via talkleft
On September 11, two-thousand and six, a man by the name of David McMenemy tried to blow up a women’s clinic. Had you heard? Probably not. Why?
It was an explicit act of terrorism, actually attempted, as opposed to the thoughtcrime of Jose Padilla. But it was committed by a fundamentalist Christian, against a woman’s clinic. So—into the memory hole it goes. Padilla? Into a different kind of hole.
What would the nattering nabobs of nihilism say if the government started indefinitely locking up everyone who’s ever attended Jesus Camp?