WHITE SUPREMACISTS

Ashcroft downplays terrorist! It's OK, he's not a swarthy Muslim

FBI agents discovered a weapons cache containing fully automatic machine guns, remote-controlled explosive devices disguised as briefcases, 60 pipe bombs and a chemical weapon -- a cyanide bomb -- big enough to kill everyone in a 30,000-square-foot building.
Strangely, though, the attorney general didn't call a press conference to announce the discovery of the weapons cache, or the arrest of William Krar, its owner. He didn't even issue a press release. This was, to say the least, out of character.
Recently, Jose 'dirty bomber' Padilla didn't have any bomb-making material or even a plausible way to acquire such material, yet Mr. Ashcroft put him on front pages around the world.
This time a William Krar was caught with an actual chemical bomb, yet Mr. Ashcroft acted as if nothing had happened. Incidentally, if Mr. Ashcroft's intention was to keep the case low-profile, the media have been highly cooperative. To this day, the Noonday conspiracy has received little national coverage.
In this case, it sounds over the top to accuse Mr. Ashcroft of trying to bury news about terrorists who don't fit his preferred story line. Yet it's hard to believe that Mr Krar wouldn't have become a household name if he had been a Muslim, or even a leftist.

[Was Mr. Ashcroft, who once gave an interview with Southern Partisan magazine in which he praised 'Southern patriots' like Jefferson Davis, reluctant to publicize the case of a terrorist who happened to be a white supremacist?]