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The Dirty War Deepens
“It is completely a sideshow to distract from the real threat and it’s extremely dangerous,” Neumann said on “Skullduggery,” a Yahoo News podcast, of the administration’s posture. “There are multiple arrests that the FBI has conducted in the last few months at these peaceful protests where you have right-wing extremists coming in trying to take advantage of the cover of the protests to carry out these violent acts and they are trying to start a race war. They’re very clear about their ideology and what they’re trying to do and we won’t say it. We won’t call it like it is and that’s a problem.”
The FBI warned over the years that the far right is dangerous. It could be a source of terrorism. We know from aggregate data that the far right is currently engaged in the majority of terrorist attacks in the United States. Whether they are hate crimes or others. According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies:
Right-wing terrorism not only accounts for the majority of incidents…