In comments today, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano warned that the government now considers “domestic extremism” as big a concern as international terrorism and conceded that the government doesn’t have a good handle on how to “prevent someone from becoming a violent extremist.”
In fact, Napolitano did not provide any examples of this actually happening, but it seems to have been a reference to a report by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that 36 American ex-convicts disappeared in Yemen and were assumed to have joined up with al-Qaeda.
Top Obama adviser John Brennan reiterated the concern, saying that the Obazma Administration held a meeting about it on Friday. Brennan cautioned that it was not just up to the federal government to stop domestic extremists, but that local Muslim communities needed to be responsible for detecting potential radicalization and informing the government “before they depart.”
It is coming out; Homeland defense never really was created for checking foreign extremism, but rather for keeping domestic extremism in check. Just waiting for the day when they start calling Anti-war.com extremist.
I guess we'll all see each other in the Government internment camps for American citizens? – the ones supposedly built on closed military bases by the Bush Administration. How soon before martial law in the U.S.?
And by the logic used by John Brennan, the local Christian community (or was he an atheist?) needed to be responsible for detecting radicalization of someone like Stacks — The IRS bomber. Thsi is the guy who actually caused harm to the homeland as opposed to those who went away to fight in a foreign war.
The War Against our own Citizens. See music video of a citizen banned for life from U.S. Courthouses:
— scott huminski
You don't kill American citizens & get away with it. Tim McVeigh.