Why not refer to Richard Reed (the "shoe bomber") or the underware bomber, or any of a number of current and real terrorist threats?
Oh yes, it's PC to be afraid of allegedly right-wing extremist whackos (and I confess to being more than a little miffed when the federal gov't massively violated American *citizens* rights at the Waco Massacre, myself), but shhh don't even suggest at hinting that fundamentalist Moslems have a track record of killing innocent westerners, particularly Americans.
No, it's those fundamentalist Christians, and the "Minutemen"-like militias who want the U.S. secured and the Constitution obeyed, and who've never harmed anyone that are the ones who need to be investigated on Facebook et al.
Oh, wait... McVeigh wasn't a fundamentalist Christian, nor a "Minuteman".
Oh, well, don't let that stop you. Close your eyes to the Islamic threat and pretend its those evil Christians (y'know, the ones who founded and built the U.S.) that are the dangerous Believers.
(FYI, I was two miles away from the Murrah bombing and was awakened by the blast, and might have lost both my parents that day. In case anyone thinks I'm actually *defending* McVeigh; I have no love for the PoS).
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