Have You Seen This Bigot?Most of the terrorism in this country comes from our own streets, not from overseas. The most frequent victims of violence are women, beaten or murdered by husbands and boyfriends; blacks or minorities or gays assaulted by bigots; and the unfortunate on-going children's violence fueled by organizations which glorify violence and hatred of others.
As most people know by now, Rupert Murdoch is an extreme right-winger who has used his wealth to gain a monopoly control over television and newspapers in the U.S., to peddle trashy, violent, anti-human hate-promoting programs on television, to support ultra-right organizations including the Bush regime in their destruction of our constitution and democracy, and in the waging of wars against people across the world.
To no one's surprise, Rupert Murdoch is also a bigot, deserving of an honorary membership in the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party, and the Aryan Nations.
Yesterday one of his rags, the New York Post, published racist hate-speech intended to incite others to violence, what they called a "cartoon," but what really was pictoral race-hatred similar to that of the southern white racists of long ago, similar to that of the Klan and the Nazis. This drawing showed a monkey being shot to death by the police, and the caption said something to the effect that he wouldn't be able to pass anymore stimulus bills. Of course President Obama had just signed the stimulus bill yesterday morning. So the drawing clearly was intended to, and did, convey to the public the idea that Obama is a monkey, a Klan/Nazi mantra, that he has passed a stimulus bill which is so horrible that he should be murdered by the police or by anyone else who is willing to step up.
That's what this drawing is promoting: murder. Or, in more technical terms, it is a conspiracy by the person who drew the hate-speech picture, the yellow-rag Post, and its bigotted owner Murdoch, to incite violence.
Rupert Murdoch should be charged with conspiracy to incite violence against all black people and more specifically to incite violence to cause great bodily injury or death to the President, and to encourage others to commit hate crimes against a specific minority group in this country.
He should also be sued in civil court by representatives of black people in this country whose lives are endangered by this type of hate speech and violence-promoting propaganda.
His right to own any media in this country should be taken away by law, and if he owns media in other countries, they should be prohibited from selling inside the U.S. Would we allow a pedophile-promoter to circulate newspapers advocating the rape of children? Of course not. And we should not allow this despicable bigot to own newspapers and use them to promote the murder of our elected officials, and violence or murder of all non-whites in this country.
Finally, he should be deported. Send him back to his country of origin, if they'll take him. Revoke his right to live here. He's scum.
A few years ago the Southern Poverty Law Center sued the Aryan Nations in Hayden Lake, Idaho, and got an enormous judgment against them based upon that group's promotion of violence to their members which had contributed to some of the members committing an act of violence against innocent outsiders. The Aryan Nations group promoted the same type of racist hatred being pushed by the bigotted Rupert Murdoch, and had been called a "terrorist threat" by the FBI. (See Wikipedia, Aryan Nations).
The same type of theory could be applied to Rupert Murdoch in a civil proceeding to seek a judgment against him, seize all his ownership of media. Then tell the Justice Department that their 8-year vacation from civil rights enforcement is over, and they need to indict this guy.
Is Rupert Murdoch a terrorist? We've got some fairly insane laws on the books that have been used to imprison people for being stupid. As long as Murdoch has been such a big supporter of the all-encompassing "war on terrorism," maybe those laws could be used against him. He's probably not an international terrorist. But is he guilty of domestic terrorism? See (5) below: term "domestic terrorism" means activities that - (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended - (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; ....
Does the publication of a racist drawing depicting and portraying as proper, maybe necessary, imperative, good, the murder of the president of the United States constitute a violation of any of the criminal laws of any state in this country? Some states have laws prohibiting hate crimes, or crimes targeting a specific group of people who are members of an unpopular minority. How about a conspiracy to violate those laws? Would that be enough?
And if so, maybe we should re-think that whole issue of closing Guantanamo. There would be a certain ironic fun in sending Murdoch there for the rest of his life. Hopefully he could spend his days whining to Bush and Cheney, if we ever get around to war crimes tribunals.
United States Code
TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
PART I - CRIMES
CHAPTER 113B - TERRORISM
U.S. Code as of: 01/19/04
Section 2331. Definitions
As used in this chapter -
(1) the term "international terrorism" means activities that -
(A) involve violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended -
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily outside the territorial jurisdiction of the United States, or transcend national boundaries in terms of the means by which they are accomplished, the persons they appear intended to intimidate or coerce, or the locale in which their perpetrators operate or seek asylum;
(2) the term "national of the United States" has the meaning given such term in section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality Act;
(3) the term "person" means any individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property;
(4) the term "act of war" means any act occurring in the course of -
(A) declared war;
(B) armed conflict, whether or not war has been declared, between two or more nations; or
(C) armed conflict between military forces of any origin; and
(5) the term "domestic terrorism" means activities that -
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended -
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mas destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
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