Posted on 02/04/2016 2:34:26 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski
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Clearly, these were not the typical "Islamic terrorists" described in the boogeyman stories of American politicians who exploit fear for votes. Glendon Crawford, the industrial mechanic who conceived the plan, has all the panache of a Macy's shoe salesman; Eric Feight, a software engineer who helped build the device, looks like a less impish version of Kurt Vonnegut. But their harmless appearance belies their beliefs—Crawford was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and the plot he hatched with Feight involved killing scores of Muslims, as well as officials at the governor's mansion in Albany, New York and at the White House.
They and untold thousands like them are the extremists who hide among us, the right-wing militants who, since 2002, have killed more people in the United States than jihadis have. In that time, according to New America, a Washington think tank, Islamists launched nine attacks that murdered 45, while the right-wing extremists struck 18 times, leaving 48 dead. These Americans thrive on hate and conspiracy theories, many fed to them by politicians and commentators who blithely blather about government concentration camps and impending martial law and plans to seize guns and other dystopian gibberish, apparently unaware there are people listening who don't know it's all lies. These extremists turn to violence against minorities, non-Christians, abortion providers, government officials, in what they believe is a fight to save America. And that potential for violence is escalating every day...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
It will be the Christians and Jews first and from my experience there are a few of FR who will help.
Thanks for the post.
In a search this was mentioned.
Participants in those critical decisions, Janis found, had failed to consider the full range of alternatives or consult experts who could offer different perspectives. They rejected outside information and opinion unless it supported their preferred policy. And the harsher the preferred policy — the more likely it was to involve moral dilemma — the more zealously members clung to their consensus: “Each member is likely to become more dependent than ever on the in-group for maintaining his self-image as a decent human being and will therefore be more strongly motivated to maintain group unity.”
See this more often now days.
Thanks again.
So Cognitive Dissonance also plays a significant factor?
Sources, please.
Besides the author's fevered, wishful imagination.
When I was in college in the mid-sixties, Newsweak was, even then, viewed as a less than trustworthy source for information to use in creating term papers.
Looking at what "New America", no doubt a Communist Left-Wing Extremist organization, has credited as right-wing extremists, I'm surprised the numbers aren't even higher.
Many were troubled people who may have at some point in time of their life claimed to be this or that, but in reality were nothing more than loners who had mental issues.
Also why no investigation into left-wing extremist killings?
All in all a dishonest piece with questionable, at best, facts to support an obviously pre-concieved conclusion.
Which attacks are these? I bet if we look at these specific cases, they will turn out to be left wing kooks. Most of the time they are.
Of course they are...just like Mcveigh, the KKK, and all the kooks...Right Wing Extremists = Judeo-Christian, Consitutionalist, small government, love your neighbor as yourself
You mean Timothy "Science is My God" McVeigh?
That’s right! I forgot about that...I am certain he does not believe “science is my god” now...
Someone needs to point out to them that the Nazis were left wing as in "NAtional SoZIalists.
They also count that nutball "Dylan Roof" as "right wing".
They aren't trying to be honest, they are trying to advance a narrative.
I didn't go through their whole list, but I see some robberies and assaults that they label as "right wing."
They don't go into "left wing" racial assaults by left wing racists. I dare say they would find more than they wanted to count.
I guess they are right in that I probably am a danger to these loons.
Nice try pinko. Your imitation of Goebbels isn't working.
Another WTF article from the newsweak cesspool!
I doubt it will be a holocaust. They are quite well armed and understand valid reasons for defense, and if they are ever told to turn them in, that is when the fighting begins.
Do you see that as being a
line in the sand so to speak?
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