Posted on 06/09/2014 6:54:30 AM PDT by servo1969
They get close. Apparently, they were out at Bundy's ranch during the BLM standoff and they "harbored anti-government ideology"
Justice Department reconstitutes domestic terror task force
By Kevin Daley | June 9, 2014 | 6:36 pm
Topics: Beltway Confidential Eric Holder Terrorism Attorney
Attorney General Eric Holder announced the Justice Department will reestablish a Clinton-era committee tasked with sharing and assessing domestic terror threats just days before a Las Vegas-area shooting spree left five dead.
The Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee was first convened in 1995 by Attorney General Janet Reno, in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing. Holder said the Justice Department’s anti-terrorism focus shifted abroad after 9/11, but insisted threats posed by al Qaeda are now diminished thanks to President Obama’s “strong and effective anti-terror efforts.
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“But we must also concern ourselves with the continued danger we face from individuals within our own borders,” Holder continued. He restricted his definition of extremist groups to the far right, defining domestic terrorists as those “motivated by a variety of other causes from anti-government animus to racial prejudice.”
Jerad Miller was a wacko enviro nut job:
“Connie Kennedy of Lafayette said the Millers lived in the house across the street from her for about a year and a half.
“She was nice, I mean, she was a really sweet girl,” Kennedy said. “He was kind of out there, but nothing-oh my gosh-nothing that would make it seem like he do something like this.”
Kennedy said that she was on her way home late last year when she turned onto her street and saw a police officer with his gun drawn and pointed toward the Miller’s home.
The next day, she asked Amanda what had happened.
“She said, ‘Oh they’re after him. He always thinks they’re after him,’ “ Kennedy said. “She just kind of rolled her eyes.”
“He was different. He would, like, come outside and take pictures of planes or the sky, and he’d say stuff like, ‘See how they’re polluting our air with all that junk in the sky,’ and he’d go on and on about the environment.”
Do you know any cops? Most of them are on our side. I halfway expected all the cop haters here on FR to be giddy about these murders.
I’ve met a few, but I don’t really know any cops well. Most of those I’ve interacted with have been decent and professional, but there have been a few a**holes. Same as anyone else, except those few are operating under the color of authority. I’m certainly not a “cop hater”. I appreciate that they do a difficult job, and they’re not responsible for writing the laws they enforce.
What I don’t like is that when they make egregious errors like breaking down the wrong door, shooting the family dog or shooting an innocent person, they are seldom held to account. I’ve always thought that just as assaulting an officer is a more serious crime that assaulting an ordinary citizen, so should there be enhanced penalties for cops who break the law. Instead they usually get a slap on the wrist at most. I also do worry about the militarization of the police and the tendency to use excessive force for routine things like serving warrants. I think most of what you term “cop haters” on FR are also reacting to the same, though maybe overreacting.
Read “Hound of the Baskervilles”. The media dog isn’t barking. And that’s something to be suspicious of.
I read that when I was young. Nice analogy. I found it weird when Israel bombed the crap out of some syrian installation in the desert about 2007 and no one not even Iran complained. And the media barely reported it too. What was that about ?
This should be a front page story for the media hating left.
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