Note that there are no definitions. What does the government define as “right-wing”? What do they classify as “left-wing”? What do they define as a “terrorist attack”? The Joint Regional Intelligence Center report defines “terrorist incidents” as “violence motivated by political or religious conviction,” but offer no definitions of the other terms. It does, however, attempt to excuse “left-wing” violence, claiming that that there was a “rarity of left-wing extremist attacks,” and that “increased response to right-wing activity motivated more left-wing violence in 2020 than in previous years.” Do the Antifa and Black Lives Matter riots all over the country last summer get counted as terrorist attacks? Note also that there is apparently little or no specific data: “the government has released no data on historical activity or the current threat landscape, prompting a number of data projects from think tanks and other groups tracking domestic extremist threats.” And there is strange fudging, epitomized by this sentence: “non-affiliated, right-wing and left-wing actors, right-wing [domestic violent extremists] were responsible for the majority of fatal attacks in the Homeland in 2020.” That wretchedly written statement apparently says that most fatal attacks in the U.S. were perpetrated by both “right-wing and left-wing actors,” and yet “journalist” Jana Winter and the officials she quotes all concentrate exclusively on the “right-wing extremism.”
Given the irresponsible but no doubt calculated lack of definitions, this Joint Regional Intelligence Center report, and the Yahoo News story about it, appears to be one more attempt to portray peaceful, law-abiding Americans who supported President Trump and dissent from the leftist agenda as terrorists and as enablers of terrorism.
Meanwhile, while our agencies purvey this propaganda, the global jihad proceeds apace.
“Feds now say right-wing extremists responsible for majority of deadly terrorist attacks last year,” by Jana Winter, Yahoo News, February 19, 2021:
The U.S. government is acknowledging for the first time that right-wing extremists were responsible for the majority of fatal domestic terrorist attacks last year, according to an internal report circulated by the Department of Homeland Security last week and obtained by Yahoo News.
A review of last year’s domestic terrorist incidents by a DHS fusion center — which shares threat-related information between federal, state and local partners — found that although civil unrest and antigovernment violence were associated with “non-affiliated, right-wing and left-wing actors, right-wing [domestic violent extremists] were responsible for the majority of fatal attacks in the Homeland in 2020.”
The report, produced by the Joint Regional Intelligence Center, a DHS-funded fusion center, was sent out to police and law enforcement agencies nationwide as part of an intelligence-sharing system created after the 9/11 attacks.
While independent think tanks and outside groups have been pointing to the rise in ring-wing violence for some time, this appears to be the first known instance of an official government or law enforcement agency clearly acknowledging the trend, though senior officials have noted the rise in white supremacist attacks. The report also comes not long after the end of the Trump administration, which was criticized for downplaying right-wing violence.
Former President Donald Trump, in particular, frequently referred to the threat from antifa, a loose movement of left-wing activists.
“The government has not said this publicly, law enforcement has not said this publicly,” said Seth Jones of the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank. “This is new.”
The findings about right-wing extremism are “consistent with every single assessment of data I’ve seen, not just in 2020 but in 2019,” Jones said after reviewing the fusion center report.
In October of last year, CSIS published its own analysis of domestic terrorist activity in the U.S. for the first eight months of 2020. Its data showed that white supremacists and other right-wing extremists conducted two-thirds of the terrorist plots and attacks in the nation during that period.
The CSIS report notes that the FBI and DHS have in the past identified “racially and ethnically motivated violent extremists,” and specifically white supremacists, as the biggest threat to the U.S. But the government has released no data on historical activity or the current threat landscape, prompting a number of data projects from think tanks and other groups tracking domestic extremist threats.
“What is a little unusual is that they’ve used terms like ‘right- and left-wing’ in a government document, because the government has generally used other terms,” said Jones.
“The government in 2020 did try to stay away from ‘right-wing’ terms because they were easily politicized,” he added….
“There is a lot of overlap between white supremacists and far-right militias, and they often work together during the commission of violent acts,” German said, “like at the attack on the Capitol.”
