Homeland Security Report Warns Of Rising Right-Wing Extremism

[Yurt]

and still no lefty will address the fact that there is no specific threat

 

[Synthaholic]

Gun-related violence: “Heightened interest in legislation for tighter firearms...may be invigorating rightwing extremist activity, specifically the white supremacist and militia movements.”
[/INDENT]

Get to know your fellow countrymen and women. Please, quit perpetuating this division crap.

We may all come from different places, and have different ideas on how to achieve happiness, but at the end of the day ordinary people on both the right and left want to make the world a better place for their children.

Quit obsessing over the negative, and start buying into the positive.

These shootings are not random. This Kansas shooter has been known for years, and his associates past and present are all dangerous Right-Wing kooks.

 

[KevinWestern]

Gun-related violence: “Heightened interest in legislation for tighter firearms...may be invigorating rightwing extremist activity, specifically the white supremacist and militia movements.”
[/INDENT]

Get to know your fellow countrymen and women. Please, quit perpetuating this division crap.

We may all come from different places, and have different ideas on how to achieve happiness, but at the end of the day ordinary people on both the right and left want to make the world a better place for their children.

Quit obsessing over the negative, and start buying into the positive.

These shootings are not random. This Kansas shooter has been known for years, and his associates past and present are all dangerous Right-Wing kooks.

Was the shooter a white supremacist, and did he specifically target a certain cultural group during his killing spree?

 

[Synthaholic]

Too little government?

Yes. Government rules/regulations aren't always a bad thing. I sometimes forget this.

Ahhh, so you're one of the "give up a some liberty for some temporary security" crowd.

More likely one of the "give me clean water instead of your temporary profits" crowd.

Without government regulation, this country would be a giant landfill.

 

[Synthaholic]

And your point?

Right wing extremism is an ongoing threat to American domestic security.

only right wing extremism?

Until PETA starts killing innocent people, yes.

 

[Synthaholic]

Right wing extremism is an ongoing threat to American domestic security.

A threat? How big exactly?

Statistically what are the chances that you'll be wounded/killed in a homegrown, "right-wing extremist" attack in the next 20 years?

I would imagine you have a much greater chance of getting struck by lighting twice in the same week.

Please, quit perpetuating this bogus propaganda.

The chances are very low that anyone will be killed by any terrorist any time, regardless if its a Muslim terrorist or a right wing terrorism. Yet, we spent more than a trillion dollars and thousands of Americans died in response to a single terrorist act.

You can't whitewash one right wing domestic terrorist act and condemn another foreign terrorist act because it was perpetrated by someone who looks and sounds different than you.

And I'd say the same thing about left wing envirowackos who blow up labs or spike trees with nails.

I always kind of liked that one. Creative.

 

[whitehall]

You need an enemy to convince citizens to give up their rights. Reagan had communism and Obama has Americans.

 

[Synthaholic]

Gee, so volume is the determinant factor; X only killed a few, Y killed lots; therefor Y is evil and X is .... what?

Bad-natured?

 

[Synthaholic]

According to data compiled by the New America Foundation, since the 2001 September 11 attacks, right-wing extremists have committed at least eight lethal terrorist attacks in the United States, resulting in the deaths of nine people.[citation needed] According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, between January 1, 2007 and October 31, 2009, white supremacists were involved in 53 acts of violence, 40 of which were assaults directed primarily at African-Americans, seven of which were murders and the rest of which were threats, arson and intimidation.[34]

 

[CorvusRexus]

Remember this, from 2009? Wingnuts went crazy over this report. Yet, once again it has been proven correct with the shootings in Kansas.


Homeland Security Report Warns Of Rising Right-Wing Extremism



If you think the conservative "Tea Party" movement is daunting, take a look at a new report issued by the Department of Homeland Security that says right-wing extremism is on the rise throughout the country.

In the report (a full copy of which is below), officials warn that right-wing extremists could use the bad state of the U.S. economy and the election of the country's first black president to recruit new members to their cause.
In the intelligence assessment issued to law enforcement last week, Homeland Security officials said there was no specific information about an attack from right-wing extremists in the works.

The agency warns that an extended economic downturn with real estate foreclosures, unemployment and an inability to obtain credit could foster an environment for extremists to recruit new members who may not have been supportive of these causes in the past.

In November, law enforcement officials were seeing more threats and unusual interest against then- President-elect Barack Obama than ever before.

ThinkProgress notes some key take-aways from the report:

Anti-immigration: “Rightwing extremist groups’ frustration over a perceived lack of government action on illegal immigration has the potential to incite individuals or small groups toward violence. If such violence were to occur, it likely would be isolated, small-scale, and directed at specific immigration-related targets.”

Recruiting returning vets: “Rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat.”

Gun-related violence: “Heightened interest in legislation for tighter firearms...may be invigorating rightwing extremist activity, specifically the white supremacist and militia movements.”
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Has Homeland Security been spying on this board again?

 

[Synthaholic]

A particular concern for law enforcement is the Sovereign Citizens movement, whose adherents reject all U.S. laws as well as taxation and American currency. An FBI report published in 2011 said "lone-offender sovereign-citizen extremists have killed six law enforcement officers" since 2000.

