georgephillip
Diamond Member

"DEC. 19, 2019
"This Is America
"Eleven years after Obamaās election, and three years into the Trump presidency, the threat of domestic terrorism canāt be ignored."
There are an estimated 148 white-nationalist "hate groups" in this country. Although exact membership is impossible to calculate, their propensity for violence is equally impossible to ignore.
A Year Inside a Growing American Terrorist Movement
"White supremacists were responsible for the deaths of at least 39 people in 2018 alone.
"And the activity has not slowed this year: not in January, as neo-Nazis plastered flyers outside newspaper offices and homes in Washington State and the Carolinas and an army veteran pleaded guilty to killing a black man in New York to 'ignite a racial war';
"in February, as Vermont synagogues and LGBT centers were vandalized and a self-described white-nationalist Coast Guard lieutenant was arrested for plotting a domestic terror attack;
"in March, as WELCOME TO GERMANY and GAS THE JEWS were spray-painted outside Oklahoma City Democratic Party and Chickasaw Nation offices and, on the Upper East Side, classmates handed their schoolās only black ninth-grader a note reading 'nāās donāt have rights';
"in April, as a shooting at a synagogue left one dead and three injured and FBI Director Christopher Wray called white supremacy a 'persistent, pervasive' threat to the country;
"in May, as swastikas fell from the sky ā on flyers dropped by drones outside an Ariana Grande concert ā and were scrawled on public spaces in at least three states;
"in June, as far-right groups rallied in Portland, Oregon, for the first time that summer;
"in July, as a man promoted a white-power manifesto on Instagram before killing three and wounding 17 others at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in California;
"in August, as another angry young man ā this one 1,000 miles away in El Paso, Texas ā posted an anti-immigrant manifesto online then committed this yearās most deadly mass shooting, killing 22 and injuring 24 at a Walmart;
"in September, as the Department of Homeland Security added white-supremacist extremism to its list of priority threats, the same month a swastika appeared on its walls; in October, as swastikas also appeared on Cape Cod and invitations to a white-supremacist..."
Too much MAGA?