Amy Goodman
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As Right-Wing Shooting Rampages Grow, U.S. Revives Domestic Terror Unit Shelved After 9/11
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18:36Now PlayingLess than a week after Attorney General Eric Holder revived a task force to look at domestic terrorists, a married couple aligned with the antigovernment Patriot movement shot dead two Las Vegas police officers, killed a civilian bystander, and then turned their guns on themselves. erad and Amanda Miller had recently spent time at the ranch of Cliven Bundy during his standoff with the federal government. Police say they proclaimed "the beginning of the revolution," and laid an American Revolutionary flag and a swastika symbol on the dead officers' bodies. The Las Vegas shooting came just two days after a man tied to the "sovereign citizen" movement attacked a Georgia courthouse, throwing smoke bombs and shooting a sheriff's deputy, who returned fire and killed him. Authorities say the shooter, Dennis Marx, had homemade explosives, and food and water, suggesting he planned to take hostages. Holder's decision to revive the domestic terror unit comes five years after Republican outrage led the Obama administration to withdraw a key report on the resurgence of the radical rightwing. We are joined by Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors U.S. hate groups and extremists."The [rightwing militia] movement is on fire at the moment, and it may get worse before it gets better," Potok says.
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