10/15/2015 New Obama Czar Will Hunt Right-Wing Extremists
http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/new-obama-czar-will-hunt-right-wing-extremists/ Americans seen as possibly more threatening than Islamic jihadists
Loretta Lynchs Justice Department will place new emphasis on home-grown violent extremism committed by so-called right wing attackers.
Just two weeks after it announced a plan to globalize local police departments through the Strong Cities Network, the Obama administration has added a new tool in its fight against violent extremism.
A new position within the Justice Department yet to be filled will focus on investigating lone-wolf domestic terrorists or extremists.
The person who heads this new effort will target extremists who plan mass shootings, hold racist, bigoted or anti-government views or see themselves as sovereign citizens.
The new position at the Justice Department, dubbed the domestic terrorism counsel, will serve as the main point of contact for U.S. attorney offices nationwide and will identify trends across cases, help shape strategy and analyze legal gaps that need to be closed, said Assistant Attorney General John Carlin.
It is not clear what Carlin meant by that statement. John Whitehead
The legal gaps are probably laws that need to be changed, said John Whitehead, founder of the Rutherford Institute and a longtime constitutional attorney.
Im sure its gun laws, said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, another watchdog agency.
The FBI has confirmed it has active ISIS investigations in all 50 states. And Islamic-inspired attacks have occurred in recent years in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Garland, Texas, and Fort Hood, Texas. Other examples include the Boston Marathon bombing and the Oklahoma City beheading of a Christian woman.
But the Justice Department sees Islamic jihadists as no more dangerous than mentally ill actors such as Dylann Roof, the Charleston, South Carolina, church shooter who killed nine black Christians.
In fact, Justice officials have indicated these home-grown right wingers are possibly more numerous and dangerous than the jihadists.
In announcing the new position Wednesday, Carlin referred to a study by the New America Foundation that found nearly twice as many Americans have been killed by right-wing extremists since Sept. 11 than by Islamic terrorists.
Looking back over the past few years, it is clear that domestic terrorists and homegrown violent extremists remain a real and present danger to the United States, he said. We recognize that, over the past few years, more people have died in this country in attacks by domestic extremists than in attacks associated with international terrorist groups.
However, a look at the funding sources of the New America Foundation show its financial support comes from billionaire George Soros Open Society Foundations and the Carnegie Corp. of New York, which has funded causes such as Common Core and mass immigration.
Drone Wars
http://securitydata.newamerica.net/about.html New America Foundations list of terror attacks since 9/11 includes the Charleston church shooting among 19 right-wing attacks, despite evidence that Roof has a history of severe mental health issues.
Deadly Attacks Since 9/11: Homegrown Extremists:
Deadly Right Wing Attacks: Total number of people killed: 48
Deadly Jihadist Attacks:Total number of people killed: 26
http://securitydata.newamerica.net/extremists/deadly-attacks.html The study could find only seven jihadist attacks that killed 26 people since Sept. 11. Nowhere to be found on the foundations list is the Chattanooga shooter, Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, who killed five U.S. servicemen. Also absent on the list is John Muhammad, the Washington, D.C., sniper who killed at least 10 people in 2002 with his young accomplice, Lee Malvo.
Among the attacks classified as right wing are multiple shootings of police officers by suspected anti-government perpetrators, a 2004 bank robbery in Oklahoma and an armed robbery of a mans house in Arizona in 2009.
The study referenced by Carlin was reported uncritically by the Associated Press, the Hill magazine and other media outlets.
DOJ creates new post to oversee domestic terror cases
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/256905-doj-creates-new-post-to-streamline-domestic-terror-cases Justice Department to appoint coordinator for domestic terrorism investigations
http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015/10/14/justice-dept-to-name-coordinator-for-domestic-terror-cases Fitton said the move marks the continuation of Obamas legacy of targeting conservatives in memos that have come down from the FBI and Homeland Security through the years. The memos have targeted military veterans, gun owners and tea-party activists, all of whom are viewed as potential terrorists worthy of being watched.
As recently as August WND reported on a leaked memo from the FBI that alerted law enforcement at the state, local and federal level that the next big terrorist attack on U.S. soil was likely to come from an extremist militia group harboring anti-government views.
