What if a bigot, armed with hundreds of explosives, were to turn up at the headquarters of GLAAD, the huge LGBTQ organization, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, and threatened to blow up the building and kill as many trans persons as he could? What if the target were a Detroit mosque on Eid-al-Fitr, the last day of Ramadan? Would this not be the lead story for days on end, until every detail was known?
Why, then, is there such a lack of curiosity about the mad D.C. bomber who showed up at a prominent Catholic church on October 5, threatening to kill Supreme Court members at a Mass they were expected to attend? Louis Geri ascended the steps at St. Matthew’s Cathedral carrying over 200 handmade bombs, including bottle rockets and Molotov cocktails.
What we know about him is practically nothing. Why is that? We know he was not targeting Catholic dissidents—like all the other would-be Catholic killers he was going after the faithful.
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Police are in possession of a nine-page notebook that Geri had, expressing “animosity toward the Catholic Church, Supreme Court justices, members of the Jewish faith and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.” After he was charged with a hate crime, most of the media put this story to bed.
Some of the D.C. media, including the Washington Post, have continued to cover this event, but the national media have not. This is true for print, electronic and internet media outlets.
Catholics, in particular, have a right to know what this madman has said about them and their religion. Jews also need answers.
Let’s face it. Transgender persons and Muslims are a protected class. Catholics and Jews are not. Nothing new about the media treatment of Catholics, but in recent times have they turned on Jews as well.
If the media do not press the police, they will still carry out their investigation, but they will be in no hurry to make public their findings. The media bias is palpable, if not deadly.
LifeNews Note: Bill Donohue is the president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
