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While Trump was in England, Democrats in the House held Hearings on the Treat of White supremacy. What was interesting is that there is no law that allows white supremacists who terrorize the public to be labeled “terroristtd”.This despite the fact that white supremacists were responsible for 78% of extremist murders in the United States in 2018.
Another interesting tidbit was that while the FBI created a special category of Black Identity Extremists, it has never found any black identity extremists to charge.
On white supremacists
The subcommittee noted that there was a 17 percent increase in reported hate crimes in 2017 from the previous year and a 31 percent increase since 2014. And in spite of the ADL’s report that white supremacists were responsible for 78 percent of extremist murders in 2018, the FBI still dedicates most of its time, money and manpower to investigating and stopping international terrorism. According to the Daily Beast, the Trump administration even disbanded a unit in the Department of Homeland Security dedicated to domestic terrorism and right-wing extremists, upsetting many intelligence and law enforcement officials.
“The FBI has testified the bureau allocates its resources almost exactly backwards than the problem would suggest,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said. “Devoting 80 percent of field agents to stopping international terrorism including Islamic extremism and only 20 percent to stopping domestic terrorism including far right and white supremacist extremism.”
On black identity extremists
Not only did McGarrity concede that people labeled as “black identity extremists” had nothing in common except their skin color, but Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s (D-Mass.) question about the FBI’s “black Identity extremist” designation prompted a startling revelation from McGarrity.
When Pressley pressed McGarrity on the secret “race paper” and the black identity extremist designation first uncovered in the 12-page FBI document called “Black Identity Extremists Likely Motivated to Target Law Enforcement Officers,” the counterterrorism director revealed that the FBI no longer uses the term.
“The designation no longer exists?” Pressley asked.
“It hasn’t existed since I’ve been here for 17 months,” McGarrity replied. “We are not using ‘black identity extremists’ as a term or for a group.”
And despite the insistence of the president, Steve King and every guest on Fox News that there are bad people on “both sides,” including Black Lives Matter terrorists, McGarrity disclosed the astonishing number of people who have been killed by Black Lives Matter terrorists:
Pressley: How many extremist murders has the FBI linked to Black Lives Matter or similar black activist groups?
McGarrity: We don’t work Black Lives Matter it’s a movement. It’s an ideology. We don’t work that.
Pressley: So the answer is none. Can you just say that for the record? There has been no killing that the FBI can link to black Lives Matter or similar black activist groups, to your knowledge.
McGarrity: To my knowledge—I’d have to go back—but to my knowledge, right now, no.
Where we are:
Rep. Jamie Raskin, the Maryland Democrat who led the hearing, started by asking what he called the fundamental question: "Do we have an overall strategic plan to counter and prevent the threat of white supremacist violence? I fear the answer is no."
To recap: The FBI created a new category of threat and two years later quietly abandoned it without explanation.
OOINTELPRO 2.0
Comments
Lemon was attacked for making a true statement.
Fox’s Gregg Jarrett called him a racist via Twitter
Of interest
https://www.theroot.com/are-white-men-americas-biggest-terror-threat-we-checke-183017511
by rmrd0000 on Wed, 06/12/2019 - 8:07am
The "Treat of White Supremacy"? that's a candy-coated phrase - wonder how many showed up for the hearings?
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 06/13/2019 - 5:20am