from the Southern Poverty Law Center:
Weve just received word that the Justice Department is reviving its domestic terrorism working group a direct response to our concerns about the rise in far-right violence.
Thank you for helping to make this possible.
The special task force was created after the Oklahoma City bombing. It was scheduled to hold one of its monthly meetings on Sept. 11, 2001, but did not for obvious reasons.
In fact, because so much of the governments attention since 9/11 has focused on the threat of Islamic terrorism, the task force never met again.
Weve been urging the government for years to take the rising threat of domestic terrorism more seriously just as we did six months before Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people in Oklahoma City.
In April, after a neo-Nazi killed three people at Jewish facilities in Kansas, we once again pointed out the lack of a coordinated effort at the highest levels to combat the threat.
In his recent announcement about the revitalized Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee, Attorney General Eric Holder echoed many of our points.
The killings in Kansas and the many attacks and plots by far-right extremists in recent years remind us that the threat is very real.
With your support, were tracking hundreds of potentially violent hate groups across the country, many with members who are willing to shed blood for their cause. And were providing key intelligence and training to help law enforcement combat violent extremists.
Supporters like you help make these important efforts possible. Thank you.
Together, we are making a difference.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Wish I lived closer to their headquarters.
and as Dad contributed to them for many years I began doing so, after his death.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)hlthe2b
(102,220 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,515 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)sheshe2
(83,730 posts)It is definitely time "Time to heal the homefront."
Thank you ellen, this good to know and not a moment to soon.
BadGimp
(4,013 posts)This will get the blog and twittershpere goin if it happens ..
freshwest
(53,661 posts)http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/news/feds-respond-to-splc-revive-domestic-terrorism-working-group
Good golly, my search result were skewed so far to the right I could barely find this on a page full of Infowars, Breitbart, World Nut Daily and other conservative sites attacking the SPLC.
elleng
(130,864 posts)Last edited Thu Jun 5, 2014, 05:56 PM - Edit history (1)
salib
(2,116 posts)CTyankee
(63,901 posts)for great news...
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Hope violence against women and women's health centers counts too...not just "oh well, men can't help it...it's those unrepentant women making them lust" .
littlemissmartypants
(22,631 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Is the popular trivialization.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,300 posts)The task force is needed.