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All U.S. extremist mass killings in 2022 linked to far right, report says

• Ivana Saric

Right-wing extremists committed every ideologically driven mass killing identified in the U.S. in 2022, with an "unusually high" proportion perpetrated by white supremacists, according to a new report published Thursday.

Driving the news: The high number of killings linked to white supremacists was "primarily due to mass shootings," the report released by the Anti-Defamation League found.

• Although there was a decrease in extremist killings in 2022 from 2021, the number was comparable to the number of extremist killings in 2020.
• The report noted that 60% of the deaths stemming from extremist mass killings in 2022 came from two incidents: the racist mass shooting in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York and a mass shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs.

Zoom out: The number of mass killings linked to extremism in the U.S. in the past decade was at least three times higher than any decade since the 1970s, per the report.

• Between 2011 and 2020, there were 21 mass killing incidents in the U.S., compared to only five from 2001 to 2010.
• From 1991 to 2000, there were seven mass killing incidents in the U.S., and only two from 1981 to 1990, and six between 1971 to 1980.
• "The 26 mass killing incidents over the past 12 years actually exceed those from the previous 40 years (20)," the report stated.

State of play: The number of deaths associated with mass killing incidents has also risen.

• Between 2010 and 2020, 164 people died in ideological extremist-related mass killing incidents, more than in any other decade other than the 1990s — in which nearly all the deaths were associated with one event, the Oklahoma City bombing.
• "It is not an exaggeration to say that we live in an age of extremist mass killings," the report said.

https://www.axios.com/2023/02/23/mass-killings-extremism-adl-report-2022







DHS draft document: White supremacists are greatest terror threat
The documents are slightly different drafts of the same annual threat assessment, which is not yet published.


None of the DHS drafts POLITICO reviewed referred to a threat from Antifa, the loose cohort of militant left-leaning agitators who senior Trump administration officials have described as domestic terrorists. | Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo

By Betsy Woodruff Swan

09/04/2020 05:45 PM EDT

White supremacists present the gravest terror threat to the United States, according to a draft report from the Department of Homeland Security.

Two later draft versions of the same document — all of which were reviewed by POLITICO — describe the threat from white supremacists in slightly different language. But all three drafts describe the threat from white supremacists as the deadliest domestic terror threat facing the U.S., listed above the immediate danger from foreign terrorist groups.


“Foreign terrorist organizations will continue to call for Homeland attacks but probably will remain constrained in their ability to direct such plots over the next year,” all three documents say.



Russia “probably will be the primary covert foreign influence actor and purveyor of disinformation and misinformation in the Homeland,” the documents also say.

Former acting DHS Sec. Kevin McAleenan last year directed the department to start producing annual homeland threat assessments. POLITICO reviewed three drafts of this year’s report — titled DHS’s State of the Homeland Threat Assessment 2020 — all of which were produced in August. Ben Wittes, the editor in chief of the national security site Lawfare, obtained the documents and shared them with POLITICO. The first such assessment has not been released publicly, and a DHS spokesperson declined to comment on “allegedly leaked documents,” and on when the document will be made public.

None of the drafts POLITICO reviewed referred to a threat from Antifa, the loose cohort of militant left-leaning agitators who senior Trump administration officials have described as domestic terrorists. Two of the drafts refer to extremists trying to exploit the “social grievances” driving lawful protests.


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The cut-off date for information analyzed in the earliest draft is August 3, 2020, while the cut-off date for the next two is August 27.

John Cohen, who oversaw DHS’s counterterrorism portfolio from 2011 to 2014, said the drafts’ conclusion isn’t surprising.

“This draft document seems to be consistent with earlier intelligence reports from DHS, the FBI, and other law enforcement sources: that the most significant terror-related threat facing the US today comes from violent extremists who are motivated by white supremacy and other far-right ideological causes,” he said.




Wittes, meanwhile, said the change in language on white supremacist terrorism is significant.

“It diminishes the prominence of white supremacy relative to other domestic violent extremism, and, without being inaccurate, puts it in a basket along with other violent activity that may be more palatable for the administration to acknowledge,” he said.

The threat from white supremacists
The earliest draft has the strongest language on the threat from white supremacists, in an introductory section labeled “Key Takeaways.”

“Lone offenders and small cells of individuals motivated by a diverse array of social, ideological, and personal factors will pose the primary terrorist threat to the United States,” the draft reads. “Among these groups, we assess that white supremacist extremists – who increasingly are networking with likeminded persons abroad – will pose the most persistent and lethal threat.”

