The January 6 Capitol riot was not an insurrection. The protesters were unarmed. There was no plan to overthrow the government, no ringleader, no actual incitement or call to violence from Trump. Nothing. And aside from that, they have to go back to Oklahoma City, Waco, and Ruby Ridge, all of which took place over two decades ago, which in itself demonstrates that they don’t have any recent incidents of “white supremacist terrorism” to invoke. The Proud Boys are not white supremacists. They aren’t terrorists, either; if they had been responsible for any actual terrorist act, you can be sure Alexander Nazaryan would have mentioned it here.
Meanwhile, there has been the Boston Marathon jihad attack, and the Orlando and Fort Hood and San Bernardino jihad massacres, and numerous others that have gotten little or no media attention, and no demonstration of concern from Merrick Garland. And note how violent rioting from Antifa and Black Lives Matter are dismissed below. So we have actual violence from jihadis: not mentioned. Actual violence from leftists: dismissed as minor or unimportant amid “mostly peaceful” protests. No violence from white supremacists: claims that groups that aren’t white supremacist actually are, and assertions that they’re terrorist, with no evidence offered at all.
This is deception and deflection at the highest level of government. The agenda of Garland and his colleagues is obvious and insidious: they’re going to find those white supremacist terrorists, and they’re going to prosecute and destroy them. If they don’t find any white supremacists in sufficient numbers, they will claim that others are white supremacists, and defame and destroy them accordingly. Garland’s spurious assessment of the domestic terror threat must be seen against the backdrop of the left’s increasingly common habit of referring to virtually anyone who opposes the hard-left, socialist agenda of Biden’s handlers and the establishment media as a white supremacist. This isn’t just a smear. It’s a smear with a definite purpose, and is heading us straight to the roundup of dissidents.
“White supremacy is top security threat, Garland says,” by Alexander Nazaryan, Yahoo News, May 12, 2021:
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland told Congress on Wednesday that violence incited by white supremacists poses “the most dangerous threat to our democracy.” That assertion reflects near-universal consensus among national security experts, including those who worked for the Trump administration.
Garland’s warning came during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, which was conducted by supporters of then-President Donald Trump and incited by white supremacist groups like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. Five people died as a result of the attack.
“In my career as a judge and in law enforcement, I have not seen a more dangerous threat to democracy than the invasion of the Capitol,” Garland said, calling the attack an “attempt to interfere with a fundamental element of our democracy, the peaceful transfer of power.” The attorney general went on to say that “there has to be a hierarchy of things that we prioritize. This would be the one we’d prioritize.”
In 1995, Garland investigated the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City by white supremacists, an attack that killed 168 people, including 19 children. The bombing came at a time when militants were galvanized by violent encounters with federal authorities in Waco, Texas, and Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
The threat of domestic terrorism receded in the public imagination after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, which were carried out by Islamic fundamentalists from Saudi Arabia and other nations. But as that threat has diminished in recent years, militant white nationalism has returned as a top concern.
“The horror of domestic violent extremism is still with us,” Garland said in his opening remarks, discussing his work on the Oklahoma City bombing and the Unabomber case. He noted that encrypted internet messaging and the increased availability and sophistication of “lethal weaponry” make the threat of domestic terror greater than it has ever been….
Trump infamously told one such group, the Proud Boys, to “stand back and stand by” during a presidential debate when a moderator confronted him on the topic. But instead of taking meaningful steps to address the white supremacist threat, Trump urged officials in his administration to focus on antifa, a loosely organized network of leftist radicals that is not widely considered a threat to national security.
Republicans continue to insist that antifa and Black Lives Matter are as great a threat to national security as white supremacy, though research has shown that most of last summer’s Black Lives Matter-inspired protests were peaceful. While some violence and looting did occur, intense media coverage — in particular by conservative outlets like Fox News — may have provided a distorted image of those protests….
CogitoErgoSum says
The most troubling thing about “white supremacists” is that you don’t even have to be white to be one of them.
Raja says
CogitoErgoSum,
Is he referring to the Islamic diehards? or is he referring to some like me?
This is one way of whitewashing and obfuscation of the Islamic terror. The Left, like Islam is constantly lying to serve their political agenda,.
CogitoErgoSum says
I don’t think even he knows.
