A Database Showed Far-Right Terror on the Rise. Then Trump Defunded It.

tulc · Aug 4, 2019

The summer after Kearns’s lecture at American, Erin Miller, a criminologist who runs the GTD, learned that the federal government would no longer be funding the organization’s work. The State Department had decided to give the contract to a firm based in Bethesda, Maryland, Development Services Group Inc., which had partnered with a terrorism center at George Mason University.

In August, the University of Maryland filed an official protest with the Government Accountability Office, alleging, among other things, that the State Department was biased against it. The Trump administration, for its part, claimed it made its decision on the basis of cost (Development Services had advanced a slightly lower bid for the contract), and the GAO dismissed the charge. But the Global Terrorism Database is not the first program to be shuttered after it called attention to the rise in violence on the right. Shortly after Donald Trump took office, the administration rescinded a $400,000 grant to Life After Hate, a group dedicated to stopping right-wing extremism in America. The Department of Homeland Security also backed out of a $867,000 grant promised to researchers at the University of North Carolina who were developing a program to stop young people from embracing ideologies like jihadism and white supremacy. The Office of Community Partnership, an arm of DHS whose mission is to prevent violent extremism before it begins, had administered those grants. After Trump took office, its name was changed, its staff cut in half, and its budget slashed by more than 85 percent.

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ilovejcsog · Aug 4, 2019

The database I read said the far left.

ilovejcsog · Aug 4, 2019

Gary Sword said:
Islamic terrorism, far-left terrorism, eco-terrorism, gyno-terrorism, and indeed all forms of terrorism are just as bad as far-right terrorism. Why are you singling out terrorism from conservatives while ignoring terrorism from other forms?

He only writes against Trump

tulc · Aug 4, 2019

ilovejcsog said:
The database I read said the far left.

Link?

tulc(would be interested in seeing that)

tulc · Aug 4, 2019

ilovejcsog said:
He only writes against Trump

"ahem"...threads not about me or what I post.

tulc(thought that should be pointed out) :wave:

Shiloh Raven · Aug 4, 2019

tulc said:
A Database Showed Far-Right Terror on the Rise. Then Trump Defunded It.

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I'm not surprised he tried to silence the truth but that doesn't change this: US neo-Nazi groups on the rise under President Donald Trump: report. In fact, he's very popular among white supremacists.

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White supremacy has been more out in the open since he entered into the presidential race and it's been making a steady climb since he was elected too. White supremacists are no longer hiding behind their white hoods and white robes since they have been loyally supporting Trump so enthusiastically.

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Petunia · Aug 5, 2019

Orthodoxjay1 · Aug 5, 2019

You have to cut costs somewhere, would of preferred your beloveded socialist style social programs cut or a mere database.

tulc · Aug 5, 2019

Orthodoxjay1 said:
You have to cut costs somewhere, would of preferred your beloveded socialist style social programs cut or a mere database.

hmmm...keeping track of the rise of right wing white supremacists who regularly attack and kill people in the US or helping US citizens in need programs...or maybe getting some of the money from the overblown US military budget? Yeah, I can see why keeping track of right wing white supremacists killing people would take a back seat to that. :doh:

tulc(is going to need more coffee soon)

Orthodoxjay1 · Aug 5, 2019

tulc said:
hmmm...keeping track of the rise of right wing white supremacists who regularly attack and kill people in the US or helping US citizens in need programs...or maybe getting some of the money from the overblown US military budget? Yeah, I can see why keeping track of right wing white supremacists killing people would take a back seat to that.
tulc(is going to need more coffee soon)

Well I agree that the overblown overseas millitary adventures need to be cut back in the budget (while we should still stock nukes here at home,as a deterrent), we have to cut also in other places, it was probably either this database or social security (which no one touches)

tulc · Aug 5, 2019

Orthodoxjay1 said:
(snip) it was probably either this database or social security (which no one touches)

ahhh...Social Security, they don't touch it because they can't afford to touch it. :wave:

tulc(thinks that's another thread subject altogether) :sigh:

Go Braves · Aug 5, 2019

tulc said:
A Database Showed Far-Right Terror on the Rise. Then Trump Defunded It.

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Typical of Donald.

Yarddog · Aug 5, 2019

tulc said:
A Database Showed Far-Right Terror on the Rise. Then Trump Defunded It.

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I remember about how the FBI warned about right wing terror was on the rise about 10 years ago and they have been proven correct.

GOD Shines Forth! · Aug 8, 2019

tulc said:
A Database Showed Far-Right Terror on the Rise. Then Trump Defunded It.

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More like a rise in the Kleinhardt Gambit (by the Left) :wave:

A Database Showed Far-Right Terror on the Rise. Then Trump Defunded It.

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