Things don't change much

"I remember Oklahoma when they put out the blaze
And put Islamic terrorist bombing, on the front page"

Americans have had a pretty long association with making up the news. Remember the Maine and so forth.

I figure this is rather self-explanatory really. The people who bombed the Murrah building are the same types of people who are most active in protesting Obama, either by spraying him with Nazi symbols (which is weird when you think of it in the abstract) or by demanding more and more information on his eligibility for service, despite there already having been plenty of evidence, on the assumption that he's un-American.

But we're far more comfortable assuming that this sort of virulent nonsense is meted out by the "non-Americans" until they hit us in the face. Those same extremist radicals who went around talking about the UN and FEMA and their secret death camps and black helicopters during the midst of the Clinton years never quite went away. They just lost their public spotlight once one of their number was executed for carrying out an act of terrorism (and Bush won so their most pressing rights, guns, weren't being tossed around so much). I'm beginning to wonder whether another spotlight will soon be forthcoming. Whenever I try to engage people on the fringe of this radical element with the supposition that we've already been seeing some low level radical acts of terror, in the vein of Eric Rudolph or McVeigh, they seem to assume that only Muslim radicals are worth fighting or are even at all busy doing anything. They're not the only threat to our liberties.

The people who suppose themselves to be busy defending them are among those threats.