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Far right extremists
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Far right extremists The lunatic fringe on the right poses a bigger threat in the US than attacks by Muslim fanatics. Yet the Trumpsters ignore this problem. The SPLC combats this menace: This weekend we're bringing you a piece about a time when a "Bowling Green Massacre" really did seem imminent – not because of an Iraqi refugee, as a Trump administration spokesperson repeated in the press, but because of a white supremacist. Federal agents began investigating Richard Schmidt in 2012, when they found evidence that he was a member of a neo-Nazi skinhead gang called the Vinlanders, as well as a member of the National Alliance, once the largest neo-Nazi group in the United States. When they raided Schmidt's shop in Bowling Green, Ohio, they discovered a secret room stockpiled with assault rifles, body armor and the names and home addresses of Jewish and African-American community leaders. But when they presented that evidence in court, the judge deemed it "inadequate" to establish that Schmidt was a political terrorist. He was sentenced to less than six years in prison and will be out this time next year. In stark contrast to that narrowly averted "Bowling Green Massacre" is the "massacre" that Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway initially claimed happened in Bowling Green, Kentucky. In that instance, two Iraqi refugees were convicted of trying to aid attacks on American soldiers in Iraq and were sentenced to long prison terms. Conway says the media should have reported far more extensively on something that actually never happened. But as A.C. Thompson writes for ProPublica, Perhaps we have become trapped in one view of what constitutes the terrorist threat. For some concerned about America's vulnerability to terrorism, the very real, mostly forgotten case of Richard Schmidt in Bowling Green, Ohio, deserves an important place in any debate about what is real and what is fake, what gets reported on by the news media and what doesn't. Those deeply worried about domestic far-right terrorism believe United States authorities, across many administrations, have regularly underplayed the threat. In fact, the government's blind spot on the subject of white supremacist terrorism appears, if anything, to be getting bigger. Last week, Reuters reported that the Trump administration intends to narrow the focus of the government's Countering Violent Extremism program and rename it either "Countering Islamic Extremism" or "Countering Radical Islamic Extremism," a move that, as Heidi Beirich, director of SPLC's Intelligence Project, cautions, "singles out a particular religion in violation of our fundamental values and undermines the very intent of the program; rather than making us safer, it increases the risk." Trump administration officials and their allies in Congress are not only downplaying the very real danger of terror from far-right extremists as they sow fear about Muslims, they're acting like it doesn't really exist. On Wednesday, White House spokesman Sean Spicer implied — falsely — that the bombing by anti-abortion extremist Eric Rudolph during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta had been carried out by foreign nationals. Before that, U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy told CNN reporter Alisyn Camerota that the recent mosque attack in Quebec City, committed not by a Muslim but by a white extremist, was somehow "different" from terrorism. "That was a one-off, Alisyn," Duffy said. But, of course, the deadly Quebec shooting was not a "one-off." Since the Oklahoma City bombing, white extremists have murdered 70 people in America in 32 separate attacks. Remember the Oklahoma City building bombing? A white native born US citizen did that... |
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when do all these lies add up to an impeachable offense? You cannot conceive the many without the one.
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Impeachment is up to the House of Reps and trial by the US Senate. Ask them.
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