The “Key Takeaways” section of the next two drafts calls “Domestic Violent Extremists” the “most persistent and lethal threat,” rather than specifically naming white supremacists.

The document discusses white supremacists in greater detail when introducing the section titled “The Terrorist Threat to the Homeland.” Once again, language in the earliest draft is slightly stronger than the language in the subsequent drafts. The earliest draft introduces the threat from terrorism this way:




By Natasha Bertrand and Nahal Toosi and Daniel Lippman | March 09, 2020 03:21 PM

“We judge that ideologically-motivated lone offenders and small groups will pose the greatest terrorist threat to the Homeland through 2021, with white supremacist extremists presenting the most lethal threat,” it reads.

The next two drafts refer to “Domestic Violent Extremists” –– rather than “white supremacist extremists” –– as “the most persistent and lethal threat.” All three drafts contain the following sentence further down in the same section: “Among DVEs [Domestic Violent Extremists], we judge that white supremacist extremists (WSEs) will remain the most persistent and lethal threat in the Homeland through 2021.”

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The second two drafts, meanwhile, allude to violent agitators who have been present at nationwide protests against racism and police brutality.

“Violent extremists almost certainly will continue their efforts to exploit public fears associated with COVID-19 and social grievances driving lawful protests to incite violence, intimidate targets, and promote their violent extremist ideologies,” the second and third drafts reviewed by POLITICO say. “Simple tactics – such as vehicle ramming, small arms, edged weapons, arson, and rudimentary improvised explosive devices – probably will be most common.”

All three documents note that 2019 was the most deadly year for domestic violent extremists since the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995.

“Among DVE [domestic violent extremist] actors, WSEs [white supremacist extremists] conducted half of all lethal attacks (8 of 16), resulting in the majority of deaths (39 of 48),” the drafts read.

The assessment comes as DHS has faced scrutiny for its response to increasingly violent domestic extremism during the Trump era. Top DHS officials have spent years grappling with how to do more to combat the threat, and long chafed at what they called disinterest from the White House. Two former top DHS political appointees told POLITICO last month that White House national security officials shied away from addressing the problem and didn’t want to refer to killings by right-wing extremists as domestic terrorism.

But two former DHS chiefs both tried to make the burgeoning threat a priority for the department. As DHS secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen pushed then-national security adviser John Bolton to make domestic terrorism a focus of the administration’s counterterrorism strategy. And then-acting Sec. Kevin McAleenan also worked to highlight the threat, lobbying Congress to spend more on efforts to prevent radicalization.

Current DHS leaders also have acknowledged the lethality of white supremacist extremists.




https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/04/white-supremacists-terror-threat-dhs-409236

 

‘People Are Going To Die!’ Ex-Trump Official Warns CNN Risk of Assassination ‘Off the Charts’ Amid Trump Threats
By Tommy ChristopherAug 20th, 2023, 9:23 am



Trump-era Department Of Homeland Security Chief Of Staff Miles Taylor warned CNN’s Jim Acosta that “the threat of political assassination in this country is off the charts,” citing a string of incidents involving ex-President Donald Trump and his followers.

Taylor — who famously outed himself as the author of scathing anti-Trump dissent under the name “Anonymous” and has written a book called “Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump” — on Saturday’s edition of CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta, during which they discussed the threat environment surrounding Trump.

Acosta asked Taylor about the most recent threats and intimidation from Trump and his followers, and asked him how he thinks it will all “play out” — and Taylor told him “the light is blinking red”:

ACOSTA: The FBI is investigating online threats against grand jurors who voted this week to indict former President Donald Trump in Fulton County, Georgia.

Some jurors have had their addresses, phone numbers, and social media accounts shared on the Internet after their names were made public in the 98-page indictment.

Joining us now to talk about this and other aspects of the Trump case is Miles Taylor. He’s the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security during the Trump administration, the author of the new book, “Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump.”

And I suppose there’s the current Trump as well to talk about.

You know, he’s made these inflammatory comments about the judge, about the special counsel, and so on in these cases. You worked in his administration. How do you think this is going to

play out? I’ve talked to — I was talking with John Dean about this last night.

It’s going to be difficult to constrain him. And it seems as though he thinks he can just cross the line and nothing’s going to happen —

(CROSSTALK)

ACOSTA: — based on past experience.

MILES TAYLOR: Genuinely, Jim, I’ve been living inside of this data about political threats and political intimidation. and I worry, legitimately, that people are going to die.

