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2007-10-11 Home Front: WoT

FBI's PATCON Operation Against White Supremacists

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Posted by Mike Sylwester 2007-10-11 08:54|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 White supremacists are incomptent assholes. I think they get off on uniforms and marching around and other grandiose plans.

Posted by gromky 2007-10-11 12:16|| 2007-10-11 12:16|| Front Page Top

#2 ...activities of the Aryan Republican Army, a white supremacist bank robbery gang that has been linked to the Oklahoma City Bombing. Like the Order, the ARA robbed banks with the stated purposes of financing an armed revolution against the U.S. government.

No matter the founding ideology, these groups inevitably turn into common (and uncommonly brutal) criminal gangs. A point Wretchard made long ago about alQ, which has been illustrated quite well in Iraq. The successful ones take over countries and loot on a national scale - see: too many examples to list here...

Undercover FBI agents posing as white supremacists gathered alarming intelligence about the militia movement during the early 1990s...

Reminds me of an investigative piece done in the 1970s by the Nashville Tennessean sending one of their reporters undercover to write about the Klan. The reporter was quite proud at having been selected for the story, assuming his "hard-hitting investigative journalistic skills" got him the assignment. Only later did he learn that it was because he looked and sounded the part: middle-aged redneck good ol' boy.

Posted by xbalanke 2007-10-11 13:39|| 2007-10-11 13:39|| Front Page Top

#3 This seems so, well 1990s. Are these guys still active?

Posted by JohnQC 2007-10-11 14:07|| 2007-10-11 14:07|| Front Page Top

#4 What's the name of the FBI'S operation against Islamic Supremacists?

Have they infiltrated CAIR, etc.?

Posted by AlanC 2007-10-11 15:17|| 2007-10-11 15:17|| Front Page Top

#5 The Oklahoma City bombing connection interests me. I've lived in Oklahoma City since 1986 and I've never bought into the idea that McVey did this by himself (with only half-hearted help from Nichols).

Posted by Crusader 2007-10-11 15:26|| 2007-10-11 15:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Texas Light Infantry...hmmm? Wonner if they know how to build fences and man guard towers?

Posted by Besoeker 2007-10-11 16:56|| 2007-10-11 16:56|| Front Page Top

#7 #4 What's the name of the FBI'S operation against Islamic Supremacists?
Have they infiltrated CAIR, etc.?
Posted by AlanC

No shit I was just thinking the same thing.

Posted by Icerigger 2007-10-11 17:35|| 2007-10-11 17:35|| Front Page Top

#8 But FBI headquarters abruptly terminated the undercover operation -- code-named PATCON -- just three months after the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.

Lots and lots of hind-sight. Nowhere in this is there any analysis of political or operational conditions that may have led to terminating the operation.

Posted by Pappy 2007-10-11 21:05|| 2007-10-11 21:05|| Front Page Top

#9 thanks Mike. I'm sure the next attack will be by white supremacists.

/Obi-Wan Sylwester: "These are not the Islamists you're looking for"

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-10-11 21:40|| 2007-10-11 21:40|| Front Page Top

#10 White Supremacist = uneducated and insecure fool.

Quick, for 5 points: Name a white supremacist PhD.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2007-10-11 22:31|| 2007-10-11 22:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Okay, i'll bite, isn't this how OKALHOMA CITY BOMBING got started???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-10-11 22:43|| 2007-10-11 22:43|| Front Page Top

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