'RIDICULOUS': FBI WARNS OF NEXT BIG TERROR ATTACK. Leaked document blames Fox, WND, Pam Geller for fueling militias
http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/ridiculous-fbi-warns-of-next-big-terror-attack/ This administration takes a dim view of conservatives and one memo indicated membership in many mainstream conservative organizations was incompatible with military service, Fitton told WND. Ironically, its probably the Justice Department itself that has done the most to foment racial violence in America over the last year or two.
Whitehead, author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People, said he believes the new czar over homegrown violent extremism will work in tandem with the Strong Cities Network announced late last month at the United Nations.
In Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the follow-up to his award-winning book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead paints a terrifying portrait of a nation at war with itself and which is on the verge of undermining the basic freedoms guaranteed to the citizenry in the Constitution. Indeed, police have been transformed into extensions of the military, towns and cities have become battlefields, and the American people have been turned into enemy combatants, to be spied on, tracked, scanned, frisked, searched, subjected to all manner of intrusions, intimidated, invaded, raided, manhandled, censored, silenced, shot at, locked up, and denied due process.
Yet this police state did not come about overnight. As Whitehead notes, this shift into totalitarianism cannot be traced back to a single individual or event. Rather, the evolution has been so subtle that most American citizens were hardly even aware of it taking place. Yet little by little, police authority expanded, one weapon after another was added to the police arsenal, and one exception after another was made to the standards that have historically restrained police authority. Add to this mix the merger of Internet mega-corporations with government intelligence agencies, and you have the making of an electronic concentration camp that not only sees the citizenry as data-bits but will attempt to control every aspect of their lives. And if someone dares to step out of line, they will most likely find an armed SWAT team at their door.
http://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-America-The-American-People/dp/1590793099 Its going to be coordinated somehow with the Strong Cities Network. What youre going to see is, theyre going to federalize police across the country, said Whitehead. Theyre already doing it. Ten federal agents have recently moved in to the Oakland Police Department, and they study social media, create algorithms, studying and creating profiles.
As the Obama administration comes down to its final months in office, look for more brazen, racially charged steps that target law-abiding American citizens who express political views that dont line up with those of the administration, Fitton said.
This is going to become the vehicle through which the Justice Department can target those who oppose the Obama agenda, he said. This is a solution in search of a problem.
While there has been an uptick in mass violence, Fitton said its been clear in almost every case that the cause was mental illness. But often its not the politically correct mode of violence.
For instance, if a black man kills a white cop, its ignored by the Justice Department and left to local law enforcement. But if a mentally ill white loner who cant find a girlfriend shoots up a school, its seen as right-wing extremism. It then gets thrown in the same boat as terrorism, which triggers federal involvement, he said.
A liberal fantasy
The fantasy of right-wing extremists trying to overthrow the government has always been a liberal fantasy, Fitton said. They write books off it. They make movies off it and raise money off it. Now theyre endorsing it as reality, and its truly frightening.
By shifting resources away from international terrorist organizations and putting them into a new focus on domestic lone-wolf extremists, the Obama administration is sending a message to its enemies, Fitton said.
The term anti-government views ranges from Bernie Sanders to Donald Trump, in my estimation. When they talk about racist views, are they talking about La Raza (The Race), or are they talking about people opposed to the immigration crisis at our border?
This is a leftist fantasy, he continued. If a totalitarian leftist had to write a description for a government operation to suppress his enemies, this would be it.
Where is Congress?
The problem with these programs is a lack of clear definitions, said Whitehead. What is violent extremism, and what is terrorism? Are they the same?
The government will be defining what extremism is. Im going to write a letter to the Justice Department and ask them, Can you please define it right now? Congress should already be asking this.
Do we want to go back to those 2009 memos under Janet Napolitano where returning vets and anti-abortion activists were named as potential extremists to be watched? he asked, referring to Obamas former secretary of homeland security.
So what Americans are facing here, these are bureaucrats making rules, Whitehead said. Congress is not voting on it. There is no representative government going on here. This is autocratic rule by oligarchy.
Based on President Obamas comments and the actions of his administration, Whitehead said he can only guess who will get slapped with the extremist label. It wont be Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, who recently implored his followers to stalk and kill those white cops who have killed black suspects.
Will Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, who has openly called for his followers to stalk and kill certain cops, be branded an extremist by Obamas new czar?
Be careful what you say on Facebook
Anybody with a gun now, in my opinion, is an extremist, at least as viewed by this government, Whitehead said. Youre going to be watched. Be careful what you say on Facebook. The wrong kind of joke will put you on the extremist list, because the government agents I will tell you this they do not have a sense of humor.
