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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"We Are At A Turning Point": Counterterrorism Experts Say Trump Is Inspiring A Terrifying New Era Of
"We Are At A Turning Point": Counterterrorism Experts Say Trump Is Inspiring A Terrifying New Era Of Right-Wing ViolenceThese are all extremist messages that I saw on Stormfront and other white-supremacist message boards 10 or 15 years ago, says one former Homeland Security analyst. Now they are being endorsed as policy by the president.
BY ABIGAIL TRACY NOVEMBER 2, 2018 8:38 AM
On Monday, an attorney representing Patrick Eugene Stein, one of three men convicted of plotting to bomb Somali refugees, filed an explosive memo in U.S. District Court in Kansas. Stein, his lawyer argued, should receive a more lenient sentence because he was inspired by then-candidate Donald Trump. The court cannot ignore the circumstances of one of the most rhetorically mold-breaking, violent, awful, hateful, and contentious presidential elections in modern history, attorney Jim Pratt wrote, driven in large measure by the rhetorical China shop bull who is now our president.
The filing made national news in part because Pratt was willing to argue publicly what many in Washington are saying in private. In the past weeks, the United States has been rocked by a series of vicious hate crimes, including a mail-bombing spree targeting Democrats and Trump critics; the racially inspired killing of two black patrons at a Kentucky grocery store; and, most recently, the massacre of 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue believed to be the work of an avowed neo-Nazi.
Trump and his allies have argued that the president bears no responsibility for the acts of deranged individuals. But to many experts on hate groups and former Homeland Security, law enforcement, and counterterrorism officials, there is unquestionably a correlation. I think its laughable that people are trying to separate the two things in saying there is no relationship between what the president urges his supporters to do and what his supporters then do, Glenn Kirschner, a former federal homicide prosecutor, told me. A fourth-grader could see the connection. . . . Anybody who says there is no connection, I think is saying it for political or ideological reasons.
The filing made national news in part because Pratt was willing to argue publicly what many in Washington are saying in private. In the past weeks, the United States has been rocked by a series of vicious hate crimes, including a mail-bombing spree targeting Democrats and Trump critics; the racially inspired killing of two black patrons at a Kentucky grocery store; and, most recently, the massacre of 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue believed to be the work of an avowed neo-Nazi.
Trump and his allies have argued that the president bears no responsibility for the acts of deranged individuals. But to many experts on hate groups and former Homeland Security, law enforcement, and counterterrorism officials, there is unquestionably a correlation. I think its laughable that people are trying to separate the two things in saying there is no relationship between what the president urges his supporters to do and what his supporters then do, Glenn Kirschner, a former federal homicide prosecutor, told me. A fourth-grader could see the connection. . . . Anybody who says there is no connection, I think is saying it for political or ideological reasons.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/trump-administration-tree-of-life-shooting-domestic-terrorism
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"We Are At A Turning Point": Counterterrorism Experts Say Trump Is Inspiring A Terrifying New Era Of (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Nov 2018
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Wait till the incoming dem House slams the brakes on Dotard's evil agenda
workinclasszero
Nov 2018
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Initech
(100,090 posts)1. Shit. I could have seen this coming and I'm not a counter terrorism expert.
Cha
(297,441 posts)2. Ya think? With NO END
in sight.
BigmanPigman
(51,615 posts)3. My former First Grade students could add 2+2 and get 4.
Of course there is a direct connection between his hate filled rants that incite violence and the actual increase in hate crimes and domestic terrorism. Even my dog can see that (sorry Spike, no offense intended).
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)4. This Fucker Wont Stop, Until His End..
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)5. Wait till the incoming dem House slams the brakes on Dotard's evil agenda
I think he will dive right off the deep end and take all the MAGA idiots with him into max right wing hate and paranoia. Its gonna be a long two years to the next presidential elections.
God knows what hateful schemes the orange POS will will pull out of his ass in those two years.