DHS Secretary: Lone-Wolf Attackers Could ‘Strike At Any Moment’

[Purveyor]

Source: The Hill

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said Sunday that the United States is facing a new era in which a lone-wolf terrorist could “strike at any moment.”

“We’re very definitely in a new environment, because of ISIL’s effective use of social media, the Internet, which has the ability to reach into the homeland and possibly inspire others,” Johnson said in an interview with ABC’s “This Week,” using the administration's preferred acronym for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

“Because of the use of the Internet, we could have little or no notice in advance of an independent actor attempting to strike.”

As a result, Johnson said, the federal government is making a greater effort to engage with state and local law enforcement and encourage them to be “vigilant” about what is happening in their communities.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/sunday-talk-shows/241562-dhs-secretary-lone-wolf-attackers-could-strike-at-any-moment

[sakabatou]

1. Fear mongering.

[GoneFishin]

24. Yes. Fearmongering. Translates to "Keep the black budget money flowing" and

"give us more freedom to surveil and control the internet".

[brooklynite]

49. ...by President Obama, right?

[sakabatou]

56. O.o

No, by the DHS secretary.

[brooklynite]

58. Who was appointed by and works for President Obama...

[sakabatou]

59. But did Obama say it? No.

So why are you insinuating it?

[brooklynite]

60. I'm not...

I'm challenging the easy insinuation that "they" are fearmongering, by people who don't bother to think about who "they" are.

[Cryptoad]

2. Glad the GOP has made it easy for them to stock up on weapons....... geez

[arcane1]

3. I guess Oklahoma City was the "old era" when they could strike at any moment

[JoePhilly]

8. The difference is that advances in social media help dangerous groups ...

... connect to and motivate those lone wolves who are crazy enough to carrier out attacks.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. Yeah...just like it helps the FBI find those same nuts and set them up

so they can be "busted" so the FBI can claim another "success" in fighting terrorists.

Turns out the FBI was involved with one of the dead Garland Texas shooters.

[jtuck004]

20. He didn't need social media. He had the U.S. Army. n/t

[WinkyDink]

4. OFGS. STHU. And it's ISIS, not Obama's ISIL.

[24601]

23. The difference between ISIS and ISIL is geography, the acronym breaking out to the Islamic State of

Iraq and the Levant, encompassing Iraq, Syria and Lebanon. Given that the Islamic State (of whatever) already made that decision, ISIL is a more accurate description than limiting it to Iraq and Syria as ISIS implies.

Why would you attribute ISIL to President Obama?

http://www.thenational.ae/world/middle-east/lebanon-getting-drawn-into-war-with-isil

http://thepoliticalstudent.com/2015/02/isil-threatens-lebanon-with-more-horrendous-attacks/

[William Seger]

5. In other news, it may rain (n/t)

[They_Live]

6. I could get hit by a bus

each time I leave my house!!!!!

[chapdrum]

7. So please continue to be afraid

And please continue to shop; you know how you feel better when you do that - just like the preznit advised after 911: "America: Open for Business."

[brooklynite]

50. Funny, I wasn't aware that President Bush was still in office...

[sulphurdunn]

9. Muslim terrorism is a serious threat.

Lone wolf white supremacists who shoot up churches, synagogues, old folks homes and blow up federal buildings are not. Neither are armed vigilantes claiming public lands and having armed showdowns with federal agents. Nor are fundamentalist Christian fanatics who bomb abortion clinics and shoot doctors. Least of all are summary police executions in predominantly minority, Christian communities.

[Scuba]

39. /\_/\_This right here_/\_/\

[graegoyle]

10. I thought "Lone Wolf" only applied to American right-wingers.

"Unstable individuals".

Everyone else is organized to fight against the American way.

[SheilaT]

11. Be afraid, be very afraid. Trust no one. Submit to constant surveillance.

Have I missed anything?

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Go shopping. n/t

[kath]

25. Buy duct tape and plastic sheeting and hide under your bed!

[SheilaT]

26. Aww, crap. I've got storage boxes

taking up all the space under my bed. I guess I'm doomed.

[RiverNoord]

33. I'm going off the grid right now.

It's like Allah is just popping these Muzlin's people's heads and suddenly they're shooting everybody!!! I mean, it's all right if your everyday Krishtun neighbor goes a little off his rocker and decides to blow you away - that's, like, an American tradition. But it's way scary with these brown skinned Muzlins hiding everywhere (I'm sure there'z been one on one of my street corners the last few nights, casin' the place for his geehod and everything!)

Well, no way they'll get to my family after we seal ourselves in the basement with a 100% American home-made concrete blast shelter. No doors or anything! Not going to be no Izlumic State in my basement!

[Faux pas]

12. Playing right into

the rethugs game

[the_sly_pig]

13. $600 billion dollar military budget....

and "lone wolves" are going to attack us? I think we're getting ripped off.

[Trillo]

17. All those military guys could be used to cut down dead trees in the forests

but it's so much more profitable to build bombs and bullets instead of chainsaws and shovels.

[dixiegrrrrl]

27. The thing is, we are using National Guard guys for a lot of military deployments.

There was a time when we had a much large standing military.
Now we force Nat'l Guard to take on that burden, and those guys have to give up their jobs to go overseas.
So where the hell is the is all the money going?
Besides mercenaries...uhhh...contractors that we pay much ore than our own troops.

