{"id":734885,"date":"2021-09-09T16:35:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=734885"},"modified":"2021-09-09T16:35:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T20:35:56","slug":"amid-afghan-refugee-influx-dc-govt-warns-of-dangers-of-online-posting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amid-afghan-refugee-influx-dc-govt-warns-of-dangers-of-online-posting\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid Afghan Refugee Influx, DC Govt Warns of Dangers of Online Posting"},"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%2Famid-afghan-refugee-influx-dc-govt-warns-of-dangers-of-online-posting%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=734885&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\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-1235118656.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Refugees fleeing the Biden-induced human rights catastrophe in Afghanistan are streaming into Washington, D.C., and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/virginia-politics\/afghan-crisis-wreaking-havoc-on-northern-virginia-hospitals-due-to-lack-of-federal-planning-local-officials-say\/2021\/09\/07\/5642a2aa-0fef-11ec-bc8a-8d9a5b534194_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wreaking havoc<\/a> on the area&#8217;s hospitals amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In response, the district&#8217;s emergency management agency has issued a stern warning about the threat of online posting.<\/p>\n<p>The District of Columbia&#8217;s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency warned law enforcement officials earlier this week that &#8220;extremist rhetoric has risen online following the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.&#8221; According to an intelligence assessment obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>, the agency assessed that &#8220;the increase in extremist rhetoric may presage targeted violence against Afghan refugees.&#8221; The evidence cited to support that assessment, however, was rather scant\u2014just a handful of examples from &#8220;known online forums,&#8221; such as 4Chan, Free Republic, BitChute, and the official QAnon Telegram channel.<\/p>\n<p>The report, dated Sept. 7, quotes an anonymous 4Chan user who responded to a series of posts about the resettlement of Afghan refugees. &#8220;Hello\u2026don&#8217;t yall [sic] see the democratic strategy here?&#8221; the anonymous poster posted. &#8220;[The refugees] arent [sic] going to strong blue states but the key electoral swing states.&#8221; It goes on to note that the deranged North Carolina man who precipitated a standoff with law enforcement outside the U.S. Capitol Building last month had &#8220;shared frustration with the US withdrawal from Afghanistan on Facebook.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Additional evidence includes &#8220;open-source comments&#8221; on Free Republic containing &#8220;implied threats&#8221; against President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), and a post suggesting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) wants to bring in &#8220;200,000 [evacuees], that is 4000 new terrorists\u2026per state.&#8221; The assessment also cites two comments from &#8220;identified&#8221; BitChute users who referenced &#8220;replacement theory&#8221; and &#8220;white genocide&#8221; in response to posts about refugee resettlement, and another from the QAnon Telegram channel describing the resettlement of Afghan refugees as &#8220;an enemy invasion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple posts that could realistically be defined as vague threats against refugees, such as one from a QAnon Telegram user who urged Americans to &#8220;Arm yourself!\u2026citizens should storm the airports and blow up the runways.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The report did not elaborate as to whether any (or all) of the posts were written by law enforcement agents and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/grand-rapids\/2021\/08\/dark-shadow-cast-on-probe-of-whitmer-kidnap-plot-after-fbi-told-informant-to-lie-delete-texts-attorney-says.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">informants<\/a>, nor did it discuss the amount of taxpayer dollars and government manpower the agency devotes to perusing online forums.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View Radical Online Posts Could Trigger Violence Against Afghan Refugees on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/524192950\/Radical-Online-Posts-Could-Trigger-Violence-Against-Afghan-Refugees#from_embed\">Radical Online Posts Could \u2026<\/a> by <a title=\"View Washington Free Beacon&#039;s profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/publisher\/247263517\/Washington-Free-Beacon#from_embed\">Washington Free Beacon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refugees fleeing the Biden-induced human rights catastrophe in Afghanistan are streaming into Washington, D.C., and wreaking havoc on the area&#8217;s hospitals amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. 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