#1 threat to personal lives that law enforcement will admit privately: RW extremists [View all]
But, then, that wouldn't get the hotheads who pretend to represent ALL law enforcement in front of FOX or corporate media news cameras, will it? How many more law enforcement officers were targeted and killed by RW extremists AFTER this report was ignored by corporate media?
Why didn't police unions speak up? Where was FOX?
http://thebulletin.org/looking-clearly-right-wing-terrorism7232
Looking clearly at right-wing terrorism
Five years ago the US Department of Homeland Securitys Homeland Environment Threat Analysis Division released an assessment of US far-right extremism. Initially intended for law enforcement and intelligence agencies only, the reportRightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitmentwas almost immediately leaked. The report warned that small cells practicing leaderless resistance and white supremacist lone wolves [posed] the most significant domestic terrorist threat. Significantly, it highlighted the likelihood of expanded attempts by far-right extremists to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to boost their violent capabilities. Overall, the report warned of trends similar to the 1990s when rightwing extremism experienced a resurgence. That far-right extremist rally reached a violent crescendo with the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995.
Reflecting on the past five years, a leading far-right extremism expert I recently interviewed described the homeland security report as prophetic. Mark Pitcavage, the Anti-Defamation Leagues director of investigative research, explained that most of the warnings in the 2009 report have become realities. Yet at the time of its release, the document was derided by many inside and outside of government as ridiculous [and] deeply offensive, an inconceivable assault on US veterans, and, in general, a piece of crap. Buckling under political pressure from conservatives, homeland security rapidly repressed the report. Promptly removed from department's website, the tabooed document also disappeared from the computer systems of state and local law enforcement divisions as well as federal intelligence agencies. The homeland security unit responsible for the report was virtually muzzled. The report essentially fell into obscurity.
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