FBI’s Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Goes Woke?

I just received the latest edition of the The Combating Terrorism Center’s CTC Sentinel magazine. There is an article titled The Terrorist Threats and Trends to Watch Out for in 2023 and Beyond. This article is written by Bruce Hoffman, and Jacob Ware.

NOTE: Since September 11th, 2001 the Combating Terrorism Center has been working closely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

According to the FBI website:

It’s a partnership that makes sense in the post-9/11 world: the FBI working closely with the prestigious Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, on a variety of training initiatives.

Established five years ago, the Center provides in-depth research, policy analysis, and education in matters relating to terrorism, counterterrorism, homeland security, and weapons of mass destruction. Its “clients” include representatives from all levels of government, undergraduate students, non-profit groups, and private enterprise.

We now know that the FBI has been involved in multiple acts that could themselves, taken together, be considered domestic terrorism, including the FBI’s involvement with social media sites to monitor Americans and control their narratives.

It should also be noted that among the Distinguished Chair & Senior Fellows at The Combating Terrorism Center West Point include:

1. CTC Executive Director Brian Dodwell who was the Operations Branch Chief at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security National Exercise Division, which assesses interagency counterterrorism strategy and policy at senior levels across the U.S. government. He previously served as a counter-proliferation analyst supporting the Defense Threat Reduction Agency.

2. CTC Senior Fellow Elizabeth Kimber who served more than 37 years in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), including as Deputy Director of CIA for Operations (DDO). As DDO, Kimber was responsible for overseeing the CIA’s worldwide human intelligence operations and networks, as well as CIA’s foreign intelligence collection and covert action missions.

3. Managing Editor, CTC Sentinel Kristina Hummel who worked previously as a producer for Al-Arabiya News and covered the Middle East from the United Nations headquarters in New York. She also worked as a magazine writer and editor.

The article was spot on on the on going Islamic jihadi threats of Iran, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Taliban, al-Qa`ida, al-Shabaab, Hurras al-Din and the Islamic State.

But Hoffman and Ware went woke when they discussed domestic terrorism.

Domestic Terrorists in America

According to Hoffman and Ware,

The most significant terrorist threat to the homeland today comes from domestic terrorism connected to the violent far-right, broadly defined here to include both white supremacist and white nationalist networks as well as anti-government extremists.

To come to this conclusion Hoffman and Ware used only one primary source a report titled “Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2021,” by the Anti-Defamation League published in February 2022.

We decided to look at the history of domestic terrorist groups in the United States of America. Here’s a short list of what we discovered as left-wing terrorist groups in the USA:

