White-nationalist terrorism must be stopped

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9:23 AM ET
George P. Bush
Texas Land Commissioner

Not long after the El Paso shootings occurred, I took to Twitter to denounce white-nationalist terrorism as a real threat to our country. I didn’t realize at the time that I was the first major Republican elected official to do so. But I certainly won’t be the last, as more details come out about the goals and views of this terrorist.

What made me comment so soon? It’s simple: I read the shooter’s manifesto. We don’t have to guess what was on the shooter’s mind—he told us in plain, dark, and racist language. He wrote about protecting white people from an “invasion” of Hispanics and wanting to kill “Mexicans.” Plus, his actions underscored his words—he drove nine hours from Dallas to a shopping center in El Paso. Why didn’t he go to a mall in North Dallas to kill people? The answer is obvious—he wanted to kill Hispanic people ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/white-terrorism-must-be-stopped/595471/

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1. Time to declare war on white-nationalist terrorism

By DAVID FRENCH
August 5, 2019 6:30 AM

It’s time to face some dreadful, terrible facts. The United States is now facing a deadly challenge from a connected, radical, online-organizing community of vicious white-nationalist terrorists. They are every bit as evil as jihadists, and they radicalize in much the same way. And just like the ISIS terrorists our nation and our allies have confronted in the great cities of the West, they use the most modern of tools to advance the oldest of hatreds ...

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/08/declare-war-on-white-nationalist-terrorism/

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2. White nationalists pose challenge to investigators

By Dan Frosch, Zusha Elinson and Sadie Gurman
Updated Aug. 5, 2019 1:09 pm ET

The shootings in Texas and Ohio that killed at least 31 people over the weekend left authorities searching for how to confront the challenges posed by mass violence and domestic terrorism, especially attacks driven by white-nationalist ideologies.

Violence committed by white men inspired by an extremist ideology make up a growing number of domestic terrorism cases, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Of about 850 current domestic terrorism cases, 40% involve racially motivated violent extremism and a majority of those cases involve white supremacists, the FBI said.

Saturday’s attack in majority-Hispanic El Paso, Texas, which left at least 22 people dead, was allegedly committed by a 21-year-old white man who was believed to have posted a manifesto of sorts that espoused anti-immigrant and white-nationalist ideology on a popular far-right website not long before the shooting ...

https://www.wsj.com/articles/shootings-highlight-law-enforcement-challenges-to-combating-domestic-terror-11564947769

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3. Rising white nationalist terror

By Patrik Jonsson Staff writer
Harry Bruinius Staff writer
NEW YORK; AND SAVANNAH, GA.

When Brian Levin talked to neo-Nazi extremists in the 1980s, many explained that singular acts of violence were like “branded messages.” They were meant to inspire those across the country who might share their views of white supremacy and the preservation of a white America.

“They called it ‘propaganda of the deed,’” says Mr. Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. “And because this white supremacist movement favors leaderless resistance within its folklore, this notion was more about loners and small cells doing horrible, violent acts to bring the rest of the white community in with them, in order to stop the ‘degeneration’ of society.”

But in what he calls “propaganda of the deed 2.0,” American white supremacists, like their extremist counterparts in groups like Islamic State, have formed vast online networks. In the digital age, a symbolic ritual of violence is no longer enough, he and other terror experts say ...

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2019/0805/El-Paso-Rising-white-nationalist-terror-leaves-its-calling-card

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4. Is US facing a white nationalist terrorism crisis?

BY AUDREY WILSON | AUGUST 5, 2019, 7:41 AM

... The El Paso shooting ignited a debate over the consequences of anti-immigrant rhetoric by U.S. President Donald Trump and his allies. On Sunday, U.S. authorities said they were investigating the attack as a domestic terrorism case. It has also elicited international reactions: A headline in Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald declared the United States to be “in the midst of a white nationalist terrorism crisis.”

