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‘There Was Never Any Evidence’: FBI Lied About White Supremacist Terrorism

Posted on | January 3, 2025 | No Comments

One of the hallmarks of any totalitarian regime is that the leaders proclaim obvious falsehoods — kulaks and saboteurs are to blame for the famine! — and compel everyone to repeat these lies, with punishment aimed at dissenting truth-tellers. The purpose is “not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate,” and once you understand this function of totalitarian propaganda, you are less surprised by the ability of someone like Christopher Wray to speak blatant lies with apparent sincerity. Only skilled liars could flourish in the Biden regime:

The “top threat we face from DVEs [Domestic Violent Extremist] continues to be those we identify as Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (‘RMVEs’), specifically those who advocate for the superiority of the white race,” FBI Director Christopher Wray told Senate Judiciary Committee on March 2, 2021.
“According to the intelligence community,” said Biden in 2021, “terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today. Not ISIS, not al Qaeda — white supremacists.” . . .
Between 2012 and 2021, Islamic extremists committed five acts of domestic US terrorism that killed 77 people, whereas white supremacists committed four acts of domestic terrorism that killed 49 people. And even if the numbers were reversed, at just 12 cases of domestic terrorism, the sample size is too small to be able to claim, scientifically, any kind of discernible trend about DVE.
The total number of killings by white supremacists annually is very low. In 2022, there were only 21 homicides linked to white supremacists in the entire country. By comparison, Chicago alone saw an average of 58 homicides every month. In 2022, there were a total of 24,849 homicides. Thus, the share of them that were by white supremacists was .08%. . . .
The FBI’s claim that white supremacy was the main driver of the acts of terrorism was also misleading. Most of the white supremacist killers appeared to suffer from mental illness, whereas most of the radical Islamicists appeared sane and driven overwhelmingly by ideology. . . .
Thus, there was never any good evidence that there was a rising threat of terrorism from the political ideology of white supremacy, nor that it was greater than the threat of Islamist terrorism. And yet FBI Director Wray, President Biden, and the whole of the US IC have claimed, repeatedly, for four years, that it was. Why?

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) The first and most obvious answer to Michael Shellenberger’s question, “Why?” is that this lie served the political agenda of the Biden regime. By portraying their opponents as allies of “white supremacists” — inherently dangerous, linked to a “lethal threat” of violent extremism — Democrats could justify repressive measures, including censorship to stifle dissent as “misinformation.” Yet because “there was nevery any evidence” for their claim about the “white supremacist” threat (no such trend could be shown from actual data), the people promoting this claim knew it was false, and also knew that other well-informed people would recognize its falsehood.

Here we come to the second answer to Shellenberger’s question: The function of propaganda as a weapon of humiliation, expressing the power of the regime by forcing others to repeat obvious falsehoods or, at least, to remain silent and pretend to believe the regime’s lies.

January 20 cannot come soon enough.



 

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