Infidel says
Why don’t they just go ahead and blame Rush Limbaugh for all the terrorist attacks last year? Would make about as much sense as everything else they’ve been claiming
gravenimage says
Yep.
LB says
Pretty much. I had a good laugh watching this latest “impeachment” trial where the Dems brought their “smoking gun” against Trump made out of edited videos, doctored tweets and random reddit posts. I especially liked the part where they decided against bringing in witnesses because Trump’s defense team had about 300 of them (initially, the number would be much larger til the end) whereas the Dems had almost none.
And the final icing on the cake, after the trial, Michael Van Der Veen–Trump’s lawyer–got interviewed by a CBS journalist and he LITERALLY mic dropped on her. I haven’t seen such destruction since Jordan Peterson vs Cathy Newman 😀
For those who haven’t seen it, check it out below. It gets good after a few minutes in so keep watching, it’s worth every second:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V_LeUM9t3k
Wellington says
I no longer trust the US government—not Congress, not the FBI, not the CIA, not the DIA, not the American judiciary, certainly not the new Administration, et al. Guess this makes me a right-wing extremist.
Savvy Kafir says
I feel the same way, and I’m a vegetarian tree-hugger and godless heathen who formerly voted for Democrats. The number of people in this country who do not qualify as “right-wing extemists” just keeps getting smaller apparently.
gravenimage says
+1
Stay Away From Islam says
The Democrat Communist Party of the United States, thanks to their illegitimate stealing of the national election is now working on eliminating and burying any dissent they deem wrong regardless of the first amendment. They are creating a false narrative that the streets are being overrun by white supremacists and that they must all be jailed or destroyed. This would include, according to them, every white person who voted for Trump. Now reason tells us, although completely lacking amongst Democrat Communists, that not all white people are white supremacists. Let’s face it hardly any are. I have never met a white supremacist or have I ever been asked to attend a meeting of white supremacists. It all seems so stupid, trivial and idiotic to claim you are a white supremacist. I’m sure they’re out there in their little myopic groups staring stupidly at each other in their disheveled clothing and houses This also shows how stupid but cunning the left is. They are using the false specter of white supremacy as a fear tool to try and convince weak minds that white supremacy exists so they can forward their ideological tyranny on the American public particularly conservatives. Fortunately they are saddled with the babbling dementia patient named Biden…for now.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
Sometime in the not-too-distant past, I used to trust the US government.
The US government now, to at least a significant extent , is corrupt and is embedded with communist and muslim brotherhood front organizations.
And after the stolen 2020 US presidential election, the United States has turned into a “high class” banana republic.
It pains me greatly to state this…
puraposta says
Sadly, you speak for millions.
john smith says
They certainly do, and I don’t even live there, I never believed this once great nation could sink to such depths. It’s become absolutely rotten at the core.
somehistory says
They must keep the lies going…they have to publish them with every agency…in order to make the “general public” believe they have good intentions and to make the ‘public’
fear anyone:
who is White,
who they know owns legally-purchased firearms,
who values the Freedoms our Creator “endowed,”
who has served in the U.S. military,
who has voiced concerns about the moslum/islam situation that is growing in the country,
who reads the Bible,
who goes to Church,
who doesn’t get the ‘news’ from the msm,
and/or who voted for Mr. Trump,
or just doesn’t like what’s happening.
Any one of these, or any combination of these, now carries the label of “right-wing domestic extremist/terrorist.”
Recall the list that ‘o’s dhs head…an ugly woman…never can recall her name, but she went to be head of some CA u. The list has now been expanded and is being publicized in order to put a greater fear out there. They want the “public” to be on the look-out for anyone who fits the profile and turn them in for any little thing that they might do….or even think about doing…even if it’s legal at this time.
The dems were behind the ‘riot’ at the Capitol building. The dems encouraged the riots all over the country and didn’t insist on any of the rioters wearing masks…but just let a person try to go to Church ..with or without a mask…or to a laundry, to a grocery store, etc. and these were labeled as “spreaders” and said to not care if they gave someone the ‘virus.’
