NPR Affiliate's "California Report": Terror threat from Christians and Patriots

KQED (San Francisco) The California Report ^ | September 19, 2001 | The California Report

[Plutarch]

My correspondence with The California Report, most recent first:

Mr. Plutarch, thanks for your email dated October third.

I understand your concern that some Fundamentalist Christian groups were mentioned along comments about hate groups. Jason Pate is a Senior Research Associate at The Center for Nonproliferation Studies, specializing in tracking hate crimes and threats. We interviewed Pate because of his expertise in following hate groups. As a news organization, it seems valid to present the comments of someone with such expertise. As journalists, we are not agreeing or disagreeing with his comments but merely presenting them as information.

I believe that Pate was referring to the fact that some people associated with public acts of violence, such as the bombing of abortion clinics, have identified themselves as Fundamentalist Christians. It is this group of people that organizations such as the Center for NonProliferation Studies is tracking. I don't believe Mr. Pate was referring to most Christians or Fundamentalist Christians. Just like many other groups, there are extremists that choose to use the same labels. I appreciate your concern and agree that we all need to be very careful with our choice of words and the labels we use. Thanks for writing.

Andrea Kissack

Sr. Producer, The California Report

[I had to send away via snail mail for the tape and then transcribe it]

Plutarch--

This morning we aired an interview with Jason Pate of the Center for Non-Proliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Mr. Pate discussed terrorist cells in California -- there was absolutely no mention of Christian and patriotic organizations being a threat to public safety, I assure you.

The California Report has run already, therefore the only way to hear it again would be to order a tape or CD.

Please let me know if you have any further questions.

The California Report

Dear California Report

I am trying to figure out if I heard an interviewee correctly on this morning’s California Report. I thought I heard Christian and patriotic organizations portrayed as a threat to public safety. I would like to find out today if I was mistaken. On the web site it appears that the California Report has already run on its network, is there another way to hear it?

Plutarch

[Billthedrill]

Uh, right, sure thing...Falwell and the boys are going to strap explosives on their bodies and take out the Golden Gate Bridge...could happen...

[norton]

Ideology uber alles.
Jack booted liberals sighted massing on the left coast.

As I read in another thread this AM, democracy means you can be just as irrational as you want.
The problem with that theory is that people read this stuff and take it as gospel.

[The real problem is that in today's America it is easy to equate Christianity with evil because Christians seldom hit back - it is impossible to equate Islam with evil because, well, it just wouldn't be right considering the dogmatic value place on diversity.]
Would it?

[norton]

A reminder to all - NPR is funded by YOUR tax dollars and mine.
Maybe the current administration could be asked to remind them where and for what reason a fairly large number of our other tax dollars are being spent right now?

[telos]

Regardless, given the skullduggery, the homeland defense war on terror, will become a war on citizens.

[editor-surveyor]

"I am trying to figure out if I heard an interviewee correctly on this morning’s California Report."

KQED is the vilest bucket of anti-American, anti-Christian vomit that exists anywhere in this world.

Their audience is 'Red Barbara' Lee's core constituency.

They have a companion Marxist radio station, KPFA, that also fills the Kalifornia air with anti-American, anti-Christian crap.

You are liable to hear most any kind of disinfo from that gang.

Petition Congress to DEFUND N.P.R. !!!

[Constitution Day]

The mention of the SPLC makes me wonder if Morris Dees and Mark Potok are going to be part of the "Office of Homeland Security".

[Aurelius]

Why do people, even such as National Pink Radio, continue to give credence to Morris Dees' Southern Poverty Law Center. It has been exposed as a scam, raising money from suckers with its bogus threats of extremist organizations. That money has simply gone to create a huge nest egg for Dees and his few affiliates. Even the New York Times has said as much. A major article on the subject, "The church of Morris Dees" appeared recently in Atlantic Monthly or Harper's.

Dees' sister is one of the organisers of the Million Mom March. It must run in the family.

[fone]

Please! Don't give them any dangerous ideas.
They come up with enough on their own...

[Grampa Dave]

This was a quote, "PATE: All 50 states have active hate groups, militia groups and fundamentalist Christian groups, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is a non-profit organization based in Montgomery, Alabama that tracks that type of activity. There are at least 29 active hate groups in California, and at least 23 active patriot or militia organizations in the state!"

I would be willing to bet that more hate America/Americans organizations have donated money to the SPLC than to any so called militia! These clowns spend more time worrying about blacks being killed by KKKers than the real killings each weekend of black on black violence from the black gang bangers. This organization needs White Arians or what ever and KKKers to raise money, get funds from the Feds and other scams.

I believe that they were the main misleaders re all of the black churches burning due to evil white males a few years ago, some how they slid away with getting hell they should have gotten!

KQED radio and tv are run and managed by hate America/Americans in the lovely city of San Francisco. It depends on donations and grants to push its venom like this with a little liberal culture. We stopped contributing to them in 1977!

I would believe OBL before I believed anything from KQED or the Southern Poverty Law Center. Hell, I would believe Clintoon before I believed anything from these two left wing extremist organizations dependent on bs like this to raise money and to scam it from our governments!

[jsraggmann]

Do you know, or can you find out who owns the station?

[Aurelius]

Re: Southern Poverty Law Center The Church of Morris Dees

[mrjeff]

This is par for the course on KQED. When I lived in SFO, I listened to KQED a lot. Everything produced locally for KQED is leftist blather.

[white trash redneck]

As I recall, they call the NRA a hate group. I wouldn't be surprised if they also include the Catholic church, since they oppose abortions. What a bunch of liberal hooey.

[fone]

*bump*

[fone]

*another* bump

[Roebucks]

Source

Jason Pate is a Senior Research Associate and Manager of the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) Terrorism Project for the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program , at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), at the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS). A certified Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), his primary interest is law enforcement/first responder response to and emergency planning for terrorist incidents. His research focuses on understanding motivations and patterns of behavior associated with terrorism involving weapons of mass destruction, the militia and Christian Identity phenomenon in the United States, and the causes of violence.

jpate@miis.edu

[Roebucks]

More likely, he was referring to these guys as he worked on a book that studied this case.

[Roebucks]

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