You both bring up, in your own ways, an interesting point. Shaw was largely inept.

I suppose it’s possible that the MSM covers the Left-Wing terrorists less because they have a history of being largely ineffectual.

On the other hand, neither the media, the Left, nor the government showed any particular outrage over either the prison-convert Muslim jihadis that were stopped by the FBI before they could bomb an NYC Synagogue, or the jihadi that shot up a recruiting center and killed one soldier…

McVeigh got attention, true enough – though he too, much like Roeder, operated alone. Left-wing terrorists do not seem to get such attention by the media anymore though – even when they’re White miles, a favorite target of the media these days.

Being motivated, by his own admission, by the “Operation Mayhem” part of Fight Club certainly makes Shaw a Left-Wing ideologue with a specific agenda.

Jumped up Jesus on skis, false equivalency and elastic logic stumbling over desperation is no way to go about argument.

True – you should, in the future, try to avoid it outside of Liberal circles.

An in any case and irrespective of our differences and our “pointed” way of expressing them, welcome to Reflection From A Murky Pond, cousinavi.

And, of course, being motivated by Fight Club clearly demarcates him a left-wing ideologue. He clearly had an agenda – a list of demands…an organization of like-minded fuckwits behind him.

One might, instead, call him what he was (as Faux News loves to tag those whom they directly incite) – A lone, demented nut.

Jumped up Jesus on skis, false equivalency and elastic logic stumbling over desperation is no way to go about argument.

Perhaps you’re right, but we’ll never know for certain. I think the only responsible thing we can do is report what we see, regardless of whatever light we see it in.

I’m not convinced that you’re really correct in your assertion that Liberals don’t value one life or death over another. Of course I’m not convinced that the Conservatives don’t value one life or death over another either.

I really would have thought that a teen who bombed a building in a crowded city in order to emulate a movie character would have gotten more media coverage though. I’m convinced if it had been a Right-Wing cause, as opposed to anti-corporatism, it would have.

I knew about this case, and you have a valid point. The coverage was not comparable to some other “higher profile” cases. The Scott Roeder case was huge news because George Tiller became a cause celebre’ for anti-abortion opponents, and because he had been targeted for quite some time. Not because liberals “value” one life or death over another. That is the crux of the problem. Back and forth, tit for tat. I suppose that is the way things are, so you should be under no illusions about anything being any different. To glorify anyone’s death or pain is no way to strike a blow for the cause. It doesn’t matter what side of the political spectrum you’re on.

Shaw made political statements about his bombing in the sense that he claimed to be doing his version of “Operation Mayhem” against Corporate America.

As for Roeder, his killing of Tiller had little, if anything, to do with his anti-government position. It seemed to be a separate issue that only intersected with the government due to their response to Tiller’s killing.

zhann,

While Andreas is wanted by the FBI, news about him and his action never made much in the way of “news” as far as the MSM was concerned.