A former skinhead reflects on Charlottesville: “We have a massive and dangerous domestic terrorist threat” - Salon.com

18.8.17

A former skinhead reflects on Charlottesville: “We have a massive and dangerous domestic terrorist threat” - Salon.com: They’ve come back since then and said that they were looking to invest in a program that had a track record for “success” and “longevity.” Well, frankly speaking, we’re the only organization in North America, in fact in the Western Hemisphere, that is successfully de-radicalizing people from the far-right. We’ve been doing it since 2011. We have an effective strategy, we have a high success rate, we’re the only organization that has a success rate.

Don’t cut funding for programs that counter violent white extremism because we know this, statistically speaking, that white supremacist extremists kill more than any foreign or domestic terrorist group combined on American soil. We know that we’ve experienced time and time again, incidents like what happened in Charlottesville, what happened in Charleston, South Carolina, what happened in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Dating back 100 years, we’ve had white supremacist violence in our country. Frankly speaking, we have a massive and dangerous domestic terrorist threat already living within our borders, and we still haven’t called it what it is, and that’s terrorism.