The numbers in the New America Foundation database may well understate the toll of violence from right-wing extremists. Another FBI study reported that between January 1, 2007, and October 31, 2009, white supremacists were involved in 53 acts of violence, 40 of which were assaults directed primarily at African-Americans, seven of which were murders and the rest of which were threats, arson and intimidation. Most of these were treated as racially motivated crimes rather than political acts of violence, i.e. terrorism.


In the past year, the FBI has concluded investigations into a number of right-wing extremists, in some cases securing lengthy sentences for violent plots. In December, Kevin Harpham of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced to 32 years for planting a bomb at the site of a Martin Luther King Jr. parade. City workers found the bag containing the bomb an hour before the streets filled with parade-goers.


LINK

 

[Synthaholic]

The usual bunch side with the criminal element against their own country.

Criminal element? What criminal element?

This article implies that violence resulting from "right wing extremism" is a real thing in this country that we should be concerned about. But the problem is, it isn't. It's virtually non-existent.

This article is promoting fear of something that is not deserving of fear.

I took the 2009 DHS report to mean that "right wing extremism" is on the rise. And it has been.

 

[Synthaholic]

Let's see, this is from an Administration that called Republicans "the enemy" and labeled Veterans "Extremists"

Republicans aren't the enemy of this administration?

 

[CorvusRexus]

According to data compiled by the New America Foundation, since the 2001 September 11 attacks, right-wing extremists have committed at least eight lethal terrorist attacks in the United States, resulting in the deaths of nine people.[citation needed] According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, between January 1, 2007 and October 31, 2009, white supremacists were involved in 53 acts of violence, 40 of which were assaults directed primarily at African-Americans, seven of which were murders and the rest of which were threats, arson and intimidation.[34]

Good God! Terrorists killed like 2977 people on 9/11 alone, and cars resulted in the deaths of 33, 561 people last year! But right-wing people killed eight in 13 years and they are the automatically the real threat. White supremacists murdered 7 African American people in a year and half, while I am having difficulty finding a statistic related to it, I am sure the number of black-on-white hate crimes are much higher.
But God forbid it be anybody but the right who is responsible!

 

[Synthaholic]

and still no lefty will address the fact that there is no specific threat

What are you yurting about, Buckwheat?

 

[Synthaholic]

Get to know your fellow countrymen and women. Please, quit perpetuating this division crap.

We may all come from different places, and have different ideas on how to achieve happiness, but at the end of the day ordinary people on both the right and left want to make the world a better place for their children.

Quit obsessing over the negative, and start buying into the positive.

These shootings are not random. This Kansas shooter has been known for years, and his associates past and present are all dangerous Right-Wing kooks.

Was the shooter a white supremacist, and did he specifically target a certain cultural group during his killing spree?

Yes.

 

[CorvusRexus]

Let's see, this is from an Administration that called Republicans "the enemy" and labeled Veterans "Extremists"

Republicans aren't the enemy of this administration?

Yes, but the administration is the enemy of America.

 

[Synthaholic]

According to data compiled by the New America Foundation, since the 2001 September 11 attacks, right-wing extremists have committed at least eight lethal terrorist attacks in the United States, resulting in the deaths of nine people.[citation needed] According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, between January 1, 2007 and October 31, 2009, white supremacists were involved in 53 acts of violence, 40 of which were assaults directed primarily at African-Americans, seven of which were murders and the rest of which were threats, arson and intimidation.[34]

Good God! Terrorists killed like 2977 people on 9/11 alone, and cars resulted in the deaths of 33, 561 people last year! But right-wing people killed eight in 13 years and they are the automatically the real threat. White supremacists murdered 7 African American people in a year and half, while I am having difficulty finding a statistic related to it, I am sure the number of black-on-white hate crimes are much higher.
But God forbid it be anybody but the right who is responsible!

It's the rise in the number of groups.

 

[CorvusRexus]

According to data compiled by the New America Foundation, since the 2001 September 11 attacks, right-wing extremists have committed at least eight lethal terrorist attacks in the United States, resulting in the deaths of nine people.[citation needed] According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, between January 1, 2007 and October 31, 2009, white supremacists were involved in 53 acts of violence, 40 of which were assaults directed primarily at African-Americans, seven of which were murders and the rest of which were threats, arson and intimidation.[34]

Good God! Terrorists killed like 2977 people on 9/11 alone, and cars resulted in the deaths of 33, 561 people last year! But right-wing people killed eight in 13 years and they are the automatically the real threat. White supremacists murdered 7 African American people in a year and half, while I am having difficulty finding a statistic related to it, I am sure the number of black-on-white hate crimes are much higher.
But God forbid it be anybody but the right who is responsible!

It's the rise in the number of groups.

Aye, but if those groups are small and isolated, how much of a chance do they have of rebelling? Zilch. The number of groups is irrelevant, rather, the size and coordination of them is.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

The man in Kansas was NOT a member of the Tea party, in fact he wasn't even sure if the Tea party was good enough for him to belong. Do any of you morons EVER read anything other then your masters talking points?

The guy was a Democrat, then a Republican, then an independent. He was a crazy old man.

Remind us how when a shooter is obviously a democrat or liberal you all scream he was crazy and that means no party affiliation. When you even think someone is right of center you lambast everyone on the right .

Fucking retard.

By the way, keep claiming everyone that is not a liberal is a terrorist, that the right is worse then Jihadists, keep encouraging Government and military to believe that shit. What you WILL end up with is a shooting war YOU started and will lose.