U.S. Terror Label Ignored Until Spain Acts, Still No Domestic Action
CBS News dutifully reports on a U.S.-founded neo-Nazi group, 'The Base,' being dismantled by Spanish authorities. The article notes it's designated a terrorist organization by multiple countries, yet conveniently omits why the U.S. hasn't followed suit. For context, the U.S. has a long history of designating foreign terror groups, but domestic white supremacist organizations, despite plots (e.g.,
Michigan governor kidnapping), rarely graduate from 'hate group' to 'terrorist organization.' Why the reluctance to call a homegrown goose what it is when it's still good for the gander? So, a group founded on U.S. soil, aiming for a 'race war,' is a terror threat everywhere but its birthplace? Perhaps the FBI is too busy monitoring college students protesting a genocide funded by U.S. tax dollars
to notice actual neo-Nazis plotting domestic terror. One wonders if U.S. official concern only kicks in when the extremism points outwards, or if certain types of domestic terror are simply too… American.