DHS’s Neo-Nazi Memes Show the Agency for What It Is

Seeing a federal agency openly circulating racist and anti -Semitic propaganda as intentionally “nervous” content is sufficiently disturbing. But such a recruitment campaign also comes from an agency (or which was, under previous administrations) responsible for keeping an eye on white nationalist groups. What this last wave of DHS propaganda reveals, in part, is an agency that has been armed for the political ends of the Trump administration. But the DHS did not reluctantly acquired this weapon, as has sometimes been presumed. Instead, he assimilated the Maga’s mass deportation mission, adopted his language and has become his online standard holder. The change is, unfortunately, not so shocking, given the history of the agency. Since its own origins, DHS has minimized the threat of white nationalism while concentrating its power to apply the law on groups – Muslims, immigrants, left -wing activists – it has judged a threat to an imaginary version of ideal America.

A skeptic could suggest that DHS just don’t know what his messages invoke. But DH should be familiar with such tropes – and above all, with The Turner Diaries and the neonazi and white nationalist groups that he influenced. The text would have been an inspiration for the bombing in 1995 of a Federal of Oklahoma City building, which was made by a white nationalist. In the past, the agency has followed “violent domestic extremism” and recognized that the ability of these groups to recruit and mobilize online “potentially made individuals and extremist groups more dangerous and the consequences of their violence more serious”. It was the discovery of the 2009 article of a DHS analyst, which the DHS then repudiated before dissolving the team behind it. “DHS makes fun of the mission of the fight against domestic terrorism, just like the Congress,” Ackerman told the newspaper of the newspaper of the newspaper Cable In 2012. Johnson observed that although there have been many white supremacist attacks in recent years, there have been no audience on the rising white supremacist threat-“but”, he stressed: “They still hold audiences on Muslim extremism.”