New report reveals far-right individuals committed every extremist-related murder in US in 2018

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A new report reveals far-right individuals were responsible for every extremist-related murder committed in the United States in 2018.

Experts warn of far-right threat as two separate violent plots are foiled in one week


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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released its annual report on extremism within the United States this week, revealing that individuals linked to or affiliated with the far-right were responsible for every extremist-related murder committed in the United States in 2018. The report notes far-right extremists were responsible for 50 murders in the 2018, making it the fourth deadliest year on record for domestic extremism in the United States. What’s perhaps more alarming is that those murders only represent the tip of the iceberg.

Just this week, authorities uncovered two separate violent plots in New York and Utah, both of which were planned out by suspects with far-right leanings, but thankfully not carried out.

On Tuesday, The Denver Post reported that police and FBI agents in Utah had arrested 27-year-old Christopher Wayne Cleary of Denver, Colorado for threatening to kill “as many girls as I see.” According to a probable-cause statement, Clearly said his virginity was a motive for plotting to carry out the attack. Cleary’s motivations are straight from the incel (or involuntarily celibate) community, a virulently misogynistic online group which began as a support group of sorts for celibate men but has morphed into a toxic online community which regularly advocates rape and has a proven track record of inspiring real-world violence. Mass-murderers Elliot Rodger, Alek Minassian, and, most recently, Scott Paul Beierle were all directly inspired by the incel “ideology.”


The same day as Cleary’s arrest, police in upstate New York arrested and charged four men who were allegedly plotting to attack the nearby Muslim community of Islamberg, which has been the target of Islamophobic conspiracy theories for years. Police accused the group, which includes three young men and one 16-year-old, of stashing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and 23 rifles and shotguns in preparation for the attack. The grandmother of 20-year-old suspect Brian Colaneri told BuzzFeed News that he had been “manipulated” by fellow alleged plotter Vincent Vetromile. As The Daily Beast reported, Vetromile’s social media was full of far-right tropes — such as referring to Muslims immigrants as “rapefugees” — and posts praising President Donald Trump.


The two sets of arrests were made the same week that white supremacist James Jackson pleaded guilty in New York City to several charges of murder and hate crimes, as well as “Murder as a Crime of Terrorism,” the first ever prosecution of its kind in the state.


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[malaise]

1. And it's barely news these days

FIve women were slaughtered in that bank in Florida two days ago - and there's been barely a whisper.

[Guilded Lilly]

2. And every day the Media is overflowing with...

the wretched Cretin and his every vile word and deed.

Reading about the Sebring massacre made me physically ill.

We have lost our way as a nation. Enabled by the foulest of humanity.