Feds are very concerned about domestic terrorism, especially the embrace of white supremacy ideologies that promote hate and violence against minorities...opel mentioned 8ch...never heard of it until now... but CloudFair the company that provided server space for it just cancelled it because the company CEO was disturbed by what was happening there...but was OK until people got killed...
sure, exposing hateful rhetoric can cause pushback by decent folks...but it can also attract more followers...
and we all thought that we had ended the scourge of white supremacy when we defeated Nazi Germany nearly 75 years ago...what keeps that heart beating?
I don't know the answer...I'm a big supporter of the 1st Amendment and the freedoms we all enjoy...but I also don't have to subject myself to random thoughts by a proven idiot nutjob...heck, I hated to read poems written by high school classmates who were my friends...
maybe the price we pay for all these freedoms is the uncertainty that some freedom loving nutjob could take any of us out at any given moment...so treat every second as a precious gift...
delta1 wrote:
1) post 9/11 stats say that approximately the same number of lives have been lost on American soil to Islamic terrorism
as from loosely (if at all) connected groups of far right ideologists...102 and 109 since 2002.
However, the Feds do not spend anything even close to the same in terms of money. weapons, manpower, intelligence efforts...and the position of top counterterrorism adviser was downgraded last year so that they no longer report directly to the president (from interview with Lisa Monaco who held that position under Obama).
The point is not if right wing or left wing fringe lunatics are worse than the other side, it's that the Feds are not nearly as concerned about domestic terrorism.
2) I may be in the vast minority (until recent events) but I have known for a long time that Jewish watchdog groups that keep tabs on the up and down activity of nazi and other superiority style hate groups' activity has been met with yawns for years...have even heard/read irritated pleas for the Jews to stop using their bleating to create guilt about a "dead" issue.
So I never thought it was eradicated.
Constant vigilance is the only way to protect the freedoms we don't always like to bestow on others...their freedom to think and say is protected...but not their painful or murderous actions.
I may edit after posting as my thoughts were flooded, so hold off for a minute or two...
