| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
USCandLakers
Franchise Player
Joined: 13 Mar 2008
Posts: 19955
|
 Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 9:02 am Post subject: FBI confirms that White Supremacists have taken over Law Enforcement |
|
|
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/31/the-fbi-has-quietly-investigated-white-supremacist-infiltration-of-law-enforcement/
It's a long read, here are some interesting quotes from the article.
| Quote: | | IN 2009, SHORTLY after the election of Barack Obama, a Department of Homeland Security intelligence study, written in coordination with the FBI, warned of the “resurgence” of right-wing extremism. “Right-wing extremists have capitalized on the election of the first African-American president, and are focusing their efforts to recruit new members, mobilize existing supporters, and broaden their scope and appeal through propaganda,” the report noted, singling out “disgruntled military veterans” as likely targets of recruitment. “Right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from military training and combat.” |
| Quote: | | “Federal law enforcement agencies in general — the FBI, the Marshals, the ATF — are aware that extremists have infiltrated state and local law enforcement agencies and that there are people in law enforcement agencies that may be sympathetic to these groups,” said Daryl Johnson, who was the lead researcher on the DHS report. Johnson, who now runs DT Analytics, a consulting firm that analyzes domestic extremism, says the problem has since gotten “a lot more troublesome.” |
| Quote: | | Johnson added that Homeland Security has given up tracking right-wing domestic extremists. “It’s only the FBI now,” he said, adding that local police departments don’t seem to be doing anything to address the problem. “There’s not even any training now to make state and local police aware of these groups and how they could infiltrate their ranks.” |
| Quote: | IN 2014, THE Department of Justice re-established its Domestic Terrorism Task Force, a unit that was created following the Oklahoma City bombing. But for the most part, the government’s efforts to confront domestic terrorism threats over the last decade have focused on homegrown extremists radicalized by foreign groups. Last year, a group of progressive members of Congress called on President Obama and DHS to update the controversial 2009 report. “The United States allocates significant resources towards combating Islamic violent extremism while failing to devote adequate resources to right-wing extremism,” they wrote. “This lack of political will comes at a heavy price.”
Critics fear that the backlash following the 2009 DHS report hindered further action against the growing white supremacist threat, and that it was largely ignored because the issue was so politically controversial. “I believe that because that report was so denounced by conservatives, it sort of closed the door on whatever the FBI may have been considering doing with respect to combating infiltration of law enforcement by white supremacists,” said Samuel Jones, a professor of law at the John Marshall School of Law in Chicago who has written about white power ideology in law enforcement. “Because after the 2006 FBI report, we simply cannot find anything by local law enforcement or the federal government that addresses this issue.”
Pete Simi, a sociologist at Chapman University who spent decades studying the proliferation of white supremacists in the U.S. military, agreed. “The report underscores the problem of even discussing this issue. It underscores how difficult this issue is to get any traction on, because a lot of people don’t want to discuss this, let alone actually do something about it.” Simi said that the extremist strategy to infiltrate the military and law enforcement has existed “for decades.” In a study he conducted of individuals indicted for far-right terrorism-related activities, he found that at least 31 percent had military experience.
Pete Simi, a sociologist at Chapman University who spent decades studying the proliferation of white supremacists in the U.S. military, agreed. “The report underscores the problem of even discussing this issue. It underscores how difficult this issue is to get any traction on, because a lot of people don’t want to discuss this, let alone actually do something about it.” Simi said that the extremist strategy to infiltrate the military and law enforcement has existed “for decades.” In a study he conducted of individuals indicted for far-right terrorism-related activities, he found that at least 31 percent had military experience.
|
They know the problem exists but are not tackling it head on because of the political backlash.
_________________
A banana is killed every time a terrible thread or post is made.  Save the bananas. Stop creating terrible posts! |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Omar Little
Moderator
Joined: 02 May 2005
Posts: 90306
Location: Formerly Known As 24
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 9:12 am Post subject: |
|
|
| It's not just white supremacists, but also hard right apocalyptic folk who see themselves as a shadow army for "righteousness". Google the Oath Keepers. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
the association
Star Player
Joined: 03 Feb 2015
Posts: 1982
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 10:13 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Considering the fact that the Bureau is the tip of the very spear in question. this is bound to get lost in the noise ... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ContagiousInspiration
Franchise Player
Joined: 07 May 2014
Posts: 13823
Location: Boulder ;)
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 10:16 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Quote: | The revelation this month in GQ Magazine that Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary embellished top-secret wartime memos with quotations from the Bible prompts a question. Why did he believe he could influence President Bush by that means?
