Posted on 02/25/2015 4:45:39 AM PST by HomerBohn
A Department of Homeland Security report obtained by CNN last week indicates that DHS officials believe “right-wing sovereign citizen extremists” are as big a threat to the nation’s safety as Islamic extremists who sympathize with ISIS.
CNN reported Friday that “federal and local law enforcement groups view the domestic terror threat from sovereign citizen groups as equal to — and in some cases greater than — the threat from foreign Islamic terror groups, such as ISIS…”
From the report:
The government says these are extremists who believe that they can ignore laws and that their individual rights are under attack in routine daily instances such as a traffic stop or being required to obey a court order.
They’ve lashed out against authority in incidents such as one in 2012, in which a father and son were accused of engaging in a shootout with police in Louisiana, in a confrontation that began with an officer pulling them over for a traffic violation. Two officers were killed and several others wounded in the confrontation. The men were sovereign citizen extremists who claimed police had no authority over them.
According to the report, DHS officials outlined 24 incidents involving sovereign citizen extremists in the U.S. since 2010.
The DHS document classifies sovereign citizens as people who feel they have “unfettered authority to travel ‘on the land'” and who are likely to reject “the authority of the government, law enforcement, and the courts.”
DHS stopped short of declaring that all people who identify as sovereign citizens are dangerous but warned in the document that law enforcement personnel are most likely to come under attack from those who are violent.
Law enforcement officers “will remain the primary target of [sovereign citizen] violence over the next year due to their role in physically enforcing laws and regulations,” DHS asserts. The agency also contends that most violence involving sovereign citizens in 2015 will occur “during routine law enforcement encounters at a suspect’s home, during enforcement stops and at government offices.”
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), which routinely criticizes the media’s focus on Islamic terrorism, championed the DHS report.
“We welcome this new intelligence assessment on the threat posed by domestic right-wing violent extremists,” CAIR said in a statement.
“It is the government’s responsibility to address all forms of violent extremism — regardless of ideology — and in proportion to the criminal threat posed by those groups.”
“We now call on the DHS and FBI to release an intelligence assessment addressing the spike in hate crimes targeting Muslim, Arab, Middle Eastern, Sikh, Hindu, and South Asian communities throughout the United States,” CAIR continued.
The report comes on the heels of the White House summit on “violent extremism” last week.
The DHS, DOJ, and FBI are lying about some murky movement, but what they're truly after is the grass roots internet truth that continues to rise.
Internet Neutrality is just another Trojan horse used by this central socialist government to shut us up!
No DHS, you are attempting to distract from the real problem, Muslim Brohood.
defund the dhs
Why can the DHS name the American “right wing’
citizens who support the US Constitution as their ENEMY,
while the DHS cannot name Islamic TERRORISM
that has murdered thousands and thousands
and thousands of Americans since America’s founding?
Sovereign citizens are more anarchist than right wing.
Still it doesn’t make them terrorists.
The DHS has got to go. It’s the most anti-American group on the planet. It should not be able to feed off of taxpayer dollars.
Dear government ‘yackovs’,
I have been a Constitutionally defined ‘sovereign citizen’, from the day i was born, over 60 years ago.
that is older than that queer-in-charge, his lackey clown who is ruining DOJ, and all of those who have most likely started their good paying government jobs at the Department of non-Homeland non-security.
The whole darn Jimmy Carter-started peanut farm called the u.S. government has become one huge machine of lies, fraud, waste, and abuse, with removal of Constitutional rights, the target goal.
Good point
Very inward looking the DHS assessment. From what I know about “sovereign citizens”, they aren’t likely to commit violence except against law enforcement officers whose actions violate their claim of sovereignty. On the other hand Islamic extremists aren’t likely to target law enforcement officers, but rather unarmed citizens like mall-goers, school children and the like.
Terrorists deliberately target non-combatants for torture and murder.
Real warriors do not.
In fact, during the War for Independence, the British acted more like terrorists than soldiers. The American patriots, on the other hand, saved their ammunition for the real enemy.
I can understand your line of thought on this but I don’t think it is ‘anarchist’ as much as it is a fervent desire to see the US Constitution observed and not ignored.
What we have here is a high official of the DHS ideologically indicting millions of Americans of thought-crimes against the government and using a few contrived instances as its proof. Haven’t looked into them all, but I’d question their reference/citation as a DHS problem in any capacity. That’s the state and local authorities’ problems, IMO.
Lastly, to cite CAIR’s rosy endorsement is the jewel in the devil’s crown. It says all I need to know about DHS.
I wonder what a “routine law enforcement encounter at the suspect’s home” means? Unannounced SWAT teams busting in, shooting dogs and scaring kids because they sell raw milk or maybe they just got the wrong address? That’s routine?
[Video]......Retired 4-Star U.S. Navy Admiral James Lyons, speaking at the National Press Club in January, says that under Obama’s guidance, the Obama Regime has been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood terrorism front group, saying that the radical anti-freedom organization has penetrated every U.S. security agency.
Admiral Lyons said that “the transformation of America has been in full swing ever since 2008,” the year Obama was elected based upon his campaign promise to “fundamentally transform America.”
Speaking about Obama’s refusal to attend the recent march in France, reportedly attended by more than 50 world leaders to condemn Islamic terrorism following the gruesome murders of cartoonists who had the audacity to lampoon Islam, Admiral Lyons said that act was a “signal to Islamic Jihadis,” and is “one of many signals he sent over the years while in office.”
“There’s no question we got a hell of a job ahead of us,” Admiral Lyons said. “With the Muslim Brotherhood penetration in every one of our national security agencies, including all our intelligence agencies,” he proclaimed. (Excerpt) Read more at joemiller.us ...
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The book, Blacklisted by History, is an excellent study of this topic. Very scary (hat tip to Milagro).
Just last night I sat on my back porch and watched the neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Stolfus, chop off the heads of the Mailman, Crossing Guard and the oil delivery man. ‘Bout time DHS got with it. /S
Something bad is coming. Stay tuned.
You mean like illegal aliens?
Is Obama on that list?
Nonetheless---Mohamed Elibiary had allegedly illegally accessed from his home computer, a Texas State and Local Intelligence Community database.....(Elibiary is now out of a job--ousted for other shady activities).
Napolitano managed to unglue her lips from Obama's behind---and told Cong Gohmert she "knew nothing" about it, and that she would "personally" do the investigation. (waiting for hysterical laughter to die down)
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Jeh Johnson's allover the tube---reassuring Americans about terrorists---NEVER mentioning he and Obama are welcoming them into the US.
DHS' JEH JOHNSON AND SECY OF STATE JOHN KERRY SIGN OFF ON OBAMA'S ORDER
to welcome into the US, immigrants with 'limited' terror contact
The Daily Caller | 2/5/14 / FR Posted by Nachum
The Obama administration has issued new exemptions to a law that bars certain asylum-seekers and refugees who provided “limited material support” to terrorists who are believed to pose no threat from the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security and the State Department published the new exemptions Wednesday in the Federal Register to narrow a ban in the Immigration and Nationality Act excluding refugees and asylum seekers who had provided limited material support, no matter how minor, to terrorists.
“These exemptions cover five kinds of limited material support that have adversely and unfairly affected refugees and asylum seekers with no tangible connection to terrorism: material support that was insignificant in amount or provided incidentally in the course of everyday social, commercial, family or humanitarian interactions, or under significant pressure,” a DHS official explained to The Daily Caller.
Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry signed the exemptions. DHS contends that the law change is “commonsense” and that immigration procedures will remain the same in other respects. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
Yet most weekends in Chicago the feral urban predator class shoot more people than this.
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