Andrew Sullivan had a brief post about the Christian terrorists who terrorize abortion providers.
Imagine an Islamist fanatic had assassinated a pro-Israel rabbi in a synagogue, and had harassed synagogues for years, including one arrest for bomb materials in his car. Imagine if one of his associates had tried to kill the rabbi before. Would there be any question that this was Islamist terror? So why is this not Christianist terror?
The answer is that it may very well be domestic terrorism by statute. An examination of the relevant statutory language presents a picture where the Anti-Abortion crowd could fall under Domestic Terror provisions and would then be subject to all of the legal consequences of that such as asset seizure.
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