Sweet pic of TX gov Abbott & Joe Biggs

[kpete]

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=2GE-QNrPK-4MVecN8SCqYA

[Stuart G]

1. This one will help Beto...(.far more than anyone knows in my opinion)

,,,


Thank you for posting....

[dsp3000]

13. No it's not. Majority of republican voters are complicit at this point

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Of course, Greg is friends with the Proud Boys

[UTUSN]

3. Yeah ABBUTT has a killer smile

[dalton99a]

4. Kick

[Kid Berwyn]

5. The GZP

NAZIs have infiltrated government from the school boards to city halls to to the state houses to Congress to SCROTUS.

[czarjak]

6. Who could Not-C it coming? Know what a Nazi calls a Klansman? (Amateur)

[Kid Berwyn]

8. A NAZI conspiracy in plain sight shocker.

Why We Don't Know Much About Right-Wing Terrorists

Conservatives Fired The Guy Studying Them in 2009



Why Don’t We Know Much About Right-Wing Terrorists?

Conservatives Fired The Guy Studying Them

JAMESON PARKER
AddictingInfo, JUNE 18, 2015 4:41 PM

After a mass shooting at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, left nine people dead and a right-wing white supremacist arrested, the country once again faces the uneasy question of just how many so-called “home-grown” terrorists are out there – heavily armed, ideologically driven, and violent.

It’s a good question, but it may be tough to answer because for reasons that are astoundingly dimwitted, the Department of Homeland Security pushed out the guy who was in charge of watching them, and dismantled his team all the way back in 2009.

The beleaguered hero of this story is Daryl Johnson, a top government counterterrorism analyst working at Homeland Security who spent six years with the agency amassing a wealth of data on far-right extremist groups that posed various degrees of threat to citizens in the United States. In 2009, in the months after President Obama assumed office, he watched as these groups veered even further right, and began to fear that America’s first African-American president could be the catalyst of a major uptick in hate crimes and anti-government attacks.

In a landmark report released just months into Obama’s term, and now looks downright clairvoyant, Johnson made the case that radical Islam is only a small piece of the terrorism pie:

“Do not overlook other types of terrorist groups,” the report warned, noting that five purely domestic groups had considered using weapons of mass destruction in that period. Similar warnings have been issued by the two principal non-government groups that track domestic terrorism: the New York-based Anti-Defamation League and the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center.

An annual tally by the latter group of what it calls “Terror From the Right” listed 13 major incidents and arrests last year, nearly double the annual number in previous years; the group also reported the number of hate groups had topped 1,000 in 2010, for the first time in at least two decades.

In response to that report, Johnson was destroyed. It wasn’t his integrity or claims that got him in trouble, his facts were solid. Instead, it was the inconvenient truth that much of the threat comes from right-wing conservatives, and even more awkwardly, radical right-wing conservatives who say and think a lot of the same things mainstream right-wing conservatives say and think.

CONTINUED w/links...

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/06/18/why-dont-we-know-much-about-right-wing-terrorists-conservatives-fired-the-guy-studying-them/

That was from 2015.

Internet Archive Waybac, if link doesn’t work:

http://web.archive.org/web/20150910045015/http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/06/18/why-dont-we-know-much-about-right-wing-terrorists-conservatives-fired-the-guy-studying-them/

[RestoreAmerica2020]

14. Interesting. What became of his report...was it destroyed? Will continue

...reading @ links to find out more. Thanks!

Paz.

[Kid Berwyn]

18. Guy's still fighting White Supremacist Terror

'This isn't the final chapter': Analyst warns, again, about rise of right-wing extremists

Former DHS official Daryl Johnson says political violence could get worse unless the government takes the right steps to mitigate the threat.

by Sahil Kapur
NMC News, Jan. 13, 2921

WASHINGTON — In April 2009, a senior Homeland Security intelligence analyst named Daryl Johnson wrote an internal report warning that right-wing extremism was on the rise in the United States and that it could lead to violence.

