Why do I suspect it would be front page news across the country if a Muslim man (let alone a former congressional candidate and church leader) pled guilty to plotting to round up snipers and gunmen and explosives and Molotov cocktails and machetes to burn down a small Christian community?
'"When we meet in this state, the people we seek will know who we are,” Doggart told a woman during a recorded phone call. “We will be cruel to them, and we will burn down their buildings. If anyone attempts to harm us in any way, our stand gunner will take them down from 350 yards away. … If it gets down to the machete, we will cut them to shreds."'
Can you imagine Hannity? Or O'Reilly? Or Beck, or Coulter, or Malkin, or Limbaugh, or the rest of the Right Wing talking heads? They'd be all over this like a cheap suit for the next six months, calling for congressional investigations into "terror cells," increased FBI surveillance of all Muslims, and speculating on ties between the "terrorist" and other Islamic groups (not to mention the White House).
Instead … chirping crickets.
Failed congressional candidate pleads guilty in plot to massacre Muslims: ‘We will be cruel to them’
I think your heading a word missing …
+Chris Blackmore Yes, so I see. Corrected.
+Dave Hill you keep forgetting that white people, especially white right wing christionists by definition cannot be terrorists.
White people can only be terrorists if they are Islamic or leftists. So the UCC or the Quakers are by definition proto terrorists because of their beliefs.
Ladies and Gentlemen – this link is to Schedule 15b of the UK Criminal Justice Act 2003, as amended by the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) act 2012.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2012/10/schedule/18/enacted
Before you read too far I would draw your collective attention to Paragraph 44
“(1)An attempt to commit an offence specified in the preceding paragraphs of this Part of this Schedule (“a listed offence”) or murder.”
and
“(5)Aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of a listed offence.”
Standard wordings to ensure if the Police catch you before the crime the Crown Prosecution Service can still press charges.
You will note that most of the Schedule deals with sex offences, because they are many and myriad in their appearance. However please note paragraphs 2 through 6
2- An offence under section 4 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (soliciting murder).
3- An offence under section 18 of that Act (wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm).
4- An offence under section 16 of the Firearms Act 1968 (possession of a firearm with intent to endanger life).
5- An offence under section 17(1) of that Act (use of a firearm to resist arrest).
6- An offence under section 18 of that Act (carrying a firearm with criminal intent).”
“Cross border Communications” doesn’t come into it. And these are just if they decide the terrorism charges are a bit of a stretch.
On top of that the sentences will take account of aggravating factors – aggravated on grounds of race and aggravated on ground of religion.
Now remember that some British jails are 50% Muslim/Black. (General population are 5% of each, though obviously there is cross over in that figure)
Guess who would be having a very lonely decade…