DHS Secretary: Lone-Wolf Attackers Could ‘Strike At Any Moment’
Source: The Hill
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Sunday that the United States is facing a new era in which a lone-wolf terrorist could strike at any moment.
Were very definitely in a new environment, because of ISILs effective use of social media, the Internet, which has the ability to reach into the homeland and possibly inspire others, Johnson said in an interview with ABCs This Week, using the administration's preferred acronym for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Because of the use of the Internet, we could have little or no notice in advance of an independent actor attempting to strike.
As a result, Johnson said, the federal government is making a greater effort to engage with state and local law enforcement and encourage them to be vigilant about what is happening in their communities.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/241562-dhs-secretary-lone-wolf-attackers-could-strike-at-any-moment
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)GoneFishin
(5,217 posts)"give us more freedom to surveil and control the internet".
brooklynite
(94,520 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)No, by the DHS secretary.
brooklynite
(94,520 posts)sakabatou
(42,152 posts)So why are you insinuating it?
brooklynite
(94,520 posts)I'm challenging the easy insinuation that "they" are fearmongering, by people who don't bother to think about who "they" are.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)... connect to and motivate those lone wolves who are crazy enough to carrier out attacks.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)so they can be "busted" so the FBI can claim another "success" in fighting terrorists.
Turns out the FBI was involved with one of the dead Garland Texas shooters.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)24601
(3,961 posts)Iraq and the Levant, encompassing Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Given that the Islamic State (of whatever) already made that decision, ISIL is a more accurate description than limiting it to Iraq and Syria as ISIS implies.
Why would you attribute ISIL to President Obama?
http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/lebanon-getting-drawn-into-war-with-isil
http://thepoliticalstudent.com/2015/02/isil-threatens-lebanon-with-more-horrendous-attacks/
William Seger
(10,778 posts)They_Live
(3,232 posts)each time I leave my house!!!!!
chapdrum
(930 posts)And please continue to shop; you know how you feel better when you do that - just like the preznit advised after 911: "America: Open for Business."
brooklynite
(94,520 posts)sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)Lone wolf white supremacists who shoot up churches, synagogues, old folks homes and blow up federal buildings are not. Neither are armed vigilantes claiming public lands and having armed showdowns with federal agents. Nor are fundamentalist Christian fanatics who bomb abortion clinics and shoot doctors. Least of all are summary police executions in predominantly minority, Christian communities.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)graegoyle
(532 posts)"Unstable individuals".
Everyone else is organized to fight against the American way.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)Have I missed anything?
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)kath
(10,565 posts)SheilaT
(23,156 posts)taking up all the space under my bed. I guess I'm doomed.
RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)It's like Allah is just popping these Muzlin's people's heads and suddenly they're shooting everybody!!! I mean, it's all right if your everyday Krishtun neighbor goes a little off his rocker and decides to blow you away - that's, like, an American tradition. But it's way scary with these brown skinned Muzlins hiding everywhere (I'm sure there'z been one on one of my street corners the last few nights, casin' the place for his geehod and everything!)
Well, no way they'll get to my family after we seal ourselves in the basement with a 100% American home-made concrete blast shelter. No doors or anything! Not going to be no Izlumic State in my basement!
Faux pas
(14,672 posts)the rethugs game
the_sly_pig
(741 posts)and "lone wolves" are going to attack us? I think we're getting ripped off.
Trillo
(9,154 posts)but it's so much more profitable to build bombs and bullets instead of chainsaws and shovels.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)There was a time when we had a much large standing military.
Now we force Nat'l Guard to take on that burden, and those guys have to give up their jobs to go overseas.
So where the hell is the is all the money going?
Besides mercenaries...uhhh...contractors that we pay much ore than our own troops.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)This evil man devised a means to mass-produce a terrible weapon that has been responsible for as many as 25,000 deaths a year in the US alone, and has been responsible for millions of deaths around the world in the last century or so.
A stranger may strike you down with one of these devastating weapons at any moment. You will have no warning.
GGJohn
(9,951 posts)I see what you did there.
RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)acting totally alone, with absolutely no prior behavior sufficient to tip off the authorities. Not even 'self-radicalized,' but 'auto-radicalized.' Obviously we need the NSA to record metadata produced during the operation of motor vehicles. Well, not everyone, of course, just Muslims. They're dangerous! And often their skin is suspiciously dark...
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)just like those Ay-rabs. That's gen'ly a purdy good clue.
malthaussen
(17,193 posts)I suspicion there may be an intimate link between profits and what deaths are ruled acceptable by our overlords.
-- Mal
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)They calculated very carefully whether it would cost more to recall them & retro-fit them with a gas tank fix, or to just pay off the wrongful death suits they anticipated. It would by their estimates be cheaper to pay off the death suits than to instal the $15 fix, so that's the way they went.
malthaussen
(17,193 posts)Nice little car for a Detroit product of the 70's. I had a post-scandal model, though. In the great color of you're-in green.
I understand there is some debate about the authenticity of the Pinto scandal, although I tend to think it is all a smokescreen. And I've been noticing a scad of recalls for fatal problems by auto manufacturers recently. I sometimes wonder if we can't even build a car that works anymore.
As for Henry and the chromed machines of death, remember the sequence in Bloom County where Opus is running for prez? He wants to lower the speed limit to 55 because it will save lives. It's pointed out to him that the lower the speed limit, the more lives saved: banning cars altogether, thus, would save tens of thousands of lives a year. Leading this one to ruminate about how decisions are made on acceptable casualties by our rulers.
-- Mal
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)[font size=8 color=red]DANGER
UNEXPLODED PINTO[/font]
malthaussen
(17,193 posts)My previous ride had one that said "Get your shit together," which caused me to receive a ticket. Man, I was stoked. I called the ACLU and was ready and eager to fight it to the Supreme Court. Chance to make the history books and everything.
It was a wash. Intentionally or otherwise, the officer had written the wrong ordinance number on the ticket, so the case was thrown out on that technicality. I'll never forget the JP saying to me afterwards: "You don't look like the kind of person who would do something like that!" (I was wearing a suit, and had a fresh hair cut). Christ on a pogo stick, the judge was prejudiced from the start.
-- Mal
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)Trillo
(9,154 posts)Big brother telling state and local police "Keep an eye out", "We're at war", and "Lone Wolf Terrorists!"
blackspade
(10,056 posts)RiverNoord
(1,150 posts)So he's talking about the 12,000+ murders that happen in the United States every, year, right? Or would he be referring exclusively to the 20-40 or so that were committed by a dark-skinned Muslim? Cuz it's apparently nothing big when non-Muslim Americans go around killing each other -isn't that one of our Second Amendment rights? The right to bear arms and use them against other people after someone said the wrong thing while drunk at a bar, or during a domestic dispute... Obviously pointing a gun at someone and shooting them isn't terrorism - you have to be a Muslim to qualify for that....
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)imthevicar
(811 posts)LeftyMom
(49,212 posts)joshcryer
(62,270 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)In the "no shit Sherlock" files....
More fear mongering.
Jesus Malverde
(10,274 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)malthaussen
(17,193 posts)AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)So what, exactly, are we supposed to do about it? What rights are we supposed to readily give up now to ensure our collective safety?
Not buying this bullshit anymore, not that I ever did.
winter is coming
(11,785 posts)laserhaas
(7,805 posts)When will it EVER end.....
just askin......