Kurt Eichenwald wrote a very interesting — and provocative — article in Newsweek back in February. The title is: “Right-Wing Extremists are a bigger threat to America than ISIS”

Boom. That must have pissed off quite a few people. Eichenwald probably didn’t realize at the time he was describing a large segment of Donald Trump’s base. Six months later it is obvious. But when we hear or read about anti-terrorism efforts, the focus never includes these militant groups.

All we’ve been hearing about is how ISIS is such a threat, what are we doing to fight ISIS abroad and here at home, blah-blah-blah. ISIS is a threat of course and the government is doing a lot to fight the group, but ever since the Department of Homeland Security released a report critical of so-called militias in 2009 — and then quickly backtracked because Republicans objected to a key core of their base being vilified and compared to Muslim extremists — it’s been no secret right wing militias, our homegrown terrorist organizations, are a growing and dangerous threat to America. Well, except at the Department of Homeland Security.

After the GOP objected to the accurate portrayal of these right-wing nut bars running around the woods and hinterlands with assault weapons and survivalist store camouflaged fatigues, the DHS closed down the office that investigated such organizations. So, on an executive branch level, there was no office investigating right wing extremists who claim the laws of the land don’t apply to them, don’t register motor vehicles and issue their own passports because they don’t recognize the federal — and often state and local — governments as representing them. Crazy people with guns, in other words.

http://baltimorepostexaminer.com/trump-militant-violent/2016/08/20