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Right-wing extremist terrorism as deadly a threat as al Qaeda? (CNN says, 'Yes.')
CNN ^ | Tuesday, August 7, 2012 | Peter Bergen and Jennifer Rowland

Posted on 08/07/2012 7:46:56 PM PDT by kristinn

The word "terrorism" in the United States usually brings to mind plots linked in some way to al Qaeda, while the danger posed to the public by white supremacists, anti-abortion extremists and other right-wing militants is often overlooked.

Militants linked to al Qaeda or inspired by jihadist ideology have carried out four terrorist attacks in the United States since September 11, which have resulted in 17 deaths. Thirteen of them were in a shooting incident at Fort Hood, Texas, in November 2009.

By contrast, right-wing extremists have committed at least eight lethal terrorist attacks in the United States that have resulted in the deaths of nine people since 9/11, according to data compiled by the New America Foundation.

And if, after investigation, Sunday's attack on the Sikh temple in Wisconsin is included in this count, the death toll from right-wing terrorism in the U.S. over the past decade rises to 15.

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; fearmongering; pravdamedia; smearcampaign; stalinisttactics
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To: cripplecreek
David Duke, now that is someone Who I have not thought about for a long time......isn't he dead!?

if she wouldn’t agree that Lincoln was a democrat.

The Very first successful Republican Party president, was a Democrat, yeah....so was Erik the Red if you want to through that crap out there.

"bUt wiat!@!!" Says the troll, "wHaT aboot, Liclon's Income TAcexs and expianson of fEDral Power! and GreeNbacks!@!!!"

No, it doesn't work that way. Besides if her teacher wants her to be Bipartisan, have her do a report about Grover Cleveland. Shoot, he would be run out on a rail by both parties today.

21 posted on 08/07/2012 8:22:19 PM PDT by KC_Lion (No more Grand Old Progressives! Vote Conservative-Libertarian-Tea Party!)
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

Bull!! Washington attacked Englands ability to exercise military force in America. He did not seek to scare England into withdrawal via killing civilians.


22 posted on 08/07/2012 8:28:07 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

“He was a Nazi. A National Socialist. I really wouldn’t call that right wing.”

99/100 people don’t understand your statement, 100/100 MSM don’t understand and 110/100 would ignore the truth even if they understood it. The extra 10 is for those that would lie about it even if they understood it. It is probably closer to 1000:1 who would lie.


23 posted on 08/07/2012 8:38:02 PM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (We're an Oligrachy...Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson)
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To: kristinn

Before anyone’s blood pressure rises a point, consider the source - CNN. This is just their latest effort to appear relevant to their 17 remaining subscribers.


24 posted on 08/07/2012 8:38:40 PM PDT by DustyMoment (Congress - another name for white collar criminals!!)
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To: A Strict Constructionist

You’re probably right.


25 posted on 08/07/2012 8:40:49 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The NRA did not create James "The Joker" Holmes. Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood did.)
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To: kristinn

We need to punch back over this “right wing = Nazi” meme.

Never accept it, always challenge it. “Communism and National Socialism are just two sides of the same Socialist coin.” Etc. Never let it stand undebated.

Left Wing = Big State Supreme. Communist, Nazi, Socialist, and collective ideoloty.

Right Wing = Limited govt, the individual supreme, liberty and freedom the paramount virtues.


27 posted on 08/07/2012 8:58:55 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: kristinn

Hey Peter Bergen and Jennifer Rowland, stop worrying for now.

A good many of us have quit burying bodies under our houses. Heck, it’s hot this time of year and the smell gets overwelming. I’d tell you about our winter plan, but it would spoil the surprise, besides, I need to get my Superhero uniforms to the cleaners.


28 posted on 08/07/2012 9:00:46 PM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: GOPJ

They act like 9/11 doesn’t count. Like all those people who died are just a bunch of old dead white guys.


