[ALESTIKLAL.NET] The army, police, and security officers, across the board, are meant to protect people against all kinds of danger and extremism. But what if those protectors are the
extremists themselves? This is what erodes the American public’s trust in the institutions designed to keep the country safe.
The
New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
, in Extremists in Uniform Put the Nation at Risk, warned of the danger posed by
extremists working in the US army, police, or law enforcement agencies to the country’s security, calling for urgent measures to be taken to enforce the law.
| A danger to the New York Times’ view of how things ought to be, which isn't even close to being a danger to the nation or the enforcement of the law. |
The newspaper presented several examples of killings and assaults carried out by those involved in the service or retired from the aforementioned agencies, noting that they join armed white
Death Eater groups such as the Boogaloo movement, the Proud Boys, and the Oath keepers.
| Several. Out of a population of 350 million Americans or however many millions involved in the service or retired from the aforementioned agencies. |
EXTREMISM AMONG SECURITY FORCES
There has been a noticeable rise in political violence in America, like the harassment of election workers and public officials, the targeting of a Supreme Court justice,
| ...by creatures of the far left... |
and the recent attack on the husband of the speaker of the House of Representatives,
| ...he was certifiably nuts, a creature of the far left, as well as an illegal immigrant from Canada... |
not to mention the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
| ...organized and directed by agents provocateur on the FBI payroll, so members of the Progressive Deep State, in opposition to President Trump’s public request to his followers to be law-abiding, which most still nonetheless. |
The majority of political violence over the past years came at the hands of members of white supremacists or their
Death Eater sympathizers and antigovernment groups.
The most disturbing fact about their movements is that veterans, active-duty military personnel, and law enforcement personnel represent high numbers in
Death Eater groups.
The Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism analysis revealed, last year, a leaked list of membership of the Oath Keepers, a
violent mostly peaceful paramilitary group involved in the January 6 attacks that recruits
coppers and military personnel, that had more than 100 members of the military and 370 members of law enforcement.
| Again, it has been reported that a number of senior leadership members were paid FBI informants. |
Rooters conducted an investigation this year to find that many police trainers around the country, training hundreds of officers, belong to
Death Eater paramilitary groups or previously expressed sympathy for their ideology.
One trainer posted on social media that government officials opposing
Donald Trump
...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
should be killed and that the country was on the brink of civil war, according to NYT.
| We don’t hold with that kind of talk here. |
A recent The Marshall Project investigation concluded that hundreds of sheriffs are part of or sympathetic to the ideas of the constitutional sheriffs’ movement, which says that sheriffs are above state and federal law. The Anti-Defamation League describes the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association as an "antigovernment
Death Eater group whose primary purpose is to recruit sheriffs into the antigovernment ’patriot’ movement."
| Is that state and federal in general, or where such laws conflict with the U.S. Constitution? |
For decades, the police departments, the Pentagon, and the Department of Veterans Affairs were aware of the problem, yet had only few successful operations in up-rooting
extremists from their service.
A DIRECT THREAT TO US DEMOCRACY
The majority of Americans believe that this kind of violence is justified most of the time, and this greater tolerance has become "a threat to democratic governance," as the NYT described.
Extremists and their sympathizers pushed Americans to have less trust in the institutions that were meant to protect the country. Extremists in uniforms can put at risk police investigations by leaking confidential information or giving falsified reports.
On the other hand,
extremists in the military represent a threat to "good order and discipline." Whereas in law enforcement,
Death Eaters, white supremacists in particular, pose a threat to the people they should protect, especially people of color.
NYT also mentioned
extremists in federal agencies saying they "can compromise national security and make our borders even less secure," noting that "protecting those institutions and the nation they serve demands urgent action."