And we are seeing the threat of political assassination in this country is off the charts.

And the experts I talked to compare it to only one thing, the 1960s. And we, of course, saw political violence. We saw political assassination in the 1960s. God forbid that happens, but the data supports that there’s that danger.

Look, we just saw the president of the United States threatened with an assassination plot. We saw on January 6th the vice president of the United States threatened with death. We saw Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the House, her home broken into.

That’s the presidential line of succession, not to mention the senior members of Congress, the Supreme Court justices, who have been threatened with death.

The governor of Michigan, who had an assassination plot, and this array of state and local election officials. So I do worry about it.

And we saw, after his home was raided a year ago, a man went to the FBI field office in Ohio and shot it up.

The judge here in D.C., after he was charged, has been threatened with assassination.

And of course. now the jurors in Georgia in the case after he was indicted have been doxed and threatened. I do worry we are seeing the light blinking red.


https://www.mediaite.com/news/peopl...assination-off-the-charts-amid-trump-threats/

 

California store owner, mother of 9, fatally shot over a Pride flag displayed in her shop
The suspect made "several disparaging remarks" about the rainbow flag before shooting the owner, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department said.
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A business owner was fatally shot Friday after someone allegedly took issue with a Pride flag she had displayed at her clothing store in Lake Arrowhead, California.

Deputies responded at 5 p.m. to the shooting at the Mag Pi clothing store, where owner Laura Ann Carleton was pronounced dead, the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department said in a news release. The suspect, who was not identified, ran away.


“Through further investigation, detectives learned the suspect made several disparaging remarks about a rainbow flag that stood outside the store before shooting Carleton,” the news release said.



The suspect was armed when confronted by deputies and was killed in "a lethal force encounter," the sheriff’s department said. An investigation continues.

The Mag Pi store website described Carleton as a mother of nine who has been "married to the same man for 28 years." Carleton, who went by the name Lauri, had studied at the Art Center School of Design and had had a long career in fashion, including 15 years as an executive at Kenneth Cole, the site said.

Mountain Provisions Cooperative, a local grocery store, said Saturday on social media that Carleton had been pivotal in helping organize a free store after a blizzard hit the area this year.

"Lauri was a pillar in our community, an immovable force in her values for equality, love, and justice," the post said. "If you knew Lauri you know she loved hard, laughed often, and nurtured and protected those she cared about."

The store encouraged people to "fly your flags in honor of Lauri."

Lake Arrowhead LGBTQ+ said on Instagram that Carleton did not identify as a member of the queer community but was an advocate “for everyone in the community.”

“Lauri’s unwavering support for the LBGTQ+ community and her dedication to creating a safe space within her shop touched the lives of many,” the organization wrote in an Instagram Story. “Her untimely passing in a senseless act of violence has left us all deeply saddened.”

Comments on the organization’s social media account offered condolences to Carleton’s family and paid tribute to her contributions around the Lake Arrowhead community. Some said the Pride flag at Mag Pi helped make them feel welcome and safe in the area.


“Bridesmaids” film director Paul Feig was among those in the comment section; he said Carleton would be “sorely missed.”

“Lauri was such a wonderful person, so full of life and love,” Feig wrote. “She always made us laugh and always laughed with us. Her commitment to the community in general and the LGBTQ community specifically was just one of her many wonderful qualities.”



https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out...hot-killed-pride-flag-displayed-sh-rcna100849

 

Sheriff’s Department Lets Armed Boogaloos Waltz Onto School Grounds
Justin Rohrlich
Mon, August 21, 2023 at 3:35 PM MDT·6 min read
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Gloucester, Virginia utility worker Patrick Millen describes himself as “pro-Second Amendment all the way, every day.” The 56-year-old lifelong resident considers himself a responsible gun owner, and doesn’t think his constitutional right to bear arms should be infringed upon in any way.

At the same time, Millen told The Daily Beast on Monday, “Everybody knows you ain’t supposed to have guns on school property.”

On Saturday evening, a small group of men in camouflage showed up at the Thomas Calhoun Walker Education Center, toting military-style rifles. Their leader, Mike Dunn, has long been affiliated with the Boogaloo Bois, a loosely organized anti-government extremist group aiming to foment a second Civil War. He told local reporters that he and his armed crew were there to publicly decry the felony charges laid against four associates who showed up to a Gloucester School Board meeting at the same location on July 11, carrying concealed handguns.

“We will protest on August 19th and try to force them to perform arrests,” Dunn announced on social media.


