Why is no one calling the anthrax suspect a terrorist?

I think it's because they don't want to label an American as a terrorist, because we don't have terrorists here. Kinda like how Iran has no homosexuals. Terrorists are over there, far removed from our better, more advanced, more progressive society.

You know, I thought about this when the news came out that he 'commited suicide' (yea, sure) anywhoo, I was wondering how come no news organization said anything about a terrorist.

I do agree what you said about him being white, I mean look at ETA, they did bunch of bombings not too long ago, I was reading BBC, and nothing on there mentioned terrorism.

What about KKK and other crazy ass white groups, no one put them on the list of terrorists.

We're too busy focusing on foreign terrorists to hold a mirror up to ourselves and deal with our home grown variety.

hypothetical:

what if he were brown? you know, hispanic american, black american, any kind of american other than white. Would they have been more likely to call this terrorism?

Why is no one asking why the Whitehouse staff took the Anthrax vaccine two weeks before the attack when it was supposedly an unknown terrorist threat from Osama. Then we find out it is from a Secure American Base, then it's gone from the news for awhile. Now they settle with one Scientist for millions and the other one kills himself.

They can polish this Turd all they want, It still smells like shit.

Are our Government Officials the Terrorists Or Aiding them?

http://current.com/items/89058353_u_s_settles_with_scientist_named_in_anthrax_cases

Terrorist by definition is "the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coersion". This could apply to police officers, government officials and agents, military operatives, prision guards, and actual terrorists.

However, when most people think of terrorists, they often picture individuals of arab decent. Not only is that racist, it shows ignorance to the abortion clinic bombers, the Unabomber, Timothy McVeigh, and others who are considered terrorists.

Why this man was not labeled a terrorist is showing of an unwillingness to label a white American a terrorist in a "post-9/11 world". Why the current presidential cabinet has not been labeled an international terrorist group is a matter of social and political corruption.

Terrorism, by definition, has the goal of affecting political change; i.e. the motive for frightening, killing and maiming innocent people is to achieve a political goal. The only motive this guy had was feeding his own delusional self-agrandizement. Murderer, yes. Psychotic mother-fucker, yes. Terrorist, no.

...and while we're on the subject, I think we should stop using the word "terrorist" altogether -- it just empowers these scumbags, as if to say, "Yes, we are scared, you win." They like the label; they want us to think of them that way.

Instead let 's call them what they really are: "Murdering ShItbags." Murdering Shitbags blew up the twin towers. Murdering Shtibags blow up embassies and school buses.

Let's start empowering ourselves; not them.

i like that. murdering shitbags. maybe homicidal shitbags would be more official.

Well if ordinary people saw Ivens as a terrorist then they they just might start seeing the cabal in the White House as terrorists as well as being the incompetant, mean spirited and superstition ridden pricks they are generally known as now.

Yes most Americans are racist, but common cause goes a long way towards eradicating the ravages of racism, and one cause most (80% and climbing by one survey) Americans have in common is Regime Change in Washington.

and dont forget folks we are at war with terror. thats why we are only... in... the middle east.

hmmm... you know it doesnt make much sense does it?

makes you wonder why we arn't anywhere else in the world huh? i mean surely the small piece of earth known as the middle east cant house all the worlds terrorists. anybody think about looking in spain? or ireland? or east europe? or anywhere in south america or africa? hell antarctica?

Someone tried to frame, Dr. Ayaad Assaad, an Arab who worked at Ft. Detrick originally, but the allegation didn't stick, and the FBI even refused a Freedom of information request on who sent the letter that fingered Assaad.

http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/hcourant.html

If they were able to pin the attack on Assaad, then the anthrax killer would be terrorist.

So now the FBI also refuses to investigate Dr. Philip Zack, a Jewish employee at Ft. Detrick who was fired for racial harassment against Assaad, and who was caught on surveillance tape stealing anthrax.

"Documents from the inquiry show that one unauthorized person who was observed entering the lab building at night was Langford's predecessor, Lt. Col. Philip Zack, who at the time no longer worked at Fort Detrick. A surveillance camera recorded Zack being let in at 8:40 p.m. on Jan. 23, 1992, apparently by Dr. Marian Rippy, a lab pathologist and close friend of Zack's, according to a report filed by a security guard.

Zack could not be reached for comment. In an interview this week, Rippy said that she doesn't remember letting Zack in, but that he occasionally stopped by after he was transferred off the base. "

I consider him to be a terrorist. I kind of thought that everyone did, but I guess to most Americans, terrorist means Muslim or someone of Middle Eastern descent.

EXCELLENT point. I think right-wing (racist) nuts are a bigger danger to homeland security than the media gives them credit for. you'd think that the oklahoma city bombing would have been enough but apparently since the perpetrators are white and pseudo-christian just like the people who run the show, no huge commotion or labeling is done.

Maybe no one is calling him a terrorist because other than what the government is telling us we're really not sure he did this, did it alone or could have been a scape goat. Since the government blamed middle eastern terrorists knowing it was military grade anthrax at the onset. Maybe it's because we doubt anything official coming out of this white house and subconsciously don't want to label a dead man without proof.

Theyre not calling him a terrorist because he didnt really do it. The MSM knows this, the FBI knows this and the WH knows this. Its really a freudian slip to let the moniker of "terrorist" go unmentioned in this case.

Time to investigate his death.. looks like a murder to me!