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Terror study group finds “sovereign citizens”, “militia/patriot groups” among greatest threat to US
Hotair ^ | 08/03/2014 | Jazz Shaw

Posted on 08/03/2014 10:06:06 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The nation’s law enforcement agencies, from local cops all the way to the Department of Homeland Security, are always on the lookout for terrorist threats, and that includes at home as well as in far flung deserts and mountains. And they’re collecting data on all sorts of groups. What may come as a surprise is that, if you’re a regular reader of Hot Air or many other similar outlets, you might be one of the people they are watching! A new report this summer from a group of university analysts has identified the chief concerns of law enforcement agents at all levels, and some of them might surprise you. (A hat tip for locating this report goes to Crooks and Liars who apparently discovered it.)

First, law enforcement perceptions about what is a serious threat in their community has changed significantly over time. Law enforcement is much more concerned about sovereign citizens, Islamic extremists, and militia/patriot group members compared to the fringe groups of the far right, including Christian Identity believers, reconstructed traditionalists (i.e., Odinists), idiosyncratic sectarians (i.e., survivalists), and members of doomsday cults. In fact, sovereign citizens were the top concern of law enforcement, but the concern about whether most groups were a serious terrorist threat actually declined for most groups (e.g., the KKK; Christian Identity; Neo-Nazis; Racist Skinheads; Extremist Environmentalists; Extreme Animal Rights Extremists).

Wow. There’s a lot to wrap your head around just in that one paragraph from the Executive Summary portion of the report. It would seem that militia/patriot groups are up on the top shelf with Islamic extremists. Also interesting are the groups who are identified as “fringe” while not getting top billing. Who knew that Christian Identity believers made the cut?

(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: domesticterrorists; liberalagenda; militia; rightwingers; rop; terror; terrorstudy; threats
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To: SeekAndFind

Coming To Get You !


61 posted on 08/04/2014 10:52:37 AM PDT by ßuddaßudd (>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
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To: tumblindice

If you do not leave, I shall taunt you a second tahm!!!


62 posted on 08/04/2014 9:57:32 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
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To: trisham

Well hang on a second...Is narcissism truly contagious???

Or is it simply a product of an individuals environment???

I believe Obama hid his true essence from people for the longest period of time, those who do not pay attention, nor do they look past the color of one’s skin...

They were presented, and saw a savior, a person who would give them everything they wanted, at the expense of those who opposed him from the beginning...They love it when he sticks it to those evil racist war-hawks, manufactured by his willing accomplices in the media with their preconceived agenda (a narrative, that passes for news these days)...It was a match made for them, you couldn’t ask for a better situation politically and socially...

There liberal/socialist message still resonates better than the conservative message...

They do not even have to present a strong liberal candidate for the next presidential election cycle...They already know the republicans are going to regurgitate “old news” in Romney, and other safe elitist establishment types and the primary system dominated by moderate republican “go along to get along states” will ensure a weak republican candidate will prevail and lose to a weak liberal presidential candidate...

It is preordained...Perfect for the narcissistic vacuum of a society we live in today...

How we change course is a really open for all sorts of failure with the current political makeup we have in this country...


63 posted on 08/04/2014 10:11:20 PM PDT by stevie_d_64 (I will settle for a "perfectly good, gently used" kidney...Apply within...)
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To: matthew fuller

A matter of time. But don’t expect them to go after the liberal, less traditional ones, expect them to go after the more traditional ones first. Even more, for any kind of religion, expect them to go after the traditional ones out of the religion first.


64 posted on 08/05/2014 2:31:26 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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