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I wonder if this is what pushed the Millers over the edge? Also, will we see much more of this in the coming weeks?
Article published on June 4th, 2014:
After letting a special unit devoted to monitoring domestic terrorism fall dormant following the Al Qaeda attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced this week that it was reviving the group. The Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee will focus on extremists motivated by antigovernment and racial hatred, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement Tuesday.
Predictably, pundits from the extreme conspiracist right, particularly antigovernment Patriot groups, worked themselves into a frenzy over the announcement, warning their followers that a war on the white man was about to come down from the Obama administration. A similar reaction greeted the 2009 leak of a report from the Department of Homeland Security that focused on the domestic radical right, with right-wing groups describing it as an attack on the political conservatives.
In his statement announcing the DOJ committees revival, Holder noted that this decision comes after more than a decade of focus on the threat of international terrorists, while a number of recent incidents have underscored that they are not the only threat. We must also concern ourselves with the continued danger we face from individuals within our own borders who may be motivated by a variety of other causes from anti-government animus to racial prejudice, Holder said.
Several news accounts noted the move appeared to be in response to such incidents as the April murder of three people at Jewish institutions near Kansas City, Mo., the bombing of the Boston Marathon last year, a neo-Nazi attack on a Sikh temple in 2012, and a number of similar attacks. Non-Islamic domestic terrorist activity has clearly picked up in the years since Barack Obama was first elected in 2008.
Read full article: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/06/04/attorney-general-revives-domestic-terrorism-group-and-far-right-goes-wild/
JEFF9K
(1,935 posts)the people at Fox News and talk radio.
I really get the feeling that the rightwing belongs in a mental rehab facility . Honestly , everything that comes out of their mouths sounds totally insane .
defacto7
(13,485 posts)for the civilly and politically impaired it would encompass many millions in this country. So much damage has been done by RW entertainment media and those who injected them into our society it will take generations to heal. And of course there is no institution for the civilly and politically impaired so we are stuck with the results.
What we need is reality education... but reeducation is practically impossible.
BuelahWitch
(9,083 posts)Cha
(299,442 posts)Thank you, apples and oranges.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)+1 for the doj!
santamargarita
(3,170 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)littlemissmartypants
(23,243 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)some will be easily disciplined, some will be harder, but most RW extremists who are dangerous add up to a pretty small portion of the population. If 1% of them are very well educated in guerrilla warfare, the battle will be ugly.
I suppose it's much easier to be an aggressor than to subdue an indeterminable foe. For those protecting the US public it's just wait and watch, but for the aggressor, it's pick your target, stay low, and plan to die.
fried eggs
(910 posts)Monk06
(7,675 posts)will hide in the desert and prepare for the last stand. Now where have I heard that before?
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,812 posts)in protest of all things logical and reasonable. Oh, and black folk.