Rachel Maddow History of Far Right Terror and Frazier Miller

Rachel Maddow History of Far Right Terror and Frazier Miller




RACHEL MADDOW 04/15/14
Right-wing extremist attacks on the rise
Rachel Maddow talks to Michael Leiter, former director of the National Counterterrorism Center, about how jihadist violence dominates the media in a way that home-grown, right-wing terror does not.

- MLK day parade in Spokane
- Cobb tries to set up white supremacist town
- white supremacists are treated as lone wolves instead of a unified threat in a war on terrorism
- Vanguard and stormfront linked to attacks on churches, police, and firemen
- - Boston bombers read the American Free Press and Sovereign newspapers
- New American Foundation counts 21 dead in jihad attacks including Boston and fort Hood
but counts 34 deaths from right wing exremists including Kansas City jewish center attacksd
- attack on Knoxville church
- sikh temple

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Maddow: Why Aren't Domestic Terrorists Cause For Concern?

By karoli April 16, 2014 6:30 am - 62 Comments

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Rachel Maddow's thorough report on right wing extremist groups and violence ends with a question rather than an answer.

Rachel Maddow's report linking together incidents of right wing extreme violence dating back to the mid-1980s is a keeper. She brings their history right up to this week by linking Frazier Glenn Miller with other extremist and extremist groups with a long and storied history of violent rhetoric and violent acts.

The only complaint I have about the report is that she didn't link up Ron and Rand Paul with Stormfront.org, despite documented evidence of their kinship.

Her report ends with a question: Why do we overlook right wing violence and refuse to call it terrorism?

That is a great question to ask. What is the difference between the Fort Hood shooter and Frazier Glenn Miller's rampage against Jews?

Rachel also avoided any mention of the Cliven Bundy debacle in Nevada, mostly because she was focused on neoNazi white supremacists. Still, there's not a ton of daylight between Bundy and nativist hate groups in terms of rhetoric. One group focuses on race and the other focuses on government, but they all ooze hate and hate speech into the body politic in their own way with their own targets, and they all aim to be the authoritarian arbiters of governance they so desperately oppose.

Peter Bergen, writing for CNN.com:

Now let's do the thought experiment in which instead of shouting "Heil Hitler" after he was arrested, the suspect had shouted "Allahu Akbar."Only two days before the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings, this simple switch of words would surely have greatly increased the extent and type of coverage the incident received.

Raw Story, which is used as a source by progressive PressTV had this review:

Rachel Maddow: Why is the U.S. so reluctant to confront its own right-wing terrorists?
By David Ferguson
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 8:59 EDT

Tuesday night on her MSNBC show, Rachel Maddow discussed the real threat of violence from right-wing extremists here in the U.S. as opposed to Islamic terrorism, which most Americans are much more afraid of.
She began by detailing the arrests in the late 1980s of several members of the Aryan Nation gang, a ring of counterfeiters and criminals who hoped to bring about an all-white homeland, or at least a section of the country devoted to the white race.
In 1987, 15 neo-Nazi leaders of the Aryan Nation were arrested and charged with sedition.
“So that was in 1987,” Maddow said. “Really ambitious prosecution brought against all those different white supremacist leaders. They’re going after them for trying to overthrow the U.S. government.”