Domestic terrorism

++Alex Jones of Infowars fame predicts that 300,000 policemen will die in a civil war against the militia movement.

++Alex Jones says that Harry Reid and federal officials staged the cop killings in Las Vegas to encourage repression.

++Kudos to Rachel Maddow for her reporting on the connection between Indiana's "Keep A Cop" Law and the Las Vegas' shooters. 

++The DOJ has reconstituted the domestic terrorism unit because of the overwhelming evidence provided by the Southern Poverty Law Center's studies of the rapid rise of paramilitary right-wing groups since the election of President Obama.

++By now the corporate media have at least linked the Millers,the copkillers, with the Cliven Bundy militia movement and the Oathkeepers and others of the Sovereign Citizen movement.

++The plot as revealed by papers they left behind included seizing a courthouse and executing court officials. Earlier in the week, in Georgia a "sovereign citizen" attempted to "invade" a courthouse and plant bombs.

++Recall in prior years on this blog, the plot in Belfast, Maine where a neo-Nazi tried to make a dirty nuclear bomb. He was arrested because his wife turned him in . Among the things found were Adolf Hitler's silverware.

++The KKK today said they were recruiting returning veterans to wage a civil war to protect the white population. Against what? I'm sure they can make up anything.

++Since 9-11, all acts of domestic terrorism have been done by the Right. The days of the Weathermen are long gone. But the Obama Administration has been hamstrung on the issue because the congressional Republicans depend on these people as their base and have soundly criticized the administration for even considering the subject. You will recall this topic was first a matter of analysis under W's administration but it didn't generate any controversy.

++Just to give you an example of how hesitant the GOP is in calling out these extremists, John Boehner said today that he could't say whether the cop killing in Vegas was domestic terrorism. Sort of like he's not a scientist so he doesn't know about climate change.

++Harry Reid, who blasted Cliven Bundy and his gang as domestic terrorist, re-affirmed that the Vegas shooting sure looked like domestic terrorism.

++These acts of domestic terror surfaced during the last mid-term elections in 2010 and the GOP didn't combat it but encouraged it with Palinite talk of 2nd Amendment remedies. They will do the same this year to encourage an ugly electoral environment. 

++Two additions to this year's terrorism. It seems we are seeing extreme libertarian white males start to emerge. Mr. Miller, for instance, was from Indiana and was a big Ron Paul supporter. The second fact is that Cliven Bundy stimulated the old guard of the Sagebrush Rebellion with calls for a new Waco. The culmination of the Sagebrush rebellion was the Oklahoma Bombings by Timothy McVeigh.

++With the internet and people like Alex Jones egging people on,these very marginal causes have been amplified.