WASHINGTON, DC – On March 11th, the Department of Homeland Security released a report highlighting intradepartmental efforts to establish clearly-defined protocols on identifying and addressing actions related to “domestic violent extremism” from within the DHS ranks.
While the report itself is inundated chiefly with a series of purported “gaps” and suggested solutions in their efforts to identify individuals who the department would deem as being among these security threats, the highlighting of the “Current Domestic Violent Extremism Threat Landscape” notes that the likes of election and COVID skeptics could be labeled as extremists.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a statement in tandem with the released report, noting how the department won’t “tolerate hateful acts or violent extremist activity” within DHS.
“Every day, the more than 250,000 dedicated public servants at DHS work to ensure the safety and security of communities across our country. To ensure we are able to continue executing our critical mission with honor and integrity, we will not tolerate hateful acts or violent extremist activity within our Department.”
Current “gaps” outlined in the report proclaimed that DHS actively lacks “an official definition of ‘domestic violent extremist'” and that there should be “guidance as to what constitutes violent extremist activity.”
Other purported deficiencies within the department claimed there wasn’t any dedicated “workforce training” that could equip DHS personnel to identify actual extremists or those susceptible to becoming extremists.
But the report also covered what is alleged to be the “Current Domestic Violent Extremism Threat Landscape,” with the aforementioned clearly serving as the spark to this sudden interest in the DHS potentially harboring those with extremist views.
“A March 2021 unclassified threat assessment prepared by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Department of Justice, and DHS, noted that domestic violent extremists ‘who are motivated by a range of ideologies and galvanized by recent political and societal events in the United States pose an elevated threat to the Homeland in 2021.’ The assessment pointed to newer ‘sociopolitical developments such as narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol, conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and conspiracy theories promoting violence’ that ‘will almost certainly spur some [domestic violent extremists] [sic] to try to engage in violence this year.'”
In short, DHS is worried about individuals who don’t subscribe to the COVID narrative, bear concerns about election fraud having occurred, and may not have such a dramatic position about the incident at the Capitol working within their ranks – going so far as to call these ideals as part and parcel of extremism.
It almost seems as though Homeland Security is just working to oust conservatives from within their ranks.
This piece was written by Gregory Hoyt on March 13, 2022. It originally appeared in RedVoiceMedia.com and is used by permission.
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