It’s a scheme to gain greater control and to pretend they have good reason to lock people up for “believing” something in which they don’t believe…such as God and the Freedoms He gave us.
Kepha says
Add this: You refuse to accept that a eunuch in women’s clothing is a much a “woman” as the mother who bore you.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
You have listed 10 attributes that the Left uses to erroneously define a “right-wing domestic extremist/terrorist.”
I personally have all 10 attributes – and consider myself to be a patriot…
gravenimage says
+1
john smith says
Seconded
Crusades Were Right says
I have a suspicion that religiously motivated violence will be counted as “far right” terrorism…
…and ANY violence committed by “Trump guys”.
“Sir, does a bar room brawl count as terrorism?”
“Of course not, sergeant.”
“But one of the protagonists was wearing a MAGA hat, sir.”
“Oh, my mistake, sergeant – that goes in the ‘worse than 9/11 pile!'”
lol
somehistory says
The moslum terrorists in other countries have been labeled “right wing.”
And that one report about 9/11 said the terrorists were “white.”
Even then, they will claim that anyone who says the perps were moslums is a racist bigot, and give them the dx of a fake “phobia.’
puraposta says
Very convenient labeling that obscures the alliance between the left and Islam. This marriage is the greatest threat to the republic not any far right one. The department of homeland security will soon be caught with their pants down again.
Wellington says
I agree that the Department of Homeland Stupidity will be “caught with their pants down again” but it will result in no reform or penalty because government, unlike the private sector, virtually never pays a penalty for incompetence or stupidity or even mendacity. The fact that Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Schiff, et al. are not in jail stands as testimony to this sad verity.
gravenimage says
Yes–the idea that 9/11 was somehow perpetrated by “white extremists” is nuts.
somehistory says
“A Google spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email: “We have clear Community Guidelines that govern what videos may stay on YouTube, and we enforce our Community Guidelines consistently, regardless of speaker and without regard to political viewpoints.”
“In accordance with our presidential election integrity policy, we removed this video from the Newsmax TV channel,” the spokesperson added.
The set of policies cited is aimed at preventing spam, scams, and deceptive practices, the California-based company says. Included is a policy implemented late last year. Google said in announcing the policy that it would remove “content that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election.”
Trump during the Newsmax interview alleged he won the 2020 election, among other claims.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/youtube-takes-down-new-trump-interview_3704154.html?utm
Only one side is allowed to be heard as the “big guys” in charge must decide what is Truth and what is not.
What was up is now down; as the Bible pointed out long, long ago and was repeated by Jesus Christ, some people will ‘put bad for good and good for bad.’ The Truth has always been under attack by satan and his “children” and he is working ever harder in his final days.
We can be glad that these days will “be cut short,” as Christ said. Truth will win.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
Newsmax needs to repost this video on Rumble or Bitchute…
Boycott Turkey says
Most of the domestic terrorism which I saw on the news was Antifa leftwing how is it nowadays not just in America but anywhere else if you are conservative and anti Islam you are now labelled as a right wing far right ?
James Lincoln says
Boycott Turkey,
The “right wing far right label” is used to shut down conversation about Leftism and islam.
But you knew that already…
DavidR in says
Men of straw manufacture a fantasy landscape of full of violent deplorables and consolidate their power around that straw man, repeating it long enough so that many will accept it as fact. The policy of lie, lie, smear and divide really works. Democracy is always ripe for abuse and should be approached with respect and humility towards the people who actually risked their lives for it. No surprise that those people weren’t perfect, may have owned slaves and were probably white. But the flaw finders will have us question the value of a human’s entire life output based on some accusation taken completely out of context and with total disregard for history. The famous opera composer Richard Wagner was also a committed Jew hater and for many years his works were not performed in Israel. But in the end doing things like composing the “Ring” operas or writing the “Declaration of Independence” will eventually eclipse any personal shortcomings, even big ones.
