McClatchy<\/a>. \u201cThompson intends to hold hearings to spotlight what experts say is a growth of deadly right wing extremism in America, even if the hearings could feature members of white supremacist groups.\u201d<\/p>\nThompson said his aim is to change the dialogue and find a balance in a U.S. domestic terrorism strategy that he believes has focused too heavily on the threat of homegrown Muslim terrorism and too little the rise of far right, white nationalist, and anti-Semitic groups.<\/p>\n
The corporate propaganda media has done a fair job of conflating \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d and political thought the government wants to silence and shutdown.<\/p>\n
The McClatchy article follows this line and links the \u201ctrend\u201d of antigovernment activism to Timothy McVeigh and the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>That event has served as a touchstone for over two decades, primarily thanks to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which has made a cottage industry out of hyping \u201crightwing hate\u201d (unacceptable political thought) and the threat of violence (for the state, the two are inseparable).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nMcClatchy and the corporate media have attached \u201crightwing extremism\u201d to a number of violent incidents that have more to do with disturbed individuals than ideology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nA recent spate of deadly incidents\u2014including the shooting deaths of 11 congregants at a Pittsburgh synagogue in October, the February 2018 shooting deaths of 17 students and staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida and the August 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia\u2014have given Thompson and other congressional Democrats anecdotal evidence about the extreme right.<\/p>\n
The Obama administration, continuing the work of the Bush administration, had the Department of Homeland Security produce a paper on the supposed threat posed by \u201crightwing extremists,\u201d who are by the state\u2019s definition terrorists on par (or worse than) al-Qaeda and its follow-up act, the Islamic State. Republicans, at the time a majority in the House, lambasted the paper and accused the Obama administration of overreach. Then DHS boss Janet Napolitano went into damage control mode.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nNapolitano apologized for the report. But the political backlash led DHS to halt work on tracking violent far right extremism, according to Daryl Johnson, the report\u2019s author.<\/p>\n
But now the House is in the hands of the Democrats and they want blood following the election of Donald Trump and the rise of the so-called Alt-right, or New Right.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nUnder Republican control from 2011 until last week, the House Homeland Security Committee repeatedly rejected calls by Thompson and Democrats for specific probes of domestic far right activities. Some Republicans now are wary that Thompson\u2019s probe would be conducted with a partisan eye.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongress and the White House has looked at terrorism through the lens of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. The House Homeland Security Committee, established after those attacks, largely has focused on the foreign threat or potential danger posed by U.S. residents becoming radicalized by foreign terrorist groups.<\/p>\n
That emphasis will change under the Democrats. The new terrorists are \u201chomegrown\u201d and include nationalists (shorthand for racist), constitutionalists, and libertarians. There will be hearings and possible show trials in the months ahead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe DHS will finally arrive at its final destination\u2014a national secret police focused on political activism challenging the ruling elite and their contrived political arrangement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThompson said his aim is to change the dialogue and find a balance in a U.S. domestic terrorism strategy that he believes has focused too heavily on the threat of homegrown Muslim terrorism and too little the rise of far right, white nationalist, and anti-Semitic groups.<\/p>\n
In order to be classified as antisemitic, a group or an individual only need criticize Israel and its incestuous relationship with the ruling elite and its political operatives, in particular the neocon faction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThoughtcrime\u2014opposition to the state and its policies\u2014will not be tolerated by the political class. Democrats want to make sure another Donald Trump will not sit in the White House. In order to do this, they have to go after high profile individuals and groups, hold show trials, and continue the work of deplatforming \u201cdeplorables\u201d and their \u201chate,\u201d in other words, free speech.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nFinally, a word of warning to the \u201cfar-left.\u201d If you wander outside the parameters set by Democrats and their \u201cprogressive\u201d foundations, you will also be attacked and undermined by the state, especially if you oppose Bush\u2019s wars, which became Obama\u2019s wars and now Trump\u2019s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n___
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