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FBI director: White supremacy a 'persistent, pervasive threat'
The Hill ^ | 04/04/19 | Zack Budryk

Posted on 04/04/2019 10:35:35 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

FBI Director Christopher Wray on Thursday told lawmakers that white supremacist violence is a “persistent” and “pervasive” threat in the U.S.

"The danger, I think, of white supremacists, violent extremism or another kind of extremism is of course significant," Wray said at an FBI budget request hearing before the House Appropriations Committee.

"We assess that it is a persistent, pervasive threat," he said. "We tackle it both through our joint terrorism task forces on the domestic terrorism side as well as through our civil rights program on the civil side through hate crime enforcement."

Wray’s comments follow those of President Trump, who said after last month's mass shooting in New Zealand that white supremacists were “a small group of people that have very, very serious problems.”

Trump sparked controversy in 2017 after a deadly Charlottesville, Va., white supremacist rally when he said there "some very fine people on both sides."

The House Judiciary Committee announced it will hold a hearing on white nationalism and hate crimes on Tuesday.

"This hearing will examine hate crimes, the impact white nationalist groups have on American communities and the spread of white identity ideology,” the panel said in a statement. “The hearing will also foster ideas about what social media companies can do to stem white nationalist propaganda and hate speech online."

An indictment unsealed last week found that federal investigators have filed criminal charges for murder, assault and kidnapping against 18 members and associates of a violent Alaska-based white supremacist gang.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: fbi; hatecrime; whitesupremacy; wray
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To: yesthatjallen

This sounds like a setup for what the Left intends to do if they win the White House and the Senate and the crazies hold the House.


41 posted on 04/04/2019 11:24:45 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: yesthatjallen

This is aimed at us. Hate crime legislation was always intended to attack anyone who opposes marxists.


42 posted on 04/04/2019 11:29:35 AM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: combat_boots

The dem are going to try to sew Trump into this

https://theintercept.com/2019/03/21/mayor-pete-buttigieg-on-trump-islamophobia-and-his-presidential-bid/

Get rid of Wray. PTrump

Yesterday


43 posted on 04/04/2019 11:29:47 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: yesthatjallen
Chris Wray is just another DC establishment puke carrying the water for the NWO overlords that rule those in DC. Trump needs to fire him for continuing to protect the FBI per the cover-up of their illegal activities and protecting their FBI cohorts for their treasonous crimes.

Their plan is obvious; denigrate the white American male to the point where any personal exhibition of US patriotism becomes an illegal offense against the state. These UNCONSTITUTIONAL red flag gun confiscation laws popping up in several states now will soon become the norm across the country; thus, you're a threat if you're a gun owner and you're pro American. NO where else to go folks. America is the last country that once offered genuine freedom and individual liberty.

44 posted on 04/04/2019 11:35:32 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: I want the USA back
Whites refusing to bow down in submission while chanting “forgive me for being White and evil.”

guessin' i oughtta go gits me some blackface

45 posted on 04/04/2019 11:35:38 AM PDT by TheRightGuy
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To: yesthatjallen

The vast majority of “hate” crimes are done by “people of color.” It will only get worse as they are being encouraged to lash out at we, white, evil ones.


46 posted on 04/04/2019 11:45:35 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: I want the USA back

Boom. Spot on.

In what world does this guy live? Don’t they have more important things to pursue, like an attempted coup on the President??

Oh.. wait... I forgot...


47 posted on 04/04/2019 12:03:09 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: faucetman
Donald Trump seems to have a knack for picking the exact WRONG person for the job.

Alas, as much as I admire the man's courage, energy, and commitment, it's hard to disagree with that statement.

48 posted on 04/04/2019 12:03:15 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: yesthatjallen

White Supremacy = Striving to improve and accepting responsibility for your own actions. Yea, those are bad things.


49 posted on 04/04/2019 12:13:20 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Maybe Wray is counting Islamic indoctrination camps and schools as “white supremacists?” Because they are going gangbusters all over the country. Maybe the FBI doesn't have enough Arab-speaking skill to sort them out?
50 posted on 04/04/2019 12:36:52 PM PDT by Missouri gal
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To: Missouri gal
...Maybe the FBI doesn't have enough Arab-speaking skill to sort them out?

No worries on that score, Dubya and John Ashcroft saw to that... CAIR vets/ vetted all islamic investigations throughout FLEOs... move along nothing to see here...Oh look! Over there...white supremacist s.

51 posted on 04/04/2019 12:41:58 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: yesthatjallen

How about a hearing on deep state corruption?


52 posted on 04/04/2019 12:42:59 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The media is the enemy of the American people." Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: yesthatjallen
A reddit post that is getting quite some circulation...

>>207723296 (OP) #
Hi OP, straight up cracker here from the most crackery part of the US.

The reason white racism is increasing is because this generation of young white men were raised to be the least racist generation of whites to ever exist in the history of this planet. We grew up being taught that racism was bad, that we were all going to move past it more together towards a better future. Even here in the most traditionally racist part of the country, nearly every young white boy in my generation grew up watching black athletes, black actors, listening to black musicians, etc. It was all normal. We were 95% post-racial.

So as we got older, we stuck our hands out in friendship to EVERYONE, like we'd been taught to... and then every non-white group on the planet came by and sucker-punched us from behind, called us evil white devils, and told us that we deserve to die. We were ready and willing to move on from the past, the rest of you weren't. Instead of shaking our hands and marching off together, you chose revenge against the only white people who've ever let their guard down.

So now you's cant be our friends, and we're reforging the identity we were taught to shed."

(I don't agree with every supposition made in this missive, but it is pretty strong.)

53 posted on 04/04/2019 12:48:17 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Pravious

you know, I am pushing 70 years old and I have never met a WHITE SUPREMACIST.
I wonder why?


54 posted on 04/04/2019 12:57:15 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 5th MEB
You know, I am pushing 70 years old and I have never met a WHITE SUPREMACIST.

You know, come to think of it, me neither.

I’ve run into Antifa, black nationalists, communists, Aztlans. I’ve seen tons of left wing racists.

I’ve never run into an avowed “white supremacist”. Interesting...

55 posted on 04/04/2019 1:11:17 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: yesthatjallen
"The danger, I think, of white supremacists, violent extremism or another kind of extremism is of course significant," Wray said

Is this moron even using the Obama Administration's idiotic term for Islamic extremism? And did he provide a list of all the documented acts of white supremism?

Who recommended this character?

56 posted on 04/04/2019 1:14:01 PM PDT by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Didn’t Trump install this idiot Wray? What a lying sack of shite. Trump just needs to close the doors on the FBI which is intent on persecuting Americans on the false claim of white supremacist threats.


57 posted on 04/04/2019 1:22:52 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: faucetman

I have to say Trump is terrible at human resources. He must have delegated this role when he ran his business. He needs to delegate it again.


58 posted on 04/04/2019 1:24:40 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: Roccus
I remember it well, The media was flooded with self appointed “profiling experts” all of whom assured us the perp was an “isolated alienated white loner.”

When it turned out to be two black moslems, the experts all vanished into thin air.

59 posted on 04/04/2019 1:40:14 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard (Power is more often surrendered than seized.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Where are these white supremacists? There’s a cluster of them in northern Idaho, but where else? They’re not walking around in this county.


60 posted on 04/04/2019 1:45:03 PM PDT by lurk
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