Thought experiment.
New Yorker Joseph Martino was arrested Thursday night after the neighbors called 911 because they heard an explosion coming from his apartment in a community near Rochester. Allegedly, things went haywire when Martino was trying to dry bomb making materials in his oven.
Police said that bomb-making was Martino’s hobby. And though they found several jars of a chemical generally associated with terror groups, according to an official with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, there is no evidence he had any “ill intent” according to police. This headline reflects the tone of coverage: “Police: NY man with homemade bomb stockpile blew up his oven while trying to dry explosives”
Oh and Martino has some type of criminal history, and the police allegedly found an arsenal of weapons (30-40 pipe bombs and other explosive devices, including firearms) at his home. They also found another storage site of his in the area and they’re not saying what was uncovered there.
But the police did some helpful profiling of Martino:
Police don’t believe Martino is affiliated with any groups…
So: no national headlines. No statement from homeland security or the White House.
Thought experiment: imagine if Martino were a Muslim.
Well, the most logical reaction would be to invade Pakistan.
@Annie Robbins, you live in a country where citizens are entitled by law to have weapons stashed in their dwellings.
I would suggest that the tendency is rather to hide cases involving Muslims, because it tends to drive fear into the hearts of the poor infidels, who, as you aware, tend to then lash out with fits of rational Islamophobia.
You just have to listen whenever there is an instance of a major crime involving Muslims – the media try everything possible to disguise the fact until it becomes too bleedingly obvious to do so.
the link you supply to the piece published by Associated Press on fox news dot com has to be the most sloppiest journalism i seen in a long time. they seem more interested in the pronouciation of the name for the”Undersheriff James Szczesniak (SEHZ’-nee-ak)” rather then getting Martino age right.
now, if he was a Muslim ……………………………………