freitasm:

 

Talk about a swamp. These people act like they are royalty. 

 

What selfish, precious pricks these people are! They have half a dozen bathrooms and they can't spare one for those protecting their lives? I hope, somehow, they do end up in prison, where they have to share toilet facilities with scores of others, preferably ones who don't wash.

The sooner the whole lot loose all their privileges the better. Not that they should have had a single one in the first place.

"'This isn't the final chapter': Analyst warns, again, about rise of right-wing extremists"

 

In April 2009, a senior Homeland Security intelligence analyst named Daryl Johnson wrote an internal report warning that right-wing extremism was on the rise in the United States and that it could lead to violence.

 

The report leaked, and the backlash was swift. Republican lawmakers were furious. Veterans advocates criticized a section raising concerns about service members returning with post-traumatic stress. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano apologized for parts of it, and the unit ultimately was dissolved.

 

Nearly 11 years later, a mob of right-wing extremists, spurred by President Donald Trump, stormed the U.S. Capitol in a deadly riot that highlighted the magnitude of the threat.

 

"This Capitol insurrection that we just had last week — some people were like OK, this is the climax of the story. No, it's not. This is ushering in a new phase of violence and hostility," Johnson said in an interview. "This isn't the final chapter of a movement that's dying out."

 

Johnson, who runs DT Analytics, a security consulting firm, published a 2019 book about U.S. extremism called "Hateland." He spoke to NBC News about the threat and how it can be quelled.

 

A transcript follows, lightly edited for length and clarity.

 

NBC NEWS: Take me back to 2009. What were you seeing that prompted you to write this report?

 

JOHNSON: In January of 2007, Capitol Police tipped us off that Barack Obama, a senator from Illinois, was going to announce his candidacy for president. We all knew that was going to be the worst-case scenario for white supremacists. They said it would be the low point in America when you had "a black" occupy the White House — that was kind of in their literature.

 

When he won the Democratic nomination, we started seeing white supremacist groups lashing out and threatening him. That, coupled with the housing bubble bursting in '08, left lot of people underwater financially — they started looking for scapegoats for their problems.

 

NBC NEWS: And you didn't publicize this report, but it got out.

 

JOHNSON: We disseminated it to police, and then it got leaked. We wrote up the report, it went through 23 revisions, got vetted at all levels, coordinated it with the FBI, went and briefed Janet Napolitano a couple of days before it was disseminated. When I was headed home that day, my branch chief, my immediate supervisor, talked about what a great briefing it was, and she was hearing a lot of positive feedback. Then three days later, all hell broke loose.

 

NBC NEWS: Let's fast-forward to the present. According to former Trump-era DHS official Elizabeth Neumann, "In the last 10 years, 76 percent of terrorist attacks have come from the right wing in our country." Do you feel validated by the warnings you put out at the time?

 

JOHNSON: When I wrote that assessment, I was just doing my job. I knew what I wrote was accurate and true. It's just unfortunate that my message got lost in the politicization of the whole thing. I don't take any satisfaction in knowing that I was right. I just wish people would listen and do something about it. So I'm more frustrated than anything.

 

NBC NEWS: What was your reaction when you saw the insurrection on the Capitol last week?

 

JOHNSON: Over the summer, spring and fall we had two other capitol buildings, in Michigan and Idaho, that were overrun and breached by the same type of people. It was not beyond the realm of possibility that these people will do a similar thing to try to stop the election. I thought it was going to be at another state capitol building, but it ended up being the U.S. Capitol. So it wasn't a surprise. But it was shocking to see what was going on and how the crowd was incited and turned into this violent mob.

 

NBC NEWS: One thing I was struck by reading your report is some of the factors you describe as triggers for extremism are associated with President Trump's platform — stoking fear of immigrants, warning that guns will be taken away, talking about a new world order in which U.S. sovereignty is trampled. What role has he played in this?

 

JOHNSON: He's been the major contributor to stoking the fears and spreading lies and disinformation and promoting conspiracy theories. So he's definitely poured a lot of fuel on this fire. This fire was already raging when he came into the office, and he just took it to a whole new level. This Capital insurrection that we just had last week — some people were like, OK, this is the climax of the story. No, it's not. This is ushering in a new phase of violence and hostility. This isn't the final chapter of a movement that's dying out. It's not.

 

NBC NEWS: And that's what I wanted to get to next. When you say it's not the final chapter, what should we expect in the coming weeks, months and maybe years?

 

JOHNSON: The government is — if they're responsible — going to be developing programs and resources to start combating the problem. These people have had over 10 years to stockpile weapons and ammunition to get stoked up and paranoid and fearful. So we've got to be very careful about how we go about cracking down on these groups. If there are gun laws passed, that's just going to feed right into their narratives, draw more recruits, radicalize people.

 

It needs to be more about de-radicalizing. Funding organizations that have people that have left the movement and can develop strategies on how to do outreach and pull people out. There needs to be a massive marketing campaign on what should citizens be doing. If you've got family members, neighbors, co-workers that are part of these movements, rather than ostracize and debate and criticize and isolate them, we need to love them, have compassion and bring them into the mainstream. The only way you're going to get rid of hate is through love. Every person I've ever known about that's been a white supremacist has left the movement through an act of compassion or love. They didn't leave it because someone convinced them that their belief systems were wrong.

 

 

kingdragonfly: ... Even the King and Queen did not have six toilets dedicated to their use only in their castle: the Groom Of The Stool.

 

The perfect job for Jarad after he has been "downsized".  😉

Looting seems to be ongoing at the White House...

Sideface:

 

 

Instructed not to use any of the half-dozen bathrooms inside the couple’s house, the Secret Service detail assigned to President Trump’s daughter and son-in-law spent months searching for a reliable restroom to use on the job, according to neighbors and law enforcement officials. 

 

 

That's just disgusting. The agents are there to protect them, and they look down on them as a sub-class.

How The Mighty Have Fallen - more Trump Trivia ...

The New York Times - "Fallout roundup"

today

The Girl Scouts of Greater New York announced this week that they were trying to get out of a 15-year lease in a Manhattan building owned by the Trump Organization. 

 

Meridith Maskara, chief executive of the Girl Scouts chapter, said it was “a matter of very high priority.”

 

freitasm:

Looting seems to be ongoing at the White House...

kingdragonfly:

freitasm:

 

Looting seems to be ongoing at the White House...

That statue bust is of J.A Beard, the "man borne with a silver tongue", 18th century slave auctioneer.

 

Oh... Their idol then.

Let them take the silverware if they will just leave!

freitasm:

 

Looting seems to be ongoing at the White House...

 

I've read that at the end of every presidency, the National Archivist takes all the decorations out of the Whitehouse and moves them into storage, where the incoming president goes to select which items to display during his or her term. That person taking the bust may be with the Archives.

Kyanar:I've read that at the end of every presidency, the National Archivist takes all the decorations out of the Whitehouse and moves them into storage, where the incoming president goes to select which items to display during his or her term. That person taking the bust may be with the Archives.