Remember when GOPers attacked the Obama Administration for warning about white supremacists? Well...

[Cali_Democrat]

Have you seen these recent attacks on law enforcement officials by white supremacists?

Aryan Brotherhood group is under the microscope in the probe of Texas prosecutors' deaths.

Investigators trying to solve the murders of a North Texas district attorney, his wife and an assistant prosecutor are zeroing in on a local white supremacist prison gang known for brutal retaliations against its own members, running methamphetamine and other drugs outside prison walls and murder.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/01/aryan-brotherhood-texas-slayings/2042285/

Suspect in the shooting of Colorado corrections chief Tom Clements was a paroled member of a white supremacist prison gang

(Newser) – The suspect in the shooting of Colorado corrections chief Tom Clements was a paroled member of a white supremacist prison gang, the Denver Post reports. "What's not known is whether this was ordered or a crime of opportunity," says a corrections official. Evan Ebel, a paroled member of a gang called the 211s, was involved in a chase and shootout in Texas yesterday; police are also investigating his possible involvement in the shooting of a pizza-delivery driver.

http://www.newser.com/story/164877/colorado-suspect-was-in-white-supremacist-gang.html

Let's call the GOPers what they are, right wing domestic terrorist enablers:

GOP forced DHS to stop studying white supremacist terror threat

http://americablog.com/2012/08/gop-forced-dhs-to-stop-studying-white-supremacist-terror-threat.html

Republicans Blasted Obama Administration For Warning About Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism

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But when, in 2009, the Department of Homeland Security reported that white supremacy is the US’s biggest threat for domestic terror, it was met with harsh criticism. Conservatives blasted the department for defining terror threats too broadly, instead of focusing on potential Islamic terrorists. Then-House Minority Leader Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) was one of those who berated DHS

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The report was titled “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” and it named white supremacists, radical anti-abortionists, and a few “disgruntled veterans” as most susceptible to recruitment by extremist groups, or to harboring resentment that may lead to domestic terrorism. DHS stressed that, during recessions, these threats go up, and law enforcement should be on the lookout for such extremism:

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/07/645421/right-wing-extremism/

[abq e streeter]

1. And I remember how they caved to the pressure too. ("Forced" to stop...Oh----kay)

[etherealtruth]

2. I don't recall that (though it doesn't surprise me)

This "Pillsbury Dough-girl white" woman finds those groups to be the scariest "M-F"ers .... ever.

(in the spirit of disclosure my children are not "white" which heightened my already present revulsion associated with these sub-human creatures)

[Thinkingabout]

3. Those who wish to halt our freedoms, has weapons of war and a trigger finger wanting to be

Exercised. It would not surprise me if they are involved in drug trafficking to support their poor work habits. They are terrorist.

[kelliekat44]

17. Drugs and robberyies are how they have and still are funding their operations. My question is

why aren't they and the banksters thrown in the same jail?

[Tx4obama]

4. A link to an additional article regarding the Ayrian Brotherhood, below

Former Prisoner: ‘For-Profit’ Prisons Churning Out Waves Of Violent White Supremacists
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101659609

[Cali_Democrat]

28. Thanks for the link

Good information there on the prison industrial complex.

[annabanana]

5. It reminds me of how the NRA lobbyists managed defund the CDC's studies of

gun violence as a health concern.

[randr]

6. The initial report, from the Justice Dept.,

was started under W and finished under Obama.

[alp227]

18. + this interview on Democracy now with an author of the report

Transcript: http://www.democracynow.org/2012/8/9/former_dhs_analyst_daryl_johnson_on

Daryl Johnson was even a Mormon and Republican! He has a new book out. Video:

[SpartanDem]

7. Let's see..we've had the Holocaust Museum shooting, Dr. Tiller

and the Sikh temple. Any others that people can think of?

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Knoxville Unitarian Universal Church

& the head of the Arkansas Democratic Party.

[Art_from_Ark]

14. I think the Arkansas shooting might have had something to do with a car dealership

The suspect, Timothy Dale Johnson, had just quit his job at a Target store in Conway (30 miles from Little Rock) after having written a bunch of weird graffiti on walls in the store. Then he went to the office of the Arkansas Democratic Party in Little Rock and shot its director, Bill Gwatney, whose family owns a few car dealerships in central Arkansas. It was found that Johnson had written Gwatney's name and telephone number on a piece of paper, and had two sets of car keys with the emblems of Gwatney car dealerships. Then the suspect went to a Southern Baptist convention and started shooting again, then fled and was chased by police until he was stopped and killed in a gun battle.

[abq e streeter]

22. And a narrowly averted one.The guy on his way to the Tides Foundation.

[Blue_Tires]

30. People have also fogotten these cases from the archives...

"White girls won't screw me because they're too addicted to black men!"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6223895


The original "Black man in the White House is gonna grab my guns!!!!! I better kill some cops until they recognize and uphold my 2a freedoms!" -case
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=5390462&mesg_id=5392495

[Spitfire of ATJ]

8. Bookmark this....

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/violence-directed-liberal-and-govern

[freshwest]

9. +1,000: GOPers what they are, right wing domestic terrorist enablers...

More fun here:

http://crooksandliars.com/node/42610/print

[Marie Marie]

21. I know these racists are out there but seeing that shirt

actually makes this white woman's stomach turn. What an awful sentiment to advertise proudly on your back. Sometimes there just are no words...

[freshwest]

23. Yes, one would have thought *someone* might have mentioned it to him, but...

After seeing Palin's rebel rousing stump speeches, I know a dog whistle when I hear one. I've always avoided people like this. I was pretty freaked by Palin and this last year's insane GOP posse was taking me right back there - to years gone by.

