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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing (Barf alert)
404 ^ | September 16th 2025 | EMANUEL MAIBERG

Posted on 09/16/2025 1:28:03 PM PDT by Ennis85

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

The study, which was conducted by the National Institute of Justice and hosted on a DOJ website was available there at least until September 12, 2025, according to an archive of the page saved by the Wayback Machine. Daniel Malmer, a PhD student studying online extremism at UNC-Chapel Hill, first noticed the paper was deleted.

“The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs is currently reviewing its websites and materials in accordance with recent Executive Orders and related guidance,” reads a message on the page where the study was formerly hosted. “During this review, some pages and publications will be unavailable. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.”

Shortly after Donald Trump took office he issued an executive order that forced government agencies to scrub their sites of any mention of “diversity,” “gender,” “DEI,” and other “forbidden words” and perceived notions of “wokeness.” The executive order impacted every government agency, including NASA, and was a huge waste of engineers’ time. We don’t know why the study about far-right extremist violence was removed recently, but it comes immediately after the assassination of conservative personality Charlie Kirk, accusations from the administration that the left is responsible for most of the political violence in the country, and a renewed commitment from the administration to crack down on the “radical left.” “For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals,” Trump said in a speech after Kirk’s death. “This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now. My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it.”

Elon Musk, who owns X, recently tweeted that he was going to “fix” the platform’s AI assistant Grok after it cited research that showed right-wing violence was more common than left-wing violence: “My apologies, we are fixing this cringe idiocy by Grok,” he said. Vice President JD Vance, who guest hosted Kirk’s podcast on Monday, also vowed to go after “growing and powerful minority on the far left.”

“Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives,” the study said. “In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.” The DOJ did not immediately respond to our request for comment. Steven Chermak, one of the study’s co-authors, declined to comment.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0bloggers; ajntsa; antifa; blm; bloggers; charliekirk; chermak; domesticterror; domesticterrorists; fakenews; gaslighting; gwot; liesdamnlies; psyops; statistics; stevenchermak; violence; wot
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To: Ennis85

Eerily similar down to the same starting date and exact same figures as this study written by a woman, Celinet Duran.
The whole thing is suspect cause it includes the Kyle Rittenhouse incident as right wing homicide. Also, no database included so we can see what the author classifies as right and left wing. Most of her sources seem to be articles from NYT, Atlantic, Guardian and Fox News.


41 posted on 09/16/2025 4:02:14 PM PDT by sunny bonobo
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To: LibertyOh

I remember Washington Post published something based on this one study put out by a left-wing think tank about five years ago. I don’t remember where it was, but they were listing various cop-killings as having been “right-wing” when it was very dubious, and even a few domestic violence killings as right-wing because the perp was conservative. And of course, 9/11 didn’t count because it was too big and would skew the numbers. I’m going to see if I can find that again.


42 posted on 09/16/2025 4:02:55 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: A_perfect_lady

The ADL has similar tracking. Every killing by the Aryan Brotherhood in jail is indicated in their data as a right-wing killing. In other words, they found a way to shoehorn gang violence into “rightwing” to falsify their results.


43 posted on 09/16/2025 4:09:55 PM PDT by bone52 (Now is the time we dreamed of, and you are the hero you hoped for. Carpe diem!)
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To: bone52
Yeah, I'm looking at one of the major studies that has been referenced, from June 2020 from the Center from Strategic and International Studies (strategic studies indeed)...

https://www.csis.org/analysis/escalating-terrorism-problem-united-states#:~:text=Between%201994%20and%202020%2C%20there,or%20ethnicity)%20and%20religious%20institutions.

... and there are a lot of little tweaks they use to get the outcome they desired. For instance, all the "random and baffling" black-on-white (and asian, and Jewish, etc) crimes are not counted as terrorism, not listed at all, but of course, as you have noticed, if the hate crime is white-on-black, it counts.

They also list all white supremacists and women-hating incels as "right-wing." But why? What makes them right wing? I understand the anti-government and anti-abortion groups being considered right-wing, but how is an incel who hates women a champion of lower taxes, states rights, and a controlled border?

44 posted on 09/16/2025 4:29:41 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: A_perfect_lady

By the way, when I say “has been referenced,” I mean in general, like when you Google this topic, not by the article at the top of the thread.


45 posted on 09/16/2025 4:35:20 PM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Ennis85

Vigilant Fox 🦊
@VigilantFox
Senator Eric Schmitt OBLITERATES the “both sides bullshit” coming from the left in under 2 minutes.

The gaslighting about political violence ends right here. This clip says it all.

• Congressional baseball practice shooting? Left wing

• Burned down cities (Summer of Love)? Left wing

• Waukesha Christmas parade massacre? Left wing

• Lee Zeldin stabbing attempt? Left wing

•Covenant School shooting (Nashville)? Left wing

• Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt on Trump? Left wing

• Trump International West Palm Beach assassination attempt? Left wing

• Abundant Life Christian school shooting? Left wing

• United Care CEO’s murder? Left wing

• Tesla attacks (burned, keyed, firebombed)? Left wing

• Murders at the Israeli embassy? Left wing

• ICE facilities firebombed? Left wing

• Minnesota Catholic school shooting? Left wing

• Anti-white stabbing in Charlotte, NC? Left wing

• Utah News State firebombing attempt? Left wing

• Charlie Kirk assassination? Left wing

Fake NGO stats can’t cover up what people can see with their own two eyes.


46 posted on 09/16/2025 4:51:49 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Ennis85; Mr. K; Fester Chugabrew; piasa; marktwain; SmokingJoe; Republican Wildcat; jonrick46
I especially liked the Obama directive deleted which identified veterans as domestic terrorists. Veteran organizations prompted the deletion, but for me the most egregious passage concerned the Tenth Amendment.

Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment

https://fas.org/irp/eprint/rightwing.pdf

The passage said, “Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.”

The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution says, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

47 posted on 09/16/2025 5:16:24 PM PDT by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Ennis85

List and number the incidents side-by-side. Show the receipts.

Hard to believe the Mockingbird Media never reported on these hundreds of rightwing attacks.
If they had I could remember at least one.


48 posted on 09/16/2025 5:44:39 PM PDT by TigersEye (Terrorism has been institutionalized by the left. Ask no quarter. Give no quarter.)
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To: Ennis85

Because the study was filled with more holes than Swiss cheese.


49 posted on 09/16/2025 7:05:58 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: yesthatjallen

In other words a study funded by George Soros


50 posted on 09/16/2025 7:09:04 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: jpp113

Yup


51 posted on 09/16/2025 7:52:11 PM PDT by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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