Whitehead said Googles latest multi-million dollar contract from the National Security Agency is telling. Facebook is also used by the government.
Everything is shared. Theres nothing that disappears. Everything goes into the cloud. The police agencies will say they only keep data for a year or six months, but its always there, he said.
He said Obama has pumped more than $100 million into the federal smart cities program, which will be run by advanced fusion centers or real-time crime centers.
Once you enter a smart city, all your data will be downloaded from your cell phone without you knowing it. Facial recognition software-scanners will scan your face, he said. The big corporations all want this, and some banks are starting to use that already.
So everything about you will be known. There will be no privacy left. You add to that drones and what they can do. Man, we live in an algorithm universe. Were all data bits now.
Fighting crime before it happens
Whitehead said the Strong Cities Network, which was announced by Attorney General Loretta Lynch at the United Nations on Sept. 30, will play a pivotal role but it will be subtle.
Theyre not stupid enough to dress up U.N. police in blue helmets. Theyll use local police, he said. The U.N. officials will move into the fusion centers and run it through Strong Cities Network. This is one big program youre looking at, very large.
If you want to see the future of law enforcement, watch the film Minority Report, a drama about pre-crime fighting police engaged 24/7 with a population addicted to social media and the Internet, Whitehead said.
Theyre already saying were going against violent extremists, but who are they? Whitehead said. Well automatically under the Obama administration you are an extremist if you own a gun.
The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control, according to William Binney, the highest-level whistleblower to ever come out of the NSA. Binney, one of the agencys leading code-breakers during the Cold War, made this statement at a conference in London in July 2014.
He left the NSA after Sept. 11, 2001, after he became disgusted with the NSAs targeting of Americans instead of foreign enemies and he said the NSA lies about what it stores, the Guardian reported.
The ultimate goal of the NSA is total population control
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/11/the-ultimate-goal-of-the-nsa-is-total-population-control They want to be able to predict future behaviors of all citizens, Whitehead said.
And the administration has already admitted it is using behavioral psychologists to design federal programs in a way that subtly influence peoples behavior.
Obama wrote an executive order that the government wants to nudge people to be involved in certain programs, and they admitted in that executive order that theyre working with behavioral psychologists to do this, Whitehead said.
Executive Order -- Using Behavioral Science Insights to Better Serve the American People
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/09/15/executive-order-using-behavioral-science-insights-better-serve-american The brains behind these mind-control programs belong to Cass Sunstein, the former Obama adviser who wrote the book on Nudge. Britain is the world model on the issue, with Nudge squads that influence people to perform certain tasks and think certain ways, Fox News reported.
Gov't Knows Best? White House creates 'nudge squad' to shape behavior
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/30/govt-knows-best-white-house-creates-nudge-squad-to-shape-behavior/ So were dealing with an entity that has no idea about representative government. Theyve made up their mind who constitutes an extremist, and an extremist is a terrorist, an enemy of the state, Whitehead said.
Veterans are already on the list, as are abortion activists, tea-party activists. I know the vets are because we have them calling us every day.
These are all things that should be debated openly, but now youre having cities moving into U.N. programs, police being federalized and internationalized and now targeting their own people as enemies of the state, he added. Im a student of history, and I see us repeating history.
Were following the Chinese model, which is basically the old Soviet model.
Fitton said the Obama administration has effectively put certain groups on notice that they will be watched, and watched closely.
They will all be tarred as being terrorists. By including any sort of one-off that had nothing to do with anything but one person having an animus as right wing, it shows you theyre not really interested in combating terrorism, he said.
All crime becomes terrorism in that respect. Its basically hijacking taxpayer resources to intimidate an opponent of the governments policies. Those who respect the First Amendment and value it ought to be very much concerned.
Fitton said he sees the fingerprints of the Southern Poverty Law Center all over the new focus on right-wing violent extremism.
I see the fingerprints here of the SPLC.
If you dont like gay marriage you go on their hate list, he said. Are supporters of traditional marriage going to be on this list of suspects? We have an epidemic of cop killing across the country. Murder is up. Drug crimes are up.
We have a president who has abused his powers, and what is the Justice Department doing?
Looking for new ways of going after opponents of the president.
This is the Alice and Wonderland approach to our security in this nation, Fitton continued.
Terrorist attacks are treated as crimes, and here theyre going to be treating crimes as terrorist attacks.