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In reply to the discussion: Gen. Wesley Clark: Let's Throw Radical Muslims Into Internment Camps [View all]Raine1967
(11,679 posts)33. The title of the TPM article is misleading This is not what he is saying.
And if anyone is paying attention, the government is already dealing with radicalized lone wolf's and arresting them.
FBI Arrests Man in Connection With Alleged ISIS Sympathizer
Man arrested after overseas trip, accused of sympathizing with ISIS
Ohio Man Arrested for Alleged ISIS-Inspired Plot on US Capitol, FBI Says
And this:
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-us-has-an-isis-sympathizer-problem-2015-6
Since ISIS seized and held its first cities and began building its "caliphate" in January 2015, the group has attracted increasing support from individual Americans who have drawn the attentions of US law enforcement. According to the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, the rate of American individuals arrested for connections to ISIS has accelerated as recognition of the militant group's brand grows.
The center found that from March to December 2014, before the group held any territory, an average of one US citizen per month was arrested for ties to the organization. But from January 2015 to June 22, 2015, law enforcement arrested an average of 7 US citizens a month for connections to the terrorist group.
These arrests include US residents who are providing or attempted to provide various levels of support for the organization, from helping ISIS recruit via social media to planning domestic terror attacks to trying to leave the country to become a foreign fighter in Syria or Iraq. The majority of those arrested, according to the center, are US citizens in their mid-twenties coming from a broad range of ethnic backgrounds.

Despite law enforcement's success in disrupting and arresting residents suspected of having ties to ISIS, The Soufan Group notes that there is still a large potential pool of suspects and followers of ISIS within the country. ISIS' nebulous nature and willingness to call on individuals to carry out lone-wolf attacks also makes policing against potential plots more difficult.
The center found that from March to December 2014, before the group held any territory, an average of one US citizen per month was arrested for ties to the organization. But from January 2015 to June 22, 2015, law enforcement arrested an average of 7 US citizens a month for connections to the terrorist group.
These arrests include US residents who are providing or attempted to provide various levels of support for the organization, from helping ISIS recruit via social media to planning domestic terror attacks to trying to leave the country to become a foreign fighter in Syria or Iraq. The majority of those arrested, according to the center, are US citizens in their mid-twenties coming from a broad range of ethnic backgrounds.

Despite law enforcement's success in disrupting and arresting residents suspected of having ties to ISIS, The Soufan Group notes that there is still a large potential pool of suspects and followers of ISIS within the country. ISIS' nebulous nature and willingness to call on individuals to carry out lone-wolf attacks also makes policing against potential plots more difficult.
We don't need to be all hair on fire, but it is fair to say that this is a problem. I do not fault Clark for pointing it out. The government is not rounding up people.
They are using intelligence to fine the very people that Clark is talking about.
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Gen. Wesley Clark: Let's Throw Radical Muslims Into Internment Camps [View all]
DonViejo
Jul 2015
OP
Truly disgusting. Can we throw lone wolf white people in there too? n/t
Horse with no Name
Jul 2015
#2
No. I used the published headline from the web site responsible for publishing the
DonViejo
Jul 2015
#6
As this is not LBN, it is not necessary to use the published headline here at DU.
elleng
Jul 2015
#8
yes this came through my facebook newsfeed with the same headline earlier! nt
m-lekktor
Jul 2015
#25
What exactly did he say? I am not able to listen to audio on this computer...
madinmaryland
Jul 2015
#47
He was also talking about white and Christian terrorists in America, the Dylan Roof types:
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#21
Don't think so - he is extremely smart, but he has often had a problem filtering his ideas before
karynnj
Jul 2015
#34
I agree it's a bad idea but once they identify potentially violent radicals
redstateblues
Jul 2015
#35
I don't know. Right now identifying them and arresting them seems like the most viable option.
Raine1967
Jul 2015
#37
I observe that nobody who claims Clark's DIDN'T say what he's accused of saying...
brooklynite
Jul 2015
#46
He's saying that radicalized young men who do not support our country but who
aint_no_life_nowhere
Jul 2015
#50
Radical Christians aren't killing thousands and thousands of people throughout the world
aint_no_life_nowhere
Jul 2015
#61