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From Mother Jones yesterday:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/us-deputy-attorney-general-warns-about-the-right-wing-terror-threat-trump-ignores/
Trump also has a long history of downplaying, if not downright ignoring right-wing terror attacks, as Ive also documented. But in a speech at a national security conference in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, US Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein went where Trump takes pains not to go. After telling an audience of law enforcement professionals that fewer Americans in recent months have been seeking to join ISIS overseas, though still pose a danger at home, Rosenstein addressed the threat from the far right: The Department of Justice also remains vigilant about the threat of domestic terrorism, he said. Violent domestic extremists have plotted attacks on government buildings, businesses, and houses of worship. They have planned and carried out assassinations of police officers, judges, doctors and civil rights leaders. They have acquired biological and chemical weapons, illegal firearms, and explosives. They have carried out killing sprees that terrorize local communities.
Rosenstein specifically called out recent cases involving white supremacists and other far-right extremists that Trump has said little or nothing aboutincluding the massacre of black church congregants in Charleston, South Carolina, the murder of two police officers in Las Vegas, and a plot to kill Somali immigrants living in Kansas:
Violent domestic extremists pose a particular danger to law enforcement officers not just because you go into dangerous situations, but because some extremist groups target the police.
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Domestic terrorism is often motivated by hatred and bigotry. Last October, three suspects were indicted on federal charges for a plot to target an apartment complex in Garden City, Kansas, where Somali immigrants live and worship. The charges include civil rights violations. Those defendants are now awaiting trial.
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Rosenstein also talked about the chaos and violence in Virginia that Trump blamed many sides for: In Charlottesville this month, we saw and heard people openly advocate racism and bigotry, he said. Our Department of Justice responded immediately. We are working closely with local authorities on potential criminal civil rights prosecutions. The First Amendment often protects hateful speech that is abhorrent to American values. But there can be no safe harbor for violence.
Initech
(100,129 posts)dalton99a
(81,673 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)the KKK is the oldest conservative/reactionary, christian terrorist organization in this country. They have been at it around 150 years, and they are just one of many far right organizations.
Griffin 1993
Hill - 1994
Salvi - 1994
*McVeigh 1995
*Nichols 1995
Larry Wayne Shoemake 1996
Eric Rudolph - 1996
Eric Rudolph 1998
James Kopp - 1998
*Alan Pilon, Robert Mason, Jason McVean 1998
Benjamin and James Williams 1999
Buford Furrow 1999
Richard Baumhammers 2000
Mark Stroman 2001
*Steven Bixby - 2003
Wade and Christopher Lay - 2004
Jim Adkisson 2008
Keith Luke 2009
*Keith Poplawski 2009
*Joshua Cartwright 2009
Shawna Forde, Albert Gaxiola, Jason Bush - 2009
Scott Roeder 2009
James Von Brunn 2009
Joseph Stack - 2010
*Jerry and Joseph Kane - 2010
David Pedersen and Holly Grigsby 2011
Wade Page 2012
*Brian Smith and Kyle Joekel 2012
Christopher Lacy 2012
Frazier Miller 2014
*Eric Frein - 2014
*Amanda and Jerad Miller 2014
Dylan Roof - 2015
Robert Dear 2015
*James Jackson - 2017
Jeremy Christian 2017
James Fields 2017
*Killed Law Enforcement Officers
Initech
(100,129 posts)Who knows what kind of damage those assholes can do?
haveahart
(905 posts)throw them in jail at GITMO whenever they SUSPECT they are terrorist, just like they did to any Muslim they SUSPECTED of being a terrorist. Two or three of them will sent to GITMO will stop those cowards in there sheets.