Vanilla ISIS: FBI considers white supremacist groups as much of a threat as Isis

Amused

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Things are going to come to a head in this country. We will either go the way of pre-war Germany, or stomp this repugnant ideology back into the ground.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...5Xr9hxGL6C-L-pX6a5xf1pci1jbU-uDwLrrkKMOA6fejo


The threat of white supremacist violence in the US is as at least as dangerous as that posed by Islamist groups such as Isis, the head of the FBI has revealed.

Chris Wray, the recently confirmed new director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), said there were currently 1,000 ongoing investigations into domestic terror groups and a similar number of probes into groups driven by radical Islamist ideology.

“We take both of them very, very seriously,” he told senators on Capitol Hill. “Our focus is on violence and threats of violence against the people of this country. That’s our concern - it’s not ideology.”
 
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Jaskalas

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But are you going to conflate those groups with regular Republicans?

Cause if you don't do that... and don't view it as being driven on partisan lines... then what groups are there - really? How many, what number of people? What recent activities should I be aware of?

This threat, if limited to actual Nazi and Supremacist groups... is not something I'd consider myself familiar with. I know they exist, I know they can rally 300 some odd people under the guise of the South. Doesn't seem like all that much. So when you make a bunch of... noise about them, I pause to consider what information I should know about it.
 

Jhhnn

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It's a witch hunt! The FBI is persecuting Trump's very fine people for no reason at all!
 

Greenman

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Just imagine what's going to happen when a group if Nazi Muslim Rednecks turns up. We might have to nuke them from orbit.