{"id":1432390,"date":"2022-04-12T08:16:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T12:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432390"},"modified":"2022-04-12T08:17:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T12:17:09","slug":"the-feds-are-so-desperate-for-violent-white-supremacy-theyre-fabricating-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-feds-are-so-desperate-for-violent-white-supremacy-theyre-fabricating-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The Feds Are So Desperate For Violent \u2018White Supremacy,\u2019 They\u2019re Fabricating It"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-feds-are-so-desperate-for-violent-white-supremacy-theyre-fabricating-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1432390&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-Shot-2022-04-11-at-9.51.12-PM-1024x607-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Last Friday, Homeland Security\u00a0Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas declared white supremacists and \u201cdomestic violent extremism\u201d to be the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mayorkas-white-supremacists-poise-most-prominent-threat\">\u201cmost prominent threat\u201d <\/a>currently facing our country. The timing could not have been more perfect. Just hours later, a jury in Grand Rapids, Michigan exposed the Justice Department\u2019s largest alleged \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d case of the last 18 months as a failed FBI entrapment scheme to smear conservatives as white supremacists ahead of the 2020 election. <\/p>\n<p>By refusing to convict four men accused of plotting to kidnap and kill Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer before Election Day 2020, the Grand Rapids jury seemed to side with defense attorneys who argued their clients were not domestic terrorists, but entrapped by undercover FBI agents and at least a dozen informants who planned and funded the kidnapping operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key to the government\u2019s plan was to turn general discontent with Gov. Whitmer\u2019s COVID-19 restrictions into a crime that could be prosecuted,\u201d defense lawyers wrote in a<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.miwd.99935\/gov.uscourts.miwd.99935.379.0.pdf\">\u00a0joint motion<\/a>. \u201cThe government picked what it knew would be a sensational charge: conspiracy to kidnap the governor. When the government was faced with evidence showing that the defendants had no interest in a kidnapping plot, it refused to accept failure and continued to push its plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Needing Terrorists to Justify Counterterrorism <\/h2>\n<p>The FBI\u2019s governor-kidnaping hoax demonstrates just how serious federal law enforcement agencies are about pursuing domestic extremists, even if it means the alleged threat originates in Washington, D.C. or FBI field offices. <\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas\u2019s doubling-down on the threat of white supremacists, even in light of DOJ\u2019s failure in Michigan, is a result of the time and resources the Biden administration and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have dedicated to fighting this perceived threat instead of actual threats, such as the massive<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/08\/no-matter-if-title-42-stays-or-goes-a-massive-migrant-influx-is-coming\/\"> migrant surge<\/a> expected to overwhelm U.S. borders next month. <\/p>\n<p>In his first address to Congress, President Joe Biden\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/05\/11\/dhs-domestic-terror-intelligence-487145\">cited<\/a>\u00a0\u201cwhite supremacist terrorism\u201d as the \u201cmost lethal terrorist threat to the homeland today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In March 2021, DHS and the FBI issued a joint memo warning that \u201cdomestic extremists\u201d were ramping up to \u201ctake control of the U.S. Capitol and remove democratic lawmakers on or about the 4th of March.\u201d Nothing happened on March 4.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2021, DHS issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/06\/01\/bidens-dhs-issues-another-baseless-white-supremacy-warning-for-tulsa-race-massacre-centennial-events\/\">warning<\/a>, without evidence, that the centennial commemoration of the Tulsa Race Massacre might be a target of extremism. Nothing happened that day either. <\/p>\n<p>That same month, the Biden White House issued a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/06\/15\/fact-sheet-national-strategy-for-countering-domestic-terrorism\/\">fact sheet<\/a>\u201c\u00a0entitled the \u201cNational Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism.\u201d It claimed that \u201cracially or ethnically motivated violent extremists who advocate for the superiority of the white race\u201d are a top domestic terror threat facing America.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d drumbeat was just the precursor to the creation of a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/01\/11\/1072123333\/justice-department-domestic-terrorism-unit\">\u201cdomestic terrorism unit,\u201d<\/a> the Justice Department announced it was forming in January this year. Of course, we experienced a similar overaction in the Bush-era, when DHS was created to protect us all from another 9\/11, which also led to the kinds of mass surveillance and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2014\/07\/21\/illusion-justice\/human-rights-abuses-us-terrorism-prosecutions\">accusations<\/a> of FBI entrapment that we are witnessing now. <\/p>\n<p>If the Whitmer case is any indication, this type of hyperfocus will incentivize federal law enforcement to go to whatever lengths necessary when investigating potential domestic extremists, no matter how overstated the risk. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Madeline Osburn is managing editor at The Federalist. Contact her at madeline@thefederalist.com or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/madelineorr\">follow her on Twitter<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday, Homeland Security\u00a0Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas declared white supremacists and \u201cdomestic violent extremism\u201d to be the \u201cmost prominent threat\u201d currently facing our country. The timing could not have been more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":590,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1432390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1432390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1432390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1432390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1432390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1432390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}