Rob Porter says
CogitoErgoSum – Merrick Garland doesn’t want to know! In his sick little warped leftist mind this is the way it is. Despite all the evidence to the contrary – 9/11, Muslim jihad terrorism with mass executions, Black Lives Matter violence, murder and destruction, and Antifa violence – to Merrick Garland these are not the pressing threat. White supremacism is. He has an agenda, it has nothing to do with facts, truth and reality, but this lie is what Garland will pursue.
Violence and destruction I saw in South Africa vastly outweighed anything I witnessed at the Capitol (that from my African perspective was a minor event) and is evidence that the Capitol invasion did not remotely amount to insurrection. Yes, there was vandalism, windows and doors were smashed, but we also saw men and women (wearing skirts and high-heels) fairly casually strolling through passages of the Capitol. We are supposed to think that violence and damage at the Capitol vastly exceeded that of BLM last summer and that Garland and his lying mob have never seen worse violence and destruction. It’s a sham and a lie. If insurrection had been intended the Capitol would have burned.
As Robert pointed out and making matters worse, this disgusting Attorney General’s assertion
“reflects near-universal consensus among national security experts, including those who worked for the Trump administration.” What a pathetic state of affairs! Truth and logic plays little or no role in their thinking. The country is going to pay a heavy price for this stupidity, deceit and lies. It will make the excesses of McCarthyism look like chickenfeed and destroy America. In the midst of this domestic distraction China, Iran, Turkey and Russia will run wild and make the world a vastly more dangerous place.
The America I once admired has gone mad. It now produces lying, deceiving, raving imbeciles like Merrick Garland who instead of being in a lunatic asylum is the country’s Attorney General. Compounding this mess, this raving liar is the choice of Joe Biden for AG, so we can bet his warped thinking reflects that of Biden and has Biden’s approval.
Raja says
CogitoErgoSum,
That’s simply hilarious..
mortimer says
Many American Hindus are MAGA economic nationalists. It’s working well for those hard-working Americans!
Infidel says
Actually, that’s the funniest part about 2020s ‘White’ Supremacy – anyone, of any race, regardless of whether they support ‘Whites’ running their lives, can qualify as ‘White Supremacist’. Candace Owens has been called that, I have a Japanese-American friend who’s been called that… honestly, the people who peddle that belong in an asylum
mortimer says
Exactly. MAGA is not a ‘race’ … it is economic nationalism.
Rob Porter says
Infidel – “.. honestly, the people who peddle that belong in an asylum.” That means
that pretty much most of the left, its media and thus the Democrat’s supporters, “belong in an asylum.”
mortimer says
Yes, many of the MAGA group are not ‘white’, but Latino, Asian, Native American and Afro-American. The Diktokrats are smearing an entire race and most Republicans because they disagree with economic globalism.
gravenimage says
This is true, CogitoErgoSum. Black African feminist Ayyan Hirsi Ali has been accused of being a “white supremacist” for opposing the horrors of Jihad and Shari’ah.
william says
Oh the irony!
Grace says
Garland has an agenda and it’s to deliver White Supremacists scalps to the Democrats wherever he thinks he has found them. If he can’t find them he will make them up. Bitterly angered at the Republicans because he didn’t get a recommendation to the Supreme Court he is on a path to revenge. His dangerous crusade must be stopped before even more serious damage has been done to the fight for the survival of the Republic.
william says
CES. He also ignores the fact that the FBI and CIA have prevented dozens of jihadist attacks on US citizens through their skilled undercover operations.. The attacks prevented hardly ever get any attention from the MSM who are only interested when they actually take place.
Diane Harvey says
Garland says: “When someone tries to promote or impose an ideology through acts of violence, those acts can be the most dangerous crimes we confront as a society.”
He was talking about Muslims, right?
peter says
Very good point ! People forget that there other supremacist is that there other supremacists including muslim supremacist who are the majority terrorists around the globe including Israel and India!
Bob C says
what a transparent fool
he actually believes that people believe what he says
mortimer says
If the word ‘RACIST’ were banned, Merrick Garland and the Diktokrats would have almost nothing to talk about.
revereridesagain says
It’s the old story, repeat a lie often enough, get enough people to repeat the same lie, and it “becomes the truth”. Most people don’t think independently. They just repeat what they hear other people say, and if they’re all watching nothing but CNN every night what you get is a nation full of parrots in sheep’s clothing.
Herr Merrick Garland is counting on that.
mortimer says
He DOESN’T believe his own lies, because it’s a Globalist conspiracy. He is hired by the oligarchs to say whatever they pay him to say. He must salve his conscience by pretending that he is not responsible for the untruths he promotes for his paymasters … and anyway … someone else will get paid to do what he is doing if he doesn’t do it … so why not?
