Republicans vow to kill domestic terrorism bill in Senate

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Senate Republicans are lining up against a House-passed bill that would authorize special offices within the government to investigate and monitor domestic terrorism, which is being pushed in the wake of a racist shooting in Buffalo that left 10 people dead.

The GOP compares the proposal, which sets up offices in the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice and the FBI to target domestic terrorism, to the recently paused disinformation board set up by the Biden administration.

“It sounds terrible,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) of the House-passed bill, predicting it won’t get 10 Republicans in the Senate.

“It’s like the disinformation board on steroids. Another way to look at is the Patriot Act for American citizens,” he added, referring to the law passed immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that expanded the government’s power to monitor phone and email conversations and collect bank records.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-vow-kill-domestic-terrorism-094204909.html

Not surprised Nazi pretty boy Hawley doesn't like it.

[spanone]

1. Nazis won't vote against nazis. It would hurt their brand.

[calimary]

12. This!

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Why would they willingly disarm?

One thing though. I draw the line at “Nazi pretty boy Hawley.” “Nazi” yes. “Pretty boy”? NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS!!!!!

[unweird]

25. Takes Not Seeing Eyes...

Nazi eyes see the pretty boy.

[Turbineguy]

2. Seems logical.

[The Magistrate]

3. "Republicans Aid Terrorists In Senate, Shield Killers", Sir

Would be the campaign ads, if our people had some idea how this game is really played,

What other reason but support for terrorists is there for such opposition?

They just don't want the armed wing of their party investigated and curbed.

It really is that simple.

[KS Toronado]

8. We really need to educate the electorate

about everything Rs have been voting against, this is the latest one.

[madamesilverspurs]

4. In other words ---

Domestic terrorists don't like the domestic terrorism bill.

Imagine that.


.

[SheltieLover]

5. Traitors must be removed from Congress.

[elleng]

6. because they like domestic terrorism so much,

it's what they DO!

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Tradition. GOP fired US gov experts on RW hate in 2009.

Why We Don't Know Much About Right-Wing Terrorists

Conservatives Fired The Guy Studying Them in 2009



Why Don’t We Know Much About Right-Wing Terrorists?

Conservatives Fired The Guy Studying Them

JAMESON PARKER
AddictingInfo, JUNE 18, 2015 4:41 PM

After a mass shooting at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, left nine people dead and a right-wing white supremacist arrested, the country once again faces the uneasy question of just how many so-called “home-grown” terrorists are out there – heavily armed, ideologically driven, and violent.

It’s a good question, but it may be tough to answer because for reasons that are astoundingly dimwitted, the Department of Homeland Security pushed out the guy who was in charge of watching them, and dismantled his team all the way back in 2009.

The beleaguered hero of this story is Daryl Johnson, a top government counterterrorism analyst working at Homeland Security who spent six years with the agency amassing a wealth of data on far-right extremist groups that posed various degrees of threat to citizens in the United States. In 2009, in the months after President Obama assumed office, he watched as these groups veered even further right, and began to fear that America’s first African-American president could be the catalyst of a major uptick in hate crimes and anti-government attacks.

In a landmark report released just months into Obama’s term, and now looks downright clairvoyant, Johnson made the case that radical Islam is only a small piece of the terrorism pie:

“Do not overlook other types of terrorist groups,” the report warned, noting that five purely domestic groups had considered using weapons of mass destruction in that period. Similar warnings have been issued by the two principal non-government groups that track domestic terrorism: the New York-based Anti-Defamation League and the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center.

An annual tally by the latter group of what it calls “Terror From the Right” listed 13 major incidents and arrests last year, nearly double the annual number in previous years; the group also reported the number of hate groups had topped 1,000 in 2010, for the first time in at least two decades.

In response to that report, Johnson was destroyed. It wasn’t his integrity or claims that got him in trouble, his facts were solid. Instead, it was the inconvenient truth that much of the threat comes from right-wing conservatives, and even more awkwardly, radical right-wing conservatives who say and think a lot of the same things mainstream right-wing conservatives say and think.

CONTINUED w/links...

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/06/18/why-dont-we-know-much-about-right-wing-terrorists-conservatives-fired-the-guy-studying-them/

That was from 2015.

Internet Archive Waybac, if link doesn’t work:

http://web.archive.org/web/20150910045015/http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/06/18/why-dont-we-know-much-about-right-wing-terrorists-conservatives-fired-the-guy-studying-them/

[llashram]

11. everyone one of these

white nationalists are an army for the RW and they are threatening us with great civil unrest and they must be put down...hard. Even the self-hating Clarence Thomas ilk...

[Kid Berwyn]

31. White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement

FBI would, if they could. A little-read FBI report from 2006...

White Supremacist Infiltration of Law Enforcement

http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/402521/doc-26-white-supremacist-infiltration.pdf

This is a powder keg in a dumpster fire outside a munitions warehouse. We need fire fighters for democracy.

[llashram]

35. yes

I remember this one and the military bears' scrutiny also. Although given the numbers involved, not so widespread I imagine. But what the hell do I know...

[Celerity]

24. Rebel The Wombat

[Kid Berwyn]

32. Marsupials don't betray their mobs. Somehow, he doesn't look loyal.

More on why we don’t know much about them…

Homeland Security Department curtails home-grown terror analysis

By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post, June 7, 2011

The Department of Homeland Security has stepped back for the past two years from conducting its own intelligence and analysis of home-grown extremism, according to current and former department officials, even though law enforcement and civil rights experts have warned of rising extremist threats.

The department has cut the number of personnel studying domestic terrorism unrelated to Islam, canceled numerous state and local law enforcement briefings, and held up dissemination of nearly a dozen reports on extremist groups, the officials and others said.

