Growing threat of extreme right-wing violence

[Ombudsman]

... right-wing extremists were indicted in 2012 -- including six who were involved in a militia in Georgia that accumulated weapons, plotted attacks on the government and murdered a young U.S. Army soldier and his 17-year-old girlfriend, who they suspected were planning to rat out the group to authorities. Seven claimed membership in the anti-government Sovereign Citizens movement and allegedly murdered two policemen in Louisiana. And two had gone on a murderous rampage the previous year, killing four people before they were arrested in California, where they told police they were on their "way to Sacramento to kill more Jews."

By comparison, in 2012, only six people who subscribed to al Qaeda's ideology were indicted on terrorism-related charges in the United States, confirming the trend of the past four years, which is a sharp decline in such cases that has been documented by the authors in previous pieces for CNN.com...

...But the New America data shows that domestic terrorists motivated by non-jihadist ideologies now pose a similar or even greater threat than those who admire al Qaeda. We define non-jihadist terrorists to be those who carry out or aspire to carry out acts of politically motivated violence, and who fall into the following categories: right-wing extremists who oppose the government, subscribe to a neo-Nazi ideology, or oppose homosexuality or abortion; left-wing extremists; violent animal rights activists; and violent environmental activists.

Over the past several years, acts or plots of non-jihadist terrorism have derived almost entirely from right-wing extremists like the soldiers' militia in Georgia and the anti-government group in Louisiana. Of the 54 non-jihadist terrorists indicted between 2010 and 2012, 47 were right-wing extremists.

[rstrong]

Two months after Obama was sworn in, WingNutDaily published a leaked DHS report on rightwing extremism. The rightwing blogosphere had a conniption over right-wing militias and anti-government groups being mentioned, and held it up as proof of Obama's plans for a commie Marxist socialist takeover.

Of course if they bothered to look at the document properties, they'd find that it was first published in January 2007.

[O Really]

Maybe we could encourage ATF et. al. to work harder at removing guns from "cold dead fingers."

[billy.pilgrim]

I believe he is living in the Boca area and is a staunch repug

but it ain't really terrorism cause only cubana and south americans got killed and we never had no problems killing and exploiting them (pssst - their skin ain't really white neither)

[rstrong]

Posada's airliner bombing accomplice and fellow CIA asset Orlando Bosch was given safe haven within the US in 1990 by President George H. W. Bush. As head of the CIA in 1976, declined an offer by Costa Rica to extradite Bosch.

The two also played a role in the assassination of Chilean Orlando Letelier. Letelier's car was bombed on Embassy Row in Washington, also killing an American and wounding her husband. Bosch was known to have carried out other bombings in the United States, Canada and Latin America.

Bosch lived happily ever after in the US, as Posada is doing.