Posted on 03/14/2022 5:28:41 PM PDT by bitt
The Department of Homeland Security has released new guidelines on “extremist” behavior, which include questioning the 2020 presidential election or promoting “conspiracy theories” about the COVID pandemic and mandates.
The memo, titled Report to the Secretary of Homeland Security Domestic Violent Extremism Internal Review: Observations, Findings, and Recommendations claims the “sociopolitical developments” of the 2020 election and the COVID pandemic could “spur domestic violent extremists” to “engage in violence.”
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A March 2021 unclassified threat assessment prepared by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Department of Justice, and DHS, noted that domestic violent extremists “who are motivated by a range of ideologies and galvanized by recent political and societal events in the United States pose an elevated threat to the Homeland in 2021.”
The assessment pointed to newer “sociopolitical developments such as narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol, conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and conspiracy theories promoting violence” that “will almost certainly spur some [domestic violent extremists] [sic] to try to engage in violence this year.”
Notably, over half of the U.S. population question or doubt the results of the 2020 presidential election.
The guidance also calls for more funding for the DHS’ “Insider Threat Program” to identify and purge any DHS employees who “may be displaying early indicators of extremist behavior or may be radicalizing to violence.”
“Additional funding is necessary to resource these efforts, as this will greatly enhance the Department’s ability to identify and address violent extremist activity and protect from insider threats,” the memo states.
Interestingly, the memo acknowledges the DHS struggles to define exactly what “extremist behavior” actually means.
“Further, other gaps that limited our ability to collect and validate data included…guidance as to what constitutes violent extremist activity, or an established list of behaviors that may be indicators of violent extremism.”
Meanwhile, the DHS openly breaks the law by opening up the U.S. border and allowing millions of unvetted illegal aliens to stream in to America since Joe Biden took office.
Because the DHS neglects its basic duties of border security, the U.S. also made record-low deportations over the last year — the lowest since 1995.
Read the DHS document:
There was the massive effort in the news, academia, activism and government to deny and suppress it.
This is all part of demoralizing us and letting us know who really is in charge.
Well said.
Agreed. I thought at the time it was messed up to infringe on citizens rights and not focus on real problem and that it was open door to strip our freedoms and it has. I weep. Glad I am closer and not farther from end of lifespan.
Also agree with that
Bump
Over half means 165 million
Pick me! Pick me!
Corrupt Swamp - bump for later....
I’ll be your huckleberry. The election was a sham, and COVID was an exercise in mass hysteria and control. Come and take me.
They can KISS MY ASS!
“Target anyone who questions?”
My reading so far is that the target is those who would enact violence, and the incidents given specific attention thus far have been relatively few.
the DHS motto:
No dissent
Resistance is futile
“Damn George W for ever creating them in the first place!”
The Patriot Act, prior to 9/11, was sitting collecting dust on the shelf, ready to go at the first opportune time. I read somewhere it was written up by a Vietnamese, and it was predicted that it would eventually be used against Americans.
when will mayorkas be issuing the black leather trenchcoats?
Hey,
I didn’t say nothing and
I don’t know You guys and
I didn’t say Nothing!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
What makes you think for one second that the USSC would do anything about it, after what they’ve turned a blind eye to for the past two years?!
For later
😄👍ditto
Imagine Bagster and GumbleHunter in the same internment camp.
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