The crew of about five showed up to demonstrate “with weapons on school premises, contravening established regulations,” according to a Monday statement from the Gloucester School Board. The event “occurred without proper authorization,” and in addition to bringing deadly weapons along with them, the organizers did not “follow the protocols for conducting events on school grounds.”

By his own account, Dunn was practically taunting law enforcement to put him and the others in handcuffs.

“I’ll probably face a felony charge after this,” he told a reporter at the scene.


But, while police immediately arrested those who carried pistols into the school board meeting last month, law enforcement wasn’t on hand at all during Saturday’s protest. Instead, sheriff’s deputies “monitored the event remotely to ensure the safety of all individuals present,” according to the school board’s statement.

Millen, for one, thinks the demonstrators should have been held accountable, and wonders why nothing happened. Aside from a modest clutch of apparent counter-protesters who shouted slogans such as, “Everybody likes our Second Amendment, but get off of our school property with it,” Dunn and his armed associates were left entirely unchallenged.

“I do believe there should have been charges pressed on them,” he told The Daily Beast. “... You can’t go into post offices, or any federal reservation, or onto a government installation with them, so why would you go on school property with them?... I don't care a whole lot for the way they go about doing things. It makes people who are pro-Second Amendment look like kooks.”

The morning of the protest, the Gloucester County Sheriff’s Office said it was aware that “attendees will be open carrying firearms during this event as supported by the 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution,” and that they were taking “the necessary measures to help ensure that these individuals are able to express their rights peacefully.” After it concluded, the sheriff’s office announced that there had been “no incidents to report,” and that it would “have no further comment” about the event.

Sheriff Darrell Warren and his top brass, along with Gloucester County’s public affairs officer, did not respond to a request for comment on Monday about why no officers were assigned to the protest and why no arrests had been made.

Dean Vines, a social worker in Gloucester County, said on Monday that he would like to believe charges are in the works.

“I hope arrests are coming,” Vines told The Daily Beast. “I hope the sheriff was just depriving them of attention and avoiding escalating the situation, with follow-up warrants to come. That would be prudent.”

Vines, 71, called the Boogaloo Bois “clowns” who have been co-opted as “unwitting distractions for the real perpetrators,” namely, right-wing dark money groups trying to undermine public education nationwide.

“I hope good people everywhere wake up and speak out against threats to local officials,” Vines said. “They are citizens serving for the good of fellow citizens… The media and others including local officials treat it as if it occurs in a vacuum. It is systematic targeting. The poor folks buying into it will one day wake up to no public education for their children and grandchildren.”


Boogaloo Bois have adopted the Hawaiian shirt as a uniform of sorts, as they await a second Civil War.

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Reached by phone on Monday, Gloucester school board member Darren Post, whose policy goals have been described as “transphobic,” said he hadn’t “fully digested” the matter, and declined to comment. After the concealed weapons arrests in July, Post issued a public statement saying he was “deeply committed to the safety, well-being, and the education of our children.” He went on to “clarify the relationship” between himself and one of the four men arrested at the board meeting, arguing that the two “simply share membership in a regional grassroots’ conservative political organization,” which he did not name.

“Our interactions have been limited to a handful of occasions, mostly at group meetings which are open to the public,” Post’s July 14 statement said.

The earlier stunt involved a Post supporter and four others who attended the July 11 board meeting, one of whom got up to speak and claimed his tires had been slashed outside a previous confab. He told the board that he suspected one of three members was the culprit, warning, “Make things right while you have the opportunity to do so, before things get worse, instead of engaging in further violence.” However, when police checked security footage from the parking lot outside, they said they saw “no evidence” of any tampering. Four of the five were arrested on concealed weapons charges.

Millen told The Daily Beast he is especially upset that the instigators came into the community from elsewhere, “trying to stir up trouble where there ain’t none.” As one witness told a local reporter at the time, “You could see [the gun] poking through the top of his pants. A person in the audience noticed and immediately notified deputies. It was 100 percent an act of intimidation.”

The Gloucester School Board, in its Monday statement, said the incident over the weekend “serves as a reminder of the importance of adhering to laws and regulations that are in place to maintain the safety and security of the educational environment in Gloucester County Public Schools.” School officials are “working closely with law enforcement and the Commonwealth Attorney’s office to investigate the incident and determine appropriate actions to prevent similar incidents,” it said.

