Today (April 19th) is the anniversary of the so-called “shot heard round the world” that launched the American Revolution.
Well we can have government task forces go after them. They are not Jihadist. They are white, right-wing Americans. Nearly all of them have an obsessed attachment to guns, who may represent a greater danger to the lives of American civilians than international terrorists.
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The typical patriot acts within his free-speech and 2nd Amendment rights, and in fact most patriot activity consists of venting steam by meeting with like-minded Neanderthals and firing off blog posts threatening civil war. Yet such blather tends to get under the skin of the Timothy McVeighs of the world. These groups should be closely monitored, with resources adequate to the task, even if it means shifting some homeland security money from the hunt for foreign terrorists.
