04 April 2010By Keith Johnson
While FOX News trawls patriot websites looking for
comments placed by trolls and COINTELPRO
operatives, perhaps it is time we shine the big bright
flashlight of truth onto their war-mongering,
hate fueled speech that motivated one of their
fans to act out in a horrific
act of
violence that barely even got a mention out of
that vigilant monitor of the radical right, the
Southern Poverty Law Center.
On July 27, 2008, Jim D. Atkisson enterred the
Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville,
Tennessee carrying a guitar case. Over 200 people were
watching the musical Annie being performed by
a cast of 25 children. Atkisson opened the case,
removed a 12 gauge shotgun and began firing. One
person was killed at the scene, another died later
that night and six others were seriously injured
before Atkisson was wrestled to the ground and subdued
by church members.
Adkisson was an Army veteran who stated to
authorities that he was motivated by a hatred for
liberals, Democrats, blacks and gays. According to a
sworn affidavit taken by a police officer who
interviewed Adkisson later that night:
During the interview Adkisson stated that he
had targeted the church because of its liberal
teachings and his belief that all liberals should be
killed because they were ruining the country, and that
he felt that the Democrats had tied his country's
hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every
institution in America with the aid of major media
outlets. Adkisson made statements that because he
could not get to the leaders of the
liberal
movement that he would then target those that
had voted them into office. Adkisson stated that he
had held these beliefs for about the last ten years.
Gee, if he'd only waited around for the election of
Barrack Obama, he would have seen that the war on
terror is alive and well with the full endorsement of
the Democrats and every single
mainstream media outlet in the country.
Adkisson wrote a four page handwritten "manifesto"
which can be found here:
http://web.knoxnews.com/pdf/021009church-manifesto.pdf
In it, he calls the Unitarian
Universal Church a "cult" whose
members "don't even believe in God." He
writes "These people aren't liberals, they're
ultra-liberals. This is a collection of sicko's,
weirdo's and homo's. The UU Church is the
fountainhead. The veritable wellspring of
anti-American organizations like Moveon.org, Code Pink
and other un-American groups."
Adkisson said he planned to go on killing liberals
until the police killed him. Among some of his
intended targets were the all of the Democratic
members of the House and Senate as well as every
person mentioned in the book 100 people screwing
up America by FOX News commentator
Bernard
Goldberg. When the police searched his
person, they found 76 shells of #4 buckshot. A search
of his home turned up these three books:
Liberalism is a Mental Disorder by
radio
talk show host
Michael Savage
Let Freedom Ring:
Winning
the War of Liberty over
Liberalism by
Sean Hannity The O'Reilly Factor: The
Good, the Bad and the
Completely Ridiculous in American Life by
television talk show host
Bill
O'Reilly
In his manifesto, Atkisson makes it quite clear
that the motivation for his war on the liberals was
because he felt they were too soft on the "war on
terror." He also was angry because the
Supreme
Court extended Constitutional rights to GITMO
detainees. So his war was actually against those with
an anti-war sentiment. He makes a brief mention of
gays and blacks, but is is quite clear that that was
not his primary motivation. But if you read the
mainstream coverage of this tragedy, that is the
impression you are left with.
And where was the Southern Poverty Law Center
whose motto is "Keeping an Eye on the Radical Right".
Apparently that eye was closed when this item showed
up in the news. You would think that they would be
all over this. They are constantly turning over rocks
looking for some evidence of violence carried out by
the "Patriot" movement and when they can't find even
one trace, they put out detailed reports about the
potential for violence. They make sweeping
generalizations and postulate scenarios that don't
even exist. Yet, when a true act of violence by the
real radical right comes to the fore, they
have little to say about it. It took them over a year
to even address the issue. In their Fall 2009
Intelligence report is an article by David Holthouse
entitled "Violence Emanates From The Radical
Right". The subject of the Unitarian Universal
Church shooting and Adkisson is barely mentioned at
all. Three short paragraphs at the end of the article
gives sketchy details that are totally misleading.
Holthouse goes into great detail about the two
Southern youths who fantisized about dressing up in
white top hats and tuxedos and going on a black
killing spree before assassinating Obama. He
describes how the two boys were ultimateley arrested
after a friend of theirs turned them in to the
Secret Service. He uses that as a segue to
address the Knoxville shooting. He writes:
Unfortunately, nothing like that happened to
avert a mass killing plot carried out last July by
unemployed truck driver Jim David Adkisson, who opened
fire in a
Unitarian church in Knoxville, Tenn., because,
he said, it harbored gays and multiracial families.
Armed with a shotgun, Adkisson killed two people and
seriously wounded six before being tackled and held
for police.
Can you believe it? They come and outright lie
right in your face. They claim the motivation was
because of gays and multiracial families. No mention
of FOX News, no mention of his pro-war sentiment,
nothing!
This should tell you a lot! What it tells me is
that the SPLC and FOX are allies. There isn't a dimes
bit of difference between the two. The SPLC is not
concerned about addressing real violence if
its carried out by someone who loves war, loves
torture, loves the Patriot Act. No, they are out to
get the Patriots who are against war, against torture
and...above ALL... against violence!
This certainly is a world turned completely upside
down.
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