Domestic terrorism at Occupy Maine

By Michael J.W. Stickings

As you may have heard, the Occupy Maine protest was attacked with a chemical explosive on Sunday. Thankfully, no one was seriously hurt.

But shouldn't this be classified as yet another act of right-wing domestic terrorism?

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It's similar, for example, to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade bomb in Spokane, Washington, earlier this year? The FBI called that an act of domestic terrorism, with the perpetrator linked to a neo-Nazi group.

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Even after the awful Oklahoma City bombing, even with America's long history of right-wing violence (say, against civil rights workers in the South), why isn't more attention being paid to this serious threat to freedom?