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US Police More Concerned About "Anti-Government" Domestic Extremists Than Al-Qaeda, Study Finds
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
U.S. law enforcement agencies rank the threat of violence from anti-government extremists higher than the threat from radicalized Muslims, according to a report released Thursday by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (TCTHS).
The report, “Law Enforcement Assessment of the Violent Extremism Threat,” was based on survey research by Charles Kurzman, professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and David Schanzer, director of TCTHS and associate professor of the practice at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.
The survey — conducted by the center with the Police Executive Research Forum — found that 74 percent of 382 law enforcement agencies rated anti-government extremism as one of the top three terrorist threats in their jurisdiction. By comparison, 39 percent listed extremism connected with Al Qaeda or like-minded terrorist organizations as a Top 3 terrorist threat.
– From Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy
Since September 11, 2001, the frightened and emotionally pliable American public has gullibly relinquished its civil liberties and free heritage in order to allow the U.S. government to wage unaccountable and unconstitutional war again Al-Qaeda and radical Islamic terrorism across the world.
Many of us have warned for years, that preemptively giving up freedoms to protect freedom could only make sense to a propagandized, ignorant public completely clueless of human history. We warned that any totalitarian apparatus implemented to fight an outside enemy, would ultimately be turned around and used upon the public domestically. We already know this is happening with the NSA’s bulk spying and data collection, and we are starting to see a proliferation of the meme that “domestic extremists are more dangerous than Al-Qaeda,” spreading from the mouths of a corrupt and paranoid political class. I’ve covered this topic on several occasions, for example:
The “War on Terror” Turns Inward – DHS Report Warns of Right Wing Terror Threat
Eric Holder Announces Task Force to Focus on “Domestic Terrorists”
Rep. Steve Cohen Calls Tea Party Republicans “Domestic Enemies” on MSNBC
It’s Official: The FBI Classifies Peaceful American Protestors as “Terrorists”
If all that’s not enough to convince you we’ve got a problem, I bring to you conclusions from the recently released study, “Law Enforcement Assessment of the Violent Extremism Threat.” This study was based on a survey conducted by Charles Kurzman and David Schanzer, who recently penned an op-ed in the New York Times. Here are some excerpts from their article:
In a survey we conducted with the Police Executive Research Forum last year of 382 law enforcement agencies, 74 percent reported anti-government extremism as one of the top three terrorist threats in their jurisdiction; 39 percent listed extremism connected with Al Qaeda or like-minded terrorist organizations. And only 3 percent identified the threat from Muslim extremists as severe, compared with 7 percent for anti-government and other forms of extremism.
The self-proclaimed Islamic State’s efforts to radicalize American Muslims, which began just after the survey ended, may have increased threat perceptions somewhat, but not by much, as we found in follow-up interviews over the past year with counterterrorism specialists at 19 law enforcement agencies. These officers, selected from urban and rural areas around the country, said that radicalization from the Middle East was a concern, but not as dangerous as radicalization among right-wing extremists.
Law enforcement agencies around the country are training their officers to recognize signs of anti-government extremism and to exercise caution during routine traffic stops, criminal investigations and other interactions with potential extremists. “The threat is real,” says the handout from one training program sponsored by the Department of Justice. Since 2000, the handout notes, 25 law enforcement officers have been killed by right-wing extremists, who share a “fear that government will confiscate firearms” and a “belief in the approaching collapse of government and the economy.”
Meanwhile, terrorism of all forms has accounted for a tiny proportion of violence in America. There have been more than 215,000 murders in the United States since 9/11. For every person killed by Muslim extremists, there have been 4,300 homicides from other threats.
Perhaps if the police didn’t harbor such negative thoughts about the general public, there wouldn’t be as many citizens killed by police. The recent tally is up to 463 killed so far in 2015, or an average of 2.5 Americans killed by police every day.
Finally, I came across the following excerpt from a recently published National Journal article:
Senate Democrats are calling for Congress to shift its focus from solely jihadist-fueled terrorism and hold hearings on the threats from domestic groups in upcoming weeks. And the Department of Justice has already opened up a domestic-terrorism investigation into the Charleston church shooting.
The real enemy of the corrupt corporate state is none other than, “we the people.”
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The MI Complexes' new job won't be to fight them over there so we won't have to fight them over here. Instead, they will be over here, in our streets, protecting the master criminals in the ruling class from the peasants rioting once they realize how badly they and their children have been looted. No longer will we have a chicken in every pot, our chickens and perhaps even our pots, will have to be sold to pay for the check points at every corner. But it is a sacrifice we will have to make, or face arrest. http://localismaphilosophyofgovernment.blogspot.com/2013/08/military-ind...
When it comes to being anti-Corporatist I am Public Enemy #1, motherfuckers. I have warned the Corporatists in CANADA, and the Government. Like Fidel Castro, I would throw them all out of the country and confiscate their combined wealth transfer they stole from the 99%. Corporatism ruined my small business that I had run for 30 years. In brief, every Corporation in the World will pay for that come Hell, or high water.
Payback is a bitch, eh, USA.
Well on one hand this is good in that these people realize the complete bullshit of the AQ/Muslim terrorist boogeyman garbage. Anything is a bigger threat than something that isn't a threat.
On the other hand, obviously it is bad to act like anyone who doesn't suck the government teet is dangerous and a terrorist.
Aren't cops just concerned about how their pensions will be funded?
I suppose it's only fair. I view my own government as more of a threat to me than Al-Qaeda.
Apparently if you're WHITE you're EXTREME. No racism there, right?
Huffpo headline today: "White People, If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-fleshman/white-people-if-youre-not-p...
So who's being extreme? Who's being racist?
The term "Anti-Government" is a trick. No-one I know is anti-government. A person who is anti-government is an anarchist. I'm not an anarchist and I don't know anyone who is. I think most of us want an honest government that follows the law they tell us to follow. Plain and simple. The same rules for everyone.
"Anti-government" is just another way to label anyone who dares to question anything that the unelected beauracrats say. And you well know that whatever they say, do the opposite.