This was published just 2 hours ago in the
Military Times. The
Military Times, not MSNBC.
A ‘lethal threat’: why the far right sees more scrutiny than the left
https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoin ... -the-left/
Now, government agencies and scholars across the political spectrum agree that far-right movements have caused most of the political violence in the U.S. over the past few years – and present the most dangerous threat today. Data shows that the involvement of veterans and service members in some of these groups is helping to further the violence.
You'll have to make up your own minds about it, but as I read it I kept thinking, "Didn't chunks of our cities burn in 2020? Weren't businesses and vehicles looted and destroyed? Didn't we have armed Antifa and BLM patrolling riots and 'sovereign secessions' and shutting down streets and directly threatening physical violence against any who didn't wear their T-shirts or shout their chants?" But I guess I'm completely misremembering the scope of what happened that summer and beyond. I don't consider myself to be on the far right, so maybe I just never see or have ever come into contact with these evidently vast and pervasive conspiratorial far-right groups. Dunno.
And while I definitely disagree with what took place January 6, the DOJ has made over 1,106 arrests for crimes committed at the Capitol that day; had 632 people plead guilty; 597 federal defendants have had their cases adjudicated and received sentences; and, of those, 366 have been sentenced to time behind bars (source:
United States Attorney's Office, District of Columbia). Do all of those cases go into the think-tanks' count of violent far-right extremism? You know, like Gary Wickersham who, at 81, is the oldest known person to be convicted and sentenced for January 6? While not a single arrest was made in scores of the rioting, burning, and looting that was perpetrated by Antifa and BLM in the name of convicted violent felon George Floyd?
