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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday October 15 2017, @04:46PM   Printer-friendly

http://heavy.com/news/2017/10/michael-christopher-estes-asheville-airport-bomber-suspect/

A 46-year-old man is facing federal charges accusing him of leaving a jar filled with explosives at a North Carolina airport as part of a war he pledged to fight on U.S. soil.

Michael Christopher Estes was arrested October 7 and charged with attempted malicious use of explosive materials and unlawful possession of explosive materials in an airport, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday.

The improvised explosive device, or IED, was found inside a jar at the Asheville Regional Airport about 7 a.m. on October 6, the FBI said in the complaint. Bomb technicians from the Asheville Police Department rendered the device safe. The baggage claim and lobby area of the airport were evacuated and shut down for about 2 hours. No one was injured.

also at USA Today and The Independent


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  • (Score: 2) by requerdanos on Sunday October 15 2017, @07:05PM (4 children)

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Sunday October 15 2017, @07:05PM (#582711) Journal

    I guess "white" means "not black".

    So a lifetime ago in the 1980s/1990s when I served in the armed forces, that melting pot of people who decided to volunteer, I recall a conversation among a group of mostly white troops with a few Navajo. One of the (stereotypical) white people was complaining of some-group-or-other, saying emphatically that "white people like us" don't act like that (I forget what "like that" was; I wasn't on stereotypical-white-dude's side). The Navajo man and the Navajo woman responded almost in unison, "I'm not white!"

    Moral being that to some insensitive people, "white" is an imprecise term meaning "Not (insert whatever discriminated-against group here)!"

    But to most people, I would guess, it just means white-looking.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Sunday October 15 2017, @11:19PM (3 children)

    by Thexalon (636) on Sunday October 15 2017, @11:19PM (#582800)

    Moral being that to some insensitive people, "white" is an imprecise term

    "White" has always been incredibly imprecise. Historically, at various points in US history people of Irish, Polish, Italian, Greek, Romanian, Slavic, Spanish, and Jewish descent were not considered "white" for the purposes of racism. About the only people that have always been considered "white" in the US are those descended from the English and possibly the French.

    One reason for this is that the genetic features such as skin color usually used for the purposes of classifying people into racial groups are spectrums, not sharp demarcating lines, and how light-skinned and round-eyed and pointier-nosed you need to be to be considered "white" is a matter of opinion and often convenience on the part of whoever is doing the classifying.

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    • (Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @11:48PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @11:48PM (#582809)

      There was a time when they weren't white. [google.com]

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @11:50PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 15 2017, @11:50PM (#582810)

        It was 1st on your list.

        -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jelizondo on Monday October 16 2017, @12:28AM

      by jelizondo (653) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 16 2017, @12:28AM (#582840) Journal

      Very imprecise indeed. In the U.S. I’m not a white guy, but in South Africa I’m definitely white. No change except location: same old bastard born of Spanish and French ancestors.