The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under the administration of President Joe Biden is set to launch an initiative aimed at addressing the issue of domestic terrorism.
Under this initiative, the DHS intends to provide educational resources, including videos, to help individuals identify potential threats related to domestic terrorism. The focus of these materials will be on promoting awareness and understanding of the signs associated with radicalization.
President Joe Biden recently gave a graduation commencement address at Howard University, a Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) member, in which he claimed that “white supremacy” is the greatest terrorism threat to the United States.
BIDEN at Howard University: "The most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy, and I'm not saying this because I'm at a Black HBCU…" pic.twitter.com/qPL3bkGsCx
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On Sunday, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas agreed with Biden’s assessment.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas says he agrees with Biden that "white supremacy" is the "greatest threat" of terrorism to the United States pic.twitter.com/JcXY4zIZAP
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However, this national security assessment is based on extremely flawed and biased statistics, amid FBI whistleblower accusations of politicized case reporting.
Reed. D. Rubinstein, of American First Legal, sounded the alarms about the Biden administration’s initiative in a new report.
“The Department of Homeland Security’s transformation into a domestic intelligence organization and a Stasi-like Deep State internal security apparatus is alarming,” he said.
“It is a very long way from ‘see something, say something’ regarding an unattended suitcase at the airport to profiling patriotic and politically conservative Americans as abusive parents and domestic terrorists because they oppose abortion on demand and voted for former President Trump,” he continued. “The agency is out of control.”
America First this week released online copies of documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act from the Department of Homeland Security that “reveal shocking internal documents from the Office of Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention.”
The America First report said, “These documents further reveal that the government is using taxpayer dollars to expand its capabilities to deem innocent people as ‘extremists’ or ‘domestic terrorists.’”
A report at Zero Hedge said the videos present scenarios where citizens might encounter potentially ‘radicalized’ individuals.
“Most of the scripted scenarios showcase people with conservative beliefs and values as the radicalized threat,” the report said.
“The focus of these DHS efforts was overwhelmingly on conservatives, with a not-so-subtle implication that conservatives and constitutionalists (or anyone that questions official government narratives) are domestic terrorists,” the critics claimed.
“This was done while the DHS and Democrats mostly ignored the violent actions of BLM, Antifa, trans rights protesters, etc.”
DHS claims that it does not explicitly single out any specific political ideology and the objective of the initiative is to encourage all citizens to report any suspicious activities or behaviors that may pose a threat to public safety.
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