BobbyDigital
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What about all the terror attacks by Christians as well as other non-religiously motivated terror attacks?
I'll assume that we can all agree that the definition of terrorism is "the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims."
Anti-Abortion:
-March 10, 1993: Dr. David Gunn of Pensacola, Florida was fatally shot during a protest. He had been the subject of wanted-style posters distributed by Operation Rescue in the summer of 1992. Michael F. Griffin was found guilty of Gunn's murder and was sentenced to life in prison.
-July 29, 1994: Dr. John Britton and James Barrett, a clinic escort, were both shot to death outside another facility, the Ladies Center, in Pensacola. Rev. Paul Jennings Hill was charged with the killings. Hill received a death sentence and was executed on September 3, 2003.
-December 30, 1994: Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols, were killed in two clinic attacks in Brookline, Massachusetts. John Salvi was arrested and confessed to the killings.
-January 29, 1998: Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer who worked as a security guard at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, was killed when his workplace was bombed. Eric Robert Rudolph, received two life sentences as a result.
-October 23, 1998: Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot to death with a high-powered rifle at his home in Amherst, New York. James Kopp was convicted of Slepian's murder after being apprehended in France in 2001.
-May 31, 2009: Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed by Scott Roeder as Tiller served as an usher at a church in Wichita, Kansas.
- May 26, 1983: Joseph Grace set the Hillcrest clinic in Norfolk, Virginia ablaze. He was arrested while sleeping in his van a few blocks from the clinic when an alert patrol officer noticed the smell of kerosene.
-May 12, 1984: Two men entered a Birmingham, Alabama clinic shortly after a lone woman opened the doors at 7:45 am. Forcing their way into the clinic, one of the men threatened the woman if she tried to prevent the attack while the other, wielding a sledgehammer, did between $7,500 and $8,000 of damage to equipment. The man who damaged the equipment was later identified as Father Edward Markley. Father Markley is a Benedictine Monk who was the Birmingham diocesan "Coordinator for Pro-Life Activities". Markley was convicted of first-degree criminal mischief and second-degree burglary. Following the Birmingham incident, Markley entered the Women's Community Health Center in Huntsville Alabama, assaulting at least three clinic workers. One of the workers, Kathryn Wood received back injuries and a broken neck vertebrae.
-December 25, 1984: An abortion clinic and two physicians' offices in Pensacola, Florida, were bombed in the early morning of Christmas Day by a quartet of young people who later called the bombings "a gift to Jesus on his birthday."
-March 29, 1993: Blue Mountain Clinic in Missoula, Montana; at around 1 a.m., an arsonist snuck onto the premises and firebombed the clinic. The perpetrator was ultimately caught, convicted and imprisoned.
-May 21, 1998: Three people were injured when acid was poured at the entrances of five abortion clinics in Miami, Florida.
October 1999: Martin Uphoff set fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, causing US$100 worth of damage. He was later sentenced to 60 months in prison.
-May 28, 2000: An arson at a clinic in Concord, New Hampshire, resulted in several thousand dollars' worth of damage. The case remains unsolved. This was the second arson at the clinic.
-September 30, 2000: John Earl, a Catholic priest, drove his car into the Northern Illinois Health Clinic after learning that the FDA had approved the drug RU-486. He pulled out an ax before being forced to the ground by the owner of the building, who fired two warning shots from a shotgun.
-June 11, 2001: An unsolved bombing at a clinic in Tacoma, Washington, destroyed a wall, resulting in $6,000 in damages.
-July 4, 2005: A clinic Palm Beach, Florida, was the target of an arson. The case remains open.
-December 12, 2005: Patricia Hughes and Jeremy Dunahoe threw a Molotov cocktail at a clinic in Shreveport, Louisiana. The device missed the building and no damage was caused. In August 2006, Hughes was sentenced to six years in prison, and Dunahoe to one year. Hughes claimed the bomb was a "memorial lamp" for an abortion she had had there.
-September 11, 2006 David McMenemy of Rochester Hills, Michigan, crashed his car into the Edgerton Women's Care Center in Davenport, Iowa. He then doused the lobby in gasoline and started a fire. McMenemy committed these acts in the belief that the center was performing abortions; however, Edgerton is not an abortion clinic. Time magazine listed the incident in a "Top 10 Inept Terrorist Plots" list.
