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2021-03-20 Home Front: Politix
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas: Jihad Is Over, 'Domestic Extremism' Most ‘Lethal and Persistent' Threat to U.S.
[PJ] As Antifa in Portland has announced more riots for tonight and tomorrow night, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas just claimed at a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee that the most "lethal and persistent terrorism-related threat" that the country faces today is "domestic, ideologically motivated extremism." It should be clear to everyone by now that by that, he means us: Americans who don’t support the far-left agenda of the Biden administration, the Democrats, and the establishment media.

Mayorkas also brought some good news: the global jihad is so very 2002, and we’re beyond all that now. According to Forbes, he claimed that "since the September 11 attacks, the threat landscape against the U.S. has substantially ’evolved’ to the point that foreign terrorism is no longer the chief concern of DHS." That’s wonderful, but he should hope that the Islamic jihadis don’t hear about this and decide that he has handed them a golden opportunity to operate inside the United States while DHS is otherwise occupied.

Certainly Mayorkas had other things on his mind, as he claimed that the riot at the Capitol on January 6 was a "searing example" of the threat the nation faces today. In line with this, Forbes reported, "DHS announced in February that it would provide $77 million to state and local governments to combat domestic violent extremism. At the time Mayorkas wrote in a statement that ’the most significant terrorist threat facing the nation comes from lone offenders and small groups’ whose violent acts are motivated by ’extremist ideological beliefs.’"

That’s where the insidious nature of what Mayorkas is saying is clearest. Conspicuously lacking once again is any definition of what exactly constitutes "domestic, ideologically motivated extremism" or "extremist ideological beliefs." Is it support for violence and actual insurrection (as opposed to a leaderless, weaponless but politically useful riot such as took place on January 6)? Or is it simply holding views that dissent from the hard-left agenda?
Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-20 05:56|| || Front Page|| [11153 views ]  Top

#1 Where did they find people like Mayorkas ?
Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-20 06:02||   2021-03-20 06:02|| Front Page Top

#2 ^Check the underside of the nearest rock
Posted by Warthog 2021-03-20 06:22||   2021-03-20 06:22|| Front Page Top

#3 And I would argue that the federal government is a domestic terror threat.
Posted by badanov 2021-03-20 06:48||   2021-03-20 06:48|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ I was unaware that there was still any 'argument' remaining.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-03-20 06:52||   2021-03-20 06:52|| Front Page Top

#5  "domestic, ideologically motivated extremism."

I'm surprised and pleased to hear him call out the Democratic party. Now can we hear about the operation you have in the works to deal with those anti-American traitors?
Posted by Mercutio 2021-03-20 06:57||   2021-03-20 06:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Where did they find people like Mayorkas ?

Cuba
Posted by Ebbavique Sneregum1636 2021-03-20 07:17||   2021-03-20 07:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Interesting way to announce the coup is complete.
Posted by Airandee 2021-03-20 08:09||   2021-03-20 08:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Mayorkas seems to have a myopic, biased view of the threats facing our country. An ophthalmologist might help for this condition but it is doubtful.
Posted by JohnQC 2021-03-20 08:12||   2021-03-20 08:12|| Front Page Top

#9 ^ Only if he is also a proctologist
Posted by Warthog 2021-03-20 08:43||   2021-03-20 08:43|| Front Page Top

#10 The DHS is another non-functioning TLA brought to us by George Bush and the current republican party, who also gave us John Roberts and the war in Afghanistan. The FBI, CIA, and DOJ are all broken and need to disbanded. Moving the Fed gov't to, say Topeka, might help.
Posted by irish rage boy  2021-03-20 09:27||   2021-03-20 09:27|| Front Page Top

#11  Mayorkas seems to have a myopic, biased view of the threats facing our country

It's the party not country. Everything in the party, nothing outside the party, nothing against the party. Anything against the party is 'domestic extremism'.

