Thursday, June 18, 2020

Far-Right Groups Causing Most Recent Violence




The reality of right- wing violence is getting harder to ignore, but the Trump regime is trying:
At a time when President Trump and other top U.S. officials have claimed — with little evidence — that leftist groups were fomenting violence, federal prosecutors have charged various supporters of a right-wing movement called the “boogaloo bois,” with crimes related to plotting to firebomb a U.S. Forest Service facility, preparing to use explosives at a peaceful demonstration and killing a security officer at a federal courthouse. [snip]
“The numbers are overwhelming: Most of the violence is coming from the extreme right wing,” said Clint Watts, a former FBI agent who studies extremist political activity for the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a think tank in Philadelphia. [snip]
The flurry of boogaloo-related prosecutions underscores the growing threat posed by far-right extremists, say experts on such movements. Some question why Trump and other top U.S. officials appear more focused on antifa groups, a loose collection of leftists whose members have been responsible for few documented crimes during the recent unrest, instead of the boogaloo and other heavily armed groups on the right.
“That question has no legitimate answer, to be honest,” said John Farmer, a former New Jersey attorney general and director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, who has studied the boogaloo extremists and others. “There’s been no sense of urgency. I think it’s political neglect.”  (our emphasis)
It's more than "political neglect." It's political complicity.  The penis- compensating halfwits in these groups serve several purposes of the Trump regime: by infiltrating and fomenting violence in largely peaceful anti- racism protests, which can then be blamed on "antifa" or the Black Lives Matter movement, leading to more draconian crackdowns;  and by intimidating those same protesters from exercising their First Amendment rights.
“These types of groups, they just take advantage of the moment, and they spew some messaging, and it just gains traction,” said Jared Maples, director of homeland security and preparedness for New Jersey. “The people who are doing this are taking advantage of people’s fears. … One of the biggest things we can do is call it out.”
Call it out, then root them out.

(Photo:  Over- ammoed boog of the far- right Washington State Three Percent group, who apparently grew up immersing himself in "Red Dawn" rather than history and civics.)

2 comments:

Infidel753 said...

Cute floral shirt, though.

W. Hackwhacker said...

Infidel -- the fashion forward look for fascists!