DHS Touts Counter-Domestic Extremism Plan,
But Rights Groups Fear Threats
to Civil Liberties
Epoch Times,
by
Ken Silva
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
9/22/2021 1:07:08 PM
At the Sept. 21 Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing on counterterrorism, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas touted a raft of new programs aimed at combating domestic extremism—many of which are raising red flags among interest groups across the political spectrum.
The new DHS plans follow a March 2021 intelligence community report that deems white supremacy and violent domestic extremism as the most dangerous terrorism threat to the homeland. Mayorkas made similar statements at the Sept. 21 hearing.
“Today, U.S.-based lone actors and small groups, including homegrown violent extremists and domestic violent extremists—who are inspired by a broad range of ideological motivations—pose the most significant and persistent terrorism-related threat to our country,” Mayorkas said.
It’s a fiction that there are dangerous right wing extremists in any meaningful number.
They’re just looking for an excuse an ability to crack down on political opposition.
The only significant violent groups in the past decade have been ANTIFA, BLM, the 99%, and other left wing orgs.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 9/22/2021 1:25:11 PM (No. 923011)
They will be looking really hard any of the crazy folks who have lunatic ideas like believing in the Constitution, or equal voting, or the right to decide on your own health care.
THOSE kind of dangerous radicals need to be in jail......they think.
These are very dangerous people with badges. Beware what you say which they might use against you.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 9/22/2021 1:27:13 PM (No. 923015)
This racist bozo Mayorkas has to create and keep the narrative going to attack patriots like their 'white rage' BS. The leftist idiots better be looking up in the skies looking for planes flying into American buildings by Islamic terrorist along with the southern border problem not some white guy in middle America. Deflecting off of BLM and Antifa.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 9/22/2021 1:28:24 PM (No. 923020)
It does not matter they are a fiction, they are perceived to be real by the left, therefore, ANY questioning or opposition to any of their rule is enough to fill the void.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Ogden Pod 9/22/2021 1:33:11 PM (No. 923027)
Two Words Ruby Ridge: Wikipedia - To answer public questions about Ruby Ridge, the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Government Information held hearings between September 6 and October 19, 1995, and subsequently issued a report calling for reforms in federal law enforcement to prevent a repeat of the losses of life at Ruby Ridge and restore public confidence in federal law enforcement. It was noted that the Ruby Ridge incident and the 1993 Waco siege involved many of the same agencies (FBI HRT and ATF) and some of the same personnel (the FBI HRT commander). The Government Accountability Office (GAO) also conducted a review of federal policies about use of deadly force, publishing it in 1995.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Catherine 9/22/2021 1:38:49 PM (No. 923037)
And there it is. Obama has wanted to 'get even' with white people for slavery by reversing the colors involved. This is what it has all been about.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Venturer 9/22/2021 1:38:52 PM (No. 923038)
“Today, U.S.-based lone actors and small groups, including homegrown violent extremists and domestic violent extremists—who are inspired by a broad range of ideological motivations—pose the most significant and persistent terrorism-related threat to our country,” Mayorkas said.
He might be right, but it isn't white extremists. Read the freaking newspapers Mayorkas, and any time no race is mentioned just assume it's a black. You will be amazed at who the criminal element is.------Idiot.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Kutchk 9/22/2021 1:56:37 PM (No. 923056)
They are doing their darndest to create this mythical enemy of the state though aren't they?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 9/22/2021 2:15:44 PM (No. 923074)
#5, I met Randy Weaver once, have his book. He said, "I lost my son and my wife. Never trust the government." among other things.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
singermom9 9/22/2021 2:21:25 PM (No. 923081)
Look at the folks in DC Jail for 1-6. They have been denied a speedy trail and due process. Even murderers get that.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
singermom9 9/22/2021 2:23:07 PM (No. 923084)
Regarding 1-6 people in jail Remember when the Black Panthers carried rifles into the US Capitol when they invaded it? Here is the story: https://capitolweekly.net/black-panthers-armed-capitol/
Or how about when the Democrat Weather Underground bombed the US Capitol. They knew who did it and yet NO ONE was arrested or charged. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bomb-explodes-in-capitol-building
Now they are worried when conservatives want to peacefully protest on Sept 18 people being held in jail for months without being able to see a judge (what happened to "speedy trial"). And charged with stupid, inane charges like "trespass" or "parading" and Pelosi wants to make those things felonies?
Our Reps have done nothing to help and THE PEOPLE are fed up.
Corruption abounds in our capitol. They should all be embarrassed.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Marzon 9/22/2021 2:32:20 PM (No. 923092)
Once the Department of "Homeland Security" was created it was a foregone conclusion that it would eventually get here....
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
moebellini3 9/22/2021 2:36:40 PM (No. 923099)
The most basic definition of they are really saying is that anyone who DISAGREES with them is a domestic terrorist and while supremacist. Its that freakin simple. Welcome to North Korea.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
web 9/22/2021 4:11:38 PM (No. 923180)
DHS has to pretend there a real threat from "rightwing extremists" because they have failed so miserably at actually stopping the real extremists. Antifa and BLM burned down multiple cities last year, while assaulting many innocent people. Most of them were not even charged with a crime. Muslim terrorists have committed acts of terrorism, despite the FBI and others knowing of them and their plans, and nothing was done to stop them. These government agencies are not only useless. They are aiding and abetting the extremists among us.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 9/22/2021 5:06:24 PM (No. 923231)
KMWA !!!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bad-hair 9/22/2021 5:17:35 PM (No. 923238)
Sit tight DHS. It takes time to transport Afghan extremist here. Even with the USAF organizing the flights.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
smokincol 9/22/2021 5:39:46 PM (No. 923260)
there is no domestic terror threat in the U.S.A ,the only threat to our country is our demcommie government, at all levels from federal to local
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