In the end, there can be only one.
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-03-20 09:50||   2021-03-20 09:50|| Front Page Top

#12 Accelerated schedule; get as much taint done with Biden so Harris starts with clean hands.
Posted by swksvolFF 2021-03-20 09:58||   2021-03-20 09:58|| Front Page Top

#13 They're playing with fire. At some point the people are going to rise up and fight back against these ridiculous lies and blatant power grabs
Posted by Angomoter Thrans6877 2021-03-20 10:26||   2021-03-20 10:26|| Front Page Top

#14 when the fuck is it gonna happen then?
Posted by Chris 2021-03-20 11:36||   2021-03-20 11:36|| Front Page Top

#15  sooner > later

lock & load
Posted by Gerthudion Snore9643 2021-03-20 11:56||   2021-03-20 11:56|| Front Page Top

#16 These people say and do their thing day and night. The American people roll in and overwhelm all at once. Ref Jan 6.
Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-03-20 12:10||   2021-03-20 12:10|| Front Page Top

#17 ...What pisses me off more than anything else is that you know we're going to live to regret those words.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-03-20 12:11||   2021-03-20 12:11|| Front Page Top

#18 You think jihad is over? Wait until you lift the Muslim travel ban.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-03-20 12:24||   2021-03-20 12:24|| Front Page Top

#19 I have racked my brain for a way short of the Lexington & Concord moment to confront the proto-Marxist takeover of the federal government. The stolen election, the death of the central voice of conservative talk radio, the unrelenting media campaign against a President whose policies were near picture perfect but who was victim of his own folbles, and the invented "insurrection" of a peaceful public display of that was manipulated and then miscast as a violent attempt to disrupt the peaceful functions of Congress. All this is cast by the propaganda arm of the Marxists as a domestic terrorist/white-supremacist/insurrection movement. The voice of angry citizens seeking redress is what this evil man defines as the greatest threat to the US. I fear it is a self-fulfilling prophesy if we cannot pull back the nation from this tragedy. But, there is a way to circumvent their lock on the mainstream and social media and censorship of most information sources of government. Imagine the reaction of seeing 74 million pieces of mail delivered to Nancy Pelosi by legions of USPS trucks. Physical objects they cannot censor or prevent from being delivered under penalty of law. Nothing violent or even dangerous, but so vast a sea of paper that even CNN cannot pretend it isn't happening or why it is! Circumventing the tech giants and social media influencers with old school mail, a tangible display of public will and dissatisfaction that can be repeated endlessly without risk of being miscast as violent demonstration. Big Tech can't stop it, or prevent it, and the media can't hide it. We just need a central voice to coordinate it, much as Limbaugh did in days past. I struggle only to find who best fits that role?
Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-03-20 12:44||   2021-03-20 12:44|| Front Page Top

#20  Mayorkas is nothing more than an ass kissing commie fool. Can you just see this AH on his knees in front of Biden ? Kerry is another fool in that same club.
Posted by crazyhorse 2021-03-20 13:10||   2021-03-20 13:10|| Front Page Top

#21 "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable"

JFK
Posted by warthog 2021-03-20 15:07||   2021-03-20 15:07|| Front Page Top

#22 I like that idea, NoMoreBS.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-03-20 16:07||   2021-03-20 16:07|| Front Page Top

#23 I do too.
Posted by Winky Sheart1325 2021-03-20 16:45||   2021-03-20 16:45|| Front Page Top

#24 You are welcome to test that assumption at your convivence.
Posted by DarthVader 2021-03-20 16:48||   2021-03-20 16:48|| Front Page Top

#25 The DHS is another non-functioning TLA brought to us by George Bush and the current republican party, who also gave us John Roberts and the war in Afghanistan.

Never mind the Democrats demanded the creation of DHS or they'd block every means of defense and striking back at the jihadis.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-03-20 18:24||   2021-03-20 18:24|| Front Page Top

#26 
Mayor-kas, May-or-kas, May-orkas, Ma-yorkas, M-a-yorkas, M-a-yo-r-kas, Mayo-rk-ass, My-yorkies


I thought this was called
pizza
Posted by Gopher Smith7407 2021-03-20 22:44||   2021-03-20 22:44|| Front Page Top

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