This, from the NegroCon for the GOP at the PD, who once tried to label the murder of a white mailman, by the black son of a friend, a HATE CRIME ... now anyone who hates the America the NegroCons GOP made US is ISIS: CBS 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley asked FBI Director James Comey a similar question in an interview that aired Sunday. He asked if radicalized “lone wolves” were the biggest terrorist threats America now faces? This was Comey’s response: “Yeah, people who use that term, it’s not one I like because it conveys a sense of dignity I don’t think they deserve. These homegrown violent extremists are troubled souls who are seeking meaning in some misguided way. And so they come across the propaganda and they become radicalized on their own, sort of independent study, and they’re also able to equip themselves with training again through the Internet, and then engage in jihad after emerging from their basement. “I prefer (the term) lone rat to capture the kind of person we’re talking about,” Comey said. Beyond the FBI director’s insults, what does his response to Pelley really mean? Are radicalized lone wolves, lone rats or whatever our government wants to call these latent terrorists, a severe and imminent threat? Or are these solo operators more of a junior varsity terrorism nuisance, as ISIS was once dangerously and dismissively described? This question isn’t a new one for law enforcement. Ever since the Sept. 11 attacks, national and local law enforcement have studied ways that terrorists are groomed and radicalized into carrying out violent missions. But still, do we really get it? And by we, I mean those charged with public safety. Are we really managing to stay one step ahead of a cunning and patient enemy? It appears that we are. But are we? It’s not just the radicalized jihadists emerging from their parents’ basements who represent Americas biggest threats. As the world watches, ISIS becomes the monster of all terrorism recruitment. It skillfully uses social media to expand its appeal and influence beyond the mosques and the basements of believers. In fact, we may have more to fear from the angry or the discontented young that proponents of terror can find in overcrowded prisons, homeless shelters, universities and unemployment offices. Before he left office, former FBI Director Robert Mueller pointedly warned that America’s prisons were “fertile grounds for extremists.” But in order to understand the burgeoning terrorists among us, we must understand who is susceptible to becoming radicalized and why. To dismiss them as lone rats – or lone rats in the making – seems to underplay the threat that an open, therefore vulnerable, nation faces. In a 2009 essay titled The Future of Terrorism, National Institute of Justice researcher John T. Picarelli wrote “Radicalization occurs when recruits align their existing worldview with the ideology of a group and commit themselves to using violence to achieve the group’s goals.” That was written before Twitter became an operating tool of groups like ISIS, and radical groups clarion calls made international news daily. It’s now been more than four weeks since Eric Frein was charged with emerging from his parents’ basement, killing one Pennsylvania State Trooper and wounding another. That rat described as a survivalist remains on the run. Frein has now made the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list. Law enforcement officials suspect Frein, 31, thinks the chase is a game. For all of us, dealing with these lone rats -- and wolves -- in these ever-increasing numbers is becoming the most dangerous game. cleveland/morris/index.ssf/2014/10/a_war_on_terror_wolves_and_rat.html#incart_opinion
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:32:21 +0000
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