Posted on 04/04/2013 1:33:27 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows
(CNN) -- On the evening of March 19, Tom Clements, the director of Colorado's prison system, was shot and killed when he answered the door of his home near Colorado Springs.
The slaying sparked a police chase that ended a few days later in Texas, with authorities finally killing the suspect, 28-year-old Evan Ebel, in a shootout. It was soon discovered that Ebel had been part of a violent white supremacist gang during the eight years he spent in Colorado prisons.
Clements was the latest victim of increasingly active violent right-wing extremists. While American politicians and the U.S. public continue to focus on the threat from jihadist extremists, there seems to be too little awareness that this domestic form of political violence is a growing problem at home.
From 2002 to 2007, only nine right-wing extremists were indicted for their roles in politically motivated murders and other types of ideologically motivated violent assaults. But between 2008 and 2012, the number mushroomed to 53, according to data collected by the New America Foundation.
Fifteen right-wing extremists were indicted in 2012 -- including six who were involved in a militia in Georgia that accumulated weapons, plotted attacks on the government and murdered a young U.S. Army soldier and his 17-year-old girlfriend, who they suspected were planning to rat out the group to authorities. Seven claimed membership in the anti-government Sovereign Citizens movement and allegedly murdered two policemen in Louisiana. And two had gone on a murderous rampage the previous year, killing four people before they were arrested in California, where they told police they were on their "way to Sacramento to kill more Jews."
By comparison, in 2012, only six people who subscribed to al Qaeda's ideology were indicted on terrorism-related charges in the United States[.]
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Roger that.
That’s not shopped?
I agree with you. My father served in three wars from WWII with the 42nd ID that liberated Dachau. Then he was in Korea with the 24th ID, and he did two tours in RVN (63-64) and (70-71).His father was a WWI type who was mustard gassed. I was shot twice in RVN, but; that is no big deal. My card saying I am a CAR member means more to me. Yes, my family on both sides came to this country before the Revolutionary War. Regardless of all this or anyone-Obama is a commie who hates America.l
Why is this piece of filth allowed in our country?
Behold the New America Foundation (NAF), yet another Washington, D.C. entity laying claim to high-browed, high-minded non-partisanship.
Who pays for this little show? And by “little show” we mean one that had a 2010 outlay of $15,695,563. Why, it’s Leftist joints like:
$1,000,000 (in 2011)
The Ford Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Eric and Wendy Schmidt
$250,000-$999,999 (in 2011)
Open Society Institute (a George Soros outfit)
Google, Inc.
Wait, go back - Eric Schmidt? Is that the President Obama Uber-Crony?
Eric is a member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology....
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Money talks, bull**** walks.
I doubt the guy was right-wing. He was white, and probably racist. And he probably would vote for Obama, and thinks government and the world owes him, and that’s why he is a criminal.
The white supremicists are the last offshoot of the liberal, democrat ku klux klan.
Even calling a white prison gang a white supremacist group is a stretch, much less suggesting that they are "right wing extremists".
White guys in prison join a white gang as a self-defense mechanism, to protect themselves from the Hispanic prison gangs and the black prison gangs. It has little to do with "white supremacy" per se, though lip service might be paid to the concept.
But, you're right, the "racism" angle automatically makes these groups "right wing" to the liberal media -- even though they're nothing of the sort.
Perhaps we should start referring to black prison gangs as "left wing extremists". Or "ultra-liberals"...
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