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| Extremism Experts Are Just Starting To Worry About The Left Now? |
| 2017-06-17 |
| [Hot Air] Vice published a story yesterday titled "Extremism experts are starting to worry about the left." My reaction: It’s about damn time. Levin, a former New York City cop who studies domestic extremism as the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, was documenting a Klan rally in Anaheim, California, when a counterprotest suddenly took a violent swing -- forcing Levin to physically place himself between a Klansman and a furious, anti-fascist mob that seemed ready to kill... "I think we’re in a time when we can’t ignore the extremism from the Left," said Oren Segal, the director of the Center on Extremism, an arm of the Anti-Defamation League. Over the past few months, the ADL, which hosts regular seminars on homegrown extremism for law enforcement officials, has begun warning of the rising threat posed by far-left groups, most recently at a seminar just this past Sunday. "When we have anti-fascist counterprotests -- not that they are the same as white supremacists -- that can ratchet up the violence at these events, and it means we can see people who are violent on their own be attracted to that," Segal said. "I hate to say it, but it feels inevitable."... Levin is worried about it too: The embrace by the far left of tactics that were previously the purview of the far right means the level of political tension in the country can only go up. "I’ve been going up and down the state of California meeting with law enforcement officials about this. I’m very concerned about it," he said. "What we’re seeing is the democratization of extremism and the tactics of radicalism. I’ve been warning about this, and nobody gave a shit." Somewhere in the middle of the article, Vice points out that violence is nothing new on the far left. In the 1960s groups like the Weather Underground ran domestic terror campaigns. That history seems relevant in light of the two shootings of police officers--one in Dallas and one in Baton Rouge--by black radicals last year. The Baton Rouge shooter was a black separatist who apparently admired Huey Newton. The shooter also praised the actions of Dallas shooter Micah Xavier Johnson. Johnson was a fan of a litany of far-left extremist groups who wanted to kill white police officers. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat - Will Rogers That was then, but this is now. They have been taken over by cornered and dangerous people, are organized, well-funded and desperate. This summer could be really ugly. |
| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2017-06-17 16:45 |
| #2 It's a cultural revolution, it is! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-06-17 15:10 |
| #1 I think they are just now starting to realize the fascists are no longer controllable and I also think they are beginning to see what will happen to them if they don't try to pull back a bit. See Bosnia for examples of what will happen. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-06-17 13:26 |