-April 25, 2007: A package left at a women's health clinic in Austin, Texas, contained an explosive device capable of inflicting serious injury or death. A bomb squad detonated the device after evacuating the building. Paul Ross Evans (who had a criminal record for armed robbery and theft) was found guilty of the crime.
-May 9, 2007: An unidentified person deliberately set fire to a Planned Parenthood clinic in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
-December 6, 2007: Chad Altman and Sergio Baca were arrested for the arson of Dr. Curtis Boyd's clinic in Albuquerque. Baca's girlfriend had scheduled an appointment for an abortion at the clinic.
-January 22, 2009 Matthew L. Derosia, 32, who was reported to have had a history of mental illness rammed an SUV into the front entrance of a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota.
-January 1, 2012 Bobby Joe Rogers, 41, firebombed the American Family Planning Clinic in Pensacola, Florida, with a Molotov cocktail; the fire gutted the building. Rogers told investigators that he was motivated to commit the crime by his opposition to abortion
-April 1, 2012 A bomb exploded on the windowsill of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, resulting in a fire that damaged one of the clinic's examination rooms. No injuries were reported.
-April 11, 2013 A Planned Parenthood clinic in Bloomington, Indiana, was vandalized with an axe.
KKK/Neo Nazi:
November 3, 1979, five communist protesters were killed by KKK and American Nazi Party members in the Greensboro massacre in Greensboro, North Carolina
In 1980, three KKK members shot four elderly black women (Viola Ellison, Lela Evans, Opal Jackson and Katherine Johnson) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, following a KKK initiation rally.
two KKK members were convicted after Michael Donald was lynched in 1981 in Alabama.
08/05/2012: White Supremacist Wade Michael Page attacked a Sikh temple near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, killing 7. http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/06/us/wisconsin-temple-shooting/
Also:
[link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League#In_the_U.S.">from 1980 through 1985, there were 18 officially classified terrorist attacks in the U.S. committed by Jews
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuerzas_Armadas_de_Liberaci%C3%B3n_Nacional_Puertorrique%C3%B1aFuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional – a Puerto Rican paramilitary organization – carried out more than 120 bomb attacks on U.S. targets between 1974 and 1983.
Environmentalist terror acts:
* Environmental Anarchists set fire to a townhome to protest builder's lack of sustainable building.
* 6/05/2010: On Saturday night at about 0315, in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States, the Tandy Leather Factory store, located on 1107 South State Street, was set on fire by Walter Edmund Bond, a member of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) - North America, who claimed responsibility for the incident on the BiteBack Animal Liberation Front website. The store sustained $20,000 of damage from the arson attack.
Other attacks:
* 02/18/2010: On Thursday, in Austin, Texas, United States, Joseph Stack flew his private plane into the IRS building, igniting a fire throughout the seven-story building. He had problems with the IRS in the past and believed "Violence was the only answer." He was proclaimed dead on impact. Several workers were wounded and one was killed. The building was destroyed
* 7/27/2008: a man armed with a shotgun opened fire on a church congregation in Knoxville, Tennesee resulting in the death of two people, and the wounding of seven. The attack on the Unitarian church was apparently motivated by hatred for progressive social policies. http://news.yahoo.com/shooting-reported-at-lax-international-terminal-171446507.html
* 09/01/2010: James Lee took three hostages, two employees and the security guard, at the Discovery Communications headquarters building in Silver Spring, Maryland waving a starter pistol, with four crude explosive strapped to his body, two were propane cylinders with pipes attached that contained shotgun shells, and the other two were pipe bombs. Lee was motivated by his disapproval of the Discovery network's television programming and in his manifesto on the internet, he laid out 11 demands for the network to change it's programming to focus on sterilization and infertility of humans rather than showcasing overpopulation. When one hostage tried to run, Lee pointed a pistol at him, at which time Lee was shot to death by police snipers. All three hostages were freed unharmed and the rest of the 1,900 employees of the building were able to escape unharmed as well.
* and of course the Unabomber.
[Edited on January 9, 2015 at 4:01 PM. Reason : .]  1/9/2015 3:57:38 PM
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