The Phantom Nazi Menace

Understand that, as an old peace-marcher and radical-labor activist, I have no love for the FBI.  I despise their bigotry, their corruption, their incompetence, and particularly their ironclad political loyalty to the Democratic Party Uber Alles.  (The bureau gained its present political power under Woodrow Wilson, who did it in order to sick federal agents on the then-dangerous Labor Movement -- particularly the Industrial Workers of the World.  Likewise, I despise the CIA for its similar sins -- and its blind loyalty to the Republican Party.)  Nonetheless, to give the devil his due, I must admit that it's the closest thing to a reliable source of accurate information on crime in the US.  It's absolutely more accurate than the Southern Poverty Law Center, or the Anti-Defamation League, or the National Crime Victimization Survey -- all of which are private organizations, far more pro-Democrat/Liberal/Progressive/Socialist in attitude, and far less bound by govt. oversight.

Therefore, when the FBI admits to the Bureau of Justice Statistics that it can't confirm any great "surge" in "White supremacist" groups, membership, or violent crime -- despite its best efforts --https://www.lawfareblog.com/search-data-white-supremacist-violent-crime, you can be pretty sure that no such "surge" exists, regardless of what all the Democrat presidential candidates and their media cronies may tell you.

The reasons for inventing such a "surge" are politically obvious (https://spectator.org/the-mythical-rise-in-white-supremacist-violence/) here in the US.  The Democrats have totally hated Trump, plotted to impeach him since the day after election day, and shown themselves willing to use any tactic available, including hoaxes (https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/28066-new-phenomenon-of-fake-hate-crimes-creates-perplexing-problems-for-law-enforcement). 

The theory they're pushing through the media is that Trump Is A Nazi And So Are All His Voters;  therefore, anything he says in any of his sloppy speeches or comments (admittedly, Trump is a very bad public speaker) is a "dog-whistle" urging violence to neo-Nazis everywhere.  His every word is a secret code that only White Supremacists (and, of course, properly "woke" Democrats) can understand, that's meant to Incite Racial Violence Here And Abroad.  That's how his "divisive rhetoric" is somehow responsible for a mosque shooting in New Zealand and Muslim attacks on Christians in Sri Lanka, not to mention a synagogue shooting in Calilfornia.  It's all Trump's fault!

Never mind that prominent Democrats like Maxine Waters have been openly inciting attacks on Trump voters everywhere in the US, and those attacks have provably happened.  No, that's different!  Never mind that the New Zealand shooter mentioned in his manifesto and live video (ferociously censored by the NZ govt.) that he hated Trump ("As a leader?  God, no!") and deliberately shot up the two mosques (he was stopped at the second one by a worshiper with a rifle) in order to make the NZ govt. ban semi-auto rifles -- which it promptly did (which suggest the question, was the NZ govt. working for the murderer, or was he working for them?).  No, that's irrelevant.  Never mind that Jihadist terrorists took the credit for slaughtering those hundreds of Christians in Sri Lanka.  No, they must have been "provoked" by "anti-Muslim hate-crimes" and, of course, Trump's "rhetoric".  Never mind that the California synagogue shooter (who was driven away by an off-duty border patrol agent with a gun) referred to Trump as a "Zionist, Jew-loving, anti-White, traitorous c*cksucker".  No, no comment from the media about that.  No, it's all Trump's fault for creating a "surge in White supremacy groups".  Uhuh.

This scenario makes it easy to ignore the real rise in Jihadist-encouraged religious violence, in the US and the rest of the world.  For years the media have been ignoring the FBI's reports that the single group most often victimized by hate-crimes is Jews -- in the US.  In the rest of the world it's Christians.  The perpetrators are overwhelmingly Jihadist Muslims, which no one seems to want to admit.  Neither have the media noted that, according to the FBI, fully half of all claimed/reported "anti-Muslim" hate-crimes are hoaxes, and the other half are committed by other Muslims. (https://quillette.com/2019/02/22/hate-crime-hoaxes-are-more-common-than-you-think/)  This policy of deliberately not looking does more than just allow blaming Trump And The Nazis for much of the world's violence;  it also hides or excuses Jihadist violence to everybody else. 

The hate/blame/get Trump motivation of the American political Left is understandable, but it doesn't explain the almost-frantic defense of the Jihadists, not just in the US but elsewhere.  We really have to wonder why so many political pundits would rather raise an illusion of phantom Nazis than deal  with the real political threats on their doorstep.  Really, they have to know that ignoring the problem -- or blaming Trump And The Nazis for it -- will not make it go away. 

--Leslie <;)))><