FBI informant's book predicts far-right violence: 'we should be afraid'

[marmar]

(Guardian UK) America’s fraught 2024 election could be hit by far-right violence, warns a high-profile FBI informant who spent years infiltrating the Klu Klux Klan in a new book.

Joe Moore spent a decade tasked with infiltrating KKK chapters in Florida to investigate enduring ties between law enforcement and the white supremacist organization, an assignment that included disrupting a murder plot by a trio of Klansmen who worked as prison guards.

Now the former US army sniper is out with a book, White Robes and Broken Badges, detailing those experiences – and applying the lessons he learned to an approaching election freighted with fears of the impact of far-right and white supremacist groups.

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“Unfortunately, I think it’s relevant to any time in our nation’s history, not just this election,” Moore says. Far-right ideology has two origins, he has come to learn. “One is geographical, where you are raised up in an area where that ideology is simply a part of a belief system. The second is a generational origin in which it’s handed down.” ..............(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/aug/25/joe-moore-white-robes-broken-bandages-kkk

[dlk]

1. We can't be too afraid to vote

That would be playing into Republicans dirty hands.

[bif]

2. DUPE

[grumpyduck]

3. No, not be afraid.

Be ready. Plan for it. And tell them so.

[LunaSea]

4. Be vigilant, not afraid.

The majority of these ignorant knobs are too stupid to warrant fearfulness.

[orthoclad]

5. Reich-wing terror

They've been practicing tactics for decades, all the way back to the OKC bombing/murders.

We've had several incidents of power grid disruptions, where someone shot up transformers. Big targets with large results, all for a few rifle bullets. Productive asymmetric/guerilla tactic.

I hope there's extra security around critical infrastructure for blue cities: water, power, highways, bridges.

[Think. Again.]

7. Good point...

...it isn't only obviously election-related crimes we should be preparing for.

Disruptions of society in general could serve rightwing election crimes just as well.

That's what the Jan. 6 pipebombs were intended to do.

[orthoclad]

8. They've had decades of practice and training

What they lack is the will to act. But it only takes a few to create massive disruption.

Chaos leads to the Extreme Court.

[Think. Again.]

6. We must begin to take a much more...

...pro-active, zero-tolerance approach to rightwingism.

This artucle speaks of rightwingism as being passed down on a generational scale, and yet we plant agents to spend decades "investigating" rather than taking immediate action with each and crime committed.

Our justice system is meant to work as deterent to crime, to REDUCE crime, not as a micro-economy that relies on recurrent and expanding crime for it's own relevence.

[orthoclad]

9. It goes back to the snafu at Waco,

combined with the political wing of the terror movement complaining about being persecuted.

The Feds backed down at Bundy Ranch, Malheur, and J6. This encourages Right terror. We're not dealing with Eisenhower republicans, we're dealing with pols who pose with military weapons for xms cards.

[Think. Again.]

10. Yes, that's why I believe...

...that garland's decision to not very publicly hold trump accountable for Jan. 6 was, in fact, SUPPORT and ENCOURAGEMENT for rightwing criminality.

[orthoclad]

11. Bingo!

There's a direct line from our decades of Right terror from Bundy Ranch to J6. Every time we play nice, the Right just thinks we're weak, and the next event is worse.