Newsweek recently put forth a theory about right-wing extremism.
It was a fantastic piece of fiction. After they had waded through all
of the crimes committed by right-wing extremists, totaling them up as
more than Jihadists had committed, it came up to much less than one day
in September of 2001.
They carefully crafted the discussion to begin in 2002. During which they claimed that
"Islamists launched nine attacks that murdered 45, while the right-wing extremists struck 18 times, leaving 48 dead."
But, that only leads one to question what definitions they used. From
the obviously stilted tenor of the story, it is logical to conclude that
they vastly minimized "Islamic" terrorism and vastly
maximized "right-wing extremist" terrorism.
But, there were further distortions. Later in the story they claim:
"...many
experts maintain that the movement was a product of the financial
crisis for farms in the 1980s, rapid economic and cultural change, and
the adoption of gun control and environmental protection laws. In recent
years, an explosion in the number of militias has been linked by
experts to the beginning of the Great Recession in December 2007 and the
election of Barack Obama months later."
Well, well so it was all due to recession. They seem to have left out
the federal abuses of the combination of the BLM and the EPA that fired
up the Sagebrush Rebellion. Not a word of how ranchers had been pushed
off their land with threats and trumped up fines and criminal charges
that fueled the resistance of the 1970's, not some recession.
They left out the murders of son and wife of Randy Weaver for which the
federal government later settled with Weaver for $3.5 million.
They left out the 76 men, women and children burned alive in Waco, Texas.