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A few sites are starting to get a story about how the "Domestic Terror Task Force" is being ressurected. '"But now, as the nature of the threat we face evolves to including the possibility of individual radicalization via the Internet, it is critical that we return our focus to potential extremists here at home," Holder said in the video broadcast.'
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday June 04 2014, @04:33PM
"Domestic Terror Task Force"
Its a pity this "news" didn't come out a month (or two) earlier.
I think it would have made an excellent domain name for our little corner of the internet.
(Score: 1) by rancid on Wednesday June 04 2014, @05:20PM
On the subject of timing, does anyone else think this is related to Cliven Bundy and his friends? Next time something like him crops up send in the terror squad and the MRAPs.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday June 04 2014, @05:59PM
Absolutely not. While Cliven Bundy is a good indicator of rising anti-government sentiment, the real reason this is being addressed now by Holder is because there are and will be a lot of returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, [washingtontimes.com] who will be very pissed-off indeed. Sheesh, all these comments at the time of this posting and nobody has yet made that connection?
Pissed off about the bullshit reasons for their being sent to some God-forsaken hell-hole, guarding poppy fields, being sent to their deaths to rescue traitors, watching their best friends being turned into hamburger before their very eyes, losing arms, losing legs, losing their families due to the stress and distance, and finally returning home to it all to enter into the death-sentence lottery known as the VA waiting queue.
Almost all of these people will have extensive combat and firearms training. U.S. Government, prepare your anus. The happening approacheth! This is why the "mental-illness-as-newest-reason-to-bar-people-from-firearm-ownership" is indirectly being pushed onto the American people, and why you all should support gun rights despite the fearmongering bullshit you're being fed by the media.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 04 2014, @06:53PM
As in the past the government will use any violent protest as an excuse to investigate, accuse and persecute targeted non-violent protests or even the possibility there of. Even perhaps to the point of initiating and/or instigating the violence etc. Wonder who fancies themselves to be Shakespeare with the rest of us as but actors?
"All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
They have their exits and their entrances," --Merchant of Venice
"She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing."
--Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 5, lines 17-28)
Though it fits all in a fashion, lets certainly do not let them turn us too dramatically into the latter, sounds too much like a mind programmed shooter or suicide bomber. It is not like the government hasn't researched mind control efforts before. But they stopped, right?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 04 2014, @09:18PM
> the real reason this is being addressed now by Holder is because there are and will be a lot of returning Iraq and Afghanistan veterans,
Bullsheet.
As of 2011 there were already 1.3M veterans Iraq and Afghanistan that had mustered out. [go.com] As of Jan 1st this year there were only 38,000 still in Afghanistan. At roughly 6 months in the field at a time and conservatively assuming no repeats, and conservatively assuming that everybody who served in the field also left the service, that makes for ~140,000 since 2011.
If returning vets were a threat we would have been seeing tons of problems. So far, just one guy, which seems kind of low.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday June 04 2014, @05:24PM
Domestic Force Tasked with Terror? ;)