Suspect in robbery homicide ran Minuteman splinter group:
New Border Fear: Violence by a Rogue Militia, by Jesse McKinley and Malia Wollan. The New York Times, June 26, 2009.
Quote:
The three people arrested in the crime include the leader of Minutemen American Defense, a Washington State-based offshoot of the Minutemen movement, in which citizens roam the border looking for people crossing into the country illegally. Former members describe the group’s leader, Shawna Forde, 41, as having anti-immigrant sentiments that are extreme, at times frightening, even to people accustomed to hard-line views on border policing.
The authorities say that the three suspects were after money and drugs that they intended to use to finance vigilantism, and that members of the group may have been involved in at least one other home invasion, in California.
Woman held in 2 slayings an outcast, activists say: But Shawna Forde had high-level contacts in Minuteman movement despite extreme views, by Tim Steller. Arizona Daily Star, June 28, 2009.
Quote:
In 2007, Forde applied to join Simcox's group, Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, and was allowed in on a probationary basis, said group Vice President Al Garza and founder Simcox, who left the group this year to run for the U.S. Senate. The group vetted her through interviews and a background check, members said.
"Within a few weeks, she was so assertive, wanting to take charge and wanting to be a spokesperson," Simcox said.
"She lasted less than six months. After that, she went and tried other groups," he said. "She thrust herself into the movement where no one else wanted her."
"It's a hodgepodge of folks"
The world she entered is a set of individuals and groups, many using the word "Minuteman" in their name, many harboring hostilities with each other. They share an interest in stopping illegal immigration.
A bad article by the NYT imo, the Star article has more detail. The Times headline seems sensationalistic at this point, we'll see where this goes.
Left or Right Wing Nuts??
Seems each side has the same take when the opposite is in the driver seat.:p
Former DHS analyst: what keeps me up at night?
Note: copied here from a current August 2012 thread on Lone Wolves.
In the previous post I referred to a 2009 DHS report on Right Wing Extremism, today I found an interview of the lead analyst involved from the summer of 2011, which after recent events makes interesting reading for a non-American.
It ends with:
Quote:
What worries me is the fact that our country is under attack from within, from our own radical citizenry. There have been a lot of small-scale attacks lately, whether it's three mail bombs sent to U.S. government facilities in Maryland and D.C., or a backpack bomb placed near a [Martin Luther King Jr. Day] parade in Spokane, Wash., or two police officers gunned down at a traffic stop in West Memphis, Ark., [by antigovernment extremists in May 2010].
These incidents are starting to add up. Yet our legislators, politicians and national leaders don't appear too concerned about this. So, my greatest fear is that domestic extremists in this country will somehow become emboldened to the point of carrying out a mass-casualty attack, because they perceive that no one is being vigilant about the threat from within. That is what keeps me up at night.
Link:http://www.splcenter.org/get-informe...s-agency-bowed
I am aware of the role of the SPLC.
The benefits of hindsight - in The Economist
The article's full title:
Quote:
The benefits of hindsight....The need for more monitoring of domestic terrorism
Noted via Twitter today, it appeared on the 18th August, starting with this 2009 DHS report and ends pithily:
Quote:
..talking about right-wing extremist threatens howls of protest. Nice idea, shame about the politics.
Link:http://www.economist.com/node/215605...s_of_hindsight
The comments illustrate the difficulty in this area of public safety policy and in IMHO are not worth reading in total.
XRW in USA is the main source of ideological violence
A NYT opinion article that provides an updtae to the debate and cited DHS report:http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/16/op...reat.html?_r=0
Quote:
The main terrorist threat in the United States is not from violent Muslim extremists, but from right-wing extremists. Just ask the police.In a survey we conducted with the
Police Executive Research Forum last year of 382 law enforcement agencies, 74 percent reported anti-government extremism as one of the top three terrorist threats in their jurisdiction; 39 percent listed extremism connected with Al Qaeda or like-minded terrorist organizations. And only 3 percent identified the threat from Muslim extremists as severe, compared with 7 percent for anti-government and other forms of extremism.
(At the end) As state and local police agencies remind us, right-wing, anti-government extremism is the leading source of ideological violence in America.
US Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism (part title)
The actual, full title of a NYT article is 'U.S. Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism. Now They Don’t Know How to Stop It.' It is added here as this DHS report gets a lot of coverage.
Link:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/m...ar-right.html?
There is a current open thread on 'Domestic political violence', where the NYT article is also posted.
Link:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...violence-(USA)
The Global Far-Right: An Interview with Julia Ebner
I cannot readily identify a thread on the extreme right / XRW / nationalist right and this Q&A article is added here.:wry:
Julia Ebner is a London-based analyst with a think tank; networking found she was admired for her research, you can judge yourself of course.
Link:https://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org....th-julia-ebner