Downgrading the scrutiny given to right-wing radicals has long been a goal of conservative media in America. Now Trump is moving to turn that desire into policy.
[INSERT: a lie, as they couldn't be that uninformed .. Fox News was guilty of spreading misinformation which helped to fear-tip one of Trump's biggest arrows in his most dishonest election campaign]
“A survey last year of state and local law enforcement officers listed sovereign citizen terrorists, ahead of foreign Islamists, and domestic militia groups as the top domestic terror threat,” CNN reported .. http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/19/politics/terror-threat-homeland-security/ .. at the time.
Concurrently, a 2015 report from the New America Foundation found .. http://www.vox.com/2015/11/23/9765718/domestic-terrorism-threat .. that of the 28 deadly homegrown terror attacks since 9/11, 18 were incidents inspired by right-wing extremism, while 10 were inspired by Islamic extremism.
Meanwhile, white supremacists continue to express their deep appreciation for President Trump and his administration's plan to radically change the CVE program. “My hands are shaking right now as I prepare this article – I’m just that unbelievably happy,” announced .. http://www.infostormer.com/president-trump-ready-to-change-definition-of-extremism-will-remove-white-supremacists-from-list/ .. neo-Nazi website Infostormer. “This measure would be the first step to us going fully mainstream, and beginning the process of entering the government in full-force without the fear of being attacked, financially-assailed, and intimidated into silence by the nefarious Jews.”
At neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer, editor Andrew Anglin announced .. http://www.dailystormer.com/trump-to-change-definition-of-extremism-remove-white-supremacist-neo-nazis/ .. to readers, “Donald Trump is setting us free.” He continued, “This is absolutely a signal of favor to us. We are not a threat to America, we are American patriots trying to save this country. It is also a slap in the face to the kikes of the SPLC and the ADL who pushed for us to be classified along with actual Islamic terrorists as a way to legally justify outrageous abuses against us by the federal government.” (In the same article, Anglin called the actions of white supremacist terrorist Dylann Roof, who was recently sentenced to death .. http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/11/us/dylann-roof-sentencing/ .. for massacring African American worshipers at a church, "silly" but "perfectly understandable if you put it in context.")
The Southern Poverty Law Center maintains a running tally .. https://www.splcenter.org/20100126/terror-right .. of confirmed radical-right terror plots. Its most recent entry was from October 14, 2016:
-- Three members of a southwest Kansas militia dubbed “The Crusaders” are arrested after an eight-month investigation on charges stemming from a plot to attack a housing complex in Garden City, Kansas, that houses a mosque... The attack was planned for the day after the 2016 general election. According to an affidavit filed in the case, the men had repeatedly referred to Somalis as “cockroaches.” --
That looming, present danger drives the conservative media, and the emerging alt-right media, to distraction. Simultaneously obsessed .. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/15/brian-kilmeade-all-terror_n_764472.html .. with pushing that idea that Islamic terrorists are pouring across America’s borders, while insisting domestic, far-right extremists pose no real danger, the right-wing media regularly attack the government for its interest (until now) in tracking homegrown terrorists of all ideologies.
In 2009, they tried to sabotage a report .. http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/15/extremism.report/ .. released by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis that warned law enforcement agencies how “right-wing extremist groups” might be out recruiting members in the wake of the first black president being elected.
In truth, CNN reported .. http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/19/politics/terror-threat-homeland-security/ .. the study was actually “produced by staff members during the Bush administration,” and not released until early 2009. The report focused .. http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/conservatives-indict-themselves-shri .. on "rightwing extremists," "domestic rightwing terrorist and extremist groups," "terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks," and "white supremacists," making it abundantly clear the government was not targeting mainstream political activists. Of note in that the 2009 report was the fact .. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/14/homeland-security-warns-rise-right-wing-extremism.html .. that right-wing recruitment in the U.S. had previously spiked during the 1990s, “but subsided after increased scrutiny by the government following the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings,” which were masterminded by right-wing domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh.
Today, with the threat of homegrown, radical-right extremists still looming, the Trump administration is doing the opposite and following the Fox News lead. Rather than increasing scrutiny, it’s proposing to scale it back.
.. so Trump ramped up his electorate's fear level during the campaign with fascist tinted tirades, leading to success .. then trotted out an executive order doomed to
fail .. and now will applaud Juan Crow type state laws and, if above report is true, will intensify discriminatory practices against Muslims while opening the door to as much Christian right-wing militia terrorism as the country is able to handle.
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