[Jackpine Radical]

14. Henry Ford, Terrorist

This evil man devised a means to mass-produce a terrible weapon that has been responsible for as many as 25,000 deaths a year in the US alone, and has been responsible for millions of deaths around the world in the last century or so.

A stranger may strike you down with one of these devastating weapons at any moment. You will have no warning.

[GGJohn]

15. LOL.

I see what you did there.

[RiverNoord]

30. You forgot to add

acting totally alone, with absolutely no prior behavior sufficient to tip off the authorities. Not even 'self-radicalized,' but 'auto-radicalized.' Obviously we need the NSA to record metadata produced during the operation of motor vehicles. Well, not everyone, of course, just Muslims. They're dangerous! And often their skin is suspiciously dark...

[Jackpine Radical]

31. And in fact, ol' Henry was a rabid anti-semite

just like those Ay-rabs. That's gen'ly a purdy good clue.

[malthaussen]

44. Funny how that works, innit.

I suspicion there may be an intimate link between profits and what deaths are ruled acceptable by our overlords.

-- Mal

[Jackpine Radical]

45. Remember the story of the Ford Pinto?

They calculated very carefully whether it would cost more to recall them & retro-fit them with a gas tank fix, or to just pay off the wrongful death suits they anticipated. It would by their estimates be cheaper to pay off the death suits than to instal the $15 fix, so that's the way they went.

[malthaussen]

46. Remember it? Hell, I owned a Pinto!

Nice little car for a Detroit product of the 70's. I had a post-scandal model, though. In the great color of you're-in green.

I understand there is some debate about the authenticity of the Pinto scandal, although I tend to think it is all a smokescreen. And I've been noticing a scad of recalls for fatal problems by auto manufacturers recently. I sometimes wonder if we can't even build a car that works anymore.

As for Henry and the chromed machines of death, remember the sequence in Bloom County where Opus is running for prez? He wants to lower the speed limit to 55 because it will save lives. It's pointed out to him that the lower the speed limit, the more lives saved: banning cars altogether, thus, would save tens of thousands of lives a year. Leading this one to ruminate about how decisions are made on acceptable casualties by our rulers.

-- Mal

[Jackpine Radical]

47. I had one too, along with a bumper sticker that read

[font size=8 color=red]DANGER
UNEXPLODED PINTO[/font]

[malthaussen]

48. I would have liked that bumper sticker!

My previous ride had one that said "Get your shit together," which caused me to receive a ticket. Man, I was stoked. I called the ACLU and was ready and eager to fight it to the Supreme Court. Chance to make the history books and everything.

It was a wash. Intentionally or otherwise, the officer had written the wrong ordinance number on the ticket, so the case was thrown out on that technicality. I'll never forget the JP saying to me afterwards: "You don't look like the kind of person who would do something like that!" (I was wearing a suit, and had a fresh hair cut). Christ on a pogo stick, the judge was prejudiced from the start.

-- Mal

[KingCharlemagne]

16. Obama should fire this douche-nozzle just on general principles alone. - nt

[Jackpine Radical]

18. I guess that'll have to wait for Bernie.

[LiberalElite]

21. Does Secretary Johnson include right-wingers? nt

[Trillo]

29. Is this behind all the police killings without due process?

Big brother telling state and local police "Keep an eye out", "We're at war", and "Lone Wolf Terrorists!"

[blackspade]

41. No, that's just business as usual....

[RiverNoord]

28. 'Lone Wolf Attackers'....

So he's talking about the 12,000+ murders that happen in the United States every, year, right? Or would he be referring exclusively to the 20-40 or so that were committed by a dark-skinned Muslim? Cuz it's apparently nothing big when non-Muslim Americans go around killing each other -isn't that one of our Second Amendment rights? The right to bear arms and use them against other people after someone said the wrong thing while drunk at a bar, or during a domestic dispute... Obviously pointing a gun at someone and shooting them isn't terrorism - you have to be a Muslim to qualify for that....

[Marrah_G]

32. Rainbows could fly out of my ass at any moment

[imthevicar]

34. FEAR PORN!

[LeftyMom]

35. Well, if you're in the Tiger Repelling Rock business, you have to tell people tigers could be close.

[joshcryer]

36. Like every weekly mass shooting?

[AtheistCrusader]

37. Ooga booga, give us more money and access to all of your naughty photos.

[bemildred]

38. "and practically speaking there is Jack Shit we can do about it" nt

[blackspade]

40. Another page....

In the "no shit Sherlock" files....

More fear mongering.

[Jesus Malverde]

42. I'm afraid can someone give me a hug?...nt

[leftofcool]

51. LMAO!

[malthaussen]

43. They always could. n/t

[AngryOldDem]

52. And????

So what, exactly, are we supposed to do about it? What rights are we supposed to readily give up now to ensure our collective safety?

Not buying this bullshit anymore, not that I ever did.

[winter is coming]

53. So could the police. Who's got the higher body count this month? n/t

[laserhaas]

54. We're being set up.... Corporate military machinations playing U.S. like pawns

When will it EVER end.....

just askin......

[closeupready]

55. Bullshit.

[rug]

57. People are far more likely to get laid off without notice.