Only one member of the Gloucester School Board, Randy Burak, responded to a request for comment, but declined to share his thoughts on Saturday’s incident. Board Superintendent Anthony Vladu, did not reply to a message seeking comment

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sheriff-department-lets-armed-boogaloos-213508134.html

 

BACK THE BLUE!!!! Unless you arrest Trump then if you do we will kill you and your family.



‘A Dark Reality’: CNN Reports On Death Threats Received By Fulton County Sheriff’s Employees, Families
By Jennifer Bowers BahneyAug 22nd, 2023, 2:52 pm

CNN’s Nick Valencia called death threats received by Fulton County Sheriff’s employees and their families “a dark reality” as they prepared for Donald Trump and 18 co-conspirators to turn themselves in on election tampering charges.

“There are growing security concerns right now in Atlanta ahead of former president Trump’s expected surrender on Thursday at the Fulton County jail,” said Anchor Breanna Keilar. “A source telling CNN that the sheriff’s office staff are actually being threatened there.”

“Yeah, these threats are becoming a dark reality for those who dare to try to hold the former president accountable,” Valencia said, continuing:


A law enforcement source with knowledge of this situation tells me that these threats are coming directly to the leadership at Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, and they include death threats, as well as threats to the personal homes of these leaders here at the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office.

So, in addition to the sheriff here, Pat Labat, in addition to him dealing with the logistical nightmare that comes with the defendants, 19 of them turning themselves in to this jail here, he’s also now having to deal with the safety of his deputies. We understand that these threats are under investigation, as are the threats made to the Fulton County grand jurors that we reported last week. And authorities are telling us that they’re being very close to the vest when it comes to releasing information officially about these threats because they don’t want to jeopardize any potential leads.

On Tuesday, former pro-Trump attorney John Eastman and Georgia poll worker Scott Hall turned themselves into the jail and received no “preferential treatment,” according to CNN. Trump has said he will turn himself in on Thursday when he is expected to be fingerprinted and photographed for a mug shot that the sheriff said he will release to the media.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/a-dark-...by-fulton-county-sheriffs-employees-families/

 

Anti-government activist dead after armed standoff with cops serving eviction notice

Matthew Chapman
August 23, 2023, 8:42 PM ET



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An active shooter situation in Pittsburgh that morphed into an hours-long standoff with police that saw hundreds of shots fired has ended with a "sovereign citizen" activist dead, reported The Daily Beast on Wednesday.

"He was identified as 63-year-old William Hardison Sr., with WPXI-TV reporting that he identified as a sovereign citizen — a loosely-affiliated group of anti-government activists who believe they are exempt from the law," reported Erik Uebelecker. "His cause of death was not immediately released."

According to the report, however, the whole incident began with police trying to serve an eviction notice.

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The "sovereign citizen" movement comes in several flavors, but its adherents generally believe that the United States is a fictitious entity with no real legal power, and that through a variety of self-taught legal maneuvers, they can unlock a broad set of rights that make them exempt from most laws. The movement has been around for decades, but has recently gained new prominence as its adherents join with QAnon, the Nazi-adjacent cult that believes America is controlled by Satanic pedophiles who consume children's flesh and blood to live forever.

This incident is not unique, as sovereign citizens have been implicated in violence before; one sovereign citizen in Connecticut is facing trial for beheading his landlord with a Samurai sword. Many others were arrested for storming the Capitol on January 6, and their efforts to use their self-constructed legal theories to escape charges have broadly backfired.

Every now and then, some ideas from the movement seep into mainstream politics. Earlier this year, Colorado GOP state Rep. Kevin DeGraaf faced backlash and was forced to walk back an interview on a conservative podcast in which he espoused sovereign citizen doctrine.



https://www.rawstory.com/sovereign-citizen-2664322285/

 

Bring it you mentally ill lying phony traitor. Fuck around and find out. We are sick and tired of you bunch of treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans treating the United States of America.



Donald Trump Spent the Republican Debate Musing About Civil War
Tori Otten
Thu, August 24, 2023 at 9:41 AM MDT·1 min read
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Rather than debate his fellow Republican presidential candidates, Donald Trump appeared to condone civil war during an interview with Tucker Carlson.

Trump did not attend the first Republican presidential debate on Wednesday night. Instead, he released a pre-taped interview with Carlson designed to steal the spotlight from the other candidates (and Fox News). At one point, Carlson asked Trump if he believed the U.S. is headed for “civil war.”

“There’s tremendous passion, and there’s tremendous love,” Trump said, before launching into praise for the people who rioted on January 6. He also lied that he had told the mob to go “peacefully and patriotically.”

