Maybe Professor Bill Ayers can clue us in...
Posted on 02/21/2015 3:10:42 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The Department of Homeland Security has a lot on their hands lately. It seems as if some days they don’t know where to look first when dealing with a variety of threats. Whether it’s al Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram or sympathizers for any of a variety of terrorists groups, they are dealing with a dangerous world. But for some reason, CNN reports that the big threat this year is probably… sovereign citizens.
On second thought, maybe that whole defunding the DHS thing isn’t looking that bad.
A new intelligence assessment, circulated by the Department of Homeland Security this month and reviewed by CNN, focuses on the domestic terror threat from right-wing sovereign citizen extremists and comes as the Obama administration holds a White House conference to focus efforts to fight violent extremism.
Some federal and local law enforcement groups view the domestic terror threat from sovereign citizen groups as equal to — and in some cases greater than — the threat from foreign Islamic terror groups, such as ISIS, that garner more public attention.
The Homeland Security report, produced in coordination with the FBI, counts 24 violent sovereign citizen-related attacks across the U.S. since 2010.
24 attacks in the last five years is 24 too many, as I’m sure we can all agree. But we should also put things in perspective. Islamic terrorists can pull off that many in a week without breaking too much of a sweat. They make no secret of their intentions, but you always have to be on the lookout for who might be helping them on the home front.
But if it’s domestic threats that we’re worrying about, is this really the top trophy to go after? In 2012 (the last year of full records) there were 500 gang killings in Chicago alone. For those of you keeping score at home, unlike the 24 in the last five years racked up by the “sovereign citizens” brigade, that’s more than 28 every three weeks. In New York, youth gangs commit an estimated 40% of the shootings each year, and while the Big Apple has done an admirable job of bringing their murder rate down for several years now, that’s still a lot of lead flying through the air. I could go through the numbers for the other cities, but you get the point.
It goes beyond that, though. We have parades of people marching down the streets calling for the murder of cops. That’s not single point violence… it’s mayhem on a cultural scale which seeks to tear down the fabric of civilization. And if that’s not enough, if you take a tour of the more southwest regions, massively well funded, heavily armed and well organized drug cartels make regular forays into our nation dealing death and destruction on a daily basis. Math may not be my strong suit in terms of placing things in order of importance, but that seems fairly serious.
But… hey. 24 attacks in five years is pretty bad too, so you get right on that.
“The Last Man on Earth” with Vincent Price???
Yeah, I’d like to see a list of these 24 so-called attacks, too......assuming they even happened.
Maybe Professor Bill Ayers can clue us in...
WELL ... on the other hand, I think Obama is worse than ISIS. Homeland Security should remove Obama from office for being an ISLAMIC THREAT!!
I doesn’t take a genius to realize Dear Leader would rather be tracking down, arresting and water boarding NRA members and right-to-lifers than Jahidi’s.
“DHS: You right wingnuts are worse than ISIS”
Yea and Obama and DHS are worse than a 10 day rotting yak carcass.
BTTT
While some here will disagree, I honestly believe the worst mistake George W Bush made during his eight years was the Department of Homeland Security. One large tax wasting boon-doggle that has done NOTHING to make us safer.
I agree.
Sounds like they desperately want a patsy to fulfill the left’s wet dream..
So when do they plan to give us all jobs?!?
sounds like something my ex would say.
Mine liked to throw around the word “toxic” for some reason.
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