U.S. revives group to fight homegrown extremists: officials

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is re-establishing a law enforcement group to fight those it designates as domestic terrorists, with an announcement expected on Tuesday, Department of Justice officials said.

Following hate-motivated shootings such as the one at a Jewish Community Center in Kansas City, Missouri in April, federal prosecutors have pressed the need to coordinate intelligence of such criminals on a national level, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The group will coordinate cases that involve Americans who may be spurred to violence for political or prejudicial reasons.

Letter to Congress

Within forty eight hours of releasing five jihadists from Guantanamo Bay without notifying Congress, as President’s are required to do by law, it was reported by Reuters that Barack Obama’s DOJ announced the resuscitation of the Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee.

The DTEC is focused on homegrown terrorism but is lacking, if the article is accurate,in specific parameters.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/03/us-usa-security-homegrown-idUSKBN0EE1R420140603

That a department headed up by Eric Holder, who Congress holds in contempt for refusing to turn over documents related to Fast and Furious, can claim a legitimate standing in determining who can and cannot be targeted, is both mind boggling and alarming.

Mr. Holder’s past refusal to support a Civil Rights Commission investigation regarding voter intimidation in Philadelphia is further cause for alarm.

Mr. Holder testified the intimidation by New Black Panther members outside a voting location in Philadelphia did not match the intimidation his people were subject to in the Sixties, therefore it did not warrant DOJ action.

I was under the impression, having lived through the tumultuous Sixties, that the political fight black Americans took on back then was for the ultimate benefit of all Americans and in the end improved our Nation.

That Mr. Holder, Attorney General of the United States, does not hold that same conviction is cause for further alarm and yet he is the guiding force to determine who is and who is not a domestic terrorist?

A few years ago the Department of Homeland Security announced that pro-lifers, Tea Party members and returning veterans were on a terrorist watch list. In other words, Americans who hold traditional values were considered possible terrorists. Is this renewed effort targeting the same people?

Remember, I lived through the Sixties. I still can recall the news stories of banks being blown up and police officers being murdered by real terrorists.

I still remember terrorists named Bill Ayres and Bernardine Dohrne, the Students for Democratic Action and the Weather Underground bombing the Pentagon. They were not people with Conservative views. They were/are leftists and leftist organizations.

It is leftists and leftist organizations that were responsible for murder and mayhem back then and they just didn’t go away.

They now obviously influence government policy and are positioned to wreak even greater mayhem than they did fifty years ago. How much depends on Congressional action.

Are they now ready to use the forces of what is beginning to look like a rogue government against Conservative Americans? Who would be next?

You might consider the term rogue government strong and threatening language; if you do, read the Declaration of Independence. You will find the similarities in the “Long Train of Abuses and Usurpations” listed within and the actions, past and present, of the Obama Executive branch quite striking.

I urge you to take action to rein in this dangerous behavior being promoted by the White House.

I urge you to join in any effort to hold all in the Executive Branch found to be involved in any abuse of power accountable for their actions.

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