Right-Wing Extremists Are a Bigger Threat to America Than ISIS (Newsweek)

[Equinox Moon]

Article from Feb. 2016 - Yet, the news is current:
http://www.newsweek.com/2016/02/12/right-wing-extremists-militants-bigger-threat-america-isis-jihadists-422743.html

The North Florida Survival Group teaches “patriots” of all ages to handle weapons and survive in the wild. Its goal is to defend “our Constitution against all enemy threats.”

...the extremists who hide among us, the right-wing militants who, since 2002, have killed more people in the United States than jihadis have. In that time, according to New America, a Washington think tank, Islamists launched nine attacks that murdered 45, while the right-wing extremists struck 18 times, leaving 48 dead. These Americans thrive on hate and conspiracy theories, many fed to them by politicians and commentators who blithely blather about government concentration camps and impending martial law and plans to seize guns and other dystopian gibberish, apparently unaware there are people listening who don’t know it’s all lies. These extremists turn to violence—against minorities, non-Christians, abortion providers, government officials—in what they believe is a fight to save America. And that potential for violence is escalating every day.

“Law enforcement agencies in the United States consider anti-government violent extremists, not radicalized Muslims, to be the most severe threat of political violence that they face,” the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security reported this past June, based on surveys of 382 law enforcement groups.

[democratisphere]

1. Right-Wing Extremists are taking over our government too.

These are sad times for America and our former Democracy.

[Equinox Moon]

8. Agreed!

[2naSalit]

2. K&R

[golfguru]

3. This is true!

Add up all the people killed in Atlanta night club, and in San Bernardino, it is much smaller than right wing extremists killings in the country since the country was formed.

[Equinox Moon]

5. The media black-out on reporting is right-wing terrorists, not the massive reporting on other acts.

[Paladin]

4. No shit, Sherlock.

Thanks for stating the painfully obvious, Newsweek. I guess it still bears repeating, for the benefit of a lot of people.

[Equinox Moon]

14. We need to get this article to the Washington Attorney General

working on the Muslim ban in court. How?

[randr]

6. Twitler and his minions are the face of terror in America

They are not different than Islamic ideologues spewing hatred of the west; both groups are trying to establish their religeous laws for everyone.
As it is true in nature that for every action there is an opposite and equal reacting so is it true in human society. When an evil force rears its ugly head it is the duty of all moral peoples to fight the attraction to wade into the fray with equal evil intensity.

[Equinox Moon]

11. With Pence's fundamentalist Christian agenda to inject it into American politics and policy

is a fundamental assault to our Constitution.

[Initech]

7. Hey republicans, if you want to "defend our Constitution against all enemy threats"...

Start with Trump and McConnell! These assholes have done more harm to our constitution than any terror threat ever could!

[Equinox Moon]

9. Yep.

[librechik]

10. damn, I was thrilled . Old article, eh? Seems like

the media should wake up and cover something--like Trump's order to remove white domestic terrorists from the FBI urgent list.

There you go. Newstag. You have th excuse you need.

[Equinox Moon]

13. That is some avatar you have!

Eyes popping!

[librechik]

15. why thank you--actually it's more like pleasantly euphoric

you'd like it!

[underpants]

12. Thanks for posting this

Marking for later read.

[MaeScott]

16. Who needs CT when facts are scarier.

[Equinox Moon]

17. What is "CT" ?

[GliderGuider]

18. "Conspiracy Theory" nr

[Equinox Moon]

19. Oh.... Thanks!