Where Have All the Lefty Bomb-Throwers Gone?

Nowhere---they're still here:

What happened to the great threat from the organized and armed radical right? The so-called militias dissipated, as most of their members were regular guys who didn't want to be painted as terrorist sympathizers. There were militia members who really did want to copy McVeigh, and they slunk back into the darkness to avoid the glare of the TV lights. But they were a fraction of the militia movement, and they have remained mostly underground since, isolated by their own crackpot radicalism.

In the decade since the Oklahoma City bombing, the media have remained interested in the right-wing crazies, but have almost entirely ignored the left-wing ones -- those committing most of the terrorist acts inside the United States. Left-wing terrorist groups have been responsible for almost all of the recent domestic terrorism. The National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism maintains a terrorism database. According to its files, as the Baltimore Sun reported on Sunday, fully 22 of the 25 terrorist attacks inside the United States since 2003 are believed to have been the work of environmental extremists.

This is not a recent development. Left-wing terrorists have always been the major terrorist threat in the United States. In the FBI's 1996 report on terrorism in the U.S., the bureau mentions both right-wing and left-wing terrorists, but notes: "Over the last three decades, leftist-oriented extremist groups posed the predominant domestic terrorist threat in the United States."

The report went on to state that the collapse of the Soviet Union and the bureau's success in breaking up some of those groups had reduced the threat. But within five years the assessment was different. In its official terrorism report for 2000/2001, the FBI singled out environmental radicals as a major source of domestic terrorism, but did not mention right-wing groups at all.

"During the past several years, the violence and destructive activities perpetrated by animal rights and environmental extremists in the United States and elsewhere have increased in frequency and intensity," the report stated.

Sure wish the MSM cared to report on left-wing terrorist groups instead of just funding them.