The bomb found along a Martin Luther King Day parade route in Spokane, Wash., may have been packed with a blood-thinning chemical that's found in rat poison in an effort to inflict worse injuries.
Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich told the Spokesman-Review that the bomb -- which officials have already described as sophisticated, with the potential to be devastating -- had some sort of chemical in it, and authorities have speculated that it may be a chemical found in rat poison. The bomb, which was defused without incident last Monday, has been sent for testing to a lab at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va..
The FBI and other officials have declined to release any information about the bomb's makeup. Knezovich said, though, that the bomb was also packed with shrapnel.
The theory is that someone hit with a piece of shrapnel covered in an anti-coagulant is more likely to bleed to death. Israeli officials have claimed in the past that Palestinian terrorists were using rat poison to make their bombs more deadly.
Yeah, see, this bomb was designed to inflict as many injuries and deaths as possible at a MLK Day parade, and yet we continue to hear nothing about it. No suspects, no leads, just that it was domestic terrorism...and that apparently it's not worth giving a damn about.
We had near national manhunts on our hands after other bombing attempts. The Spokane bombing attempt? Nothing. This story continues to be spiked for reasons unknown.
I don't like thinking about the possibility that the story's being spiked to protect the suspects, or to ignore the victims. Either one of those is repugnant. We'll see.
Because there's no such thing as a white, American terrorist! All terrorists are muslim and BLACK! The poor white folk are just bombing the followers of the MUSLICOMMUNOFASCIST KNOWN AS MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BEFORE THEY BRING SHARIA LAW TO BOMB THEM FIRST!
ReplyDeleteBonus stupid: Angry white fuckers rechristen Martin Luther King Day.
Seriously, this shit is going to happen until an honest discussion on race happens. And for that to happen, we (that is, white people, Kitty is among that population) actually face up to and deal with our fucking history. There's a lot of angry (as well as old) white fuckers who don't want to do that and would rather cry and stamp their feet about how everything was so much better when "those people" weren't putting on airs.
So yeah. Not going to happen. Not in our lifetime. Seriously, the bomber picked the perfect time, especially with the media unwilling to say a goddamn thing because the logical endpoint hurts the fee-fees of right-wingers (or it hurts the fee-fees of their masters). It's UNCIVILIZED and VIOLENT RHETORIC to point out that these things are the logical endpoint of the twenty different flavors of two-minute hates going on. That's not violent rhetoric! Pointing it out as violent is violent rhetoric and uncivilized!
HERE IS YOUR FLAG, HERE IS YOUR CROSS, ENJOY YOUR FUCKING FASCISM.