Herr Merrick Garland is a comrade of Goebbels and Mussolini … he dare not admit that to himself. He is part of the new Globalist-Fascism of Big Tech oligarchs, Big Corporations and ivory tower elitists. They are using government as a CONSPIRACY against the interests of voters.
That is why they needed to steal the 2020 elections and rig all future elections.
The enemies of the Globalists are the economic Nationalists of MAGA. Herr Merrick Garland smears and slanders anyone who is not a Globalist.
Even Hitler had a personal solicitor.
Rarely says
Interesting assertions. What evidence do you have to back up these allegations?
Phil Copson says
Wasn’t there another incident involving Garland and a govt orchestrated murder attempt against conservative speakers ? I wonder if Robert Spencer, Pam Geller, and Geert Wilders can fill us in on the details ?
Eric says
This is logical based on the number of white supremacists who have flown airliners into buildings, and blown up people at social gatherings like Marathon runs and nightclubs.
There is an element of truth to what he declares as an immutable fact: the current Administration’s foreign and domestic policies are so anti-American that the danger of armed revolt against the federal government (as legitimized in the preamble to the US Constitution) is becoming, with each Biden transgression, closer to a real talking point. But it will be more than white supremacists rebelling.
JB says
Well stated.
Wellington says
The white supremacist lie spouted by the Left in America today is akin to the Jewish supremacist mendacity spouted by the Nazis in the early 20th century.
Am I making a comparison between the Nazi Germany of old and the Left in America today? You’re damn right I am. It was egregiously wrong then and it is egregiously wrong now. Same basic tactics though—just substitute BLM and Antifa barbarians, de facto arms of the Democratic Party, for the Brownshirt (SA) barbarians, de jure arm of the Nazi Party.
The white supremacism crap is being pushed by Leftists who want to deflect attention from where the real rot lies, which includes the Democratic Party, the MSM—BLM and Antifa of course as well— and a shitload of highly ignorant young Americans who have been taught to despise the greatest experiment in human history, i.e., the United States of America.
As for Merrick Garland specifically, he is either a liar or an idiot. What he is alleging is representative of the early stages here in America of the demonization of all conservatives by way of aligning them with the looney, but almost non-existent, Far Right.
Meanwhile, the old liberals are almost gone and what constitutes the Left in America is now practically indistinguishable from the Far Left, which has, essentially, taken over the Democratic Party and with a true figurehead, a puppet, a dope with dementia, as the President.
Things looking bleak and one knows this or should know it. No third alternative.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“…what constitutes the Left in America is now practically indistinguishable from the Far Left, which has, essentially, taken over the Democratic Party…”
It seems to have happened with the suddenness of a broken shoelace…
Naildriver says
I’ve been watching this BS of ‘white supremicism’ develop, mostly as a means to obfuscate attention of seeing the collusion with our enemies as Islam, over the past decade; and it rather reveals the serious treason and depth of corruption of many of the Democrats and some Republicans — ‘The Swamp’.
The so-called white ‘supremacists’ are merely citizens who find treason against the USA unacceptable. The Justice Department and FBI, so involved in furthering such lies; along with t he fake news, reveals an extreme partisan bias with aims at a real insurrection — by way of an imported and treasonous enemy.
gravenimage says
There are real white supremacists–they are a *very* small group, though.
Naildriver says
Yes, there are such, as the bell curve slides down to the left.
And, I suspect there will be some very high profile new comers as white supremacists too, as the media want them; so, it becomes a publicity and a craving attention kind of thing as well.
So effectively vilified is the term ‘White Supremacist’, that it can be applied to virtually any group of people that do not have a person of color in the ranks — and sometimes even it it does.
gravenimage says
Yes, many people are being falsely smeared with this term.
Eleanor says
There are, and I bet the Lefties cannot wait for them to put a foot wrong, just to prove their point. And while they are waiting, they will ignore any other terrorist incidents carried out by others who are not white.
Donovan Nuera says
Has he been to Chicago, Baltimore, Riverside County, Detroit, et al. recently??? Heck, has he made a trip to Tijuana (2500 murders last year vs cross-border neighbor (but larger population) San Diego only had 55..mostly gang-associated) or Ciudad Juarez?? I did not know there were a bunch of Gringo Supremacists in Mehico??????
What about the JIHADIST terror attack in Boulder, CO…..gee..that went off the news within 24 hours. No vigils or updates on Jihad boy.
