monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

1. Use "incidents" as a key metric
Written in the methodology of the CSIS study is this: "We coded threats of violence as attacks rather than plots, even if the threat turned out to be a hoax."

This statement is an incredible admission. The CSIS includes threats of violence as terrorist attacks — even if the threat was a hoax.

2. Manipulate definitions
Each study is careful about the definitions for terrorism. The CIR defines right-wing terrorism as follows: "militia movements, as well as white supremacist, anti-government, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant and anti-abortion extremists, including radical Christians."

These are standard terms Democrats use to attack conservatives — which is the point. The definitions are deliberately vague to increase subjectivity.

3. Lone wolves are not terrorists
By limiting Islamic terrorism only to cases with direct ties to specific terrorist groups, they define away "lone wolf" terrorist attacks and exclude them from the studies.

The Washington mall shooter, Arcan Cetin, who killed five people in 2016? Lone wolf.

Esteban Santiago, who killed five people at a Fort Lauderdale airport and told FBI agents he carried out the attack on behalf of ISIS? Lone wolf.

The Beltway snipers, who killed ten people in 2001? Not terrorism.

Stabbing two men at a mall in Minnesota, or pleading guilty to an ISIS-inspired plot to commit mass murder in Texas? Lone wolves.

None of these incidents or fatalities at the hands of Islamic terrorists are included in the NAF or CIR studies. While the CSIS does not list their incidents, undoubtedly, they mimic the same restrictions.

4. Apply inconsistently
The NAF study enables anti-government statements to classify someone as a right-wing extremist.

This flimsy definition does not apply to Muslim extremists.

Yelling "down with the government" while carrying out an act of violence is enough to be counted as right-wing terrorism. However, a Muslim screaming "Allahu akbar" while committing the same violence is not sufficient to be an Islamic extremist.

This tactic helps reduce Islamic terrorism while increasing occurrences of right-wing terrorism.

5. Count violence unrelated to ideology
While the CSIS study doesn't list specific terrorist acts, it discloses some sources — one of which is the Anti-Defamation League.

This inflates numbers by including incidents committed by those who fit the ideological criteria, even if the acts were unrelated to ideology.

For example, the ADL includes the murder of KKK member Frank Ancona, who was killed by his wife —also a KKK member. It's unlikely that Ancona's wife shot him in the name of white supremacy, but it counts as right-wing terrorism anyway.

Another white supremacist, Edward Blackburn, murdered a white man dating his ex-girlfriend. Did he kill him to advance white supremacy? Unlikely.

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The "Democrat HOAX" struck once again:

Trump never called the virus a hoax.

I will only believe that after each case is presented.

In total, we drew from the following data sets: START GTD (1994-2017); Janes Terrorism
and Insurgency Events (2009-2020); the RAND Database of Worldwide Terrorism
Incidents (RDWTI) (1994-2009); and the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) Hate,
Extremism, Anti-Semitism, and Terrorism (H.E.A.T.) Map (Anti-Semitic Incidents: 2016-
2020, Extremist/Police Shootouts: 2008-2020, Extremist Murders: 2008-2020, Terrorist
Plots & Attacks: 2002-2020, Islamist: 2002-2020, Left Wing: 2008-2020, Right Wing:
2002-2020). We also compiled events as recorded in ADL publications1
and Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) annual reports and news releases (1994-2020). We cross-referenced
events against local and national news sources, including the New York Times, Washington
Post, and Los Angeles Times.

Ask the researchers, Mr Proofreader.

Legal scholar accuses media of 'willfull blindness' to Obama spying on Trump

"The Washington press corps seems engaged in a collective demonstration of the legal concept of willful blindness, or deliberately ignoring the facts, following the release of yet another declassified document which directly refutes prior statements about the investigation into Russia collusion," he wrote. "The document shows that FBI officials used a national security briefing of then candidate Donald Trump and his top aides to gather possible evidence for Crossfire Hurricane, its code name for the Russia investigation."

"It is astonishing that the media refuses to see what is one of the biggest stories in decades," Turley added. "The Obama administration targeted the campaign of the opposing party based on false evidence."

"Democrat HOAX"

coldjoint wrote:

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The "Democrat HOAX" struck once again:

Trump never called the virus a hoax.

Again your reading difficulties?
"Democrat HOAX"

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Indeed, Trump has come under fire in China after his decision to close the Chinese consulate in Houston. Chinese websites are teeming with snarky comments; they also say Mike Pence is modern-day Hilter.