You can't handle the truth about terror
Erroll Southers
11:48 a.m. EDT June 21, 2016
... We are fixated on a foreign threat .. and we ignore the fact that American citizens have committed 80% of the terrorist attacks in the U.S. since 9/11 ...
In 2009, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reported that white supremacist and violent anti-government groups, leveraging the real estate environment, unemployment, and the election of the first African American president, could create a fertile recruiting environment for right-wing extremists and even result in confrontations between such groups and government authorities similar to those in the past. Amid an aggressive political attack on the report from the right, the DHS report was withdrawn.
Among other elements, the DHS report described the Sovereign Citizens, a movement based on conspiratorial beliefs about the legitimacy of the founding of the United States. The report contained valuable law enforcement training information useful for officer safety. Unfortunately, the report never reached West Memphis, where Arkansas officers Brandon Paudert and Bill Evans were killed by sovereigns during a traffic stop. Over the past decade, officers died in the line of duty at a rate of one every 59 hours, and many of those murders were precipitated by a violent ideology ...
The cold hard truth is that America has a homegrown terrorism problem, and holding up a mirror to our country offers a sobering notion of who tomorrow’s suspects may be ...
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/06/21/homegrown-terror-orlando-san-bernardino-boston-marathon-homeland-security-column/86135404/
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