VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks

Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by steveklabnik on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @10:21AM (#10581544)

The FBI is concerned about white supremacists: http://thegrio.com/2015/05/12/fbi-white-supremacists-law-enf... (this particular domain isn't the best, but it's a story that was repeated all over the place) And stuff like https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/may/extremism_052212/e... , etc.

And they were in fact doing more, but a lot of it (along with funding) has gone by the wayside since 9/11.

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Re:VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris ... by theorique on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @03:09PM (#10583614)

This is at least in part due to their bad habit of depending on the partisan SPLC for "hate group" data. SPLC is in the business of making so-called "hate groups" into terrible bogeymen, because SPLC reaps significant financial rewards through scare-tactics fundraising the depends on the threat of such groups.

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