The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) does not list right-wing domestic terrorists and terrorist groups on a document that appears to be an internal list of threats to the nation's security.
According to the list — part of a draft planning document obtained by CQ Homeland Security — between now and 2011 DHS expects to contend primarily with adversaries such as al Qaeda and other foreign entities affiliated with the Islamic Jihad movement, as well as domestic radical Islamist groups.
It also lists left-wing domestic groups, such as the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), as terrorist threats, but it does not mention anti-government groups, white supremacists and other radical right-wing movements, which have staged numerous terrorist attacks that have killed scores of Americans. Recent attacks on cars, businesses and property in Virginia, Oregon and California have been attributed to ELF...
Granted, there should be four levels of terrorist-agitator group classifications: (1) Openly violent as a group; (2) Advocating violence as a group; (3) Individual members acting violently of their own volition; and, (4) Non-violent organizations that advocate non-violent methods, but endorse or support other, violent organizations. Violence can be against individuals, or against property that creates a situation of "reckless or willful endangerment" to people. This leaves broad areas for legal protest, legal petition, and non-violent activities that interfere with others, that by themselves are not terroristic, menacing, or endangering. |