1. Symbionese Liberation Army United States – The United Federated Forces of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) was an active terrorist group operating in the United States from 1973 to 1975. The group idealized itself as an inclusive organization of all left-wing movements in the US at the height of its operation. They adopted their movement from the rhetoric of Communists and the revolutionaries of South America. Combining the ideals of feminism, anti-racism, and anti-capitalism among others, the group failed to practice what it preached and carried out numerous bank robberies and murders. The group is probably most well known for its kidnapping and subsequent brainwashing of Patty Hearst in 1974.
2. Black Liberation Army United States – The Civil Rights movement in the United States gained ground with leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who inspired the people to nonviolent protest, but that didn’t stop many from taking up arms as urban guerrillas in the late 1960s and 70s. The Black Liberation Army (BLA) was such a group of anti-capitalists who pushed for a socialist agenda where “Black people have total and absolute control over their own destiny as people.” The group existed from 1970 until 1981 and carried out bombings, murders, prison breaks, and robberies. Their stated goal was to “take up arms for the liberation and self-determination of black people in the United States.”
3. Antifa – A revolutionary Marxist/anarchist militia movement that seeks to bring down the United States by means of violence and intimidation. As a September 2017 report in The Atlantic notes, Antifa is responsible for “a level of sustained political street warfare not seen in the U.S. since the 1960s.” The name “Antifa” (pronounced on’-tee-fah) is a shortened form of the term “antifacist,” and its adherents are commonly seen waving the red-and-black flag of anarcho-communism. The website ItsGoingDown.org, which serves as a newsblog for Antifa, says that “in the U.S., most [anti-fascist] activists are anarchist, although a few are Maoist or anti-state Marxists” ― while “in other countries, the movement is predominately Marxist.” The U.S.-based anarchists of Antifa typically denounce not only the capitalist economic system, but the institution of government itself. And they explicitly advocate and encourage the use of violence to undermine and destroy both. The long-term objective is to establish a communist world order.
4. Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement (RAM) – Formed in May 2017 and based in New York City, the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement is a contingent of the Marxist/anarchist movement known as Antifa. RAM describes itself as “a political movement” of “revolutionary anarchists” who are committed to waging “armed” warfare against American “fascism” ― the term by which RAM refers to conservatism ― in “solidarity with the international antifascist and anarchist struggle.” Rooted in what it calls “the context of the abolitionist struggle against slavery” ― and “dedicated to freeing people from bondage and building resistance in the United States” ― RAM contends not only that America was “built on slavery and genocide,” but also that “modern slavery and mass brutality” against black people “persist unchecked” to this day. Because “the Civil War was never resolved,” RAM elaborates, “the system of slavery transitioned into the prison industrial complex” where blacks are inarcerated in disproportionately high numbers. On the premise that the United States government has conspired “with white supremacist organizations” to “ensure that the relations of slavery [remain] entrenched in U.S. political, social, and economic life,” RAM claims that “the [slave] ships” of yesteryear have been replaced by the “correctional buses” that transport African Americans en masse to prison cells across the country; that “the [slave] auction blocks [of the 1800s] are now the courtrooms” in American cities; and that black people today “are indelibly marked with prison numbers that remain etched on their records till they die.”
5. Black Lives Matter (BLM) – Founded by Marxist revolutionaries in 2013, Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a movement that depicts the United States as a nation awash in racism, sexism, and homophobia. Demonstrators at BLM events have been known to: smear white police as trigger-happy bigots who are intent upon killing innocent, unarmed black males; taunt, and direct obscenities at, uniformed police officers who are on duty; throw rocks at police and threaten to kill them; and celebrate in the streets when a police officer is killed. Some examples of BLM’s racist and incendiary rhetoric: At a December 2014 BLM rally in New York City, marchers chanted in unison: “What do we want? Dead cops. When do we want it? Now”; At a BLM march in August 2015, protesters chanted : “Pigs in a blanket, fry ’em like bacon.” (“Pigs” was a reference to police officers, and “blanket” was a reference to body bags.); On a radio program the following month, the BLM-affiliated host laughed at the recent assassination of a white Texas deputy; boasted that blacks were like lions who could prevail in a “race war” against whites; happily predicted that “we will witness more executions and killing of white people and cops than we ever have before”; and declared that “It’s open season on killing white people and crackas.”; In November 2015, a group of approximately 150 BLM protesters shouting “Black Lives Matter,” stormed Dartmouth University’s library, screaming, “Fu** you, you filthy white fu**s!,” “Fu** you and your comfort!,” and “Fu** you, you racist sh**!” ; In July 2016, a BLM activist speaking to a CNN reporter shouted: “The less white babies on this planet, the less of you [white adults] we got! I hope they kill all the white babies! Kill ’em all right now! Kill ’em! Kill your grandkids! Kill yourself! Coffin, bitch! Go lay in a coffin! Kill yourself!”

The CTC report does not mention the following Islamist terrorist groups in America:

1. Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)
2. Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
3. Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

The Bottom Line

Given the information above how much confidence to you have in the Hoffman and Ware report on who are the domestic terrorists in America?

Here’s the the political myth followed by the truth:

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— Kirky86 (@Kirky861) December 20, 2022

Our question are:

1. Do you believe that the greatest domestic terrorist threat is from white supremacists?
2. Do you believe the CTC at West Point analysis by Hoffman and Ware given the CTC’s close links with the FBI and CIA?
3. Do you believe that the CTC at West Point is following the Biden narrative and is therefore woke?

If you think not then please leave a comment below and tell us why.

We report you decide.

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