Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Politics of Hatred 8/6/19

Politics of Hatred

The U.S. Leadership seeks to treat Domestic Terrorism as a Community Mental Health Services Issue.   POTUS - ‘We need to improve and enhance Mental Health Treatment’. POTUS identified the Internet, Video Games, and Mental Illness as The Problem. ‘Mental Illness pulls the trigger, not Guns.’
41 spent shells were found at the scene of the Dayton, Ohio 30-Second Massacre, and The U.S. President says Mental Health is The Issue; not Guns.  We are Morally Leaderless.
POTUS – speaks of Racial Invasion; Infestation. Invasion = “Rapists, Murderers, Drug Dealers…” “Mexican, Liberal Judges will not protect Me”, (Us.) Pres Trump says among the Murderous Neo-Nazis of Charlottesville, there were some ‘very fine people’. Sure. ‘Very Fine’ Murderous Nazis.
So if ‘We’ face an infusion, an ‘Infestation’, an ‘Invasion’ of ‘Foreigners’, who threaten ‘Us’, then the obvious ‘Solution’, (Final), is to Exterminate, Defend, Repel, the ‘Invasion’ by any and all means. Not only Legal, Judicial, Legislative Measures, but Any means Necessary.  Such ‘Necessary Measures’ naturally, do not exclude Violence; Extermination, Elimination of the ‘Threat’.
Trump’s Plan – Anti-Terror Budget Cuts and Nice Words after Mass Murder. The Trump Administration has over time, cut funding, and terminated Domestic Anti-Terror Federal Services and Programs.  Trump’s Administration: “The administration is seeking a total of $568 million in cuts from counter-terrorism programs from 2017 levels” The report is based on a document sent from the Office of Management and Budget back to the Department of Homeland Security containing White House guidance on the proposed 2019 budget.
 In June 2017, the department stripped grant funding from several groups that implement programs countering violent extremism, redistributing the grant money away from groups that work among right-wing extremists. That move came under fire two months later after a counter protester was killed at a far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
 “Under this administration, there’s been a precipitous decline in the dedicated staff and program funding devoted to combating ideologically motivated violence.Dept. of Homeland Security Office of Community Partnerships former director, George Selim.
“What’s undeniable is that his administration has hobbled the infrastructure designed to prevent such murders.” Peter Beinart Professor of journalism at the City University of New York
Then, when the inevitable violence strikes; Pres. Trump stumbles his way through some mealy-mouth speech about ‘Unity’ and how “Hate has no place in America … hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart and devours the soul…”. Yeah, Sure. Nice Words.

 “Twenty years ago, we grossly underestimated the rising threat of Islamist terrorism. We cannot afford to wait for the white-supremacist equivalent.”
Ali Soufan is a former F.B.I. special agent and the author of “Anatomy of Terror.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/opinion/white-supremacy-terrorism.html  (Oklahoma City – McVeigh, Remember?)