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Biden Steps Up Federal Efforts to Combat Domestic Extremism
New York Times ^ | 4/4/2021 | Zolan Kanno

Posted on 04/04/2021 3:33:07 PM PDT by MikeSteelBe

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is stepping up efforts to combat domestic extremism, increasing funding to prevent attacks, weighing strategies historically used against foreign terrorist groups and more openly warning the public about the threat. Members of the Proud Boys, a far-right group, at a rally in Portland in September. Its leaders are among the most prominent targets of the sprawling investigation into the attack on the Capitol. Members of the Proud Boys, a far-right group, at a rally in Portland in September. Its leaders are among the most prominent targets of the sprawling investigation into the attack on the Capitol. The attempts to more assertively grapple with the potential for violence from white supremacists and militias are a shift from President Donald J. Trump’s pressure on federal agencies to divert resources to target the antifa movement and leftist groups despite the conclusion by law enforcement authorities that far-right and militia violence was a more serious threat. a man wearing a blue shirt: “It turns out the report was right, and it was prescient, and we see today increasing incidents of right-wing or white nationalist activity across the country,”

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To: Liz

The people ruling us from the Capitol buildings think of themselves as Royalty. I think of them as French Royalty, and it is time we started building guillotines.


81 posted on 04/04/2021 9:42:17 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts (“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, )
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To: Glad2bnuts

Hitler had his SA brownshirts (FBI),

his Jews (Christians),

and his communists (conservatives).


82 posted on 04/05/2021 2:56:21 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: MikeSteelBe

successful coup, stole the election, barricaded themselves in the government seat with the military protecting their a##es and are now going after the domestic extremists they want you to believe are after them.


83 posted on 04/05/2021 3:41:26 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: A Navy Vet

Guns found in the cars of “attackers” while the latter were conducting their “attack” aren’t useful for said attack ... and therefore, it wasn’t an armed insurrection as the gaslight media claims.


84 posted on 04/05/2021 4:58:17 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: Paladin2

The article says “funding to prevent attacks”.

Maybe your question was rhetorical?


85 posted on 04/05/2021 7:03:50 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: LastDayz
Does this mean that Black Looters Matter and PantiFa are gonna get rounded up and held responsible for their numerous crimes against the people? Asking for a friend.

Black Looters Matter and PantiFa, that is funny/good right there.

I wish I had thought that up.

86 posted on 04/05/2021 7:12:35 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: MikeSteelBe

Biden Stazi - bump for later.....


87 posted on 04/05/2021 8:18:24 AM PDT by indthkr
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To: MikeSteelBe

You mean they’ll finally go after Occupy, ANTIFA, BLM and Nation Of Islam? < /sarc >


88 posted on 04/05/2021 2:08:25 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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