.

EGERTON: It was essen­tial­ly a kan­ga­roo court. There was no chance that Vesey was going to sur­vive this alive. And they read a sen­tence to him they had obvi­ous­ly writ­ten in advance. It was very long and pre­pared. And his only response was to look at them and say the work of insur­rec­tion will go on. They could hang him, but they could­n’t kill the idea.

MONTAGNE: How, though, did his case affect what is now Emanuel Church?

EGERTON: After the con­spir­a­cy col­lapsed, the church was raised, prob­a­bly burned to the ground. And so the build­ing that’s there now is the third-gen­er­a­tion AME Church in Charleston. And of course, Vesey has nev­er been for­got­ten by the black com­mu­ni­ty in South Carolina, who worked long and hard to get the stat­ue erect­ed that went up in 2014. And of course, white Carolinians have always regard­ed the church as kind of a hotbed of activism, which is why this tragedy was undoubt­ed­ly no acci­dent. This has been a tar­get for a very long time.

MONTAGNE: Thank you very much for talk­ing with us.

EGERTON: Good to talk to you, a sad day.

MONTAGNE: Douglas Egerton is the author of “He Shall Go Out Free: The Lives Of Denmark Vesey.” He’s also an his­to­ri­an at Lemoyne College in Syracuse, N.Y.

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