“Law enforcement agencies around the country have told us the threat from Muslim extremists is not as great as the threat from right-wing extremists,” said Dr. Kurzman, whose study is to be published by the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security and the Police Executive Research Forum. John G. Horgan, who studies terrorism at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, said the mismatch between public perceptions and actual cases had become steadily more obvious to scholars. “There’s an acceptance now of the idea that the threat from jihadi terrorism in the United States has been overblown,” Dr. Horgan said. “And there’s a belief that the threat of right-wing, antigovernment violence has been underestimated.” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/25/us...or-threat.html
no kidding, If TEA Party and Libertarians and even right wing republicans were ever denied the right to drink alcohol like jihadists are, they may just strap on a suicide vest and blow up the local license branch.
There is a reasonable possibility that that heavily edited, grossly misleading Planned Parenthood video, that the extreme right put out, fueled this latest terrorist attack in Colorado Springs. Colorado Springs is a hotbed of extremist right wing religious groups that attract every kind of nut imaginable. (The terrorist in this case was identified as being from North Carolina). It would be wrong however to say that these right wing lunatics characterize this otherwise beautiful, progressive city located on the Eastern slope of the Rockies at the foot of Pikes Peak.
"Right Wing Extremist" = An American who believes in the US Constitution, Bill of Rights, and does not buy into the Leftist/Facist bilge.
"Right Wing Extremist" = An American who believes a fertilized human egg is a human being, but a fertilized chicken egg is not a chicken.
So "right wing extremists" are more dangerous than the assholes who took down the WTC on 9/11. I guess the liberal left has a really fucking bad memory. Just proves how incredibly ignorant they are.
Some killings by non-Muslims that most experts would categorize as terrorism have drawn only fleeting news media coverage, never jelling in the public memory. But to revisit some of the episodes is to wonder why. In 2012, a neo-Nazi named Wade Michael Page entered a Sikh temple in Wisconsin and opened fire, killing six people and seriously wounding three others. Mr. Page, who died at the scene, was a member of a white supremacist group called the Northern Hammerskins. In another case, in June 2014, Jerad and Amanda Miller, a married couple with radical antigovernment views, entered a Las Vegas pizza restaurant and fatally shot two police officers who were eating lunch. On the bodies, they left a swastika, a flag inscribed with the slogan “Don’t tread on me” and a note saying, “This is the start of the revolution.” Then they killed a third person in a nearby Walmart. And, as in the case of jihadist plots, there have been sobering close calls. In November 2014 in Austin, Tex., a man named Larry McQuilliams fired more than 100 rounds at government buildings that included the Police Headquarters and the Mexican Consulate. Remarkably, his shooting spree hit no one, and he was killed by an officer before he could try to detonate propane cylinders he drove to the scene. On several occasions since President Obama took office, efforts by government agencies to conduct research on right-wing extremism have run into resistance from Republicans, who suspected an attempt to smear conservatives. A 2009 report by the Department of Homeland Security, which warned that an ailing economy and the election of the first black president might prompt a violent reaction from white supremacists, was withdrawn in the face of conservative criticism. Its main author, Daryl Johnson, later accused the department of “gutting” its staffing for such research. William Braniff, the executive director of the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland, said the outsize fear of jihadist violence reflected memories of Sept. 11, the daunting scale of sectarian conflict overseas and wariness of a strain of Islam that seems alien to many Americans. “We understand white supremacists,” he said. “We don’t really feel like we understand Al Qaeda, which seems too complex and foreign to grasp. “If there’s one lesson we seem to have forgotten 20 years after Oklahoma City, it’s that extremist violence comes in all shapes and sizes,” said Dr. Horgan, the University of Massachusetts scholar. “And very often, it comes from someplace you’re least suspecting.”
There is no left and right to the people pulling the strings. It's just another mechanism to get traction in order to manipulate.
attacks since 2000 per wikipedia. Attacks or failed attacks by Muslim terrorists 2000 New York terror attack 2000 millennium attack plots Aftermath of the September 11 attacks 2001 September 11 attacks 2002 Los Angeles Airport shooting 2002 José Padilla (Abdullah al-Muhajir) Plot 2002 Buffalo Six 2004 financial buildings plot 2005 Los Angeles bomb plot 2006 Hudson River bomb plot 2006 Sears Tower plot 2006 Toledo terror plot 2006 transatlantic aircraft plot 2006 UNC SUV attack 2007 Fort Dix attack plot 2007 John F. Kennedy International Airport attack plot 2009 Little Rock recruiting office shooting 2009 Bronx terrorism plot 2009 Dallas Car Bomb Plot by Hosam Maher Husein Smadi[33] 2009 New York City Subway and United Kingdom plot 2009 Fort Hood shooting 2009 Colleen LaRose arrested (not made public until March 2010) 2010 King Salmon, Alaska local meteorologist and wife assassination plots 2010 Alleged Washington Metro bomb plot 2011 Alleged Saudi Arabian student bomb plots 2011 Manhattan terrorism plot 2011 Lone Wolf New York City, Bayonne,NJ pipe bombs plot. 2012 Car bomb plot in Florida.[34] 2013 Boston Marathon bombing 2013 Wichita Airport bombing plot 2015 Boston beheading plot Curtis Culwell Center attack vs Christian extremism Further information: Christian terrorism and Anti-abortion violence in the United States 2009: Anti-abortion activist Scott Roeder killed George Tiller in Kansas.[120]