The answer may lie in an alarming story about George Bush's Christian millenarian beliefs that has yet to come to light.
In 2003 while lobbying leaders to put together the Coalition of the Willing, President Bush spoke to France's President Jacques Chirac. Bush wove a story about how the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East and how they must be defeated.
http://www.alternet.org/story/140221/
|
Christian Terrorists! created ISIS
Is it wrong of me to associate White Supremacists as being Christian Crusaders
| Quote: | In remarks to a 2014 conference at the Vatican, Bannon warned his Christian audience, "We're at the very beginning stages of a very brutal and bloody conflict."
"We are in an outright war against jihadists, Islam, Islamic fascism," Bannon continued. He likewise condemned "the immense secularization of the West" and the increasing secularism among millennials.
Bannon stressed that "the people in this room, and the people in the Church" must "bind together and really form what I feel is an aspect of the Church militant, to really be able to not just stand with our beliefs but to fight for our beliefs against this new barbarity that's starting that will literally eradicate everything that we've been bequeathed over the last 2,000 and 2,500 years."
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/steve-bannon-christian-holy-war-islam-donald-trump-capitalism-secularism-atheism
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
City_Dawg
Retired Number
Joined: 14 Jul 2006
Posts: 46878
Location: Coming soon and striking at your borders.
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 10:52 am Post subject: Re: FBI confirms that White Supremacists have taken over Law Enforcement |
|
|
| USCandLakers wrote: |
They know the problem exists but are not tackling it head on because of the political backlash. |
Not surprised. We deify the police/military in this country, especially after 9-11. It would also require America to face up to and finally actually do something about its long legacy of racism.
_________________
*sighs*
!... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
jonnybravo
Retired Number
Joined: 21 Sep 2007
Posts: 30680
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 11:58 am Post subject: Re: FBI confirms that White Supremacists have taken over Law Enforcement |
|
|
| City_Dawg wrote: | | USCandLakers wrote: |
They know the problem exists but are not tackling it head on because of the political backlash. |
Not surprised. We deify the police/military in this country, especially after 9-11. It would also require America to face up to and finally actually do something about its long legacy of racism. |
You don't understand. You don't love America.
_________________
KOBE |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
the association
Star Player
Joined: 03 Feb 2015
Posts: 1982
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 3:27 pm Post subject: Re: FBI confirms that White Supremacists have taken over Law Enforcement |
|
|
| jonnybravo wrote: | | City_Dawg wrote: | | USCandLakers wrote: |
They know the problem exists but are not tackling it head on because of the political backlash. |
Not surprised. We deify the police/military in this country, especially after 9-11. It would also require America to face up to and finally actually do something about its long legacy of racism. |
You don't understand. You don't love America. |
It's that fear industrial complex here in the U.S. ... if you question it or those directly enriching themselves from its ample teat, you're the enemy. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Basketball Fan
Franchise Player
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Posts: 24761
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 3:51 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Apparently this is brand new information.... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
doughboy90650
Franchise Player
Joined: 20 Apr 2006
Posts: 15294
Location: Southern California
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 7:22 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| See Chief Williams H. Parker |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
jodeke
Retired Number
Joined: 17 Nov 2007
Posts: 67631
Location: In a world where admitting to not knowing something is considered a great way to learn.
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 7:27 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| doughboy90650 wrote: | | See Chief Williams H. Parker |
Preceded by Thomas Reddin.
_________________
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
ChefLinda
Moderator
Joined: 20 Sep 2006
Posts: 24165
Location: Boston
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 7:40 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| They also just took over the White House with Bannon as the puppet master in chief. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
DaMuleRules
Retired Number
Joined: 10 Dec 2006
Posts: 52654
Location: Making a safety stop at 15 feet.
|
| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 8:58 pm Post subject: |
|
|
This information was confirmed a century ago.
_________________
You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
Jason Isbell
Man, do those lyrics resonate right now |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Laker4andmore
Star Player
Joined: 17 Sep 2002
Posts: 1056
|
| Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2017 9:02 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Zionist supremacist is a much bigger problem within the government than white supremacists. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