I love how they always quote that bogus report of there have been more “white supremacist killings” than jihadists since the CONVENIENT DATE of 9/12/2001…..rather than a round number like 2000. I wonder what happened on 9/11/01??
Donovan Nuera says
Correction: He was born and raised in Northern Chicago area. Yet that makes him more oblivious as he must know the stats better. Unless he was scarred by the Klan marching through Skokie where his high school was.
Ren says
Merrick Garland is as dumb as he can be
Dapto says
Biggest threat to the world is the American Democratic Nazi party
Terry Gain says
They are indeed a threat, but they rank behind Communist China.
mortimer says
This is Stalinism.
Wellington says
Agreed, mortimer. At least at this point it is Stalinism light. But with Leftist rogues like the despicable Brennan and that monumental fool, AOC, calling for lists to be drawn up of Trump supporters, we could move to full Stalinism sooner than many would think we could.
The bottom line for me here in America is that while conservatism over the past half century or so really hasn’t changed at all—indeed, one could argue that is has become more enlightened and has increasingly embraced Jeffersonian liberalism—traditional liberalism from a half century ago or so has almost entirely disappeared and has been replaced with a Far Leftism that is inimical to liberty, equality under the law, capitalism and the application of the rule of law overall. The emergence of woeful people like Omar, Tlaib, Schiff, AOC, Pressley, Swalwell, Harris, Pelosi, Schumer, etc. into positions of power (never mind the man with dementia who is now POTUS) only testify to this ominous descent.
And I see no light right now at the end of the tunnel. Meanwhile, pronouns are sexist and transgenderism is considered a lifestyle to be applauded rather than a disorder that should be sympathized with.
The Age of Nonsense marches on. You bet it does. And, at present, the Democratic Party in the USA is “leading the way” here, aided directly or indirectly by RINOs aplenty.
Past my time for a beer tonight but I’ll be having a couple tomorrow, preferably with one or more fine pork products. Take care, pal.
James Lincoln says
Wellington says,
“…pronouns are sexist and transgenderism is considered a lifestyle to be applauded rather than a disorder that should be sympathized with.”
And what’s even worse, this “pathology” is starting to be preached to kids down at the grade school level…
Wellington says
Yes, James. And to date not near enough people are speaking out against the utter nonsense we are being pummeled with. And children are the real victims here because of hesitation by adults who know better.
Time to speak out. Loud and clear like. If this elicits bad feelings among friends and family, so be it because truth is ultimately more important than friendship of any kind, even family relations.
Of course, any reasonable person wants both, i.e., good relations and the recognition where the truth lies, but if the choice is between truth and good relations, truth must win out, must be given precedence. It’s a stark, even ruthless, choice but an imperative one because truth must supersede all else.
When truth is a casualty except for the most minor of reasons (e.g., not telling a fat person who asks if you think them fat and one says no), only greater harm will ensue—guaranteed.
James Lincoln says
Fully agree, Wellington.
gravenimage says
Attorney General Merrick Garland: ‘white supremacists’ are top domestic terror threat
……………………..
Utter tripe.
Here is Garland targeting conservatives:
https://www.minotdailynews.com/opinion/national-columnists/2021/04/beware-of-dems-proposed-domestic-terrorism-law/
somehistory says
Noor bin Laden read that the people are also being called “patriot extremists.”
those people who see that the government is corrupt and want to see things set right according to the Constitution. Just as the Constitution calls for and the way the government was designed to work. Tyranny is to be overturned, not allowed to take over and turn the nation into the kind of place that the Pilgrims and others fled with great risk to their lives.
Annie Cyrus said she sees it as a global thing, that all of the nations are busy doing the same thing.
Every country seems to be bowing to the “beast” of islam…doing the mozlums’ bidding even when it would be possible to say no.
born saturday says
the pakistani studs are doing a good job then arent they??? then again, i wonder, how can men with such small peanuses offer such great pleasure to gays and women, around the world, making them so enthusiastic??? what is the trick??
JohnTheRevelator says
Ya look at all those ‘white nationalists’ raining rockets down on Israeli cities, organizing pogroms against the Jewish citizens, slaughtering Christians/Atheists in Nigeria, gang-raping tens of thousands of children in Europe and invading by the millions.
Damn those white supremacists pulled off nearly 40,000 terrorist attacks since 9/11. Oh silly me, I meant MUSLIMS.