The report leaked, and the backlash was swift. Republican lawmakers were furious. Veterans advocates criticized a section raising concerns about service members returning with post-traumatic stress. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano apologized for parts of it, and the unit ultimately was dissolved.

Nearly 11 years later, a mob of right-wing extremists, spurred by President Donald Trump, stormed the U.S. Capitol in a deadly riot that highlighted the magnitude of the threat.

"This Capitol insurrection that we just had last week — some people were like OK, this is the climax of the story. No, it's not. This is ushering in a new phase of violence and hostility," Johnson said in an interview. "This isn't the final chapter of a movement that's dying out."

Johnson, who runs DT Analytics, a security consulting firm, published a 2019 book about U.S. extremism called "Hateland." He spoke to NBC News about the threat and how it can be quelled.

Snip…

NBC NEWS: And you didn't publicize this report, but it got out.

JOHNSON: We disseminated it to police, and then it got leaked. We wrote up the report, it went through 23 revisions, got vetted at all levels, coordinated it with the FBI, went and briefed Janet Napolitano a couple of days before it was disseminated. When I was headed home that day, my branch chief, my immediate supervisor, talked about what a great briefing it was, and she was hearing a lot of positive feedback. Then three days later, all hell broke loose.

NBC NEWS: Let's fast-forward to the present. According to former Trump-era DHS official Elizabeth Neumann, "In the last 10 years, 76 percent of terrorist attacks have come from the right wing in our country." Do you feel validated by the warnings you put out at the time?

JOHNSON: When I wrote that assessment, I was just doing my job. I knew what I wrote was accurate and true. It's just unfortunate that my message got lost in the politicization of the whole thing. I don't take any satisfaction in knowing that I was right. I just wish people would listen and do something about it. So I'm more frustrated than anything.

Continues…

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/isn-t-final-chapter-analyst-warns-again-about-rise-right-n1253950

[SergeStorms]

7. I'm pretty sure Colbert and Morning Joe.....

are seen in cities other than D.C.

I could be wrong. I've never watched TV in Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and some other red states. They may have a completely different television programming system in red states.

I'll have to look into that.

[Aussie105]

12. FYI . . . .

I watch Colbert here in Australia.

My main source of US news and commentary.

[SergeStorms]

20. Good afternoon!

Thanks for that. I wasn't aware you had U.S. programming down under. No Fox Channel though, right? I hesitate to call it Fox "News", because there's only propaganda in their programming.

Nice to see we have Aussie DUers!

[IronLionZion]

9. Remember Benghazi

ask 5 of them and you get 10 different answers as to what the scandal there was.

[johnp3907]

11. Heck, just ask them WHERE it is!

Then watch their heads spin!

[kacekwl]

10. I watched again Rick Steve's special on fascism today.

People of Texas I advise you to watch it over and over. Florida too as well as everyone who hasn't seen it.

[paleotn]

15. Abbott is evil....

Already knew that.

[Handler]

16. Got to love it

when fascist get all warm and snuggly.

[MyOwnPeace]

17. Great pic........ reminds me of a song........

Oops, I guess we know which one is which (according to the lyrics.......)

[Trailrider1951]

19. Is that Cancun Cruz's fat ass in the background?

Inquiring minds want to know!

[keithbvadu2]

21. Proud Boys aren't so bad ass after a few weeks in jail... Proud Boys' leader Joe Biggs whines

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215653037

Proud Boys aren't so bad ass after a few weeks in jail.
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Tough guy in jail

Proud Boys’ leader Joe Biggs, who organized and led the PBs on Jan 6 with Ethan Nordean, just issued a statement from his jail cell complaining about how bad it is.

Part 1...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E68LL4nWQAEBZ03?format=jpg&name=small

Part 2...
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E68P7oiXMAUwzxO?format=jpg&name=small

Karma... video with his new violence bat...

Link to tweet

[rockfordfile]

22. un-American fascist pos

[uponit7771]

23. K&R,