By: Alex Gregorios
There is something about a physical disease that seems to bring out the worst in those with mental disease.
Case in point: with the Coronavirus pandemic raging, racist extremist groups — think neo-Nazis and various other white supremacists — are calling for their fellow cretins who come down with COVID-19 to give it to law enforcement officers and, of course, Jews.
The information comes from the FBI. ABC News made public an alert it received telling them that these extremist groups are encouraging one another to spread the potentially deadly virus via any means possible.
“The FBI alert, which went out on Thursday, told local police agencies that extremists want their followers to try to use spray bottles to spread bodily fluids to cops on the street. The extremists are also directing followers to spread the disease to Jews by going “any place they may be congregated, to include markets, political offices, businesses and places of worship,” reported Yahoo News.
“Anti-government folks in America love to target law enforcement as a symbol of America’s authority,” Don Mihalek, the executive vice president of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association Foundation and an ABC News contributor, noted. “It’s just sad that that’s their focus at a time of crisis in the nation.”
Federal investigators ae said to have been monitoring communications among white supremacist organizations through Telegram, an encrypted messaging app that has become popular among underground extremist movements, according to dailymail.com. ‘Violent extremists continue to make bioterrorism a popular topic among themselves,’ according to an intelligence brief written by the Federal Protective Service.”
Last year, the FBI made 107 domestic terrorism arrests, on pace with the number of arrests it made for international terrorism, the organization said. Racism and hate-driven ideologies were the driving forces behind most of the ideologically motivated killings and violence in the US in 2018 and 2019, and were the most lethal of all domestic extremism movements over the last 20 years.
Just last month, FBI Director Christopher Wray gave testimony to the House Judiciary Committee that the problem of far-right domestic violent extremism has risen to a “national threat priority” and is now a “steady threat of violence and economic harm” to the United States. “The spate of attacks we saw in 2019 underscore the continued threat posed by domestic violent extremists and perpetrators of hate crimes. Such crimes are not limited to the United States and, with the aid of Internet like-minded hate groups, can reach across borders.”
