NBC News.
The threat of terrorism — particularly from the far right — should be a major concern for governments on both sides of the Atlantic as coronavirus restrictions continue to ease, according to multiple experts and former law enforcement officials who have experience monitoring violent extremist activity.
High unemployment levels due to the pandemic, poor economic prospects and the spread of disinformation through the internet and social media could accelerate radicalization, they said.
And after a major drive by law enforcement agencies to disrupt the organizing potential of violent Islamist movements in the United States and in Europe, where hundreds of people have returned from the battlefields in Iraq and Syria, recent analysis suggests far-right groups now pose the most significant threat to public safety.
“We see an increasing percentage of plots and attacks in the United States shifting over the past couple of years from jihadist motivations, increasingly, to far-right activity,” said Seth Jones, who directs the Transnational Threats Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington, D.C., think tank.
Jones defined right-wing extremists as “sub-national or non-state entities” with goals that could include ethnic or racial supremacy. They can also be marked by anger against specific policies like abortion rights and government authority, as well as hatred toward women, or they may be members of the “involuntary celibate,” or “incel,” movement.
A report he co-authored recorded 14 terrorist incidents, including attacks and disrupted plots, from Jan. 1 to May 8. Thirteen of them were classified as right-wing, and the other was recorded as being religiously motivated in the context of jihadism.
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“There is a growing trend of right-wing extremism in the U.K., but it is not as significant as the rising right-wing extremism in America,” said retired Maj. Gen. Clive Chapman, the former head of counterterrorism for Britain’s Defense Ministry.
So NBC News managed to cobble together several crackpot analysts to say that the right wing in America is the greatest threat to national security today.
In a time when Antifa/BLM communist insurgency is involved in blinding federal agents with green light lasers, trying to blind legitimate reporters with green light lasers, running through cities pointing rifles at people, blocking traffic, committing arson, pulling people out of cars to beat them for no reason except to perpetrate terror, shooting each other, destroying property, stealing products and goods, trafficking in weapons, threatening to shoot people from rooftops, trespassing and threatening to kill innocent people, declaring white men to be the common enemy, attacking churches, unprovoked shooting at motorists, and conspiring to interfere with the enforcement of the law, the only thing Seth Jones and his ilk can point to is … right wing extremism. Whatever that is.
What color is the sky in your world, Seth?
Oh, I suppose “the phone call” came in to Seth. He had to pen some idiotic missive to detract attention from Antifa/BLM. How much did you get paid for this claptrap, Seth? What does the deep state have on you, Seth? Were you embarrassed when you looked back on what you wrote, Seth?