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"On Wednesday, the White House released a new “United States Counterterrorism
Strategy,” the first such directive since a 2021 Biden-era memo emphasizing the
need to combat white supremacist violence, which has now been scrubbed from the
White House website.
Wednesday’s document, masterminded by White House “counterterrorism czar”
Sebastian Gorka, does not mention far-right violence at all. It identifies
“Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists” as a
security threat of equal severity to “Legacy Islamist Terrorists” and
“Narcoterrorists and Transnational Gangs.” The administration will now
apparently “prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent
secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically
pro-transgender, and anarchist.”
In a bizarre but familiar turn, the document also blames transgender people for
the shooting of Charlie Kirk. “Americans have witnessed the politically
motivated killings of Christians and conservatives committed by violent
left-wing extremists, including the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a radical
who espoused extreme transgender ideologies.”
Gorka told reporters at a press conference Wednesday that the administration
would “crush” any threat, “whether it is the cartels, the jihadists or violent
left-wing extremists like antifa—and like the transgender killers, the
nonbinary, the left-wing radicals who killed my friend, Charlie Kirk, we will
take them on, head on.”
In 2023, Trump claimed falsely that there had been an “incredible rise” in the
number of transgender shooters, claims that now resurface whenever shootings
occur.
But the document reads less like a plan than a list of targets. Rep. Bennie G.
Thompson (D-Miss.), the House Committee on Homeland Security’s ranking
Democrat, noted in a press release that the document left out the far right—the
group most likely to commit violent acts against civilians on US soil—“despite
years of data proving that right-wing extremism has presented the most
persistent and deadly threats to Americans for decades.”
Instead, Thompson said, the White House had produced “a document full of fake
administration counterterrorism ‘achievements,’ including mass deportations and
more than 40 unauthorized and deadly military strikes on vessels in the Western
Hemisphere. There are zero strategic objectives, lines of effort, or agency
assignments.”"
Via Janet Logan.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