Mexico’s response. Mexican officials were quick to respond. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador condemned the El Paso attack, in which he said that six Mexican citizens were killed. Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard called it “barbaric,” and pledged to take “legal actions” to protect Mexicans in the United States—including a push for Mexico’s attorney general to charge the suspect. “For Mexico, this individual is a terrorist,” Ebrard said ...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/05/the-us-white-nationalist-terrorism-domestic-crisis-el-paso-dayton-attack-8chan-donald-trump/

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5. Gun violence and white nationalist terrorism stalk America; Trump tweets

David Smith in Washington
Sun 4 Aug 2019 13.45 EDT
Last modified on Mon 5 Aug 2019 11.21 EDT

... The chilling reality of domestic terrorism – which now results in far more deaths than foreign terrorism – was acknowledged by political analysts, Democratic candidates for president and George P Bush, nephew of former president George W Bush.

But there was no televised appearance from President Donald Trump, who attempted to wash his hands of the hate crime in a few tweets. His acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, toured TV studios on Sunday expressing righteous indignation. “I blame the people who pull the trigger,” Mulvaney told NBC’s Meet the Press with Chuck Todd. “Goodness gracious, is someone really blaming the president? People are sick, until we address why people think this way.”

... the lone gunman theory is often a way of refusing to grapple with underlying motives. For those who live with violence and its consequences in their communities every day, context matters.

Trump has spent the past month stoking racial resentments, tweeting that four US congresswomen of colour should “go back” to their countries, holding a rally where the crowd chanted “send her back!” and deriding the majority African American district that contains part of Baltimore as “a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/04/donald-trump-gun-violence-white-nationalist-terrorism

[pangaia]

6. Thanks for the great multiple posts.

My answer.
REPUBLICANS,
REPUBLICANS,
REPUBLICANS,
REPUBLICANS,

THEY are to blame that this is not stopped dead cold in its tracks ...

they are all fascist traitors...

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7. A white nationalist who inspires terrorism

By Michelle Goldberg
Opinion Columnist
Aug. 5, 2019

A decade ago, Daryl Johnson, then a senior terrorism analyst at the Department of Homeland Security, wrote a report about the growing danger of right-wing extremism in America. Citing economic dislocation, the election of the first African-American president and fury about immigration, he concluded that “the threat posed by lone wolves and small terrorist cells is more pronounced than in past years.”

When the report leaked, conservative political figures sputtered with outrage, indignant that their ideology was being linked to terrorism. The report warned, correctly, that right-wing radicals would try to recruit disgruntled military veterans, which conservatives saw as a slur on the troops. Homeland Security, cowed, withdrew the document ...

“The fact that they’re still operating at a high level during a Republican administration goes against all the trending I’ve seen in 40 years,” Johnson told me. Donald Trump has kept the far right excited and agitated. “He is basically the fuel that’s been poured onto a fire,” said Johnson ...

<Trump> has stoked right-wing violence and his administration has actively opposed efforts to fight it. Further, he’s escalating his incitement of racial grievance as he runs for re-election, as shown by his attacks on the four congresswomen of color known as the squad, as well as the African-American congressman Elijah Cummings. One desultory speech does not erase Trump’s politics of arson, or the complicity of the Republicans who continue to enable i ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/opinion/trump-white-supremacy.html

[Thomas Hurt]

8. Fascist Heroism

11. In such a perspective everybody is educated to become a hero. In every mythology the
hero is an exceptional being, but in Ur-Fascist ideology, heroism is the norm. This cult of
heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death. It is not by chance that a motto of the
Falangists was Viva la Muerte (in English it should be translated as "Long Live Death!&quot .
In non-fascist societies, the lay public is told that death is unpleasant but must be faced
with dignity; believers are told that it is the painful way to reach a supernatural happiness.
By contrast, the Ur-Fascist hero craves heroic death, advertised as the best reward for a
heroic life. The Ur-Fascist hero is impatient to die. In his impatience, he more frequently
sends other people to death.

Umberto Eco - Essay on Fascism 1995

[clementine613]

9. You want to stop it? Get rid of the Rethugs. That's how you stop it.

Sadly... I don't know just how to do that. Outlaw Rethuggery and Rethug thought and speech would be the first step, I guess.