US justice dept. study finds far-right extremists commit ‘far more’ violence

[blackpowder]

So by definition, was Lenin right or left?

[AlbertaFarmer5]

So by definition, was Lenin right or left?

Are national socialists left or right?
When we refer to far left and far right, I often imagine it being more of a circle than a straight line. By the time you get to the left fringes where Chuck is for the right fringes, I think the extremes overlap

Mentally deficient, anti social, disenfranchised, paranoid, often conspiratorial.
About the only difference is how they imagine the solution.

[blackpowder]

Not my words, nor completely pertinent, but interesting all the same.



"The educated man, particularly the educated leader, copes with the fact that life is not fair. The problem for education is not to teach people how to deal with success but how to deal with failure. And the way to deal with failure is not to invent scapegoats or to lash out at your followers. Moreover, a properly educated leader, especially when harassed and under pressure, will know from his study of history and the classics that circumstances very much like those he is encountering have occurred from time to time on this earth since the beginning of history. He will avoid the self-indulgent error of seeing himself in a predicament so unprecedented, so unique, as to justify his making an exception to law, custom, or morality in favor of himself. The making of such exceptions has been the theme of public life throughout much of our lifetimes. For 20 years, we’ve been surrounded by gamesmen unable to cope with the wisdom of the ages. They make exceptions to law and custom in favor of themselves because they chose to view ordinary dilemmas as unprecedented crises."

[fjlip]

WOW! perfect assessment !

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Thanks for posting. I had to look it up, written in 1980. Referring to the past 20 years.

It's true today as ever was. And nothing unprecedented about what's happening in the world today. It's all happened before and it will happen again.

[blackpowder]

Disclosure, it popped on FB at the time, so the author and context are unknown.
But the more you study nature the more it's true.
Sorry Chuck. If you don't know who the Kings are, you're the pawn.

[chuckChuck]

You guys sure are doing your best to ignore and make flimsy excuses for the reality of who commits the most political violence in the USA!

Trump pardons the convicted January 6th violent criminals that were caught on video and you guys just ignore it or like one Republican said it was just a tourist visit to the capitol?

Agrisilly at its finest!


"The National Institute of Justice study, which was based on research spanning three decades, represented one of the most comprehensive government assessments of domestic terrorism patterns. It found that “militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States” and that “the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism”.

But the findings align with independent research from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, which analyzed 893 terrorist plots between 1994 and 2020. That study concluded: “Rightwing attacks and plots account for the majority of all terrorist incidents in the United States since 1994.”

In congressional testimony in 2023, Heidi Beirich, the executive vice-president of Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, told lawmakers as an expert witness that “data on acts of political violence clearly shows that it is the far right that is driving terrorism in the US, including targeting and, in certain cases, murdering law enforcement”.

“That is not to say there is no violence from far-left actors,” she continued, “it is just simply not on the scale or as deadly as what is coming from far-right actors.”

[TSIPP]

Chuck brings out the silly again, somethings never change!

[chuckChuck]

Yup Tsipper hasn't changed his mind or learned anything new in 30 years!