The United States Extremist Crime Database (ECDB) on its face isn’t alarming. I’m not even sure if this database is official or operational but people tracking crime isn’t new, nor is suspect. You should note that this database tracks non-violent “far-right”crime as well. What I do find alarming, albeit par for the course, is the keywords under which this database article is searchable: Keywords Al Qaeda related crimes, database construction, domestic terrorism, extremist crime, far-right crime, political violence The investigator of this University of Maryland project (http://www.start.umd.edu/start/research/projects/project.asp?id=43) is Steven Chermak (http://www.start.umd.edu/start/research/investigators/investigator.asp?id=47). This is how these people think: if you have...