To: The Seattle Times, Frank Blethen, Publisher
Seattle Times: Call the Planned Parenthood arson "terrorism"
Neither the Seattle Times staff nor its Editorial Board has written an article about the deliberate, 3.a.m arson recently committed by a domestic terrorist against the Pullman, Washington Planned Parenthood health center. It is time for the mainstream media like the Times to call the arson what it is--terrorism.
Why is this important?
Violence against women and women's health clinics occurs every day. Too often, it is treated like an isolated incident by the mainstream media. This needs to stop. This arson, which is being investigated by a federal terrorism task force, needs to be called out for what it is by the media as part of an orchestrated campaign of violence against women's health clinics that is committed again and again by domestic terrorists.