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Right wing extremists are a bigger threat than ISIS says Newsweek (Original Post) retrowire Aug 2016 OP
No question. onecaliberal Aug 2016 #1
Absolutely ghostsinthemachine Aug 2016 #2
They always have been Warpy Aug 2016 #3
republicans can never deal with this problem safeinOhio Aug 2016 #4
+1 Shankapotomus Aug 2016 #32
matter of perspective. BowlLikeAChicken Aug 2016 #5
^^^yes mopinko Aug 2016 #17
Proven time and time again, Wellstone ruled Aug 2016 #6
Recommend inanna Aug 2016 #7
K&R sakabatou Aug 2016 #8
Well, at least some news outlet is saying so... LakeArenal Aug 2016 #9
Duh! malaise Aug 2016 #10
The Bundy Bunch. 'Nuff said. Initech Aug 2016 #11
I thought this was common knowledge MynameisBlarney Aug 2016 #12
K & R mountain grammy Aug 2016 #13
Disagree superpatriotman Aug 2016 #14
don't buy it. The American right isn't made of the same stuff as ISIL. AlbertCat Aug 2016 #15
Sharia law lark Aug 2016 #18
The "American right" referred to by Time are individuals our founding fathers would call traitors. 63splitwindow Aug 2016 #16
Naked it, 1st Stingray! gregcrawford Aug 2016 #20
Compare body counts of American civilians at the hands of the right win LanternWaste Aug 2016 #26
` Hayduke Bomgarte Aug 2016 #19
Wasn't there a government study a few years ago that said the same thing? Chicago1980 Aug 2016 #21
"...spinning words into a convoluted kaleidoscope of claptrap." Sentath Aug 2016 #22
Available evidence contradicts this pediatricmedic Aug 2016 #23
You then believe body count is the only metric? LanternWaste Aug 2016 #28
The list you posted isn't holistic at all... dead people aren't the only metric uponit7771 Aug 2016 #31
Couldn't agree more. (nt) Paladin Aug 2016 #24
K&R... spanone Aug 2016 #25
Yes Jim Dandy Aug 2016 #27
Who is in control of the Republican Party ?? mrJJ Aug 2016 #29
Excerpt is telling blueseas Aug 2016 #30
I can't agree. They're all Cheeto-munching losers. Oneironaut Aug 2016 #33
NSS. I have been saying for decades that the reichwing crazies in this country worry niyad Sep 2016 #34

Warpy

(110,913 posts)
3. They always have been
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 03:01 PM
Aug 2016

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)
4. republicans can never deal with this problem
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 03:05 PM
Aug 2016

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?

BowlLikeAChicken

(69 posts)
5. matter of perspective.
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 03:15 PM
Aug 2016

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'.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. Proven time and time again,
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 03:34 PM
Aug 2016

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.

malaise

(267,823 posts)
10. Duh!
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 03:58 PM
Aug 2016

They should have called out the Trumpsters way back when. Instead they all remained silent and allowed them to attack the elected President.

 

AlbertCat

(17,505 posts)
15. don't buy it. The American right isn't made of the same stuff as ISIL.
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 04:59 PM
Aug 2016

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.

 

63splitwindow

(2,657 posts)
16. The "American right" referred to by Time are individuals our founding fathers would call traitors.
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 05:16 PM
Aug 2016

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.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
26. Compare body counts of American civilians at the hands of the right win
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 06:27 PM
Aug 2016

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...

Sentath

(2,243 posts)
22. "...spinning words into a convoluted kaleidoscope of claptrap."
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 05:57 PM
Aug 2016

This is the wrong place to be gleeful, but I had to celebrate that phrase!

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
28. You then believe body count is the only metric?
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 06:31 PM
Aug 2016

You then believe body count is the only metric? Additionally, the list provided by your link is both subjective and unsourced.

mrJJ

(886 posts)
29. Who is in control of the Republican Party ??
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 06:35 PM
Aug 2016

Source:The Southern Poverty Law Center

According to an SPLC statement, Breitbart.com CEO Stephen Bannon and pollster Kellyanne Conway — hired as Trump 2016’s 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)
30. Excerpt is telling
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 06:55 PM
Aug 2016

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)
33. I can't agree. They're all Cheeto-munching losers.
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 09:13 PM
Aug 2016

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)
34. NSS. I have been saying for decades that the reichwing crazies in this country worry
Thu Sep 1, 2016, 12:53 PM
Sep 2016

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.

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