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发信人: lczlcz (lcz), 信区: USANews
标 题: Media Ignore Domestic Terrorist Conviction of Gay-Rights A
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Feb 11 18:21:59 2013, 美东)
Media Ignore Domestic Terrorist Conviction of Gay-Rights Activist
How many stories have you seen on the broadcast networks or cable networks—
any of the networks—about the first-ever domestic terrorism conviction in
our nation’s capital? Is same-sex marriage such a politically correct issue
that no one wants to inform the public when a gay-rights political activist
shoots someone in an attempted mass-murder?
On Aug. 15th, Floyd Corkins entered the Washington, D.C. headquarters of the
Family Research Council (FRC) with a handgun and almost 100 rounds of
ammunition (the pistol was fully-loaded, plus two 15-round extended
magazines, and a box of another 50 rounds in his backpack). He gained entry
by claiming to be applying for an internship.
When the front-desk manager asked for identification, Corkins pulled his gun
from the backpack and attempted to shoot that manager—Leo Johnson—in the
head. Johnson slapped the gun away as Corkins pulled the trigger, so the
bullet struck Johnson in the arm instead, shattering a bone in his forearm.
Despite his injury, Johnson wrested the gun away from Corkins and held him
at gunpoint until D.C. police and the FBI arrived.
On Feb. 6, Corkins pleaded guilty to three felonies in federal court. One
was assault with intent to kill while armed, another was crossing state
lines with a gun to commit a crime, and the third is a groundbreaking
conviction for committing an act of domestic terrorism.
As a condition of accepting his plea deal—under which Corkins could spend
the rest of his life in federal prison—Corkins signed a detailed confession
in a Statement of Offense obtained by Breitbart News:
[Corkins] pointed the gun at the guard [Johnson], and that he intended
to shoot and kill the guard, and then go upstairs and shoot and kill “as
many people as he could.”
He was a political activist and considered the FRC a lobbying group. He
committed the shooting for political reasons. He had identified the FRC an
anti-gay [marriage] organization on the Southern Poverty Law Center website.
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If the police had not responded and caught him at the FRC, he planned to
go directly to the second organization on his list and perpetrate a similar
shooting there.
Regarding the list referred to in this statement: Corkins had gone to the
Southern Proverty Law Center (SPLC) website, where SPLC labels as “hate
groups” various organizations with which it disagrees politically, equating
them as moral equivalents to organizations that perpetrate or promote
violence.
There were four of SPLC’s “hate groups” on Corkins’ list. “Each of the
four listed organizations are nationally recognized advocacy groups that
openly identify themselves as having socially conservative agendas,” reads
the statement.
Yet SPLC cast FRC in terms that allowed a twisted mind like Corkins' to
think of FRC as a dangerous organization. For example, SPLC’s Heidi Beirich
told a reporter, “there is no difference between the FRC and the KKK in
the eyes of the SPLC now.” In that same interview, SPLC’s representative
said that a politician speaking at an FRC event was like addressing a white-
supremacist rally.
Even liberal writers have a problem with SPLC’s reckless use calling its
opponents “hate groups.” A Harper’s article complained that SPLC, “is
essentially a fraud and that it has a habit of casually labeling
organizations as ‘hate groups’... In doing so, the SPLC shuts down debate,
stifles free speech, and most of all, raises a pile of money, very little
of which is used on behalf of poor people.”
Yet even some supposedly-conservative media outlets are not discussing this
story. Ken Blackwell—who is in the leadership of a range of organizations
from the National Rifle Association to the Club for Growth, and also is a
senior fellow at FRC—tells Breitbart News: “It is shameful to see how many
are giving a foaming-at-the-mouth radical-left organization a pass for
inciting such violence... the story should be everywhere. This is real news.”
If someone from a Christian ministry had walked into a gay-rights
organization, opened fire, then got convicted of domestic terrorism, you can
bet there would be wall-to-wall coverage on every news channel.
Regardless of the explanation, the decreasing coverage of newsworthy stories
involving social issues is a disturbing trend. If it continues, more
Americans will turn to new-media outlets to learn what’s really going on in
their world.
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Breitbart News legal columnist Ken Klukowski is also senior fellow for
religious liberty at the Family Research Council. | F*****t
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“...crossing state lines with a gun to commit a crime..."
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: 我靠，居然有15发弹夹，难道dc不禁止大容量弹夹？
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