Posted on 02/25/2015 4:45:39 AM PST by HomerBohn
A Department of Homeland Security report obtained by CNN last week indicates that DHS officials believe “right-wing sovereign citizen extremists” are as big a threat to the nation’s safety as Islamic extremists who sympathize with ISIS.
CNN reported Friday that “federal and local law enforcement groups view the domestic terror threat from sovereign citizen groups as equal to — and in some cases greater than — the threat from foreign Islamic terror groups, such as ISIS…”
From the report:
The government says these are extremists who believe that they can ignore laws and that their individual rights are under attack in routine daily instances such as a traffic stop or being required to obey a court order.
They’ve lashed out against authority in incidents such as one in 2012, in which a father and son were accused of engaging in a shootout with police in Louisiana, in a confrontation that began with an officer pulling them over for a traffic violation. Two officers were killed and several others wounded in the confrontation. The men were sovereign citizen extremists who claimed police had no authority over them.
According to the report, DHS officials outlined 24 incidents involving sovereign citizen extremists in the U.S. since 2010.
The DHS document classifies sovereign citizens as people who feel they have “unfettered authority to travel ‘on the land'” and who are likely to reject “the authority of the government, law enforcement, and the courts.”
DHS stopped short of declaring that all people who identify as sovereign citizens are dangerous but warned in the document that law enforcement personnel are most likely to come under attack from those who are violent.
Law enforcement officers “will remain the primary target of [sovereign citizen] violence over the next year due to their role in physically enforcing laws and regulations,” DHS asserts. The agency also contends that most violence involving sovereign citizens in 2015 will occur “during routine law enforcement encounters at a suspect’s home, during enforcement stops and at government offices.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which routinely criticizes the media’s focus on Islamic terrorism, championed the DHS report.
“We welcome this new intelligence assessment on the threat posed by domestic right-wing violent extremists,” CAIR said in a statement.
“It is the government’s responsibility to address all forms of violent extremism — regardless of ideology — and in proportion to the criminal threat posed by those groups.”
“We now call on the DHS and FBI to release an intelligence assessment addressing the spike in hate crimes targeting Muslim, Arab, Middle Eastern, Sikh, Hindu, and South Asian communities throughout the United States,” CAIR continued.
The report comes on the heels of the White House summit on “violent extremism” last week.
It’s about time to see what this DHS have morphed into. We’ve seen quite enough of the groping of passengers in the airport screening lines while leering muslims slip on through.
I’m sure the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison thinks Gov. Scott Walker is a major threat to her, too. He makes less than $200,000 as governor of the state, while she makes almost $500,000 to head the university. So his plan to cut back the state subsidy for her outrageous salary certainly is a threat to her place at the taxpayer-funded trough.
WOW! 24 Instances in a country of 315 million. My calculator does not compute in percentages that small.
DHS are questioning right-wingers’ “patriotism”.
FU BOBO
FU Dana Millbrook
I’m becoming more convinced, in spite of what is regurgitated from the MSM, that Scott Walker may indeed be the real deal come next year.
That is, unless Americans with low attention spans decide that what we need is Act III of the Bush saga.
DHS will never go away.
Part of their area of concern is protection of Hollywood’s copyrights and the NFL’s trademarks.
this nation is Eff’ed.
If you don’t understand what a sovereign citizen is, don’t talk about it.
The very name “Department of Homeland Security” sounds like something from Nazi Germany, Communist USSR or China.........
And, as in those nations, will actually be used solely to suppress the freedoms of citizen’s and to arrest them with false charges.......
I agree. As an American, even the name Department of HOMELAND Security gives me the creeps.
“The DHS document classifies sovereign citizens as people who feel they have “unfettered authority to travel ‘on the land’” and who are likely to reject “the authority of the government, law enforcement, and the courts.” “
Sounds like illegals and Obummer to me.
“I wonder what a “routine law enforcement encounter at the suspect’s home” means? Unannounced SWAT teams busting in, shooting dogs and scaring kids because they sell raw milk or maybe they just got the wrong address? That’s routine?”
Law enforcement really dislikes persons who would shoot back.
I hope that you are spot on. We don't want or need Act III.
I wonder if the DHS report acknowledges that huge difference.
How did the size of the flag factor in?
By the DHS saying does not make it so. The headline is misleading.
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