Domestic Terrorism Not New, Terrorists Have Been Ignored .…

I have not been shy in point­ing out that there is no Federal Domestic Terrorism statute in the United States because it would unearth proof that the great­est threat to the United States’ secu­ri­ty is white supremacy.
I have also com­pli­ment­ed the FBI for warn­ing years ago that white suprema­cists have and con­tin­ue to infil­trate police depart­ments across the coun­ty. Conversely, I have also crit­i­cized the FBI for not pay­ing enough atten­tion to the threat white suprema­cy pos­es, choos­ing instead to play up the so-called threats posed by Black Lives Matter (BLM pro­test­ers, and ANTIFA„ some of whom go too far by break­ing the laws.
We should nev­er lose sight of the fact that BLM pro­test­ers are actu­al­ly protest­ing against police vio­lence and crim­i­nal­i­ty, and the dis­or­ga­nized group that goes by the acronym (ANTIFA). The acronym lit­er­al­ly stands for Anti-fascist.
It seems to me that if the United States were to attend to sys­temic racism and the rise of Fascism, which has tak­en on a new life over the last dozen or so years, these two Organizations would cease to exist.

Donald Trump’s pres­i­den­cy was ded­i­cat­ed to two things. (1) Enriching him­self, his chil­dren, and his wealthy back­ers, and (2) enhanc­ing the cause of white supremacy.
Though Trump is undoubt­ed­ly the most racist per­son to occu­py the Executive Mansion in my life­time, the racism he rep­re­sents was not cre­at­ed by him; he mere­ly used it toward his own ends and took steps to encour­age it for his future exploitation.
There is evi­dence that at least 20% of Capitol insur­rec­tion­ists were past and serv­ing mil­i­tary and law enforce­ment mem­bers; this rev­e­la­tion should be no surprise.
Despite the irrefutable data, the term ter­ror­ism con­tin­ues to be viewed as some­thing asso­ci­at­ed with for­eign­ers and Muslims in particular.
There is now a new Democratic Administration in Washington DC. We hope that President Biden and the Democrats in the Congress will move with speed and pur­pose in rein­stat­ing the Federal Voting Rights Act to its for­mer state.
The 1965 Act was dec­i­mat­ed in 2013 By the Roberts Court in a stun­ning deci­sion known as Shelby County Vs. Holder.
The oth­er press­ing issue is the need to rein in the white suprema­cist groups run­ning around pre­tend­ing to be law-abid­ing cit­i­zens but are, for all intents, ter­ror­ist groups.

On its sec­ond full day in office, the new admin­is­tra­tion took steps to look at local ter­ror groups. Biden has already direct­ed fed­er­al law enforce­ment and nation­al intel­li­gence offi­cials to com­plete an assess­ment of the threat posed by domes­tic vio­lent extrem­ism in America.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki announced the threat assess­ment at a press brief­ing on Friday.
The assess­ment of the sit­u­a­tion at hand will be man­aged in part by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, which was cre­at­ed in the wake of the ⁹⁄₁₁ ter­ror­ist attacks and respon­si­ble for advis­ing the pres­i­dent on nation­al secu­ri­ty issues.
When that assess­ment is com­plet­ed, we hope that it will lead to action­able leg­is­la­tion that will focus on this exis­ten­tial threat that has con­tin­ued to result in the loss of count­less lives with­out the out­cry and action war­rant­ed in light of its severity.
White suprema­cy ter­ror­ism is not new. On the morn­ing of April 19^th, 1995, Timothy McVeigh killed numer­ous Americans right here at home in a das­tard­ly act of domes­tic ter­ror­ism. Since then, white ter­ror­ists have killed at will, and have avoid­ed the coa­les­cence need­ed around the com­mon cause of root­ing it out.

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Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.