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Anonymous wrote:https://apps.revealnews.org/homegrown-terror/

This is the page with the "map."

Scroll to the bottom. The link in Orange that says "See our methodology." I have clicked it multiple times and get a blank page.

The methodology is here. http://www.revealnews.org/article/how-we-analyzed-domestic-terror-incidents/

I think they did a good job of harvesting data from sites representing multiple points of view.

So why is Jared Lee Loughner listed as "right wing?" It's patently false.

Loughner was mentally ill but to say "patently false" is a stretch as well.

1.) Loughner shot a Democrat (Gabby Giffords) and nearly killed her, left her severely disabled for life, and did kill a Democrat staffer. He didn't target anyone on the right.

2.) Loughner spouted right wing talking points about the gold standard taking many of them directly from the right wing "Patriot" movement and David Wynn Miller, he talked about government enslaving the people and not trusting the government, along with citing many things from Ayn Rand. Those are all far right extremist points with far more in common with the Tea Party and Freedom Caucus than with anyone on the left.

Loughner was mentally ill but clearly based on his rants and his attack on Democrats was far more motivated to violence by right wing rhetoric and ideology than he was by left wing rhetoric and ideology.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:https://apps.revealnews.org/homegrown-terror/

This is the page with the "map."

Scroll to the bottom. The link in Orange that says "See our methodology." I have clicked it multiple times and get a blank page.

The methodology is here. http://www.revealnews.org/article/how-we-analyzed-domestic-terror-incidents/

I think they did a good job of harvesting data from sites representing multiple points of view.

So why is Jared Lee Loughner listed as "right wing?" It's patently false.

Loughner was mentally ill but to say "patently false" is a stretch as well.

1.) Loughner shot a Democrat (Gabby Giffords) and nearly killed her, left her severely disabled for life, and did kill a Democrat staffer. He didn't target anyone on the right.

2.) Loughner spouted right wing talking points about the gold standard taking many of them directly from the right wing "Patriot" movement and David Wynn Miller, he talked about government enslaving the people and not trusting the government, along with citing many things from Ayn Rand. Those are all far right extremist points with far more in common with the Tea Party and Freedom Caucus than with anyone on the left.

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Anonymous wrote:It should be noted that while Miller said he believes Loughner has looked at his website, investigators examining Loughner's computer files and phone records have thus far found no evidence that he has a specific connection to any hate or fringe group.



http://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-does-jared-lee-loughner-believe/

Doesn't make the case for "patently false.."

Anonymous wrote:It should be noted that while Miller said he believes Loughner has looked at his website, investigators examining Loughner's computer files and phone records have thus far found no evidence that he has a specific connection to any hate or fringe group.



http://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-does-jared-lee-loughner-believe/

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Anonymous wrote:...or supposed "violent liberals"

Yes, that's right. A study by the Nation Institute going back over the last 8 years found that right wing extremists have been involved in far more domestic plots and plotting than anyone else, they are twice as big of a danger to Americans than muslim extremists are.

https://www.revealnews.org/article/home-is-where-the-hate-is/

What if they went back 16 years?

Anonymous wrote:And the FBI most wanted terrorist list which is 28 Muslims and 1 extreme left wing animal rights activist who explodes nail bombs on American soil?

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Anonymous wrote:https://apps.revealnews.org/homegrown-terror/

This is the page with the "map."

Scroll to the bottom. The link in Orange that says "See our methodology." I have clicked it multiple times and get a blank page.

The methodology is here. http://www.revealnews.org/article/how-we-analyzed-domestic-terror-incidents/

I think they did a good job of harvesting data from sites representing multiple points of view.

So why is Jared Lee Loughner listed as "right wing?" It's patently false.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://apps.revealnews.org/homegrown-terror/

This is the page with the "map."

Scroll to the bottom. The link in Orange that says "See our methodology." I have clicked it multiple times and get a blank page.

The methodology is here. http://www.revealnews.org/article/how-we-analyzed-domestic-terror-incidents/

I think they did a good job of harvesting data from sites representing multiple points of view.

Anonymous wrote:https://apps.revealnews.org/homegrown-terror/

This is the page with the "map."

Scroll to the bottom. The link in Orange that says "See our methodology." I have clicked it multiple times and get a blank page.

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Anonymous wrote:When you look at the map at your link that details terror events, there's no documentation of the methodology they used to determine this "fact."

The headline could be true, but the methodology page is blank.

I won't believe any claim until I see evidence.

Did you actually click on the link or are you just bluffing? Because, the methodology page isn't blank. They list their sources and their definitions:

To build our Homegrown Terror database, we obtained data from a variety of sources: the Congressional Research Service, the FBI, DT Analytics, The Heritage Foundation, the Investigative Project on Terrorism, New America, Mother Jones, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Anti-Defamation League, the National Abortion Federation and the Animal Liberation Front’s own website. In addition, we set up news filters and searched journalism databases to scoop up missing incidents, using search terms such as “Islamist,” “sovereign citizen,” “Oath Keeper,” “ecoterrorism” and so on.

Through public databases and Freedom of Information Act requests, we collected primary court and law enforcement documents for almost every incident and carefully examined them, in combination with credible news coverage, to check whether each entry met the FBI criteria that define domestic terrorism. Incidents that met the definition were included, regardless of whether prosecutors filed terrorism charges. Some incidents inevitably involved judgment calls. To adjudicate those, we turned to a panel of experts: William Banks, director of the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism at the Syracuse University College of Law; Bruce Hoffman, director of the Center for Security Studies at Georgetown University; and Daryl Johnson, former senior domestic terrorism analyst at the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis, now the owner and CEO of consulting firm DT Analytics. They provided guidance on whether to include or exclude borderline cases, such as those related to hate crimes, mental illness and confrontations with law enforcement.

In cases of mental illness, we excluded incidents only if there was no clear ideological motivation for the crime. With regard to police shootouts, we included incidents in which the targeting of police resulted from an ideological motivation. As one of our experts said, “Extremist belief systems cause individuals to be ‘attack-oriented’ rather than ‘escape-oriented,’ to use violence to attack or confront authority figures rather than flee or submit to them.” Hate crimes were included only when the perpetrator used a terrorist tactic or technique, such as an explosive device, firebomb or mass shooting.

Lastly, a note on terminology: We use the loose umbrella term “left wing” to refer to a broad range of ideologies, including animal rights, environmental and anti-racist extremists. We use the umbrella term “right wing” to encompass militia movements, as well as white supremacist, anti-government, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and anti-abortion extremists, including radical Christians. We use the term “Islamist” to describe theocratic extremists inspired by groups such as the Taliban, al-Qaida and the Islamic State. We chose the term “Islamist,” rather than “Islamic,” in an effort to uncouple the Muslim faith from the political ideology of Islamism.