The decision to reduce the department’s role was provoked by conservative criticism of an intelligence report on “Rightwing Extremism” issued four months into the Obama administration, the officials said. The report warned that the poor economy and Obama’s election could stir “violent radicalization,” but it was pilloried as an attack on conservative ideologies, including opponents of abortion and immigration.

In the two years since, the officials said, the analytical unit that produced that report has been effectively eviscerated. Much of its work — including a digest of domestic terror incidents and the distribution of definitions for terms such as “white supremacist” and “Christian Identity” — has been blocked.

Multiple current and former law enforcement officials who have regularly viewed DHS analyses said the department had not reported in depth on any domestic extremist groups since 2009.

“Strategic bulletins have been minimal, since that incident,” said Mike Sena, an intelligence official in California who presides over the National Fusion Center Association, a group of 72 federally chartered institutions in which state, local and federal officials share sensitive information. “Having analytical staff, to educate line officers on the extremists, is critical.…This is definitely one area” where more effort is warranted by DHS.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/homeland-security-department-curtails-home-grown-terror-analysis/2011/06/02/AGQEaDLH_story.html

I can understand not wanting to give these rats publicity, but when the government and the rats work together to protect the rich turds who benefit from the rats, there's a problem -- and The System.

[Celerity]

33. Has that changed in the last 11 years? The article is from June 7, 2011

[Kid Berwyn]

34. LA Times link works for me.

Lots of relevant information from DU of Old

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10027393236

[gratuitous]

9. It sounds terrible, Josh?

As terrible as some racist asshole driving 200 miles to target a grocery store and killing a random 10 people luckless enough to exist in his rage? Because that's pretty terrible, too, and maybe something to avoid, don't you think?

[patphil]

10. They see no need to vote against a law to curb right wing terrorists.

Those guys are effectively working for the Republicans; so the Republican legislators "have their backs".

Trump's "good people"...his brown shirts.

[C Moon]

13. They want more January 6ths, and don't want any new laws to scare people away from doing that.

[New Breed Leader]

14. WE NEED MORE DEMOCRATS IN THE SENATE

VOTE BLUE THIS NOVEMBER PLEASE!

[lpbk2713]

15. More obstructionism from the obstructionists.

It never ends.

[Lovie777]

16. Because they are the domestic terrorist ...

[Irish_Dem]

17. The best criminals don't break the law, they make the laws.

Criminals don't want their criminal behavior deemed illegal.

[IronLionZion]

18. They don't want to lose voters who support domestic terrorism

[OMGWTF]

19. Criminals don't want the stinkin' cops looking into their business.

Messes up their plans.

[twodogsbarking]

20. They can't win without their base.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

21. The GOP is protecting its base of white supremacist

[Mr. Evil]

22. Republicans have been fomenting this for years.

Lax as can be on responsible gun laws.
Refusing any reasonable, rational legislation for any issue.
Preaching anger and fear through multiple media outlets on a daily basis.
Actively trying to overthrow the government.
To republicans these people aren't domestic terrorists or just their base, They're their army.

[Grins]

23. It's "the Patriot Act for Americans..."

”Another way to look at is the Patriot Act for American citizens.” - Missouri traitor, Hawley.

The Patriot Act was all yours, butt-wipe.

[Grins]

26. Been there. Courtesy of "the usual suspects."

April 2009, federal intelligence officials issued a warning to police departments around the country about “Right-wing extremists.”

April 2009, “that man” was in the White House. For about 11-weeks.

And so the Reich-wing, AGAIN, lost its mind. And here we are…

[MissMillie]

27. Of course

To support it, they'd have to admit that there's a problem

[SergeStorms]

28. I'm by no means clairvoyant....

but I foresaw this the moment it barely passed the House along party lines.

Hey, maybe it am clairvoyant. I'm going to go buy lottery tickets now.

[lambchopp59]

29. Falls right in line with those

Who "whitewash" an angry mob showing up at the capitol with a noose display screaming "hang Mike Pence"
as a docile group of tourists.

[Novara]

30. Democrats need to be hammering this every time someone asks them a question

They need to put it in their ads. They need to keep screaming about this. It isn't enough to say general shit like republicans vote against everything; this shit needs to be spelled out so the public knows exactly what damage they're doing to the country.

"Republicans are fine with racial massacres. They will do nothing to stop the next one."

Is it that hard to say?

[LiberalLovinLug]

39. "Republicans are fine with racial massacres. They will do nothing to stop the next one."

Oh my lord! We'd NEVER say anything like that!

Republicans are people like you and me. They strongly condemn this....didn't you hear McConnell after? We would never accuse them of being "fine" with this. And of COURSE Republicans will still work to stop the next one, we just have different ideas of ways to combat this. They just think more guns allowed, more open carry laws, are the answer. And we have other ideas. My gawd, no! The last thing we want to be accused of is sensationalism and loosing our tempers on the camera.

[geardaddy]

36. I'd hardly call Hawley a pretty boy

Hi looks like a chipmunk

[LiberalLovinLug]

40. Next to Gaetz and Jordan he's Donny fricken Osmond

[Bengus81]

37. They admit it...they know exactly who their voting base is

What a shock.......NOT

[hadEnuf]

38. Republicans don't want this bill because it will likely uncover Republican terrorists.

Yes, it's that simple.

Republicans support domestic terrorists.

[Martin68]

41. They are fascists and they don't care who knows it.

[alphafemale]

42. The civil rights era laws of the 60's would not have passed in this racist ea.

Not sure Brown vs the Board of Education or even Loving would make the cut in the current SCOTUS

[DemocraticPatriot]

43. Republicans support most domestic terrorism

because most domestic terrorists are Republicans...