Despite articles touting a significant decrease in crime rates across the United States, Attorney General Eric Holder insists he is being kept up at night by the “growing threat” of Americans killing one another.
Of course evidence to the contrary is never a good reason to avoid a good scare story, and Holder’s is the familiar sort, the same claim that anyone, anywhere, at any time might be a terrorist who launches a major attack.
There’s an “alarming rise,” according to Holder, but really, when has there ever not been an official claim that there is an alarming rise in threats? They are the same old combination of loopy theories and invented plots ending with spectacular arrests.
Holder’s fears will almost certainly be somewhat salved by the news that the FBI is building a massive database which one day will include data on every American citizen who ever looked funny at a police officer. But until that day, we can expect more restless nights and more scaremongering days.
I think if I were a President so gung-ho on stopping the threat of domestic terrorism, I'd be very very wary of any one individual being given this amount of control and access to the public and private information of each and every US citizen as well as each and every visitor from abroad. What terrorist leader wouldn't give for such a trove of information??
Holder seems to suspect the Average joe of being a potential terrorist given the right conditions- what guarantee do WE have that Holder himself isn't going to 'go postal' (mailmen, please forgive the term) and begin his own little bloodthirsty terrorist network under the guise of 'national security'? We already know every US government official has a price he or she can be bought at- what is Holder's price and who is already working to pony up the cash for his loyalty?
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Holder is using scaremongering to justify the FBI'S data collection and all the other agencies collecting data on Americans. It to increase their budgets which are for the purpose of graft and corruption.
I think Holder has a point about Americans killing each other, but not because of terrorists acts…
But when the government fails to sustain the economy because they are in the pockets of Wall Street, and when the system completely fails, yes there are going to be plenty of Americans killing Americans, but to get food and medicine for their familes, not to make a political statement….
Maybe Mr. Holder should sit down with the president and mention that to him…Holder needs to tell the president that the biggest single threat to this country is not from Islam, but from Goldman Sachs, and their men (and his) Timmy and Larry and all the others that are more aligned with wall Street than they are with main street…that is the real threat to America…
We must remain vigilant against those who wish us il. Our brave young fighting men, women and drones must be protected.
If you see someone moving boxes in and out of their house, call the authorities, let them handle it. They have the expertise.
You never know where we are going to be hit from next.
Home grown terrorists must be stopped using homegrown methodology.
One difference vs. Bush's scaremongering: The Obama admin is hyping the non-existent violent Tea Party threat.
American empire is dying…the prospects of an America that is no longer safe for financial terrorists, the military industrial complex, our joke MSM…the end of a country that practices an economic system of corporate socialism and capitalism for the rest of us…..that is what keeps Holder up at night.
get rid of homegrown terror by getting rid of homegrown government and administration. bring on nader and ron paul
Sounds like Clinton era scaremongering.