And I love your sig line. It's a good one. By Molly Ivins?

[Marie Marie]

25. If someone had pointed out his lack of humanity displayed in that shirt, I doubt

that it would have changed his small mind. Me thinks he was mighty proud of that shirt - probably wore it often. My sig line? Not sure where I first saw it but it seemed to match my attitude problem - LOL. An attitude I picked up by seeing that people like this T-shirt wearing hate-monger share this planet with me.

[Saviolo]

35. There's no way...

How dare you call anyone in the Tea Party racist? They're just grass roots, dontchaknow? The real racist is the half-black man in the White House.

I hope I don't need to add a sarcasm tag to this. Please make the teahadists go away.

[freshwest]

36. The way to add a sarcam icon is to type :sarcasm: into the message box!

Like so:



Welcome to DU:

[Saviolo]

37. Oh, I know how

I was just hoping it wasn't necessary with the tone of my post

[freshwest]

38. And sorry, I see you are not new, been here since 2008. My apologies.

[Saviolo]

41. No worries!

I post very infrequently. I usually don't have a whole lot to say. I've gotten a little noisier lately. Been reading the site forever, though. Seriously miss the Top 10 Conservative Idiots

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Don't worry, GOPers / RW think this is all a false flag fabrication to grab their guns or their nuts

... well, to grab something. They weave it all into a bizarre fabric of altered reality until it is so unreal it is complete and utterly fictional.

[freshwest]

39. In their dreams, only. Either of those...

[secondvariety]

12. Yes, I do remember that.

Chickens are coming home to roost.

[WinstonSmith4740]

13. Shades of when they ignored the Clinton Administration.

They tried to get the incoming Bush Administration to take the threat of terrorism in general, and OBL in particular, seriously, and the rethugs basically laughed it off. Only people that scare them (the 47%) need to be watched.

[libdude]

15. True believers

The majority of the various right wing extremists are not merely disgruntled haters living on the fringe of society, they are true believers whether they are Aryan Brotherhood, Ku Klux Klan, Christian Identity, NSWPP, etc. Most are well grounded in their ideology and can fully and intellectually defend beliefs. The government has focused their resources so heavily on the extreme Islamic threat potential that the threat of the extreme right wing has been all but ignored.
It is my opinion that many of these individuals mix so well with the right wing Republican party that the government would just as soon not go too deep as this connection would be exposed.

[Berlin Expat]

16. With any luck, the

US will avoid another OKC bombing.

But I wouldn't be willing to lay down $$$ on that prognostication; if anything, I'd be willing to wager that something similar to the OKC event will take place in the next 12 months.

Like you said, these folks are well-versed in their ideology, and they've got their finger on the trigger, waiting to make their "Turner Diaries" fantasy come to life.

They're looking forward to it like nothing else.

[2ndAmForComputers]

26. s/mix so well with/are/

[TheKentuckian]

19. The TeaPubliKlans have long been a white supremacist organization

So they consider a harsh partisan attack and react as such.

[jazzimov]

20. The War on Terror

should include domestic terrorists - such as these thugs.

[2ndAmForComputers]

27. It will

If LEFT wing terrorism becomes a thing.

[Initech]

24. The Deadly Cycle Of The Prison Industrial Complex

For profit prisons need prisoners. So they round up petty offenders any way they can. Then those offenders get thrust in a dangerous environment where they get educated about white supremacy. They get bailed and come pissed off. They then get easy access to weapons thanks to the National Rifle Association. That petty offender is now a deadly killer. The PIC has claimed another victim.

[NewJeffCT]

29. And, if I remember correctly

The report warning about RW terror groups was commissioned under the Bush Administration, but was issued by the Obama administration due to timing - it wasn't finished in time for it to be issued by Team Bush.

[DallasNE]

31. "One Democrat’s “terrorist” is a Republican’s “freedom fighter.”

That summarized the situation completely - with an overlap assist from the NRA. Culpability is a heavy load to bear.

[indepat]

32. In a right-wing soused society, domestic right-wing extremist groups are mostly allowed to roam free

do their their thing, their stochastic terrorists free to egg on the deranged to act out their hate/anger, but left-wing protesters of Wall Street, greed, avarice, and fraud are often hounded, assaulted, pepper-sprayed, and sometimes arrested: to wit, domestic right-wing extremists are often viewed by big brother and the MSM as patriots while left-wing protesters are viewed as anarchists. Tis one of the infinite joys of living in a right-wing soused society.

[harmonicon]

33. Just remember, it's not terrorism if it's not brown. (nt)

[Swede Atlanta]

34. Duh...it is because the GOP are white supremacists...

let's make no bones about it.

The GOP is all about:

(1) Men are supreme...we let a few women into the club just to be you know, modern
(2) White race is supreme...we allow a few asians, blacks, hispanics and others in to be you know, modern
(3) Xtians are AWESOME....we MAY allow a jew or buddhist, etc. in as long as they aren't no muslin (spelling intended) that will tout sharia law... the only people who count are the prosperity gospel xtians...no one else need apply.

This is their view. They don't understand when you combine poverty (downward pressure on average salaries continues for the past 40 years), religious and racial intolerance (GOP strong points) the outcome is likely to be pretty bad.

[arely staircase]

40. While overtly racist, the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas' main reason for being these days

is the manufacturing and distribution of methamphetamine, not politics.

I believe your point about the DHS report and the rwingers' reaction to it is valid, I just don't think this case fits the scenarios predicted by that report.