ComboGuardCity wrote:There needs to be some PROPAGANDA in this thread.
-- The threat of domestic terrorist attacks in the United States similar to last week's fatal bombing and assault in Norway is significant and growing, analysts said Monday.
The greatest threat of large-scale attacks come from individuals and small groups of extremists who subscribe to radical Islamic or far right-wing ideologies, said Gary LaFree, director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, or START.
Oh you mean a homegrown radical has to be "right wong?" How convienent to the left. I guess eco terrorism is a right wing phenomenon?
While extremist animal rights and environmental groups also pose threats, those groups either have not tended to seek to kill or have only targeted individuals, according to researchers.
But extremist right-wingers -- from Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh to a neo-Nazi accused of trying to bomb a Martin Luther King Day parade this year -- have shown a willingness to target the public, LaFree said.
Why is someone who did something 16 years ago and was non religious or political automatically deemed right wing? And we're to believe this because proof was provided that McVeigh such? LMAO.
Such groups are among the fastest-growing extremist organizations in the country,
the Southern Poverty Law Center reported in February. Right wing anti-government groups grew by 60% in 2010 over the previous year, the center reported, attributing much of the growth to militia groups.
Anyone who believes anything a far left America hating group like SPLC has to say is beyond redemption. They are viler than the ACLU.
The group also reported a smaller increase in the number of anti-immigrant vigilante groups, SPLC reported.
The suspect in the Oslo, Norway, bombings published papers on the internet stressing "unity over diversity" and calling for a violent response to a policy of multiculturalism that he said was destroying European society.
Despite the rise of anti-government militia groups and the sovereign citizen movement -- whose adherents say they are not subject to U.S. law or taxation -- highly organized white supremacist groups have suffered setbacks in recent years with some of the movement's leaders imprisoned and others stripped of their resources by civil lawsuits, said Gary Ackerman, research director at START.
And where is these evil extremists groups acts of violence or their holy war? Are they blowing people up? Are they beheading or stoning people to death? Are they killing random civilians on a regular basis?
But as McVeigh and Terry Nichols showed in the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City -- in which 168 people died -- it doesn't take a large group to pull off a devastating attack.
Most adherents to extremist ideologies are harmless, said Brian Levin,
director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University in San Bernardino Code for liberal demagoguery of all things white and non liberal, pc or "intolllllllerant"
"Most of them are not going to do anything but bore their relatives and friends with ridiculous papers and treatises," he said.
But a divisive political climate, often coupled with personal disappointments and a personality receptive to extreme views, can help turn believers into dangerous actors willing to use violence to further their ideological beliefs, Levin said, adding that he believes the greatest threat is not from large organized groups but rather individuals or small cells.
The sense that society is falling apart because of foreign influence is often a lure to people who become members of extremist groups, no matter where those groups fall on the political or religious spectrum, Levin said.
"The notion that the political bonds that used to hold us together are falling apart will cause people to opt out," he said.
But the threat from Islamic terrorism tends to get the lion's share of media coverage, not to mention law enforcement attention, Ackerman of START said.
Hmmm I wonder why?
Ackerman said nationally, law enforcement has been focused since the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon in 2001 on the threat of Islamic terrorism, even as the threat from domestic anti-government groups has been growing.
"Some people believe we have taken our eye off the ball when it comes to domestic LEFT-wing extremists," he said.
There fixed.
And some efforts to combat the problem have been controversial. For instance, the Department of Homeland Security was forced to apologize in 2009 after a report surfaced warning law enforcement of the possibility that veterans returning from combat were susceptible to being radicalized by right-wing groups.As those far left cretins should have. They should have never invented that dreck in the first place.
State police also seem more focused on the Islamic threat, Ackerman said.
State police agencies polled by START researchers in 2008 overwhelmingly reported the presence of potentially dangerous extremist groups across the political spectrum, with nearly 90% saying neo-Nazi, skinhead, militia groups and other right-wing groups were present in their state. About two-
thirds reported radical Islamic groups.
Why is a neo-nazi whose Nazi party predecessors were left wing socialist fascists now considered right wing?
But they tended to rank Islamic terrorists as the greatest concern ahead of right-wing groups in terms of the threat posed, LaFree said.
"I think there's a little bit of perceptual bias there," he said.One last bit of mental trickery from the snarky academic. "Perceptual bias?" LMAO. Well Mr. Lefree, tell you what when Muslims or Im sorry the fringe element extremists who aren't true Muslims renounce their violent ways, then we can focus on the real threat. Those crazy right wing extremists who go around killing their fellow countrymen in suicide bombings, machine gun fire and other methods of mayhem.
