{"id":183282,"date":"2015-01-07T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/07\/and-in-domestic-terrorism-today\/"},"modified":"2015-01-07T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T23:47:00","slug":"and-in-domestic-terrorism-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/01\/07\/and-in-domestic-terrorism-today\/","title":{"rendered":"And in Domestic Terrorism Today\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_27267521\/colorado-springs-police-responding-explosion-reports-at-naacp\">set off a pipe bomb near the offices of the Colorado Springs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">An improvised explosive device was detonated against the exterior wall of a building housing the Colorado Springs chapter of the NAACP on Tuesday, officials said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The explosion knocked items off the office walls but no one was injured.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Agents from the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives went to the scene after the blast to gather evidence and place markers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The FBI said that a gasoline can was placed next to the device but the contents did not ignite.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">According to the the FBI, officials are seeking a &#8220;potential person of interest,&#8221; described as a balding white male, about 40 years old.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;He may be driving a 2000 or older model dirty, white pick-up truck with paneling, a dark colored bed liner, open tailgate, and a missing or covered license plate,&#8221; the FBI said in a statement said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seeing as how Colorado Springs is a Mecca<sup>*<\/sup> for right wing bigots, the first conclusion that I jumped to was that this was somehow or other this is tied to the Talibaptist presence in that town.<\/p>\n<p>I may be wrong, but I&#8217;d give some serious odds that I&#8217;m right.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Yes, I know that the whole &#8220;Mecca&#8221; thing is an unfortunate metaphor.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone set off a pipe bomb near the offices of the Colorado Springs: An improvised explosive device was detonated against the exterior wall of a building housing the Colorado Springs chapter of the NAACP on Tuesday, officials said.The explosion knocked items off the office walls but no one was injured.Agents from the FBI Joint Terrorism &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1001,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-racism","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}