FBI Arrests Anti-Choice Terrorist for North Carolina Abortion Clinic Bomb Plot

Earlier this month, the FBI arrested freedom-hating terrorist Justin Carl Moose, 26, for his alleged assistance in a plot to blow up a North Carolina women’s health clinic.

The investigation began after Planned Parenthood employees alerted the FBI to Moose’s Facebook page, which was riddled with anti-choice hate speech encouraging and celebrating violence against reproductive health care providers. Some sample nuggets of wingnuttery, via the FBI affidavit:

Save a life, shoot an abortionist.

Make a bomb and light the fuse, another Hero in the news. The monster dead, with hole in head. His end was made and babies were saved.

…Calling all Tim McVeighs and Eric Rudolphs! We must take the war to the enemies of freedom and retaliate with all due force.

I have learned a lot from the Muslim terrorists and I have no problems using their tactics. People say sarcastically ‘what’s the difference between a Christian terrorist and an Islamic terrorist?’ I tell them simply that I’m right and I serve a living God! THAT’S the difference. [emphasis added]

Supplementing Moose’s compassionate Facebook musings was a tribute video to murderers of reproductive health providers called “Hey Man Nice Shot,” as well as thorough instructions for concocting the same explosive used in the 2005 London subway attacks. One of his more curious threats involved an “Oklahoma City-style” removal of the proposed “mosque” at Ground Zero, which seems a bit counterintuitive for a dude who simultaneously brags about emulating Talibani leaders and tactics. Moose is a self-proclaimed member of the homophobic and anti-choice domestic terrorist group Army of God, and he refers to himself as “the Christian counterpart to Osama Bin Laden."

For totally obvious reasons, the FBI began monitoring Moose, eventually using a confidential source who requested his help with blowing up a medical center where a friend’s wife was planning to get an abortion. After the two exchanged several conversations in which Moose unloaded a terrifying cornucopia of bomb-making knowledge, flawed ideological drivel, and delusions of grandeur, agents took him into custody on Sept. 7th.

This story is absolutely nuts, though what’s even crazier is that not one major news outlet referred to this as terrorism, despite the fact that systematically using violence and harassment to prevent citizens from providing or obtaining constitutionally-protected health care literally defines the term (which even the government reluctantly recognizes). And this is not the first time it’s happened. In the news covering this particular incident, the only reference to terrorism in any mainstream story came from Moose’s direct quotes ... talking about himself. Look guys, if the dude in question essentially calls himself a terrorist and you can’t bring yourselves to follow suit, you’re either the world’s crappiest journalists or way too afraid of offending people who, quite frankly, deserve to be offended.

I don’t mean to be an oversensitive lefty, but I’m pretty sure that if this guy was Muslim they’d have no problem throwing “terrorist” around like confetti. How does this foolishness not cause the same public relations nightmare for Christianity that it does for Islam? Anti-Muslim hate crimes go up any time there’s a mention of even peaceful Islamic activity in the news, yet anti-choice terrorism yields no indignant demands for the exclusion of Christians in our society, nor retaliatory attacks on churches and anti-choice groups (which is indeed a very good thing, but that courtesy should go both ways).

The unwillingness to admit that terrorism knows no racial or religious bounds is not a minor, meaningless discrepancy. Words matter, and our refusal to decry violent Christian and/or anti choice terrorism with the same fury we typically reserve only for Islamic fundamentalists both exemplifies and contributes to a culture where racism, religious discrimination, and violence against women and women’s rights is tolerated. It’s completely and totally unacceptable.

The next time you hear somebody claim the 9/11 terrorists represent Islam, ask them if that also means this terrorist represents Christianity.

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