A Dark and Constant Rage: 25 Years of Right-Wing Terrorism in the United States

[G_j]

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https://www.adl.org/education/resources/reports/a-dark-and-constant-rage-25-years-of-right-wing-terrorism-in-the-united

Read ADL's comprehensive report, A Dark and Constant Rage: 25 Years of Right-Wing Terrorism in the United States (PDF).

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Far more attention in recent years has been given to the threat of homegrown radical Islamic terror—a danger that has generated such horrific acts as the Orlando and San Bernardino shooting sprees. Yet the very real specter of radical Islamic terror in the United States has existed alongside an equally serious threat of terror from right-wing extremist groups and individuals.

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To illustrate the threat of right-wing terrorism in the United States, the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism has compiled a list of 150 right-wing terrorist acts, attempted acts, plots and conspiracies from the past 25 years (1993-2017). These include terrorist incidents from a wide variety of white supremacists, from neo-Nazis to Klansmen to racist skinheads, as well as incidents connected to anti-government extremists such as militia groups, sovereign citizens and tax protesters. The list also includes incidents of anti-abortion terror as well as from other, smaller right-wing extremist movements.

ADL’s Center on Extremism defines terrorism as a pre-planned act or attempted act of significant violence by one or more non-state actors in order to further an ideological, social or religious cause, or to harm perceived opponents of such causes. Significant violent acts can include bombings or use of other weapons of mass destruction, assassinations and targeted killings, shooting sprees, arsons and firebombings, kidnappings and hostage situations and, in some cases, armed robberies. Domestic terrorism consists of acts or attempted acts of terrorism in which the perpetrators are citizens or permanent residents of the country in which the act takes place.

The right-wing terrorist incidents in ADL’s list include those that best fit the above criteria. They are drawn from the much larger pool of violent and criminal acts that American right-wing extremists engage in every year, from hate crimes to deadly encounters with law enforcement. Right-wing extremists annually murder a number of Americans, but only some of those murders occur in connection with terrorist acts. There are, after all, hundreds of thousands of adherents of right-wing extremist movements in the United States and all such movements have some degree of association with criminal activity. No one should think, therefore, that the incidents listed here represent the breadth of right-wing violence in the U.S. But, as acts of terrorism, they do show right-wing movements at their most vicious and ambitious.

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[athena]

1. Good article, but

to avoid getting in trouble over copyright issues, you're not supposed to post more than four paragraphs from any article. See:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=copyright

[G_j]

4. I'll shorten it

to be safe, though I was under the impression that ADL material was shareable.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Take your pick...

KKK/neo-nazis/nativists/neo-confederates
Birchers
Patriot Movement
Right Wing Militias/Survivalists
Reconstructionists/Dominionists
Randian Acolytes
Constitutionalists/Sovereigns
Libertarian Utopians
Anti-tax protesters and scam artists
Army of God
Christian Identity
McVeigh/The Order
Father Coughlin
Know Nothings

Griffin – 1993
Hill - 1994
Salvi - 1994
McVeigh – 1995
Nichols - 1995
Rudolph - 1998
Adkisson - 2008
Roeder – 2009
Von Brunn – 2009
Page – 2012
Cross -2014
Amanda and Jerad Miller 2014
Roof - 2015
Dear 2015

[sharedvalues]

3. Bannon/Kelly/DHS separating kids from their moms