But why stop the current momentum? At least half of US voters consider it “progress”. Building on the failure of public education makes planting anything in the minds of young voters easy. Just stroke their egos and tell them stories that both soothe and seed their confused minds with more nonsense. Peer pressure will finish the job for you.
Rarely says
It is very troublesome that the net is full of the most idiotic conspiracy theories since any mental midget or hate monger can publish whatever devious plot he/she can devise in the darkest part of his/her twisted brain without any oversight or consequences whatsoever. Anyone can allege anything and get it out there.
It’s not only that there are so many gullible people but the youth are learning from a young age to use the net for all their news and information. How can we expect them to differentiate between “facts” and conspiracy theories? “Daddy, I believe the world is flat”.
I wonder how many people today believe that the forest fire devastation that took out much of California last year was caused by lasers from a “Jewish” satellite? How many people believe 9/11 was a CIA operation or an insurance scam?
This is terribly dangerous and until something is done (I don’t know what) all “free” societies are in grave danger. For the time being all we have to stave off this madness is the judiciary.
Wellington says
Counting on the American judiciary, sad to say, is, to put it mildly, not a winning approach.
The American judiciary in toto (thankfully there are exceptions here and there) are part of “the problem” and not part of any sane and ethical solution. As examples of this (and I could provide many), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for decades now has not been called the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals for nothing. And the Pennsylvania state Supreme Court, in complete violation of the statute passed by the PA General Assembly that required that all votes in the 2020 election must be in by 8:00 P.M. by November 3rd, extended this, completely unconstitutionally, to three days beyond this time, thus allowing for much election graft respecting the results in the 2020 Presidential election.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“Counting on the American judiciary, sad to say, is, to put it mildly, not a winning approach.”
As I am *sure* that you are aware, Texas asked the US Supreme Court to take on a case that would have essentially nullified the presidential election results in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia and Wisconsin.
The State of Texas’s motion was denied, procedurally, for lack of “standing”.
Cowards!
It did not rule on the actual “merits” of the case, nor has any other court…
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/matt-gaetz-scotus-decision-not-to-hear-texas-election-lawsuit-state-legislatures
Rarely says
So where was the appeal??? Sounds like taking a silly shot in the dark. Couldn’t find a Court where one would have standing? Looks like just feeding garbage to the masses–something the net specializes in.
gravenimage says
I think the best antidote to bs is truth.
Terry Gain says
So who are these right wing extremists and where is the list of their attacks? Where is the report or at least a link to it?
Wellington says
Will remain very vague, if not downright mendacious, Terry, ad infinitum.
The Left posits a bogeyman with few if any facts and thinks this is good enough. Fitting in a twisted, bitterly ironic way since the Left is far from good enough in any category, any capacity.
Van Hee says
Obviously whites would have the most terror attacks in America its majority white.. if there was data on terror attacks per capita this might make more sense.
Terry Gain says
Van Hee
I think you are wrong. It Is useful to look at crime statistics.According Heather MacDonald DOJ statistics indicate that Blacks, who are generally of the Left, attack Whites twice as often as vice versa even though Blacks comprise 13% of the population and Whites comprise 65%. I can’t think of a single instance where conservatives have used force to prevent a leftist from speaking. Can you? I think that political violence is almost the exclusive preserve of the Left.
tgusa says
In the not to distant past blacks marched for their civil rights against an opposing democrat party. This was during the separate but equal times. It was more about being included in the greater white community of America. Eventually blacks joined the civil rights opposing democrat party in large numbers. Now we have black democrats (so-called national security experts) calling Republicans enemy combatants that should be drone bombed in a similar way as is done in Afghanistan. What is it about the slavery supporting civil rights opposing democrat party that turns people in to this? I guess the saying is true, no good deed goes unpunished.
tgusa says
The left stalked and harassed President Trump and his supporters for more than four years. The left talked about killing him droning his supporters and yes, one congressman responded to those who disagreed with him by saying, we have nukes. They don’t like Americans invading their capitol safe space but the are just fine with dumping illegal aliens in our communities in the middle of their anti Trump pandemic. If you are wondering who the terrorists are the terrorists might be you.
tgusa says
I think they should just go ahead and nuke us all because, well, we might tweet or post something they disagree with down the road.
tgusa says
“There is a lot of overlap between white supremacists and far-right militias, and they often work together during the commission of violent acts,” German said, “like at the attack on the Capitol.”
