This is an excerpt from "White Power USA," which aired on Democracy Now last Monday as well as on Al Jezeera English. "White Power USA" is a short documentary produced by Rick Rowley and Jacquie Soohen which gives insight into growing social and political support of white supremacist hate groups across the country.
The US Department of Homeland Security warned last June that right-wing extremism represents "the most dangerous domestic terrorism threat in the United States." Many on the right balked at this claim, citing it as a partisan attack.
Yet, as Republicans have been quick to demand the Ft. Hood shootings and the failed Christmas Day Bombing be declared terrorist attacks on the US, the same demand was largely absent after the assassination of abortion doctor George Tiller by a supporter of Christian anti-abortion groups like the Army of God, regarded as a terrorist organization by the United States government.
On January 22 of last year, Matthew L. Derosia of St. Paul MN rammed an SUV into the front entrance of a planned parenthood clinic, claiming the Jesus had called on him to do so. Had Mr. Derosia been of Islamic decent instead of white and had he a Qur'an in his truck instead of the Bible, this incident might quickly have been exploited as a terrorist attack. Yet, it slipped strangely under the radar.
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