On Boston Bombing Anniversary, CNN Analyst Says U.S. Right-Wing Extremists Kill More Than Jihadists
Are “right-wing” extremists more dangerous than Al-Qaeda terrorists? According to CNN’s National Security Analyst Peter Bergen, they are. In a CNN commentary posted yesterday Bergen wrote, “U.S. right wing extremists [are] more deadly than jihadists.” He also also happens to be a director for the George Soros-funded liberal New America Foundation. What a coincidence.
Bergen claimed that “white supremacists, anti-abortion
extremists and anti-government militants have killed more people in the
United States than have extremists motivated by al Qaeda’s ideology.” He
cited a New America study which counted 34 people killed by right-wing extremist acts and just 23 people killed by Al Qaeda-linked terrorism, after 9/11. Why start there? Wouldn’t the 2,977 people killed that day by jihadists skew those findings somewhat?
The
study conveniently left out certain key things -- such as the number of
prevented terrorist attacks each year and the multitude of jihadist
attacks that happen globally. It also avoided the day of the biggest
terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Nor did it address the attacks on the
U.S. embassy in Benghazi in 2012, which killed four Americans.
The count included “hate crimes” in the tally of “political
reasons.” Which is funny considering that Bergen cited the Southern
Poverty Law Center in his article. The SPLC could be accused of a “hate
crime” itself for inciting the shooting at the Family Research Council
in 2012. Floyd Lee Corkins admitted that he targeted the conservative
organization after the SLPC listed the FRC as a “hate group” for it’s “anti-gay” stance on marriage.
The study’s tally seemed suspect as well, considering that they
counted domestic disputes where police officers are killed as “hate
crimes” influenced by “political reasons.” For example, they included a
2009 shootout in a Pittsburgh home where Robert Poplawski killed three
police officers after his mother called the police during an argument.
Later it was revealed that Poplawski had anti-Semitic views and was an
alleged skinhead.
Again in 2009, two deputies were fatally shot by Joshua
Cartwright, as he was being arrested for accusations of beating his
wife. Similarly, later reports from his wife and friends said that was
disturbed over Obama’s election. Clearly these cases were not political
acts, yet New America categorized the shootouts as “deadly right wing attacks.”
Furthermore, Bergen claimed that right-wing extremists were far
more dangerous than jihadist terrorists because “al Qaeda has not
successfully conducted another attack inside the United States” since
2001. He went on to say, “al Qaeda-type terrorism is the province of
individuals with no real connection to foreign terrorists, aside from
reading their propaganda online.”
Yet in this age, the internet is a huge source of criminal
conduct for Bergen to dismiss concern over. The internet enables
terrorists to keep past terrorists propaganda active online. Anwar
al-Awlaki, who influenced the 9/11 hijackers, Ft. Hood shooter and the
“underwear bomber” was killed in a drone attack in 2011, but he has
continued to influence jihadists. From 2007-2012, 53 home-grown
jihadists were found to “had contact with Awlaki, possessed his
propaganda or cited his work,” according to the report.
The New America study also showed 66 jihadists who were trained abroad.
The study claimed the jihadists had outnumbered home-grown extremists
in nine of the past 13 years. Both arguments show that jihadists are a
major threat.
The New America study left out important factors, mislabeled
unrelated acts as “hate crimes” and ignored the important influence of
the social network in making terrorism a viable threat still in America.
This kind of analysis that unnecessarily pitted “right-wingers” against
jihadists is to be expected from a George Soros-funded organization.
Several notable liberals make up New America Foundation’s board of directors. George Soros’ son Jonathan Soros;
executive chairman for Google, Eric Schmidt; Steve Rattner who led the
Obama auto industry bailout, and CNN anchor Fareed Zakaria. George
Soros has contributed more than $3 million dollars to the left-wing
public policy organization New America.
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kristine-marsh/2014/04/15/boston-bombing-anniversary-cnn-analyst-says-us-right-wing-extremists#ixzz2z5aqUTTp
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