Americas Real Homegrown ExtremistsJames F. Tracy The Attorney Generals hand wringing is compounded by the Southern Poverty Law Centers most recent research report. The document seeks to inform law enforcement about the increasingly hostile anti-government movement the SPLC claims has grown from 150 groups in 2008 to nearly 1,100 last year.[2] In early June, the study intones, The overall publicity offensive comes one month after Holder announced the re-establishment of the DOJs Committee on Domestic Terrorism, initially begun following the bombing of the Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building and scuttled in 2001.[4] Despite the Vegas incidents dubious features, it is a foremost element in cultivating an atmosphere of tension surrounding extremist attitudes and hostility toward police exhibited in social media. For example, the topic of [e]escalating danger by anti-government extremists dominated a four-hour discussion on homeland security held at the National Sheriffs Association conference in June. According to one sheriff in attendance, such extremism is the single greatest concern that faces our deputies today.[5] But recent history strongly suggests how Holders crocodile fears and the SPLCs associated terror mongering are grossly disingenuous. The DOJs foremost policing agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has since 9/11 been the nations greatest purveyor of domestic terrorism. What goes unstated in corporate news media coverage of the issue is the fact that the FBIs wanton extremism is self-generated largely to marshal public opinion behind the so-called war on terror and thereby justify the broader police states continued existence and expansion. As journalist Trevor Aaronson revealed after an extensive examination of the FBIs post-9/11 anti-terrorism techniques, for over a decade the agency With this in mind, one neednt stretch their imagination very far to consider the designs the FBI is likely undertaking to foster its war on [domestic] terrorism. Such immense schemes are more than sufficient cause to further rethink the already ambiguous roles played by the Vegas shooters in last months apparent massacre. Eric Holder and the SPLC are well aware of their own duplicity. The fact that they parade around waving the flag of civil rights should by no means place them beyond the deep scrutiny they so richly deserve. Moreover, their fear-based sermonizing is pitched to the most obtuse and impressionable sectors of the publicthose the media routinely inoculate against historical reality, critical thought, and informed citizenship. Notes [1] One-on-One with Eric Holder: Homegrown Terror Threat, ABCs This Week, July 13, 2014. Related selfnews Post Article: This article first appeared at MemoryHoleBlog.com, the official blog of Dr. James Tracy. 