domestic terrorism
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Is This the 1st Victim of COINTELPRO 2.0? Jailed ‘Black Identity Extremist’ Speaks Out
Last year, just nine days before white supremacists stormed Charlottesville, Va., the FBI released a report citing “black identity extremists” as a growing threat to law enforcement. In the report, first obtained by Foreign Policy, the FBI claimed that police attacks on black Americans could spur “premeditated, retaliatory lethal violence” against the police. Now The Guardian…
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For 1st Time Since Fatal Bombings Rocked Austin, Texas, Police Chief Finally Calls Serial Bomber a ‘Domestic Terrorist’
It has been eight days since the man behind a series of deadly bombings in Austin, Texas, killed himself in an explosion; about 10 days since authorities first referred to the killer as a “serial bomber”; 16 days since authorities confirmed suspicions about the connection between the occurring explosions; and 27 days since the first…
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Despite Terrorizing Black People, the Serial-Killing Suicide Bomber Was Not a Terrorist Because, Well … He’s White
The words are back. You know which words I’m talking about. The politically correct nouns, verbs and adjectives used to shield their sayers and writers from criticism. The ones that tiptoe along the protective, precipitously thin fence of caucasity to whitesplain any act committed by an Anglo-Saxon Protestant who claps on the one and three.…
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Why Is Our Government Soft on White Domestic Terrorism?
For all our national bluster about waging a “war on terror,” the main sources of terror in our country go largely unacknowledged by our political leaders. While we are led to believe that the most dangerous individuals in this country are those who read the Koran, lack a Social Security number or have dark skin,…
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White Supremacists Killed More People in US in 2017 Than Muslims, Antifa and Kneeling NFL Players Combined
Ladies and gentlemen, after tabulating the votes for all of the scary, terrorist bogeymen who killed American citizens in 2017, the award for the Domestic Extremists of the Year goes to: (Drumroll, please … ) Racist white people! 2017 was a banner year for white supremacists. The Anti-Defamation League’s Center for Extremism reports that right-wing…
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FBI to Senate: We’re Investigating 1,000 White Supremacists. Senate to FBI: That’s All?
In a Senate committee briefing yesterday, the new FBI director told lawmakers that the FBI has about 1,000 open cases involving domestic terrorism, a catchall phrase used by the bureau that includes white supremacist organizations and right-wing terrorists. According to The Hill, Christopher Wray, in his first Senate briefing since becoming the director of the…
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Why Aren’t White Supremacists on the Terror Watch List?
On Feb. 11, 2016, federal agents escorted 38-year-old Safya Roe Yassin out of her Buffalo, Mo., home and charged her with multiple terror-related crimes that could ultimately result in five years’ imprisonment, three years’ supervised release and $250,000 in fines. Yassin’s charging documents (pdf) reveal how she operated multiple social media accounts that sympathized with…
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The President of the United States Is a Terrorist Sympathizer. Now What?
On Tuesday, Donald Trump’s equivocation on the Charlottesville, Va., white supremacist rallies that plunged into violence and acts of terrorism forced America to accept an unmistakable, undeniable and utterly horrifying fact: Donald Trump, president of the United States, is a terrorist sympathizer. You can use whatever euphemisms you’d like—Trump is a terrorist supporter, Trump is…