29 posted on 08/07/2012 9:04:19 PM PDT by virgil
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To: kristinn

Left wing and right wing are both terms that come out of Europe’s Socialist movements. Republicans have little to do with it, and American conservatives are about the only political group resisting Socialism in the world. Nazis are certainly Socialists, and Socialists are Nazis in the making, just look at the American left, and Homeland Security under Obama’s watch. Look at Occupy, at unions, at TSA, and look how America’s media is little more than a propaganda tool to use against the left’s political enemies. This nonsense, for instance.... Tea Party enthusiast and conservatives are called racist because we are color blind, while the left uses and manipulates race to achieve political power. Right wing kooks can be a bit terrifying, just like their brothers on the left. This is what European Socialism is all about. Join conservatives, and stand against the madness.


30 posted on 08/07/2012 9:12:25 PM PDT by pallis
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To: kristinn

Uh Huh. “Right wing extremist terrorism’’. Different of course from left-wing terrorism. That being the Earth Liberation Front, identified by the FBI as the single most dangerous home-grown terrorist group in the nation. Different of course than the Occupy Wall Street crowd, Code Pink and a host of other peaceful, law-abiding, non-confrontational activist groups. Uh Huh, right.


31 posted on 08/07/2012 9:22:23 PM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: cripplecreek

As I have observed here before, post-1920 “right wing” had no meaning other than “opposed to the Comintern”, thus classical liberals, monarchists, Tories, Christian Democrats, nationalists of every sort, fascists, Nazis,. . . were all “right-wing”.

The multiculturalist globalist left has inherited the role of the Comintern, and now anyone who opposes their projects (be it pushing “gay marriage” down the throats of the populace of the entire developed world, deficit spending, anthropogenic global warming, coddling and excusing radical Islam, or whatever new enthusiasm seizes them tomorrow), whether out of a commitment to nativism, fiscal restraint, science, the Constitution of the United States, the Christian humanism of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., or any other cause is “right wing”.


33 posted on 08/07/2012 9:54:21 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: kristinn

while the danger posed to the public by white supremacists, anti-abortion extremists and other right-wing militants is often overlooked.

It’s certainly never overlooked by the media, they
always hold it up for scrutiny.


35 posted on 08/07/2012 11:29:58 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: kristinn

Translation: White guys/gals with guns.

If anyone has not seen this, this 2009 MIAC Report stunned me.

Something definitely wrong in this nation...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13290698/The-Modern-Militia-MovementMissouri-MIAC-Strategic-Report-20Feb09-


36 posted on 08/08/2012 4:47:44 AM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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To: kristinn

Yeah, those shooters in AZ and CO, along with that mad bomber dud sure took out a lot of innocent people.

What? They were lefties?

Nevermind.


37 posted on 08/08/2012 5:01:12 AM PDT by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: All

The False Flags have been right in front of you. Look at the shootings and look for the military or pass military doctors involved. We are being played just like many times in history Kings and other rules have tried to take more control over the masses. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!


38 posted on 08/08/2012 5:06:00 AM PDT by bmwcyle (Corollary - Electing the same person over and over and expecting a different outcome is insanity)
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To: A Strict Constructionist; FlingWingFlyer

I ask people who think the Nazis are “right wing” if they have ever read the party platform of the National Socialists. Invariably they haven’t, but they have spent a lot of time listening to professors and media tell them that the Nazis are right wing. They won’t read the history for themselves and even if they did are unable to think for themselves enough to understand what they are reading.


39 posted on 08/08/2012 5:21:15 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

“They won’t read the history for themselves and even if they did are unable to think for themselves enough to understand what they are reading.”

Your statement along with hanging chads in West Palm Beach totally destroys the myth of superior Jewish intelligence. I have a Jewish friend who just can’t or won’t understand this fact. Again they follow those that would kill them instead of protect them. Unreal.


40 posted on 08/08/2012 6:11:15 AM PDT by A Strict Constructionist (We're an Oligrachy...Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson)
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