Posted on 11/06/2021 3:55:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
The FBI currently has 2,700 open investigations of domestic extremism, more than double the usual number of cases, according to counterterrorism officials, underscoring the Biden administration’s accelerated pursuit of what it calls “domestic violent extremists.”
The increase in domestic violent extremism described by the Biden administration is shocking, suggesting that the number of plots and racially-motivated killings attributed to white supremacists has also multiplied. So far, the administration has not presented those sorts of numbers.
The Department of Homeland Security recorded an average of 1,000 investigations into domestic terrorism plots and incidents per year from 2017 through 2019, including approximately 846 arrests of suspected domestic terrorists by the FBI and other agencies, according to a DHS report.
The agencies attributed 57 deaths from 2017 through 2019 to acts of domestic terrorism, of which 47 were racially motivated and primarily carried out by white supremacists, according to the report.
“It goes without saying that the threat from domestic terrorism is heightened and has significantly increased in the last 18 months,” FBI Counterterrorism Division Assistant Director Timothy Langan said in recent testimony before Congress.
In the wake of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, the Biden administration redoubled efforts to counter the threat of “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists” which the DHS describes as a “national threat priority.”
There are also growing concerns, however, that the hunt for domestic extremists has become politically charged and that a once-unthinkable authoritarian trampling of civil liberties in the U.S. is becoming a reality.
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I call BS. If there had actually been murders carried out by white supremacists, they would have been headline news across the country 24/7 for weeks.
The FIB needs to be completely defunded. Zeroed out. Gone. Fold the 30% decent agents into the US Marshals.
It beyond redemption. Needs to be shut down completely.
More like the Gestapo.
We keep hearing all these claims about a huge rise in “domestic terrorism” (presumably right-wing), but we rarely hear of any actual crimes being committed. Meanwhile, on a daily basis, Chicago alone produces an endless wave of violent crime.
Note I said mandated, NOT permitted.
DHS needs to be eliminated as the entire agency reeks of State Security.
DOJ needs to be cleaned out completely and focused only on upholding the Constitution.
This problem has been a long time coming...it needs to end NOW.
Damn that human stain to Hell.
The first order of business for GOP members is reelection. There is no second order of business. No political party will restore free government. It isn’t in their interest.
Unpossible. If it were true, the MSM would have been talking about each one for weeks on end.
Fears of a police state? We passed that milestone a while ago. This article focuses on obvious, state initiatives. That’s not where the really insidious stuff is. The monitoring and canceling by the usual suspects in tech is far more pernicious.
I think "fears of a police state" is a bit dramatic. "Counting on a police state" is more like it among the Demagogic Party autocrats and their many stooges in and out of gubmint. Thanks Jim.
Must be why Hunter Biden tossed his gun in the trash can huh.
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They have ZERO evidence or proof of “white supremacists” doing anything. Hey stupids !!! take off the blinders and look at blm, isis and other mideast mudslime terrorists, taliban, southern poverty law LIE center, All demonrats, most republicans, the ma$$ media and many others BUT NOT 99% OF THE PEOPLE THAT THEY ARE LOOKING AT !!! And
How many BLM, ELF, anti-fa and OWS “activists” are under investigation?
None. They are part of the operation.
Thank you, leftist extremists, who burn down buildings, assault police officers, rob and kill. You’ve saved everyone from those rightist extremists, who want to build a wall, wear red hats, and oppose teaching school children CRT, mask and vaccine mandates. Such a noble sacrifice./s
What is spooky is that the dimrats have to recruit/employ violent thugs to push their ideas. Looks a lot like the German brownshirts from the 1930’s.
And they call repubs nazis. Ironic.
The Nazis weren’t the only ones using thugs. The Communists were just out-numbered in the end by the Nazis, and they’re both just different flavors of socialists; international and national. The former were raspberry flavored, and so wore red. The latter were chocolate, and thus wore brown.
Repubs and Libertarians believe in capitalism, so are the polar opposite of both brands of socialism.
Somebody hasn’t been paying attention.
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