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Aug 20 - The benefits of hindsight The need for more monitoring of domestic terrorism


 Aug 20 - The benefits of hindsight The need for more monitoring of domestic terrorism


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ON APRIL 7th 2009 a unit of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) charged with monitoring domestic, non-Islamic terrorism released a paper warning that the economic downturn and the election of the first black president “present unique drivers for right-wing radicalisation and recruitment.” Other causes included fears over illegal immigration and the possibility of more restrictive gun laws, and the challenges faced by returning military veterans. It compared the economic and political climate of 2009 to that of the early 1990s, “when right-wing extremism experienced a resurgence fuelled largely by an economic recession, criticism about the outsourcing of jobs and the perceived threat to U.S. power”; that period culminated in the b0mbing of the Alfred P. Murrah building in Oklahoma City by Timothy McVeigh, a disgruntled veteran who found a home in America’s right-wing fringe movements.

The report, released just as the “tea-party” movement was heating up, came under withering criticism from the right. Commentators complained that it unfairly placed conservatives under suspicion. John Boehner, the House Speaker, said it cast veterans as “potential terrorists”. Daryl Johnson, who headed the unit responsible for that report, said that DHS promptly caved in to the pressure. Within months his unit, which had six-full time analysts and two supplemental staff—fewer by far than the team that monitored Islamic threats—was gutted, “out of malice and risk aversion”, Mr Johnson maintains, and out of fear of politically motivated budget cuts. Training and publications were cut too.

Nor is this imbalance limited to the DHS: since coming under Republican control in 2010, the House Homeland Security Committee has held five hearings on Muslim radicalisation, and none on right-wing threats. Yet America’s right-wing extremists commit a vastly greater number of murkous attacks (though leading to fewer [rip]s) than Muslims do. According to the Extremist Crime Database (ECDB), published by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, between 1990 and 2010 right-wing extremists carried out 145 murkous attacks, resulting in 348 [rip]s, 168 of which resulted from the Oklahoma City b0mbing. During that same time period Muslim extremists committed around 25 attacks, which k!lled over 3,000 people; but 9/11 accounted for 2,977 of these.

The Southern Poverty Law Centre (SPLC), which monitors right-wing extremists, saw the number of such groups wane during the 2000s, before soaring back following the election of Barack Obama and the economic downturn, as Mr Johnson predicted: by the end of 2011 it counted 1,274 anti-government “Patriot” groups, far more than existed in the mid-1990s and up from a nadir of 131 just four years earlier.

The murk of six Sikhs at a gurdwara in Wisconsin by a white supremacist earlier this month brought calls to redress this balance. But talking about right-wing extremist threatens howls of protest. Nice idea, shame about the politics.
Domestic terrorism: The benefits of hindsight | The Economist
not sure why economist.com is reporting on this lol but interesting nonetheless.


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3 comments for "Aug 20 - The benefits of hindsight The need for more monitoring of domestic terrorism"


 08-20-2012, 04:22 AMaway - #2
Suppafresh
Again white can't be terriost they can only be labeled pissed off tax payers.
 08-20-2012, 05:43 AMaway - #3
CadillacVyse
Oh !!!!! This thread will be a classic!

crazy right wingers + bx tin foil hat anti gov crew + a gov monitoring thread = platinum status thread
 08-20-2012, 11:02 AMonline - #4
ItAlY2BkLyN
all I got from that article is that our government is terrified of everything and even though we have the largest defense/military budget in the world, we refuse to look at the fact that our foreign policy and government decisions are the reason there is so much dissent, not the big bad evil terrorists (homegrown or not). They are so paranoid that clear headed, rational decisions and thought processes are beyond reach.

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