“People in that crowd said it was the most beautiful day they’ve ever experienced. There was love in that crowd, there was love and unity. I have never seen such spirit, and such passion, and such love. And I’ve also never seen simultaneously and from the same people such hatred of what they’ve done to our country.”


Trump has now tacitly condoned civil war by portraying his supporters’ feelings as “passion” instead of “sedition.” This isn’t the first time that Trump appears to have encouraged violence among his followers. He notoriously told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by” during the September 2020 presidential debate. And many of the people who participated in the January 6 insurrection said they did so because Trump had issued a call to arms.

Trump spent the rest of the interview attacking his Republican opponents, whining about all of the indictments against him, and warning people about the dangers of mosquitos.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-spent-republican-debate-154122844.html

 

Bomb threat at Fulton County Courthouse after Trump arrest: report

Gideon Rubin
August 24, 2023, 8:34 PM ET



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Authorities on Thursday are responding to the Fulton County Courthouse in Georgia on the report of a bomb threat, MSNBC’s Kyle Griffin reports.

The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office told NBC News that K-9 units and officers are en route to the courthouse.



The threat comes after former President Donald Trump surrendered to authorities in the Georgia election conspiracy case.

This story is developing.



https://www.rawstory.com/trump-georgia-bomb/

 

Go for it thee tough talker. Fuck around and find out. The rest of us true Americans are fucking sic and tired of you treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans threatening us. The laws of this do apply to Trump and you. And if you don't believe that stop talking tough and make your move.



Sarah Palin Warns of Civil War After Trump Arrest: ‘We Do Need to Rise Up’ (Video)
Tina Daunt
Thu, August 24, 2023 at 8:08 PM MDT·2 min read
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Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin alluded to potential civil war Thursday, lashing out at not just Democrats going after prosecuting Donald Trump but also to the “bunch of frickin’ RINOs” running the Republican Party for not defending Trump enough.

“We do need to rise up and take our country back,” Palin told Newsmax host Eric Bolling, asserting that the prosecution of Trump could be leading the country into a violent split.

Bolling asked the former Alaska governor about Trump being fingerprinted and having his mug shot taken in Atlanta, and she sounded off.

“I think of those who are conducting this travesty and creating this two-tiered system of justice and I want to ask them, ‘What the heck? Do you want us to be in civil war?’ Because that’s what’s going to happen,” Palin said. “We’re not going to keep putting up with this. And Eric, I like that you suggested that we need to get angry. We do need to rise up and take our country back.”


In addition to Democrats, Palin pointed the blame at her party for not standing up more for Trump.

“The RNC (Republican National Committee)… that’s what’s lacking when it comes to collective anger, which can be healthy and it can be useful. Where is the RNC. They hold the purse strings to the party. They have the platform. and yet they’re too timid. A bunch of frickin’ RINOs running the thing,” Palin said, referring to “Republicans in Name Only” that some GOP members call others for not being loyal enough to Trump.

“They better get their stuff together,” Palin said.

Watch video of the segment at the top of this file, courtesy of Media Matters.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sarah-palin-warns-civil-war-020841662.html

 

Simple rule of life. Only children, fools, and cowards make threats they can't or won't back up.

‘Extortion!’ CNN’s McCabe Torches Palin Over Trump Arrest — She’s Encouraging ‘Political Violence’ With Civil War Rant
By Tommy ChristopherAug 25th, 2023, 2:14 pm


CNN analyst and former FBI chief Andrew McCabe ripped Sarah Palin for threatening “civil war” over the arrest of ex-President Donald Trump.

Trump was arrested Thursday in Fulton County, Georgia on 13 counts related to election crimes, which has soaked up every bit of the media’s attention and prompted a gamut of reactions.

One of them is from Palin, who told NewsNation’s Eric Bolling that Trump’s arrest could lead to an uprising:


I think those who are conducting this travesty and creating this two-tier system of justice, I want to ask them: What the heck? Do you want us to be in civil war? Because that’s what’s going to happen. We’re not going to keep putting up with this. And Eric, I like that you suggested that we need to get angry. We do need to rise up and take our country back.

On Tuesday afternoon’s edition of CNN’s Inside Politics, host Dana Bash asked McCabe how Palin’s words struck him, and McCabe called the rant “outrageous” and an invitation to “political violence”:

DANA BASH: As somebody who was in the FBI and law enforcement for a very long time, how does that strike you?

ANDREW MCCABE: It’s outrageous. I mean, to have political leaders, and she is certainly one, use language that validates and seems to permit, creates a permissive structure around this idea of political violence.

