{"id":187952,"date":"2011-01-19T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/19\/domestic-terrorism-in-spokane\/"},"modified":"2011-01-19T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T00:52:00","slug":"domestic-terrorism-in-spokane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/01\/19\/domestic-terrorism-in-spokane\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Terrorism in Spokane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure why the press isn&#8217;t covering this, but someone <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/41139894\/ns\/us_news-crime_and_courts\/\">planted a relatively sophisticated road-side bomb along the route of the Spokane Martin Luther King Day parade<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>A backpack found along the route of the Martin Luther King Jr. march in Spokane contained a bomb &#8220;capable of inflicting multiple casualties,&#8221;  the FBI said Tuesday, describing the case as &#8220;domestic terrorism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The FBI said the Swiss Army-brand backpack was found about 9:25 a.m. PST on Monday on a bench at the northeast corner of North Washington Street and West Main Avenue in downtown Spokane.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on msnbc cable&#8217;s &#8220;The Rachel Maddow Show,&#8221; Spokesman-Review reporter Thomas Clouse said confidential sources told him that the device was equipped with a remote control detonator and contained shrapnel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are two things that are <b>very<\/b> concerning here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The FBI is being very loquacious about this, and I don&#8217;t mean, &#8220;FBI is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of people responsible for placing the device.&#8221;   Considering how legendary the FBI is about keeping its cards close to its chest, this implies that they are <b>very<\/b> spooked by this.<\/li>\n<li>Spokane is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kxly.com\/news\/26550432\/detail.html\">smack dab in the middle of any number of any number of white supremacist encampments<\/a>, and has already seen Aryan Nation inspired bombings and robberies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think that the FBI has some intel indicating that more than one person has some sort of ongoing plans for a series of actions.<\/p>\n<p>What is odd here is that Maddow seems to be the only national media figure who is paying any attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure why the press isn&#8217;t covering this, but someone planted a relatively sophisticated road-side bomb along the route of the Spokane Martin Luther King Day parade: A backpack found along the route of the Martin Luther King Jr. march in Spokane contained a bomb &#8220;capable of inflicting multiple casualties,&#8221; the FBI said Tuesday, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[967,1052,1129,1064,1001,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bigotry","category-crimes","category-journalism","category-media","category-racism","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187952"}],"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=187952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}