The Terror at Your Front Door 

Damn, Ock, as usual, you hit it and quit it with some deep assed topic that really needs a three hour podcast, but I know you gotta life lol. So, my usual tried to keep it short but still TLDR response:

• We've known about extremist elements in the US military forever. They were there when I was in and still are. Their recent heyday was during the Clinton administration; the Bush and Obama eras saw them laying lower for a number of reasons, but not inactive. And there was a lot of legitimate intelligence and law enforcement chatter about possible connections and communications between Timothy McVeigh et al and overseas actors. Indeed, we've known about back channels between white nationalists and Arab/Persian based Islamic terrorist groups for some time. Thats why terrorism is such a permanent phenomenon, many of these groups have regular access to materials and info from current operatives from within the US and state governments. And having incompetent Republicans around means shit is walking out the back door like those five fingered specials off the delivery truck. Look at Michael Flynn's activities and multiply by a hundred or a thousand. But as you state, with America's police and military forces honeycombed with white nationalist and extremist elements, it makes it that much harder to go after them. Indeed, the whole Russian-Trump thing is just as much about white nationalist love for Putin and Russia becoming the focus of neo-Nazi ideology, as it is about all the non-race-based alt-right attitudes. That's also why, as a vet, I give a big fuck you to vet organizations like the VFW and American Legion. I know who their members are made up from…

• You asked why mainstream media didn't cover this. There's probably a number of reasons. chiefly, there's the problem of the white liberal elite (and their negro imps). Their focus is so anti-Trump TO THE EXCLUSION of other real news, that reporting is as low-content for actual information seekers as Fox is for anything that isn't PRO-Trump (seen much follow up on Flint Michigan lately?). And despite people, especially black folk, thinking MSNBC et al are so liberal, they are still white elites, just a kinder, gentler privilege mindset. Indeed, I remember when the Oklahoma City bombing occurred, CNN and other networks immediately "blamed the black guy" ( as Paul Mooney would say) and said it was done by the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan (white liberal media was in full scared white mode at the time with the Million Man March being planned, the LA riot aftermath still being fresh, and OJ all over the airwaves). White America got a hard, Looking Glass lesson when it turned out to be a clean cut white male Persian Gulf War army veteran that blew up a federal government building. Whenever, it doesn't fit their elitist, establishment liberal narratives or goals, the mainstream media go after real, alternative news sources; which is why you saw Hillary's people and the white males of the Obama administration go after LEFT-WING media like Truthdig, Counterpunch, and Black Agenda Report as much as Fox News or RT Network. Mainstream media has always been the real fake news, and they know it. This is not a recent thing. Even as a little kid, I remember books from the Carter era (Jimmy not Jay-Z) talking about it, such as "News From Nowhere" by Edward Jay Epstein.

• That's why it's important, in the Internet age, to shun traditional news sources and read outside "the mainstream"; and I'm not talking cognitive trash like Alex Jones or black hotep shit. It's actually good to go to non-media sources and go directly to experts as opposed to reporters, news organizations and journalists. For example, the Southern Poverty Law Center has monitored extremist behavior for decades and is a good source for the kind of information you cite as being uncovered. Organizations like Project Censored have offered analysis of uncovered news by the mainstream media for years, as well. When it comes to any topic, I avoid the traditional media and seek out subject matter experts, most of whom have their own blogs, websites; so, if I want to know about science issues, I read scientists' blogs, if I want to know economic trends, I read economists' sites, if I want to know a SCOTUS ruling meaning, I read attorneys' blogs. I think it was Mark Twain who said that people who don't read newspapers are uniformed but people who do read them them are misinformed, lol. Intelligent people need to make the effort of culling their own information feeds using RSS, phone app notifications, etc. Otherwise news stories like the one you cite will continue flying under the radar.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled Instagram Thirst Traps and Romper pics. Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain with the bomb making materials…lol

I have think you may have misunderstood my intent…or more like I was writing like crap at 5 am lol. I was referring to media elites.

Although I terrorist privilege would make a great MontyPython skit from Life of Brian.

Ok, got it! I thought it was my incoherent wake up writing lol