It’s absolutely irresponsible. It’s dangerous. She knows better. I don’t know what her calculation is for saying things like this or there’s just a kind of a desperate shot at attention or relevance. Who knows?

But it’s, words matter. They do matter. And what she’s proposing is essentially extortion. Right? You don’t make decisions to not go forward with a valid prosecution, with a indictment that’s been returned by citizens who serve on a grand jury, simply because you’re afraid that the supporters of the person who you’re indicting might cause a riot. That’s the end of the rule of law, and that’s not acceptable.


https://www.mediaite.com/news/extor...aging-political-violence-with-civil-war-rant/

 

And I bet you can't identify either....

 

Now come on genius.
Plant those goal posts and stand back.
Give it a chance for once.

 

Well at least they weren't slaves, And the gunman only killed three Black people. That's not very many. And even the three Black people killed probably benefited because they could have developed health problems later in life and the gunman spared them that.

But just let it never be said the constant stream of hate filled racist bigoted propaganda we treasonous conservative/America Hating/Republicans crank out all day every day had anything to do with this.



Jacksonville gunman was turned away from historically Black university before killing 3 in racist shooting at nearby store, authorities say

By Nouran Salahieh and Andy Rose, CNN
Updated 9:30 AM EDT, Sun August 27, 2023








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The gunman who killed three people Saturday at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, in what authorities said was a racist attack against Black people had earlier been turned away from the campus of a nearby historically Black university.

The shooter, described by police as a White man in his early 20s, first went to the campus of Edward Waters University, where he refused to identify himself to an on-campus security officer and was asked to leave, the university stated in a news release.

“The individual returned to their car and left campus without incident. The encounter was reported to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office by EWU security,” the school said.

The suspect put on a bulletproof vest and mask while still on campus, and then went to the nearby Dollar General, Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters told CNN’s Jim Acosta. Armed with an AR-15 style rifle and a handgun, the gunman opened fire outside the store and then again inside, fatally shooting the three victims before killing himself, according to Waters.

The three victims killed, two males and one female, were all Black, the sheriff said.




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The university, which is in a historically Black neighborhood, went into lockdown Saturday and students living on campus were told to stay in their residence halls.

The attack clearly targeted Black people, Waters said. The suspect used racial slurs and left behind writings to his parents, the media and federal agents outlining his “disgusting ideology of hate,” the sheriff told reporters.

“This shooting was racially motivated, and he hated Black people,” Waters said at a news conference Saturday evening.

The shooter did not appear to know the victims and it is believed he acted alone, he said.

“This is a dark day in Jacksonville’s history,” the sheriff said. “Any loss of life is tragic, but the hate that motivated the shooter’s killing spree adds an additional layer of heartbreak.”


The FBI has launched a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting and “will pursue this incident as a hate crime,” said Sherri Onks, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Jacksonville office.

The Jacksonville attack was one of several shootings reported in the US over two days, including one near a parade in Massachusetts and another at a high school football game in Oklahoma, underscoring the everyday presence of gun violence in American life.

There have been at least 472 mass shootings in the US so far in 2023, according to the Gun Violence Archive, which, like CNN, defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more people are wounded or killed, not including the shooter. It is almost two mass shootings for each day of the year so far. The nation surpassed the 400 mark in July, the earliest month such a high number has been recorded since 2013, the group said.

Shooter’s father called police after shooting started


The shooter, who lived in Clay County with his parents, left his home around 11:39 a.m. Saturday and headed to Jacksonville in neighboring Duval County, Waters told CNN.

At 1:18 p.m., the gunman texted his father and told him to check his computer, according to Waters, who did not provide details on what was on the computer.

At 1:53 p.m., the father called the Clay County Sheriff’s office, the sheriff said.

“By that time, he had began his shooting spree inside the Dollar General,” Waters said of the gunman.

Officers responded to the scene as the gunman was exiting the building. The gunman saw the officers, retreated into an office inside the building and shot himself, Waters said.

Photos of the weapons the gunman had were shown by authorities, including one firearm with swastikas drawn on it. While it remains under investigation whether the gunman purchased the guns legally, the sheriff said they did not belong to the parents.

“Those were not his parents’ guns,” Waters told reporters Saturday. “I can’t say that he owned them but I know his parents didn’t – his parents didn’t want them in their house.”

“The suspect’s family, they didn’t do this. They’re not responsible for this. This is his decision, his decision alone,” the sheriff later told CNN.

