"The number of active hate groups in the U.S. has declined, according an annual count by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
But unfortunately – and not surprisingly to anyone who has read the news — it found no accompanying decline in hate and extremism.
..."The far-right remains highly mobilized and extremely dangerous," with the number of threats from the far-right as high as in the years before the Oklahoma City bombing, says SPLC senior research analyst Cassie Miller.
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security released a bulletin warning of "a heightened threat environment across the United States" from domestic violent extremists.
...The SPLC defines a hate group as "as an organization or collection of individuals that – based on its official statements or principles, the statements of its leaders, or its activities – has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics. An organization does not need to have engaged in criminal conduct or have followed their speech with actual unlawful action to be labeled a hate group.".
...The law center also calls for a shift in approach to violent extremism: away from punishment, and toward prevention. It recommends a focus on programs that steer young people away from dangerous ideas, and that such programs be housed at the Departments of Education or Health and Human Services – not DHS...Read all.
Last week, the Department of Homeland Security released a bulletin warning of "a heightened threat environment across the United States" from domestic violent extremists.
...The SPLC defines a hate group as "as an organization or collection of individuals that – based on its official statements or principles, the statements of its leaders, or its activities – has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics. An organization does not need to have engaged in criminal conduct or have followed their speech with actual unlawful action to be labeled a hate group.".
...The law center also calls for a shift in approach to violent extremism: away from punishment, and toward prevention. It recommends a focus on programs that steer young people away from dangerous ideas, and that such programs be housed at the Departments of Education or Health and Human Services – not DHS...Read all.
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I always found it strange that the SPLC didn't classify themselves as a hate organization. Several groups that I am either a member of, on the record, or a follower and sympathizer of, without actually joining.
That the SPLC has the intestinal fortitude to label groups such as Evangelical Christians, military veterans, and people that have an attachment to the Constitution as possible terrorist organizations is pretty telling, not about the groups listed, but about the SPLC itself.
You often see television news programs doing these big expose's about some corrupt group, like a Christian church where the minister has used the church to become extraordinarily wealthy. I have no love for the people who allow that to happen or those who actively seek such riches. I just would like to see the next documentary/expose' done on the SPLC or perhaps the ACLU. Both very liberal groups, and both complicit in the effort to silence any conservative voice, and to make it difficult for conservatives to even hold a job or have a bank account, via a modern day form of blacklisting.
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