German said? Some jokes write themselves. What the left is calling an armed attack on the capitol was the first armed attack in history where no one was armed. When cameras are outlawed only outlaws will have cameras. They have to manufacture an obscure bogeyman to justify their existence.
gravenimage says
US government says ‘right-wing extremists’ responsible for majority of deadly terrorist attacks last year
……………….
Really? Notice no effort to back up this absurd assertion.
Rod says
Hey Pinocchio, I referred you and your fellow fanatics to supporting data on this topic weeks ago. Have you forgotten, or is your comment related to your usual difficulty with facts and truth?
Note that Spencer has made “no effort to back up his absurd assertion”. But different rules apply to bigots, don’t they.
gravenimage says
Where was this supposed to have been? Citations, please.
Note the projection here–it is “Rod” who is not backing up what he is saying.
James Lincoln says
Yes, gravenimage.
Rod will always be Rod…
Rod says
right-wing extremists’ responsible for majority of deadly terrorist attacks last year
It’s true, it’s from more than one reliable source, it’s supported by ample reliable collected data, it’s been known for some time as established fact, and, most persuasive of all, Robert Spencer says, without ANY evidence, that it’s not true.
You simply can’t find anything more convincing than that. But, oh, how embarrassing!
gravenimage says
Does “Rod” here have a list? Of course not–he is just desperately hoping to distract Infidels from Jihad terror.
tgusa says
Rod is an agent provocateur GI and not a very good one. This thread is primarily for thinking Americans and Rod is not a thinker nor an American. Engaging him is what he wants. Understanding while ignoring him would bother him more.
john smith says
He’s not a thinker, bang on you got that one right.
Giacomo Latta says
Do you really think you are going to convince the typical visitor to this website of the validity of your undocumented blather, Antifaman? Try analyzing the documented proof that is supplied on this site by the vast majority of visitors. I challenge you to supply statistics for your first statement and to reveal the source. The answer of course is ”statistics invented by me (meaning you), a fascist who expects the world to resemble my dreams.”
gregbeetham says
In view of the revelations in the Philip Haney interview it could be problematic now if what the DHS says can be trusted; they could be more of a disinformation centre than anything.
Yes there was/is violence being perpetrated but who owns it? Almost every news bulletin portrays violence conducted by Lefty-Islamic affiliated organizations and very few instigated by any organization identifiably belonging to the Right except possibly the occasional fringe minority but those are little more than a speed bump in an otherwise Antifa-BLM landscape.
It looks like another smokescreen attempt by the left to rewrite history and transfer the blame so that the lefty inspired terrorists who perpetrate violence don’t have to be held responsible for their actions.
Aastra says
the largest terror org in India is left wing. they have been a big menace in India. yet MSM hides it and calls them as revolutionary/ protesters etc what not to justify them.
libertyORdeath says
This site and others correctly predicted that the watering down of the terms “terrorist” and “terrorism” would lead to this type of propaganda. Now we have intel and security “experts” claiming that resistance to the leftist agenda is actually “terrorism” in the same way that Pakistan outrageously attaches the term “terrorists” to those who speak out about real terrorism. 1984 seems like an instruction manual to these power hungry globalists rather than a cautionary tale of the abuse of power.
OLD GUY says
I think it was the left wing. Biden confuses easily right left what difference does it make to him unless Dr. Biden tells him which one is which.
Rooster says
Right wing left wing, it takes both to fly doesn’t it? America has been the New Babylon for quite some time and both the left and right have contributed much to its immoral growth. However, now it is going to get its wings clipped. When you are falling to your demise does it matter if it’s the right wing or left wing that is dismantled? The obvious will happen to America if you have the eyes to see ?
Pray for peace but be prepared for WAR!