Either the Dems are insane and believe their own propaganda/lies and think they can fool the rest of us, or they fully support Muslims and the death and destruction they cause around the world or they are blind to it and think their arch-enemy really is the center-right.
Perhaps it’s all of the above, but it’s clear they are becoming as much of a problem as our Islamic enemies, esp. given their warped way they see reality. Do they really think that Muslims will just leave them alone after they’re done destroying the rest of human civilization? What kind of drug-induced fantasyland do they live in?
Leftism and Islam are completely incompatible, the Muslims will have Liberals bowing down 5 times a day to their magic rock in Mecca and using them as cannon fodder in their endless jihads. They really deserve each other.
Terry Gain says
Excellent article. The threat to peace and civility comes almost entirely from the left. Antifa, BLM and Black Street Gangs are responsible for the lawlessness in Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, Baltimore and other cities controlled by Democrats.
Garland is gaslighting and telling us not to believe our lying eyes. Not everyone is fooled.
Recently in Plano Texas, a BLM mob obstructed traffic and a driver got out of his vehicle to confront the protestors. A protestor pointed what appeared to be a gun at him. The Plano police arrested the driver for slapping a hand away from his face and did not enforce the law against the mob. AG Paxton issued a scathing criticism of the police.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2021/05/11/texas-ag-shreds-plano-police-chief-after-man-confronting-road-blocking-militant-blm-protesters-only-one-charged-1072588/
Goofy says
Is they any movement which is more obsessed with supremacy and whiteness than Islam?
OLD GUY says
WOW there must be millions of white Supremacists, are there? I think not. Watching the left media shows a different story of groups like Black Lives Matter and A.N.T.I.F.A. who are made up of mostly BLACKS that are rioting, looting, and committing violence against their fellow citizens who are simply trying to make a living. Take a look at the killings and shootings around the country, most are committed by Blacks on Blacks in our DEMOCRATIC run cities.
Merrick get your head out of your ass and off the political plate and do your job of enforcing the LAWS that are already on the books, Like controlling our borders, Biden is breaking the laws of this country by allowing and encouraging illegal entry to our country. If I don’t follow the FEDERAL and STATE LAWS I get ARRESTED, so why do politicians who are SWOREN to uphold the laws of our country get away with violating them? You are the top legal guy, do your job and deport all the ILLEGAL people that our political leaders have illegally allowed to enter and stay in America. Arrest and prosecute rioters who disrupt and destroy private and tax payer property and harm individuals, that’s your job. And you know what I don’t care what color they are or what country they are from, if they commit a crime or are here illegally they need to be arrested and convicted for breaking the GREAT LEGAL SYSTEM YOU ARE SWOREN to UPHOLD. DO YOUR JOB!
ROBERT CARRILLO says
It is no wonder why this guy did NOT make the SCOTUS confirmation process..
Anita says
Only the fraud obamao could possibly imagine an inept, corrupt buffoon that is garland would be justice material. But then again, the community organizer, the street rabble rouser, obamao , was not leadership material either.
Anita says
The only top domestic terrorist group is the unelected Stalinist usurpers : thief China joe thug and corrupt cackling kamala and their cabal of marxistdems.
This old fart Garland can barely articulate his marxistdems drivel. Meanwhile, the marxistdems brownshirts, blm and antifa commit arson, murder, battery and take over federal buildings.
The marxistdems corrupt media spouts fabrications as news and their koolaid drinkers lap it up.
Amerizuela.
Andrew Blackadder says
If certain morons continue to call somebody that looks like me as a “white supremacists”, then Im going to start thinking they really do believe I am superior to them because they keep telling me so….
Im guessing this new member of the Harris Brigade doesnt read the News often huh?.
jewdog says
One look at the pale, white-haired Merrick Garland and I have to agree about the threat from White people.
Carol Ann Stone says
Having gone from kindergarten through high school, growing up in the same upper middle class, mostly Jewish suburb (Lincolnwood) of Chicago with the Attorney General, I can tell y’all he is brilliant. I grew up in the same cultural atmosphere… liberal democrat. Somewhere along the way, Merrick seems to have become more politician than impartial judge, which I find tragic.
Attacking his looks, personality and such is a Saul Alinsky tactic (google him, he’s scarey) and is merely a distraction/deflection. Where is the civil, adult discussion or critique of his words and actions?
Personally, I’d like to think Merrick is too smart to spout that progressive drivel, yet he does. I can only hope he doesn’t actually believe it…
I am a recovering liberal democrat from Chicago