Identifying Three Trends in Far Right Violence in the United States

USMA Combating Terrorism Center ^ | September 26, 2012 | Arie Perliger

[DuncanWaring]

In England “far right” has become a generic insult to be used against anyone the administration/media doesn’t like.

The SPLC calls the New Black Panther Party “far-right extremists”.

Just continuing the trend here.

[DuncanWaring]

We are seeing here an ignominious end to the Long Gray Line.

From Gen. MacArthur's speech on receipt of the Sylvanus Thayer award:

The Long Gray Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country.

[Texas resident]

Add to that, while our foreign enemies are gathering strength and confidence, the rulers are turning their suspicion and their power on us.

[DTogo]

With many newly minted officers facing a high-risk tour in the Middle East, is it naive to assume WP Cadets would raise their hand in class to offer a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, “Excuse me sir, which of these 3 categories would Major Hassan fit in?”

[cripplecreek]

Christians, conservatives, the KKK and skinheads all tied together as a giant lurking iceberg. How convenient and right out of the Joseph Goebbels School of Propaganda.

The crazy thing is that Goebbels learned from an American progressive Jew named Edward Bernays who wrote "Crystallizing public Opinion". Bernays was just a PR man who worked for both Woodrow Wilson and Calvin Coolidge. Bernays can also be credited for convincing Americans to eat bacon and women smoking.

Karl von Wiegand, foreign correspondent of the Hearst newspapers, an old hand at interpreting Europe and just returned from Germany, was telling us about Goebbels and his propaganda plans to consolidate Nazi power. Goebbels had shown Wiegand his propaganda library, the best Wiegand had ever seen. Goebbels, said Wiegand, was using my book Crystallizing Public Opinion as a basis for his destructive campaign against the Jews of Germany. This shocked me. ... Obviously the attack on the Jews of Germany was no emotional outburst of the Nazis, but a deliberate, planned campaign.

-Edward Bernays

[Travis McGee]

Major Hassan? That was not related to Islam in any way. The U.S. Army said so, officially. It was just one of those "workplace incidents."

[Travis McGee]

How to spot REAL Nazi Stormtroopers:

[Louis Foxwell]

So where are the studies regarding left wing violence?

Left wing violence is largely institutionalized. It exists in anti private sector activities including but not limited to the taking of land, wealth, freedom and life, whether from those deemed a threat to institutions or simply from those from whom the confiscation of their properety will benefit the state.

To study left wing violence it is necessary to research government abuse of authority. That is a herculean task.

This research, manifestly politically motivated, is leading us into a war of suppression by the government of citizens who oppose tyranny.

[PapaBear3625]

Perhaps we should reconsider funding this unconstitutional standing army. It was never intended that the USA should have one for the very reason that the Founders knew the danger to freedom of government armies.

The "standing army" that the founders warned against is actually currently embodied in the large collection of armed federal "law enforcement" groups. Remember, in the colonial days there was no separate "royal police". The purpose of the king's army was to enforce his will upon his subjects.

The founders objective was to minimize the ability of the federal government to forcibly impose their will upon the people. The feds got around it by creating an army for internal use, but not calling it an army.

[Squantos]

Excellent ...agree BTTT !

Stay safe ...

[elcid1970]

“Christians, conservatives, the KKK and skinheads all tied together as a giant lurking iceberg. How convenient and right out of the Joseph Goebbels School of Propaganda”

Well said! However government forces simply lack the sheer & unified manpower to enforce thought control against the populace; they will have to rely on snitches just like the Nazis & KGB. By the way, how many here have never glanced about or over your shoulder before saying something deemed “politically incorrect”?

But.....if they have snitches, we have `a rifle behind every blade of grass’. If the Third Reich or the Soviet Union hadn’t had gun registration, being a secret policeman would have been far more dangerous than being in open combat.

Wanna give a liberal nightmares? Send him/her/it a Cabela’s or Cheaper Than Dirt catalogue. Or better yet, keep them both & order something!

[Joe Brower]

“Wars, and rumors of wars...”

[dljordan]

The difference between the SS and DHS is that the SS actually were elite troops. The DHS on the other hand is like most domestic SWAT teams that dream of being high-speed, low-drag special operators.

[Lady Heron]

Racist Trend The ideological trend most familiar to Americans is the racist one, which is comprised of white supremacy groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), neo-Nazis such as the National Alliance, and skinhead groups such as the Hammerskin Nation.

National Socialist......Oh, they really mean the left.

[TEXASPROUD]

Glad to see you’re still alive and kicking.

[PapaBear3625]

To begin with, the American far right is characterized by a large base of supporters (the base of the “iceberg”) who are usually engaged in low level violence (usually minor incidents of vandalism or low sophisticated attacks against individuals) and are not affiliated with any formal organizational frameworks (for example, just one percent of the attacks by unaffiliated members includes the use of firearms or explosives, well below what could be observed in any of the other trends). Based on the body of literature developed in the last few years regarding political radicalization, it is possible to carefully assume that the perpetrators of these attacks are the future recruitment potential of the more institutionalized organizations. In other words, after crossing the line and performing some minor attacks on their own initiative, at some point these individuals may look for more organized, systematic mechanisms to express their ideas for political activism, and thus will join one of the other, more formal, streams of the American far right toward the top of the iceberg.

Somebody who was actually paying attention would notice this describes the Left. Underneath the "Animal Liberation Front", PETA forms the base of the iceberg. Underneath the SDS, the rest of the Left formed the iceberg. Etc.

[Travis McGee]

You would be amazed by the percentage of former military SpecOps guys currently employed by the federal alphabet agencies in their “Special Response Teams.”

It’s almost a prerequisite for entrance today. USMC MarSoc, SEALs, Rangers, SFs etc.

[PapaBear3625]

With many newly minted officers facing a high-risk tour in the Middle East, is it naive to assume WP Cadets would raise their hand in class to offer a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, “Excuse me sir, which of these 3 categories would Major Hassan fit in?”

I'm wondering if perhaps, just perhaps, the author decided to describe the Left, accurately enough that his audience would recognize it, but put "Right" labels on it so he would not get in trouble with Obama's watchdogs.

[Gilbo_3]

wow...just a generation or two to redefine all of these socialist groups into 'far right wing' extremists...

do the troops taking the Oath even have a clue as to the text of the Constitution ??? if not, its gonna get stupid soon...hopefully the PTB have jumped the proverbial gun and dont have that dumbed down a population in the Services...yet...

how is the *purge* going to look in the US military...???

forcing the queers in was prolly just step one...