Gunman’s history and access to guns being probed
The shooter was the subject of a 2017 law enforcement call under the state’s Baker Act, which allows people to be involuntarily detained and subject to an examination for up to 72 hours during a mental health crisis.

Waters did not provide details on what led to the Baker Act call in that case, but said normally a person who has been detained under the act is not eligible to purchase firearms.

“If there is a Baker Act situation, they’re prohibited from getting guns,” he told CNN. “We don’t know if that Baker Act was recorded properly, whether it was considered a full Baker Act.”

Gunman’s history and access to guns being probed
The shooter was the subject of a 2017 law enforcement call under the state’s Baker Act, which allows people to be involuntarily detained and subject to an examination for up to 72 hours during a mental health crisis.

Waters did not provide details on what led to the Baker Act call in that case, but said normally a person who has been detained under the act is not eligible to purchase firearms.

“If there is a Baker Act situation, they’re prohibited from getting guns,” he told CNN. “We don’t know if that Baker Act was recorded properly, whether it was considered a full Baker Act.”

The shooter’s writings indicated he was aware of a mass shooting at a Jacksonville gaming event where two people were killed exactly five years earlier, and may have chosen the date of his attack to coincide with the anniversary, Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan said.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday condemned the shooting and called the gunman a “scumbag.”

“He was targeting people based on their race. That is totally unacceptable. This guy killed himself rather than face the music and accept responsibility for his actions, and so he took the coward’s way out. But we condemn what happened in the strongest possible terms,” DeSantis said, according to a video statement sent to CNN by the governor’s office.

The US Department of Homeland Security is “closely monitoring the situation,” Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a statement on Saturday.

“Too many Americans – in Jacksonville and across our country – have lost a loved one because of racially-motivated violence. The Department of Homeland Security is committed to working with our state and local partners to help prevent another such abhorrent, tragic event from occurring,” he said.


https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/27/us/jacksonville-florida-shooting-sunday/index.html

 

'They turn to violence': Princeton professor ties hate-based shooting to Trumpism

David McAfee
August 26, 2023, 8:42 PM ET



President Donald Trump attends a rally in Minneapolis (Photo by Brendan Smialowski for AFP)


A Princeton professor Saturday tied the recent fatal hate-crime shooting to "Trumpism," using the opportunity to show that the problem has existed throughout various generations.

Princeton professor Eddie Glaude appeared on MSNBC's Ayman, and was asked by the host about how "we are constantly being urged to pretend that we live in a post racial society." The host also noted that the "journey from the march on Washington until today is far from complete."

"Absolutely," Glaude said, noting that "we're being told that the problem is -- the problem is diversity, equity, and inclusion. The problem is critical race theory. That's what we're being told is the threat to democratic life, right?"

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"I think what we have to understand is that there is a segment of the society that believes that their way of life is being threatened. And in the history of America, whenever that particular group of folk believe that our lives are being threatened, they turn to violence. They always have."

He added:

"This is something that I have to say, Ayman, people have been trying to make the point that Trumpism is new. It is, a particular form of it. I'll give it that. But we've had to deal with these people for generations. We've had to deal with this sort of folk. We are quite familiar with this. And so part of the work that has to be done is to how can I put this? We have to commit ourselves, finally, to acknowledging it so that we can stamp it out."

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Kari Lake wants 'a street fight, a fist fight' after judge set Trump's trial date for March 2024

David Edwards
August 28, 2023, 1:15 PM ET



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Failed Arizona candidate Kari Lake reacted to Donald Trump's March 2024 trial date by suggesting his supporters were ready for a "street fight."

War Room podcast host Steve Bannon broke the news to Lake on Monday that U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan had set Trump's federal election interference trial for March 4 of next year.

"I'm sure they'll be shifted, but just a random, right before Super Tuesday, just a random, just a random date," Bannon said sarcastically. "Kari, just totally random."

"I just want, you know, the posse to know something, Steve," Lake replied. "They're trying, they're losing. Okay. We know that. You don't, winners don't act the way that the deep state is acting right now."

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Lake suggested the cases against Trump were part of a psychological operation to demoralize his supporters.

"Don't believe all the news you're reading," she insisted. "Most of it is complete lies and garbage, and it's meant to get into your mind and psychologically bring you down. We are winning. They are not winning. Donald Trump is winning."

"The American people are winning, but it's going to be a fight, a street fight, a fist fight the next year," Lake added. "And so we've got to strengthen ourselves and know that, that God has put us here for a reason."


https://www.rawstory.com/kari-lake-street-fight/