BITCHFEST -- THE EXTREMISTS ON THE FAR LEFT AND FAR RIGHT

[Duchess]

Yeah! What she said!

[Carsman]

Yeah, What She Said, She Said.

[Maggot]

   People who choose not to comply with laws because they don't like them are simply 'criminals'.  Period.

I feel the same way about courts that let illegals out instead of turning them over to ICE. Or sanctuary cities.

[HairOfTheDog]

White Supremacist Violence -- Officially Top Threat to U.S. Safety & Security

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The FBI has elevated its assessment of the threat posed by racially motivated violent extremists in the U.S. to a "national threat priority" for fiscal year 2020, FBI director Christopher Wray said yesterday.

He said the FBI is officially placing the risk of violence from such groups "on the same footing" as threats posed to the country by foreign terrorist organizations such as ISIS and its sympathizers.

"Not only is the terror threat diverse — it's unrelenting," Wray said at an oversight hearing before the House Judiciary Committee.

Racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists, or domestic terrorists motivated by racial or religious hatred, make up a "huge chunk" of the FBI's domestic terrorism investigations, Wray said in statements before the Senate Homeland Security Committee last November. The majority of those attacks are "fueled by some type of white supremacy," he said.

His statements indicate the FBI is just as concerned about racially-motivated violent extremists, including white supremacists, as it is about the threat posed by homegrown violent extremists inspired by foreign terrorist organizations. 

(continued)

[HairOfTheDog]

Wray said both pose a grave threat because the perpetrators are often "lone actors," self-radicalized online, who often look to attack "soft targets" such as public gatherings, retail locations or houses of worship.  

In many cases, perpetrators can move quickly from rhetoric to violence, Wray said.

"They choose easily accessible weapons — a car, a knife, a gun, maybe an IED they can build crudely off the internet — and they choose soft targets," Wray said. "That threat is what we assess is the biggest threat to the homeland right now."

Racially-motivated violent extremists were the primary source of ideologically-motivated violence in 2018 and 2019 and have been considered the most lethal of all domestic extremists since 2001, Wray said in a statement Wednesday. 

Anti-Semitic hate crimes have surged in cities across the country including New York, and hate crime murders reached a record high in 2018, the most recent year for which federal data is available. FBI data shows hate crimes overall were down just slightly in 2019 following three years of increases.  

2018 year saw the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history, when 11 worshipers were slain at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

More: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/racially-mo...pher-wray/

[Duchess]

 an IED they can build crudely off the internet — 

Oh great, just great, and all I was concerned about was that damn 3D gun.

[HairOfTheDog]

These cowardly lame brains marched masked through the mall in DC this weekend.



Police watched them during the march and no counter-protesters bothered with the white supremacist members of the self-proclaimed "Patriot Front" , though they did get heckled.

They reportedly believe that only white people can be Americans and that's what the founding fathers stipulated.  Derp.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world...25906.html

[Maggot]

People who have to wear masks do not deserve to be recognized. They are cowards.

[HairOfTheDog]

Germany -- Far Right Extremist Kills 10 and Self

It was a sad day in Germany yesterday.

A 43-year-old racist anti-immigrant dipshit killed 9 people at two hookah bars. The shooter was soon found dead in his apartment, next to the body of his 72-year-old mother.

The mass shooter had left a note and video claiming credit and had made posts online expressing his extremist views.

In response to the surge in far-right extremism in Germany, the country's parliament approved new gun laws last month, further tightening regulations on firearms that are already among the world's most stringent.

After the bill was approved, federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said the government's goal was to make sure there were "no weapons in the hands of extremists" and Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht said, "I do not want to wait until arms get into the hands of right-wing extremists."

Story:  https://www.npr.org/2020/02/20/807661733...-extremism

[Maggot]

Pelosi is trying to include abortion funding into the Corona virus funding as a back door to negate the Hyde amendment if the Republicans do not sign it she will say that they are against helping Americans with funding for the virus, yet she will say nothing about her attempt at adding more "pork & beans" to it in order to further her agenda in other things. 

Pelosi is horrible and talks out the side of her mouth at any chance. 

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Normal practice.

[MirahM]

Well I wish she wouldn't have done that. She should know better that they would not go for that.

[Maggot]

It's not that she tried to do it it will be her response to the reason why the Republicans won't sign it. She will not mention it and the right thing to do would be to just take it out.

[Duchess]

Well I wish she wouldn't have done that. She should know better that they would not go for that.

She was trying to secure funding to reimburse labs for their testing, it was NOT to secure abortion funding. 

[Maggot]

She is trying to circumvent the Hyde amendment that says the government cannot use public funds to reimburse clinics for procedures not just "labs" take off the glasses for a min.

[HairOfTheDog]

I haven't seen anything other than partisan claims that Pelosi tried to circumvent the Hyde Amendment or attempted to address abortion at all in the coronavirus stimulus/funding bill.  

The Hyde Amendment is already a law (a rider which is renewed every year) which prevents the federal government from funding or reimbursing abortion procedures.  

There are no known abortion-related issues associated with coronavirus COVID-19,  but the Hyde Amendment would have automatically excluded them from federal funding even if there were.  Moot issue.

[HairOfTheDog]

Instead, it appears to me that some anti-abortion Republicans created the narrative that Pelosi was trying to 'sneak in abortion funding'.

They inserted the hot-button 'abortion' issue into the negotiations for political positioning by demanding that the bill Pelosi and Mnuchin were developing include reference to the Hyde Amendment or explicitly state that coronavirus lab reimbursements  exclude any form of abortion funding (even though it's irrelevant).

In any case, I'm glad Pelosi didn't get distracted from pushing to get the coronavirus aid legislation drafted and approved by both parties.  

She and Mnuchin don't appear to have wasted any time addressing the Republican hold-outs' concerns, which enabled them to quickly get a coronavirus aid bill green-lighted by both Democrats and Republicans.

[Duchess]

I wasn't able to find anything to backup his claim and if you can't either, it doesn't exist.

[Maggot]

I'm glad she didn't get away with it at any rate. It was backed out.

[HairOfTheDog]

I'm glad she didn't get away with it at any rate. It was backed out.

No, Mags.  Pelosi never included abortion-related issues in the coronavirus legislation in the first place.  So, it could not possibly be 'backed out'. 

Instead, the hold-out Republicans wanted language addressing and prohibiting abortion lab test reimbursement inserted into the coronavirus legislation.

My understanding is that the Republican hold-outs' requests/demands were acknowledged, pushed aside, and addressed in a separate forum so the critical coronavirus legislation could move forward. 

If that is, in fact, how Pelosi and Mnuchin kept the coronvirus legislation from getting derailed, good on them.

[Maggot]

I'm glad she didn't get away with it at any rate. It was backed out.

No, Mags.  Pelosi never included abortion-related issues in the coronavirus legislation in the first place.  So, it could not possibly be 'backed out'. 

Instead, the hold-out Republicans wanted language addressing and prohibiting abortion lab test reimbursement inserted into the coronavirus legislation.

My understanding is that the Republican hold-outs' requests/demands were acknowledged, pushed aside, and addressed in a separate forum so the critical coronavirus legislation could move forward. 

If that is, in fact, how Pelosi and Mnuchin kept the coronvirus legislation from getting derailed, good on them.

Um.....sure. Pelosi