Liberty Blitzkrieg – by Michael Krieger
U.S. law enforcement agencies rank the threat of violence from anti-government extremists higher than the threat from radicalized Muslims, according to a report released Thursday by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (TCTHS).
The report, “Law Enforcement Assessment of the Violent Extremism Threat,” was based on survey research by Charles Kurzman, professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and David Schanzer, director of TCTHS and associate professor of the practice at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy.
The survey — conducted by the center with the Police Executive Research Forum — found that 74 percent of 382 law enforcement agencies rated anti-government extremism as one of the top three terrorist threats in their jurisdiction. By comparison, 39 percent listed extremism connected with Al Qaeda or like-minded terrorist organizations as a Top 3 terrorist threat.
– From Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy
Since September 11, 2001, the frightened and emotionally pliable American public has gullibly relinquished its civil liberties and free heritage in order to allow the U.S. government to wage unaccountable and unconstitutional war again Al-Qaeda and radical Islamic terrorism across the world.
Many of us have warned for years, that preemptively giving up freedoms to protect freedom could only make sense to a propagandized, ignorant public completely clueless of human history. We warned that any totalitarian apparatus implemented to fight an outside enemy, would ultimately be turned around and used upon the public domestically. We already know this is happening with the NSA’s bulk spying and data collection, and we are starting to see a proliferation of the meme that “domestic extremists are more dangerous than Al-Qaeda,” spreading from the mouths of a corrupt and paranoid political class. I’ve covered this topic on several occasions, for example:
The “War on Terror” Turns Inward – DHS Report Warns of Right Wing Terror Threat
Eric Holder Announces Task Force to Focus on “Domestic Terrorists”
Rep. Steve Cohen Calls Tea Party Republicans “Domestic Enemies” on MSNBC
It’s Official: The FBI Classifies Peaceful American Protestors as “Terrorists”
If all that’s not enough to convince you we’ve got a problem, I bring to you conclusions from the recently released study, “Law Enforcement Assessment of the Violent Extremism Threat.” This study was based on a survey conducted by Charles Kurzman and David Schanzer, who recently penned an op-ed in theNew York Times. Here are some excerpts from their article:
In a survey we conducted with the Police Executive Research Forum last year of 382 law enforcement agencies, 74 percent reported anti-government extremism as one of the top three terrorist threats in their jurisdiction; 39 percent listed extremism connected with Al Qaeda or like-minded terrorist organizations. And only 3 percent identified the threat from Muslim extremists as severe, compared with 7 percent for anti-government and other forms of extremism.
The self-proclaimed Islamic State’s efforts to radicalize American Muslims, which began just after the survey ended, may have increased threat perceptions somewhat, but not by much, as we found in follow-up interviews over the past year with counterterrorism specialists at 19 law enforcement agencies. These officers, selected from urban and rural areas around the country, said that radicalization from the Middle East was a concern, but not as dangerous as radicalization among right-wing extremists.
Law enforcement agencies around the country are training their officers to recognize signs of anti-government extremism and to exercise caution during routine traffic stops, criminal investigations and other interactions with potential extremists. “The threat is real,” says the handout from one training program sponsored by the Department of Justice. Since 2000, the handout notes, 25 law enforcement officers have been killed by right-wing extremists, who share a “fear that government will confiscate firearms” and a “belief in the approaching collapse of government and the economy.”
Meanwhile, terrorism of all forms has accounted for a tiny proportion of violence in America. There have been more than 215,000 murders in the United States since 9/11. For every person killed by Muslim extremists, there have been 4,300 homicides from other threats.
Perhaps if the police didn’t harbor such negative thoughts about the general public, there wouldn’t be as many citizens killed by police. The recent tally is up to 463 killed so far in 2015, or an average of 2.5 Americans killed by police every day.
Finally, I came across the following excerpt from a recently publishedNational Journal article:
Senate Democrats are calling for Congress to shift its focus from solely jihadist-fueled terrorism and hold hearings on the threats from domestic groups in upcoming weeks. And the Department of Justice has already opened up a domestic-terrorism investigation into the Charleston church shooting.
The real enemy of the corrupt corporate state is none other than, “we the people.”
In Liberty,
Michael Krieger
“Study Shows U.S. Police Far More Concerned About “Anti-Government” Domestic Extremists than Al-Qaeda”
Well since everyone knows that “Al Qaeda” is a C.I.A. creation of phantom terrorists, this isn’t very surprising.
You can easily ignore any article if it’s based on someone’s “study”, because that means it’s BS that was recently invented to suit someone’s propaganda goals. In this case they want to focus everyone’s fear attention on “domestic extremists” so the terror enforcement can focus on Patriots.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the much-vaunted “July 4th terror false-flag” is a fabricated act of “domestic terrorism”. They need to move on us somehow, and soon. Be ready for it.
What it amounts to is that Police across the country have hurt, or murdered so many people who never hurt a soul all a cross this country that now large segments of the population are now looking at any police or government agent as a domestic enemy. Police have built up a tinder box soaked in gasoline under themselves and the fire has already been lit. Now they are complaining like the cowards they are for the heat they are now feeling that was in fact a result of their own evil deeds. Quite astonishing.
What on earth do they expect with their attitude that stinks and behavior so atrocious? Did they really expect that they could commit all those crimes against the population and remain in high regard, or even safe from an enraged population?
American people are really very nice. They really are for the most part. Police have become a criminal piratical element that people can’t afford to tolerate any longer. I’d predict when the economy finally craters police will become the looter gangs Road Warrior stile. People only then will be dealing with them properly. People just too nice.
“Many of us have warned for years, that preemptively giving up freedoms to protect freedom could only make sense to a propagandized, ignorant public completely clueless of human history.”
‘Programming’ works.