Thursday, April 17, 2014

I might know someone on either end of a domestic terrorist attack. It keeps me up at night.

April 19th / 20th is coming up.

Extremists Look to April Anniversaries 
April 6, 2005 
"April is a month that looms large in the calendar of many extremists in the United States, from racists and anti- Semites to anti-government groups. Some groups organize events to commemorate these April dates. Moreover, there is always a certain threat that one or more extremists may choose to respond to these anniversaries with some sort of violent act. 
Because of these anniversaries, law enforcement officers, community leaders and school officials should be vigilant, especially during the period April 15 to April 24." 
MORE AT: 
http://www.adl.org/combating-hate/domestic-extremism-terrorism/c/extremists-look-to-april.html 




Bundy Supporters Reportedly Harass Conservationists, BLM Workers over Nevada ‘Range War’ 
By David Neiwert on April 16, 2014 - 5:20 pm, Posted in Antigovernment, Patriot 
Exclusive: Frazier Glenn Miller’s 2013 Calls to the Southern Poverty Law Center
By Josh Glasstetter on April 15, 2014 - 3:31 pm, Posted in Anti-Black, Anti-Semitic, Extremist Crime, White Supremacist
News programs concerning white nationalist patriot groups are coming mostly from the west and midwest. But I think Pennsylvania has more white nationalist patriot group members than states west of here. 
“The number of Vietnam veterans in that movement was small — a tiny proportion of those who served — but Vietnam veterans forged the first links between Klansmen and Nazis since World War II. They were central in leading Klan and neo-Nazi groups past the anti-civil rights backlash of the 1960s and toward paramilitary violence. The white power movement they forged had strongholds not only in the South, but also in the Pacific Northwest, Colorado, California and Pennsylvania. Its members carried weapons like those they had used in Vietnam, and used boot-camp rhetoric to frame their pursuit of domestic enemies. They condoned violence against innocent people and, eventually, the state itself… 
Mr. Miller obviously represents an extreme, both in his politics and in his violence. A vast majority of veterans are neither violent nor mentally ill. When they turn violent, they often harm themselves, by committing suicide. But it would be irresponsible to overlook the high rates of combat trauma among the 2.4 million Americans who have served in our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the full impact of which has not yet materialized. Veterans of those conflicts represent just 10 percent of those getting mental
health services through the Department of Veterans Affairs, where the overwhelming majority of those in treatment are still Vietnam veterans.
 
During Mr. Miller’s long membership in the white power movement, its leaders have robbed armored cars, engaged in counterfeiting and the large-scale theft of military weapons, and carried out or planned killings. The bombing by Timothy J. McVeigh, an Army veteran, of the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, which killed 168 people, was only the most dramatic of these crimes. When we interpret shootings like the one on Sunday as acts of mad, lone-wolf gunmen, we fail to see white power as an organized — and deadly — social movement.” 
 FROM: 
 Veterans and White Supremacy 
By KATHLEEN BELEW APRIL 15, 2014

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2013

You don't need to go to Idaho to find White Separatist Militia types.  You don't have to go outside of Chester County.

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