Violence by far right is among US’s most dangerous terrorist threats, study finds

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Guno צְבִי

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Center for Strategic and International Studies analysis of domestic terrorist incidents found majority have come from far right

Violence by far-right groups and individuals has emerged as one of the most dangerous terrorist threats faced by US law enforcement and triggered a wave of warnings and arrests of people associated with those extremist movements.

The most recent in-depth analysis of far-right terrorism comes from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).



In a report released last week, the Escalating Terrorism Problem in the United States, CSIS analyzes 25 years of domestic terrorism incidents and finds that the majority of attacks and plots have come from the far right.


The report says “the majority of all terrorist incidents in the United States since 1994, and the total number of rightwing attacks and plots has grown significantly during the past six years”, with the far right launching two-thirds of attacks and plots in 2019, and 90% of those in 2020.

The report adds: “Far-right terrorism has significantly outpaced terrorism from other types of perpetrators.” The second most significant source of attacks and plots in the US has been “religious extremists”, almost all “Salafi jihadists inspired by the Islamic State and al-Qaida”.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/27/us-far-right-violence-terrorist-threat-analysis
 
It's the usual crap report as to the number of incidents. The CSIS makes the same blunder that other such analyses have. That is, how they count terrorist acts.

From their report:

Multiple attacks were coded as one incident if they were committed as part of one
coordinated plan by the same actor(s) simultaneously or in rapid succession. For example,
the September 11, 2001 attacks at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Shanksville,
Pennsylvania, were coded together as one event rather than four. Similarly, the October
1999 letter campaign in which an animal rights group, the Justice Department, mailed
approximately 80 letters containing razor blades to scientists conducting AIDS and cancer
research with non-human primates is listed as one event rather than 80.
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The problem with that is the difference in how the Left and Right / Religious extremists carry out terrorist attacks. The Right and Religious extremists both act individually in carrying out an act. That is, there is one person, or a few persons at most, involved in the act. The act is usually discrete in nature. That is, it can be clearly defined to a single time and place.
The Left carries out terrorism in mass. That is, they act in large numbers committing numerous acts that are difficult or impossible to separate from one and another.

This is an example of that from the report:

Antifa groups have been increasingly active in protests and rallies over the past few years, especially ones that include far-right participants.41 In June 2016, for example, Antifa and other protestors confronted a neo-Nazi rally in Sacramento, CA, where at least five people were stabbed.
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If you look into the stabbings, they were perpetuated by several individuals in a large group numbering at least hundreds. This wasn't one individual or a few persons, but rather several out of hundreds of like-minded persons in a riotous mob. Of course, the stabbings weren't the only violence, there was property damage and lessor injuries involved too. The report counts this as a single act of terrorism even as it was carried out by a large mob.

Yes, the extreme Right tends to be more deadly in their acts carried out individually. The Left tends towards large mobs doing far more low grade violence with fewer or no deaths, but massively more property damage and serious bodily injury (defined as the injured requiring medical attention or hospitalization). Because of this difference in modus operandi, it is really much harder to quantify the amount of terrorism by the Left compared to the Right and Religious extremists.
I would think that a better measure would not be trying to track individual acts but rather quantify the costs of those acts as an aggregate whole. Yes, you can put a price on a human life. Insurance companies and courts do it all the time. It could be done here. You can also quantify property damage and personal injury through insurance claims and billing costs by entities like hospitals.

When you start pricing out the cost of terrorism, the Left is going to out perform any other group hands down. How much did the seizure of Capitol Hill in Seattle turning it into an occupied zone cost individuals and the city of Seattle? What were the business and insurance losses involved? It obviously is going to run into the tens, if not hundreds of millions when everything is settled. That was a very expensive terrorist act (as the CSIS defines terrorist acts).

Measuring terrorism in just a body count is a utterly complete mistake. The second you don't, the Left overwhelmingly becomes the culprit with the extreme Right a distant second.
 
guno said:
Center for Strategic and International Studies analysis of domestic terrorist incidents found majority have come from far right

Violence by far-right groups and individuals has emerged as one of the most dangerous terrorist threats faced by US law enforcement and triggered a wave of warnings and arrests of people associated with those extremist movements.

The most recent in-depth analysis of far-right terrorism comes from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).



In a report released last week, the Escalating Terrorism Problem in the United States, CSIS analyzes 25 years of domestic terrorism incidents and finds that the majority of attacks and plots have come from the far right.


The report says “the majority of all terrorist incidents in the United States since 1994, and the total number of rightwing attacks and plots has grown significantly during the past six years”, with the far right launching two-thirds of attacks and plots in 2019, and 90% of those in 2020.

The report adds: “Far-right terrorism has significantly outpaced terrorism from other types of perpetrators.” The second most significant source of attacks and plots in the US has been “religious extremists”, almost all “Salafi jihadists inspired by the Islamic State and al-Qaida”.


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/27/us-far-right-violence-terrorist-threat-analysis
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This is like the assholes who posted a picture of a city on fire and stated the protests were mostly peaceful. Dumb fuckers.
 
I condemn the violence perpetrated by extremists on the Right. Happy? I always have too. Does that help? Your turn...
 
BartenderElite said:
LOL

Thank you - that does make me happy.

I'm always against violence. All of it, all the time. Ghandi is right up there for me.
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If you've ever met these fuck sticks, both Left and Right you notice some differences.

The ones on the far Right tend to be poorly educated idiots who are incredibly violent mostly to each other. They are dumber than bag of hammers but they know how to use a hammer on each other...

The ones on the far Left tend to be better educated but completely delusional and insane. They kind of demonstrate a feminine trait in that they want what they want and reason, common sense, and facts to the contrary be damned. They seem to live in a bubble of insanity. They only get violent when they outnumber the opposition. Otherwise they tend to wet themselves and whine a lot.

One thing they seem to share in common is a love for tattoos. I wonder... Do tattoos make you stupid? Is there something in getting lots of them--like fluoride in the tap water (see for example the movie Dr. Strangelove) that increases that effect?

You really just want to get away from both sorts and take an long shower with lots of scrubbing afterwards.
 
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