FBI Probes Racism Motive in Failed MLK Day Bombing

Domestic Terroism?

Authorities say a potentially lethal bomb hidden in a backpack planted along a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade route in Spokane, Wash., could have inflicted "multiple casualties," and the FBI is investigating whether the motive was racism.

The bomb was defused at the scene before it could explode Monday, and no one was hurt. But it caused quite a stir about half an hour before the city's annual Unity March. The parade's 1,500 marchers had to be re-routed along a new path, and businesses in the area of the sidewalk bench where the backpack was found had to be evacuated.

FBI Investigates Racism Motive in Failed MLK Day Bombing in Spokane, Washington

 

The only way to prove that the attempt was racially motivated would be to find evidence that it was.. and the FBI knows that. To speculate otherwise is to "pull a Dupnik".

 

What they said was;

That statement is correct and I would expect them to do no less than to investigate it "as a potential domestic terrorism". Unlike Nudnik, they did not say something like we are investigating all the liberal hate speech as the cause of such an incident.

 

And who cultivates domestic terrorists better than the Right? Nobody! It's not like someone hasn't tried to leave a bomb outside of the Spokane Thomas S. Foley U.S. Courthouse...Wait, yes someone did last spring.

Bomb left at Spokane federal building

Authorities are investigating the discovery 10 days ago of an improvised explosive device next to the Thomas S. Foley U.S. Courthouse in downtown Spokane.

The Associated Press

SPOKANE, Wash. —
Authorities are investigating the discovery 10 days ago of an improvised explosive device next to the Thomas S. Foley U.S. Courthouse in downtown Spokane.

The public was not alerted to the bomb until The Spokesman-Review newspaper inquired about it on Wednesday.

Tom Rice, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office, said the device was located in the late evening of Sunday, March 28. He said the public was not notified because they did not want to compromise the investigation.

No arrests have been made, and Rice would not provide other details.

 

"We're certainly approaching it as a potential domestic terrorism event at this point," Frank Harrill

A bomb. In a backpack. Along a parade route. A 'potential' domestic terrorism event? Yeah, I think that is the way I might approach it too.

 

You can argue the why's and wherfores all you want but what I would much rather read about is you wishing that they catch the person/people responsible before they do manage to kill someone.