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blm

(113,058 posts)
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 12:07 PM Dec 2014

#1 threat to personal lives that law enforcement will admit privately: RW extremists

But, then, that wouldn't get the hotheads who pretend to represent ALL law enforcement in front of FOX or corporate media news cameras, will it? How many more law enforcement officers were targeted and killed by RW extremists AFTER this report was ignored by corporate media?

Why didn't police unions speak up? Where was FOX?

http://thebulletin.org/looking-clearly-right-wing-terrorism7232

Looking clearly at right-wing terrorism

Five years ago the US Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division released an assessment of US far-right extremism. Initially intended for law enforcement and intelligence agencies only, the report—“Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment”—was almost immediately leaked. The report warned that small cells practicing “leaderless resistance” and “white supremacist lone wolves [posed] the most significant domestic terrorist threat.” Significantly, it highlighted the likelihood of expanded attempts by far-right extremists “to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to boost their violent capabilities.” Overall, the report warned of trends similar to “the 1990s when rightwing extremism experienced a resurgence.” That far-right extremist rally reached a violent crescendo with the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.

Reflecting on the past five years, a leading far-right extremism expert I recently interviewed described the homeland security report as “prophetic.” Mark Pitcavage, the Anti-Defamation League’s director of investigative research, explained that most of the warnings in the 2009 report have become realities. Yet at the time of its release, the document was derided by many inside and outside of government as “ridiculous [and] deeply offensive,” an “inconceivable” assault on US veterans, and, in general, “a piece of crap.” Buckling under political pressure from conservatives, homeland security rapidly repressed the report. Promptly removed from department's website, the tabooed document also disappeared from the computer systems of state and local law enforcement divisions as well as federal intelligence agencies. The homeland security unit responsible for the report was virtually muzzled. The report essentially fell into obscurity.
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#1 threat to personal lives that law enforcement will admit privately: RW extremists (Original Post) blm Dec 2014 OP
Crucial and timely information. nt okaawhatever Dec 2014 #1
Problem is they think they are with them.... Historic NY Dec 2014 #2
Agree 100% These People Are Crazy And Dangerous colsohlibgal Dec 2014 #3
Tend to be armed? Tend to be armed to the teeth and as angry as RW media can get them. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #4
Police are far too scared of RW groups to confront them publicly. blm Dec 2014 #9
You just described the poilce Boreal Dec 2014 #11
Then you run along and keep your worries to yourselves now, dear. Run along now. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #12
I guess some cops don't mind getting threatened and shot Tsiyu Dec 2014 #5
Maybe it's considered LiberalElite Dec 2014 #6
I guess so. Tsiyu Dec 2014 #8
As long as the shooters are white. True Blue Door Dec 2014 #7
solid observation blm Dec 2014 #10

Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
2. Problem is they think they are with them....
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 12:47 PM
Dec 2014

when they aren't. I suspect most is because similarites in some belief systems..and yes sometime political belief systems. They are more willing to trust right wing idealogy w/o recognizing it doesn't trust them.

see groups like promise keepers, oathkeepers etc....

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)
3. Agree 100% These People Are Crazy And Dangerous
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 12:52 PM
Dec 2014

I'm not sure how people go that far off the rails but they tend to be armed and nuts, often racist as well.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
4. Tend to be armed? Tend to be armed to the teeth and as angry as RW media can get them.
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 02:00 PM
Dec 2014

What other civilized nation has roaming bands of organized and heavily armed folk chained to the propaganda of fear and hate so effectively spewed by Hate Media?

blm

(113,058 posts)
9. Police are far too scared of RW groups to confront them publicly.
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 07:16 PM
Dec 2014

They have NO FEAR, at all, of left groups. That is why it is so easy for them to publicy blame and attack the left - Easier to publicly join the ideology of the ones you most fear privately.

 

Boreal

(725 posts)
11. You just described the poilce
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 07:25 PM
Dec 2014

extend to that world and you describe the US military death machine. Disarm THEM. They're the real dangerous killers and they do with the protection of the establishment. I'm a lot more worried about cops and military than any Klan or gang bangers.

Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
5. I guess some cops don't mind getting threatened and shot
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 02:45 PM
Dec 2014

as long as it's the "right people" doing the threatening and shooting.

How sad is that?


Tsiyu

(18,186 posts)
8. I guess so.
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 02:52 PM
Dec 2014

"Okay, fellow ossifers: If a rightwing sovereign nutjob kills you cuz he or she hates cops, it's a glory day and you should be proud to die for the cause.

Now, on the other hand, if a lunatic of color shoots you cuz he or she hates cops, it's time to declare all out war. And by gosh we will, fellow ossifers, in your name."

That is so insane...




True Blue Door

(2,969 posts)
7. As long as the shooters are white.
Sun Dec 21, 2014, 02:49 PM
Dec 2014

That's how insanely racist police are in this country - they'd rather any number of their fellow officers be murdered by deranged Neo Nazi white guys than listen to criticism from black people.

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