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QUESTION: Considering the racial unrest sweeping the nation, are domestic terrorist organizations likely planning attacks in the U.S.? We asked @stick631 Scott Stewart. Follow this thread for the answer.
ANSWER: "Absolutely, 100%. Some white supremacists somewhere are definitely planning an attack as we speak. The problem under leaderless resistance is identifying and stopping them.
White supremacy is one of several right-wing extremist ideologies that pose a domestic terrorism threat in the U.S. White supremacism is the belief that whites are superior to other races and therefore should either dominate or be separate from other races.
As seen by incidents such as the sacking of Lawrence Kansas in 1856 and the founding of the Ku Klux Klan in 1865, white supremacist terror and violence in the U.S. even predates the advent of modern terrorism during the Victorian era.
Because of this, white supremacist groups have been heavily targeted by law enforcement for many decades. As demonstrated by the 1988 trial of 14 white supremacist leaders in Ft. Smith AR, who were charged with seditious conspiracy,
white supremacist groups have long been penetrated by law enforcement officers and agents. The Ft. Smith sedition trial caused white supremacist groups to embrace the concept of leaderless resistance, in which lone actors and small cells conduct attacks based on
guidance provided by white supremacist ideologues using the cover of First Amendment, who attempt to maintain a physical separation from those planning attacks. In this way the white supremacist threat today is very similar to the jihadist threat in that
the primary threat is posed by lone actors & small cells radicalized & operationalized over the Internet. We do occasionally see hierarchical groups emerge, such as Atomwaffen & The Base, but these groups attacks are often detected & thwarted due to law enforcement penetration."
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