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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>>Vicki Weaver and her son got shot and apparently no one but the shooter heard it.
People heard it. We formed militias and we paid attention. Then, George Bush won the 2000 election and almost everyone relaxed because the battle was won and the GOP was back in control again. Anyone who still called for vigilance was shouted down by the people on the Right.
And the march to globalism, Cloward-Piven, and Agenda 21 continued on....according to plan.
As I recall the line is just there, hanging in space in the advert. It is preceded by vows to be deadly while acting on combat teams and such as that.
Why no mention of left wing violence? We have dealt with that since the 60s and the media doesn’t want to talk about that issue.
Exactly!
You ought to see the comments. I got called a traitor no less than 3 times..
You are exactly right.
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We now know who the 3 billion rounds of ammo are for!
I believe you are right. I can foresee a time when whites will join these groups just for protection, since the left has done such a good job of demonizing us for existing.
Considering McLelland was part of a task force that investigated the Aryan Brotherhood, and in light of the recent killing of Colorado prison chief Tom Clements allegedly by a member of a white supremacist prison gang, this theory that the AB may have been involved in the murders clearly has some merit.
Yet in that coverage, the mainstream media has gone to great lengths to label ad-infinitum the Aryan Brotherhood as a white supremacist group, implying a racial motivation. The AB, even if involved at all, however, may have been motivated not by a "white supremacist philosophy, but rather by something more mundane. Evidence suggests that the Aryan Brotherhood has morphed into what is primarily a drug-trafficking gang, and there is a more frightening possibility: that the Aryan Brotherhood is acting as a conduit, doing the dirty work for a Mexican drug cartel criminal insurgency into the United States.
They’re so far right, they’re actually left.
The terms left wing and right wing sprang up as a way of defining competing branches of Socialism in Europe. They didn’t have much relevance for American politics until the Democratic Party became decidedly Socialist, imitating left wing Socialism in Europe. To this day there is no viable right wing equivalent in America, and it certainly isn’t going to come from conservatism, or the Republican Party. The left, politicians, educators and media throw the term right wing around because Democrats need it to smear any opposition to their radical leftism.
Oh wait - what?
Great list. We are being set up.
What on earth is going on in this country????
Evil vs Good.
Do not paint me as a right-wing extremist. I’m a melting pot American of modest means (read: middle class).
Think: Mayberry. No, really.
I care about people and help when I’m called on, follow the rules, follow the commandments as best I can, and do my civic duties. I have raised my kids to be the same way. I have guns. I also have cameras... and fire extinguishers.
I despise repression, my dad flew against the imperial japaneese, my uncle went to a nazi prison camp, the repercussions of which killed him, my cousin got blown out of the tank he commanded in Nam, my brothers joined, one in ASA, one in electronics/avionics. I came up in a military and law enforcement family. I’m 100% American.
Extremist? Nope. Taxed enough already? Hell yes!
I’m an average American. These marxist extremist fools can kiss my ass.
pallis didn’t call you a right-wing extremist. He said that the press does so erroneously. They need to demonize average, patriotic Americans in order to further their agenda and de-legitimatize the truth we speak.
I’m in absolute agreement with pallis!
Me too!!! :-)
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