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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRight wing extremists are a bigger threat than ISIS says Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/02/12/right-wing-extremists-militants-bigger-threat-america-isis-jihadists-422743.htmlGotta say I agree.
onecaliberal
(32,489 posts)ghostsinthemachine
(3,569 posts)They are getting stupider by the second, and more wound up. Gonna be very ugly soon.
Warpy
(110,913 posts)but the FBI is obedient to plutocrats and has wasted its time monitoring Quakers and Raging Grannies (I'm not making this up) while allowing vicious right wing gangs to continue to grow with impunity.
Every democracy that has been overthrown has been overthrown by the far right. I know of no historical exceptions.
safeinOhio
(32,531 posts)until they can call it what it is, right wing Christian terrorist. They won't name it as it would be politically incorrect to call it what it is and it would insult their base.
See what I did there?
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)BowlLikeAChicken
(69 posts)Could it be that the far-and-not-so-far-right have been infiltrating law enforcement for decades and are seen as 'us' (the cops) and their views are the norm. Anything that even slightly smells microscopically left is 'the enemy'.
mopinko
(69,806 posts)big part of it, imho.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)someone with a functional I.Q. can be radicalized much easier than someone with a nominal I.Q.,and that scares the heck out of Law Enforcement.
inanna
(3,547 posts)sakabatou
(42,083 posts)LakeArenal
(28,729 posts)Doubt if MSNBC, CNN, or Fux will be saying it.
malaise
(267,823 posts)They should have called out the Trumpsters way back when. Instead they all remained silent and allowed them to attack the elected President.
Initech
(99,915 posts)MynameisBlarney
(2,979 posts)For folks what got brains, anyway...
mountain grammy
(26,571 posts)superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)I don't buy it. The American right isn't made of the same stuff as ISIL.
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)from the article:
"Who are these right-wing militants? And what makes them believe Americans have to engage in armed combat with their own government rather than vote, kill their fellow citizens rather than tolerate differences, blow up buildings rather than just get a job? Billions of words have been written and spoken on violent Islamic extremists. The time has come to do the same for the good old-fashioned Americans who may pose the greatest threat to us all."
Obviously they don't think that are "made of the same stuff" either.
But that doesn't make them less dangerous.
And I think there's enough of the same stuff there to not make them so different.
lark
(23,003 posts)and what the rabid fundamentalist want as law are strikingly similar.
63splitwindow
(2,657 posts)They are not patriots at all, in fact, exactly the opposite. Hopefully those with the biggest mouths will be right up front if the bloodshed they are so fond of threatening this country with by way of hints and innuendo (they are too cowardly to actually say it in a straight forward way) comes to pass.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Compare body counts of American civilians at the hands of the right wing versus American civilians deaths at the hands of ISIL. Then try again...
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)Chicago1980
(1,968 posts)Conservatives were up in arms about it, so it was pushed under the rug.
This isn't new...
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/14/opinion/bergen-sterman-kansas-shooting/index.html
[link:http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/us/tally-of-attacks-in-us-challenges-perceptions-of-top-terror-threat.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/us/tally-of-attacks-in-us-challenges-perceptions-of-top-terror-threat.html?_r=0
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2016/year-hate-and-extremism
Sentath
(2,243 posts)This is the wrong place to be gleeful, but I had to celebrate that phrase!
pediatricmedic
(397 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)You then believe body count is the only metric? Additionally, the list provided by your link is both subjective and unsourced.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Paladin
(28,204 posts)spanone
(135,636 posts)Jim Dandy
(358 posts)They are willing to sell out America to fascists like Putin.
mrJJ
(886 posts)Source:The Southern Poverty Law Center
According to an SPLC statement, Breitbart.com CEO Stephen Bannon and pollster Kellyanne Conway hired as Trump 2016s CEO and campaign manager, respectively are members of the Council for National Policy (CNP), a highly secretive group that includes a roster of controversial white supremacists and rightwing agitators.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/trump-campaign-ceo-and-manager-part-of-secret-extremist-right-wing-group-splc/
blueseas
(11,575 posts)SNIP :
"Some gullible people listen to the endless flow of arguments, peppered with freedom and tyranny, and come away believing they do not have to pay taxes, or have money to cover the checks they write or otherwise obey the law. As a result, lots of sovereign citizens end up under criminal investigation, leading to trials in which judges rub their temples while listening to droning about some grand conspiracy.
But in the worst cases, all that simpleminded gibberish drives believers to violence, particularly against law enforcement during traffic stops. The most famous of those cases: the two Arkansas police officers killed by sovereign citizen Joseph Kane in 2010 after they pulled him over. Kane mowed them down with a variant of an AK-47."
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/02/12/right-wing-extremists-militants-bigger-threat-america-isis-jihadists-422743.html
Oneironaut
(5,462 posts)How many times has the "Second Civil War!!1!" started? Their takeover in Malheur (ohhhh - an unmanned cabin...) died with a sad whimper. At the end of the day, they aren't going to do a thing. They're fodder for jokes and nothing more.
niyad
(112,435 posts)me far more than zealots from other places. after all, it was homegrown terrorists in OKC. it has been homegrown terrorists at the women's clinics. the kkk is homegrown.