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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 08:01 AM
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Cuz ya see.... democratic nations don't create terrorism, now watch
Edited on Sun Aug-07-05 08:09 AM by 4MoronicYears
this......


http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/050815/15hate.htm

Fighting Fire On the Right
The feds are keeping an eye on homegrown extremists
By Danielle Knight

When FBI agents raided the home and storage facilities of William Krar in Noonday, a small town in East Texas, two years ago, they stumbled upon a small arsenal. There were about 2 pounds of deadly sodium cyanide, 65 pipe bombs and several remote-control briefcase bombs. They also recovered more than 500,000 rounds of ammunition and a collection of white supremacist books. If mixed with some of the other chemicals Krar had, the cyanide compound could have created enough poison gas to kill everyone inside a large office building.


In the decade since the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City's Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, local police and federal agents have foiled roughly 60 right-wing extremist terrorist plots, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project. While homeland security and intelligence officials understandably focus today on terrorism threats from abroad, hate-group experts say the danger from homegrown extremists like Krar, now in federal prison, shouldn't be ignored. "The fact that the only chemical weapon incident in the United States involved a domestic extremist suggests that domestic terrorism is still a serious threat," says Mark Pitcavage, director of fact finding at the Anti-Defamation League. The Southern Poverty Law Center's estimates that 762 extremist right-wing hate groups were active in the United States last year, up slightly from the 751 groups tallied the year before.


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wli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-07-05 01:16 PM
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1. remind me why they're spying on the ACLU again?
The right wing hate groups are the ones doing this garbage, the lefties are peaceniks.
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