Posted on 01/16/2021 4:36:32 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Former New York City police commissioner Bill Bratton told Shepard Smith Friday that “for the last 20 years our biggest concern was international terrorism — ISIS, Al Qaeda,” but “now it’s here and it’s us, and it’s the citizens of the United States, some of whom are rebelling against everything we thought we believed in for the last 300 to 400 years.” (Apparently Bratton subscribes to the 1619 Project, which dates America’s founding not from 1776, but from 1619, so as to add on 150 extra years of slavery and oppression.) And Bratton wasn’t alone: his analysis of the “far-right” threat is the latest establishment media narrative.
Former FBI director James Comey joined in the fun. Asked by a British broadcaster if he thought “far-right extremism in the US” was “a greater danger to the country than Islamist terrorism,” Comey answered in the affirmative, and added: “The threat has slowly risen as Donald Trump and those around him have withdrawn the control rods. America has always had a radioactive stew of racist conspiracy-minded misogynist people oriented towards violence. We’ve always had that in this country. But we’ve managed over generations to contain it inside a containment building as you would with a nuclear waste pile and put control rods down into it which we’re cultural. And that calmed the radiation. And over the last five years Donald Trump and those around him have pulled the rods out with signals and dog whistles and sometimes explicitly”
A former Homeland Security Department counterterrorism official, Nate Snyder, likewise also affirmed Friday that the biggest terror threat the nation faces today comes from “violent white supremacists, neo-Nazis, sovereign citizens, militia movements.”
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It’s as if the federal government is the enemy of the people.
They sound scared to me.
What would be his solution? Just lock everybody up? Quarantine everyone at home? 1984 everything?
If they were really scared of us...they would be kissing our butts and would never call us out. (See Muslims)
Load Trump supporters onto boxcars.
I think they are way past being scared, I think they are catatonic and don’t know which way to move.
Bratton is so Twentieth Century——his time has long been up.
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They can’t keep enough cops on the force there now he’s done such an amazing job
His face is very cold, he looks like he could be quite cruel.
How many cities burned by and people murdered by white extremists last year?
“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”- Thomas Jefferson
Now we know the people who the post 9/11 laws were really aiming at.
I am one of those who has also pointed out that our government has been supporting jihadists-Al Qaeda in the wars in Libya and Syria in recent years.
So the bottom line is our government has aligned itself with Al Qaeda the movement while taking out some terrorist leaders of Al Qaeda the organization over 9/11.
They would, but they need to disarm us first.
Sad but true, I don’t see anyway to restore civility until officials are held to the same standards as the governed
How much were you paid to say that, jackass?
Both Brat and Comey have never seen combat. PUKES. I recall when both Houses were mostly WWII vets. Our Fed Govt is pure TRASH.
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