Article

2020-09-14 Home Front: WoT

Right-wing extremism, white supremacists rank as the top terrorist threats

[AP via St. Louis Post Dispatch] A draft report from the Department of Homeland Security, assessing the most dangerous terrorist threat facing the U.S. today, concludes that it isn’t Muslim radicals from foreign lands or the left-wing antifa crowd — it’s domestic right-wing radicalism driven by white supremacists. Anyone who is surprised by this should spend less time listening to Trumpist propaganda and more time reviewing America’s long history of racist terrorism.

There are indications the Trump administration might be trying to skew the message from this report for political purposes, as it has done before with all sorts of data. Politico obtained three drafts of the yet-unreleased report and found that the first draft described the threat of white-supremacist terrorism in more specific language than the two subsequent drafts, which downplayed the racist aspect and described the domestic terrorism threat in more generic terms.

In any case, all three drafts conclude that right-wing extremism is the greatest terrorism danger in America today. "Foreign terrorist organizations will continue to call for Homeland attacks but probably will remain constrained in their ability to direct such plots over the next year," all three drafts conclude. Together, they warn that "violent extremists almost certainly will continue their efforts to exploit public fears associated with COVID-19 and social grievances driving lawful protests to incite violence, intimidate targets, and promote their violent extremist ideologies."

Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-14 06:20|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 AP via St. Louis Post Dispatch? Oh well, in that case.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-09-14 06:28|| 2020-09-14 06:28|| Front Page Top

#2 and Politico

Posted by Frank G 2020-09-14 06:41|| 2020-09-14 06:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Just do a literal head count.

Number of blacks killed by white supremacists vs the number of blacks killed by other blacks.

Now, where is the real threat? /rhet question

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-09-14 07:13|| 2020-09-14 07:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Much like the Russia narrative. They just can't let go.

Posted by Clem 2020-09-14 07:31|| 2020-09-14 07:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Sure it’s not the B 🐝 ??

Posted by Mad Eye Angonter1301 2020-09-14 07:40|| 2020-09-14 07:40|| Front Page Top

#6 They sure do have a funny way of spelling BLM and Antifa.

Posted by Raj 2020-09-14 08:37|| 2020-09-14 08:37|| Front Page Top

#7 Nothing about the Deep State/Dem threats?

Posted by JohnQC 2020-09-14 08:59|| 2020-09-14 08:59|| Front Page Top

#8 They really should drug test their analysts.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-09-14 10:15|| 2020-09-14 10:15|| Front Page Top

#9 ...or maybe a reaction to all those pale faces in the BLM riots, looting, and burnings?

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-09-14 15:56|| 2020-09-14 15:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Lets do the math: how many violent white supremacist riots have there been? How many causalities wounded or injured? How much public damage? How many police officers injured? Killed? How many trheats to "kill the police"? How many attempts to injure or assault sitting members of Congress?

OK. Now do Antifa/BLM.

There's your threat. Fucking idiots. Disband DHS if this is the kind of politically spun work they do instead of actually finding the real threats.

Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-09-14 16:50|| 2020-09-14 16:50|| Front Page Top

#11 So saying wearing a mask gives people Yoda ears is the same as attempting to ignite the natural gas lines of an apartment building?

Suppose writers have to include Bugaloo every time a mystery fire erupts in the mountains of Oregon?

Or have groups of violent blacks chanting Kill Whitey finally initiate a response, and the response must be suppressed?

Posted by swksvolFF 2020-09-14 17:47|| 2020-09-14 17:47|| Front Page Top

00:54 Besoeker
00:52 Grom the Reflective
00:41 Besoeker
00:13 SteveS
00:06 Ululating Platypus