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Homeland chief: Domestic extremism is top concern

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Feb 21, 5:31 PM (ET)

By EILEEN SULLIVAN

WASHINGTON (AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists who are U.S. citizens or live in the country legally and plot against the U.S. are just as big of a concern as international terrorists.

She says that when she started as secretary a year ago, the focus was largely on international terrorists who want to harm U.S. interests. But in the past year, more of the violent extremism that has been seen overseas is showing up in the U.S.

She says officials need to drill down and analyze the factors that make a young person, raised in the U.S., migrate to extremist beliefs and actions.

Napolitano was speaking to governors who are in Washington for their annual conference.

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Is it just me, Am I the only one that looks at Stack, McVeigh etc... and sees someone that is just crezee angry???

TPTB need to take months studying these events to come to some highly analytical scientific (and usually incorrect and convoluted) conclusion?

Perhaps it's simply defined as TPTB pushed those people over the edge with their behavior (rules, guidelines, laws, hypocrisy etc...) ???

It's seems so painfully simple (to me) : that they were just pissed off beyond all human reason (conspiracy or not.)

Am I wrong?

Perhaps 'domestic extremism' is a reaction to government extremism?


[edit on 2·21·10 by DrMattMaddix]

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Perhaps 'domestic extremism' is a reaction to government extremism?

Yes, I think the same thing. When a government refuses to listen and carries an iron fist approach, it breeds reactions that go against that same government.

This is a fact of any social situation. "Backing a cat into a corner" comes to mind as a terminology. Law enforcement train on how to diffuse situations, especially in circumstances where their life might be in danger. Verbal Judo anyone? I can't tell you how many government offices I have been to that treat a person like crap. I would say my experience has been 50/50 as far as dealing with government agencies.

Some citizens can not handle stresses and take things personally when treated unfairly. I have found that government agencies are just like the private sector though. There are people in positions of power that cannot think and base their decisions on ego rather than really stopping to think and putting themself into a persons situation. In this regard government might not be the exact root problem, it might be that people are the problem and support ego based reactions as solutions.

More info. to add

If you haven't seen this Homeland Security Department PDF of extremist groups and how they are defined, it is worth noting that Alternative Media is listed, but in definition only.
Domestic Extremist Lexicon.

According to our friends at Prison Planet:

In the same breath as radical Cuban Communists, the “decentralized terrorist movement,” “lone terrorists,” “racist skinheads” and the Mexican separatist movement, we find an entry for “alternative media,” alongside the blurb, “a term used to describe various information sources that provide a forum for interpretations of events and issues that differ radically from those presented in mass media products and outlets.”

That’s right folks – the federal government is training its enforcers that people who don’t believe everything they see on Fox News, CNN or read in the New York Times are to be treated as a “threat” and a potential violent domestic terrorist.

Apparently it’s not enough to treat Ron Paul supporters, people who fly U.S. flags or people who are able to accurately recite the Bill of Rights as potential mass killers, now anyone who merely questions what is reported by the corporate media is also a danger, according to the federal government. (1)

According to FOX News however, this report was not authorized for release and the "maverick" department was reigned in...

Department spokeswoman Amy Kudwa said the report was not authorized and is not being used.

"The lexicon was not an authorized I&A product, and it was recalled as soon as management discovered it had been released without authorization," Kudwa said. "Since this happened prior to our last experience, our new internal protocols were obviously not in place. Even so, this product is not, nor was it ever, in operational use."

The Homeland Security official who spoke to FOX News said the office that released the report had taken on a "maverick" attitude by acting without authorization and is now being "reined in." (2)

It appears that Homeland Security is"unofficially" looking at ways to break the radical/extremist cycle within the borders (their term).







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