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DHS declares ‘right-wing sovereign citizens’ top U.S. terror threat
Personal Liberty ^ | 2/24/2015 | Sam Rolley

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; conservatives; dhs; muslimbrotherhood; muslims
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To: Safetgiver

It’s about time to see what this DHS have morphed into. We’ve seen quite enough of the groping of passengers in the airport screening lines while leering muslims slip on through.


21 posted on 02/25/2015 5:14:41 AM PST by HomerBohn (God is just, but his justice cannot sleep forever!)
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22 posted on 02/25/2015 5:15:46 AM PST by Liz
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To: HomerBohn

I’m sure the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison thinks Gov. Scott Walker is a major threat to her, too. He makes less than $200,000 as governor of the state, while she makes almost $500,000 to head the university. So his plan to cut back the state subsidy for her outrageous salary certainly is a threat to her place at the taxpayer-funded trough.


23 posted on 02/25/2015 5:17:08 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: HomerBohn

WOW! 24 Instances in a country of 315 million. My calculator does not compute in percentages that small.


24 posted on 02/25/2015 5:18:49 AM PST by certrtwngnut (The middle east is where the enemy of my enemy is my enemy!)
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25 posted on 02/25/2015 5:21:08 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: HomerBohn; GeronL

DHS are questioning right-wingers’ “patriotism”.

FU BOBO
FU Dana Millbrook


26 posted on 02/25/2015 5:22:40 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: txrefugee

I’m becoming more convinced, in spite of what is regurgitated from the MSM, that Scott Walker may indeed be the real deal come next year.

That is, unless Americans with low attention spans decide that what we need is Act III of the Bush saga.


27 posted on 02/25/2015 5:24:45 AM PST by HomerBohn (God is just, but his justice cannot sleep forever!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

DHS will never go away.

Part of their area of concern is protection of Hollywood’s copyrights and the NFL’s trademarks.

this nation is Eff’ed.


28 posted on 02/25/2015 5:26:53 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Shickl-Gruber's Big Lie gave us Hussein's Un-Affordable Care act (HUAC).)
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To: HomerBohn

29 posted on 02/25/2015 5:28:34 AM PST by McGruff (We are leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq - Barack Obama 2011)
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To: cripplecreek

If you don’t understand what a sovereign citizen is, don’t talk about it.


30 posted on 02/25/2015 5:34:16 AM PST by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The very name “Department of Homeland Security” sounds like something from Nazi Germany, Communist USSR or China.........

And, as in those nations, will actually be used solely to suppress the freedoms of citizen’s and to arrest them with false charges.......


31 posted on 02/25/2015 5:37:03 AM PST by Arlis (A "Sacred Cow-Tipping" Christian)
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To: Arlis

I agree. As an American, even the name Department of HOMELAND Security gives me the creeps.


32 posted on 02/25/2015 5:39:27 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Bush "hates black people" but don't you dare accuse Barry of not liking Americans!)
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To: HomerBohn
“right-wing sovereign citizen extremists”

Are those DHS codewords for conservative constitutionalists? Or anybody else who believes in the rule of law and due process, as set forth in those founding documents?
33 posted on 02/25/2015 5:40:10 AM PST by indthkr
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To: HomerBohn

“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.” “

Sounds like illegals and Obummer to me.


34 posted on 02/25/2015 5:58:50 AM PST by Seattle Conservative (God Bless and protect our troops)
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To: Rusty0604

“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?”

Law enforcement really dislikes persons who would shoot back.


35 posted on 02/25/2015 6:04:36 AM PST by saleman (?)
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To: HomerBohn
"I’m becoming more convinced, in spite of what is regurgitated from the MSM, that Scott Walker may indeed be the real deal come next year. That is, unless Americans with low attention spans decide that what we need is Act III of the Bush saga."

I hope that you are spot on. We don't want or need Act III.

36 posted on 02/25/2015 6:07:02 AM PST by rhubarbk (Cruz/Walker & Walker/Cruz . . . 16 years, 16 years, 16 years!)
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To: The_Reader_David

I wonder if the DHS report acknowledges that huge difference.


37 posted on 02/25/2015 6:18:07 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Gaffer
I don’t think it is ‘anarchist’ as much as it is a fervent desire to see the US Constitution observed and not ignored.

That may be true of some, but its certainly not true of all. We have a few locally who are out to lunch. Lately they've been complaining that our pseudo theological government won't allow mail delivery on Sunday. A few years back they had a big fight with the township over the fact that one home couldn't have multiple addresses when they had multiple access drives to it. That argument ended when he had a modular home put on a part of his property in the next county and he became their problem. Last I heard he had a list of reasons why that county and township had no authority over him with one of those reasons being the size of the flag in the township hall.
38 posted on 02/25/2015 6:18:50 AM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: cripplecreek

How did the size of the flag factor in?


39 posted on 02/25/2015 6:20:56 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Yardstick

By the DHS saying does not make it so. The headline is misleading.


40 posted on 02/25/2015 6:21:36 AM PST by DaveA37
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