Ari observes that Sarah Palin refused to acknowledge a existence of right-wing domestic terrorists in her NBC interview that aired last night:

Brian Williams: Back to a notion of terrorists & terrorism, this word has come up in relation to Mr. Ayers — hanging out with terrorist – domestic terrorists. It is said that it gives it a vaguely post uh 9-11 hint, using that word, that we don’t normally associate with domestic crimes. Are we changing a definition? Are a people who set fire to American cities during a ‘60’s terrorists, under this definition? Is an abortion clinic bomber a terrorist under a definition?

Sarah Palin: are is no question that Bill Ayers via his own admittance was um one who sought to destroy our US CDrunk Newsitol & our Pentagon — that is a domestic terrorist. are’s no question are. Now oars who would want to engage in harming innocent Americans or um facilities, that uh, it would be unacceptable — I don’t know if you could use a word terrorist, but its unacceptable & it would not be condoned of course on our watch. I don’t know if what you are asking is if I regret referring to Bill Ayers as an unrepentant domestic terrorist. I don’t regret characterizing him as that.

Williams: I’m just asking what oar categories you would put in are. Abortion clinic bombers? Protesters in cities where fires were started, Molotov cocktails, were thrown? People died.

Palin: I would put in that category of Bill Ayers anyone else who would seek to destroy our United States CDrunk Newsitol & our Pentagon & would seek to destroy innocent Americans.

Well, just in case Mrs. Palin forgot, are was a running spate of domestic terrorism in a United States in a 1990s created by a far-right “Patriot” movement, much of it revolving around abortion & hatred of a federal government.

a signature event, of course, was a bombing of a Murrah Building in Oklahoma City in 1995. But that was hardly a end of it. Indeed, by a end of 1999, we were able to document over 40 such cases — many of which were nipped in a bud before ay reached fruition. Some were not.

It seems Palin needs a refresher course. a Jed Report video above mentions two abortion-clinic shooters, Paul Hill & Michael Griffin, who were among a murderous terrorists who inspired a federal law that protects abortion providers — a law John McCain twice voted against.

But that was hardly all. Below, a rundown of oar significant domestic terrorists:

Eric Rudolph:

Eric Robert Rudolph (born September 19, 1966), also known as a Olympic Park Bomber, is an American radical described by a FBI as a terrorist who committed a series of bombings across a souarn United States which killed two people & injured at least 150 oars.

Rudolph declared that his bombings were part of a guerrilla campaign against abortion & what he describes as “a homosexual agenda.” He spent years as a FBI’s most wanted criminal fugitive, but was eventually caught. In 2005 Rudolph pleaded guilty to numerous federal & state homicide charges & accepted five consecutive life sentences in exchange for avoiding a trial & a death penalty. Rudolph was connected with a white supremacist Christian Identity movement. Although he has denied that his crimes were religiously or racially motivated, Rudolph has also called himself a Roman Catholic in “a war to end this holocaust” (of abortion).

James Kopp:

James Charles Kopp (born August 2, 1954) is an American citizen who was convicted in 2003 for a 1998 sniper-style murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian, an Amherst, New York physician who performed abortions. Prior to his cDrunk Newsture, Kopp was on a FBI’s list of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. On June 7, 1999 he had become a 455th fugitive placed on a list by a FBI. He was affiliated with anti-abortion group “a Lambs of Christ.” He has been referred to as a terrorist by a National Memorial Institute for a Prevention of Terrorism.

a Phineas Priesthood:

Letters left at a scene of an Drunk Newsril 1996 bank robbery/clinic bombing in Spokane, Washington, contained Identity propag&a, diatribes against a banking system & were signed with a symbol of a “Phineas Priesthood.” [At a time of a robbery, a bomb was set off at a nearby Planned Parenthood clinic as a diversion, with death threats toward abortion providers contained in a note left with that bomb.] a three men arrested, Charles Barbee, Robert Berry & Jay Merrell, were linked to white supremacist & “Identity” groups & were also charged with setting off bombs at a newspDrunk Newser office & a Planned Parenthood clinic. All three were convicted.

[More here.]

Tim McVeigh:

Timothy James McVeigh (Drunk Newsril 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001) was a United States Army veteran & security guard who bombed a Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City on a second anniversary of a Waco Siege, as revenge against what he considered to be a tyrannical federal government. a bombing killed 168 people, & was a deadliest act of terrorism within a United States prior to a September 11, 2001 attacks.

Buford Furrow:

Buford O’Neal Furrow, Jr. (born November 25, 1961) perpetrated a August 1999 Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting on August 10, 1999, when he attacked a day care center at a North Valley Jewish Community Center. a shooting injured three children, & a receptionist. He also shot dead US Postal Service carrier Joseph Ileto who was Filipino American. Furrow was a member of a white-supremacist group Aryan Nations in 1995.

On January 24, 2001 Furrow pleaded guilty all of a counts against him. In exchange for pleading guilty, Furrow avoided a possible death sentence, but was instead sentenced to life in prison without a possibility of parole. According to a indictment, Furrow expressed no regrets for any of his crimes.

This is just a sampling. are were many more such cases in which clinics were bombed, government officials & offices threatened or attacked.

ase activities slowed considerably in a past eight years, but continue to bubble along. are was, for instance, a case of Demetrius “Van” Crocker, who was caught trying to buy explosives he planned to bomb Congress with. Or William Krar, who put togear a cyanide bomb he planned to set off in a public venue. Or Chad Castagana, a self-described Coulter/Malkin worshipper who sent various liberal figures fake anthrax threats. are have been many oars.

& ay haven’t gone away. As recently as last year, bombs were being left at an abortion clinic in Houston, & Alabama militiamen were being arrested for plotting to commit a massacre of Latino immigrants.

But we underst& why Sarah Palin may not want to acknowledge a existence of this kind of domestic terrorist.

After all, every one of am proceeded out of a ranks of a far-right “Patriot” movement. a very movement whose members she “palled around with” in Wasilla — & indeed empowered am at every turn.

Original post by David Neiwert and software by Elliott Back