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DOJ Quietly Deletes Study (Original Post) markie Sep 17 OP
They have to know that they are evil. LakeVermilion Sep 17 #1
All to placate the orange madman GreenWave Sep 17 #2
This is why... littlemissmartypants Sep 17 #3
This is what real fascists do. Don't like the results of a study? Don't release the study. Botany Sep 17 #4
Similar to the Maternal Mortality Review Committees.... evolves Sep 17 #11
Republican influencer wants tRump to kill 500K liberals Blue Full Moon Sep 17 #5
The right's war with ANTIFA .... something that doesn't exist. From your Link. Botany Sep 17 #7
They see anyone who is against them as antifa Blue Full Moon Sep 17 #18
ANTIFA is just like calling people "woke" or socialist or "tax and spend liberals or "Harris slept her way .... Botany Sep 17 #21
Internet is forever Aviation Pro Sep 17 #6
Not. Many countries have severely limited internet access to their populations. erronis Sep 17 #9
Link to the download is below. littlemissmartypants Sep 17 #15
yes markie Sep 17 #19
If the Dems were smart... calguy Sep 17 #8
Soros ain't pulling his weight Captain Zero Sep 17 #26
That must be it. calguy Sep 17 #27
Of course she did. Vile creature. Joinfortmill Sep 17 #10
There were already studies and warnings for years. live love laugh Sep 17 #12
I did a quick review of the study for longevity of terrorist groupss Farmer-Rick Sep 17 #13
PDF Download Is Available ... littlemissmartypants Sep 17 #14
They can't handle the truth. Dave Bowman Sep 17 #16
Perfect job they did too, since none of us here are talking about it, AT ALL. Volaris Sep 17 #17
Could have reverse effect they want BWdem4life Sep 17 #20
DOJ Quietly Deletes Study on Politics of Domestic Terrorists LetMyPeopleVote Sep 17 #22
"the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism." IronLionZion Sep 17 #23
and the thing is Skittles Sep 17 #25
They like to bloviate but do nothing for both problems IronLionZion Sep 17 #28
are they really that stupid? or brainwashed? RussBLib Sep 17 #24
of course they did mdbl Sep 17 #29

LakeVermilion

(1,427 posts)
1. They have to know that they are evil.
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 07:33 AM
Sep 17

They just don’t care.

When the opposition reaches 70%, let’s see if Bondi and Patel start to squirm.

Botany

(75,685 posts)
4. This is what real fascists do. Don't like the results of a study? Don't release the study.
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 07:44 AM
Sep 17

With some like > 80% of the violence coming from the right then don’t release that data and
then talk about “stopping all the hate speech” coming from the left all the time and then turning
a right wing hate talker who was killed by another right winger into some kind of Saint Kirk of
Jesus Land.

Don’t like the results from NOAA’s Climate Observatory on Mauna Loa? Just close the observatory
that shows the CO 2 levels rising in the Atmosphere and who cares if the Blue Whale goes extinct
from lack of its food source called Krill which can’t survive the warmer ocean temperatures.

Don’t like how the elections turn out when the people vote? Rig the elections.

Bondi is a good little Nazi.

evolves

(5,662 posts)
11. Similar to the Maternal Mortality Review Committees....
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 09:47 AM
Sep 17

My state (TN) and many others have disbanded the committees. If you don't publish the numbers, it's like it's not really happening.
"Move along. Nothing to see here...."

Botany

(75,685 posts)
21. ANTIFA is just like calling people "woke" or socialist or "tax and spend liberals or "Harris slept her way ....
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 12:10 PM
Sep 17

…. to the top” or “transgender something or other” or “CRT” or …. . It doesn’t matter if it is true or not
just keep repeating it.

J.Goebbels the big lie; “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

erronis

(21,737 posts)
9. Not. Many countries have severely limited internet access to their populations.
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 09:39 AM
Sep 17

Easy enough to do here in this fine US of A.

markie

(23,712 posts)
19. yes
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 11:31 AM
Sep 17

it is clear that the trump administration is erasing, hiding, distorting, changing.... the information we need to have an educated, free thinking society...

it is a serious worry for me

calguy

(6,028 posts)
8. If the Dems were smart...
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 08:08 AM
Sep 17

They would create an alarming commercial about this and run it virtually non-stop on every tv channel.
Not that they can afford to do that, but if it were the republicans, they’d find a random billionaire to finance the whole thing.

Farmer-Rick

(12,220 posts)
13. I did a quick review of the study for longevity of terrorist groupss
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 09:57 AM
Sep 17

It's now about 6 years. It use to be down to 99 days when the FBI actually did something. Now they just stick their thumbs up their butts and let the terrorism flow.

BWdem4life

(2,819 posts)
20. Could have reverse effect they want
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 11:32 AM
Sep 17

After all, here's a news article that wouldn't have otherwise existed.

LetMyPeopleVote

(171,930 posts)
22. DOJ Quietly Deletes Study on Politics of Domestic Terrorists
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 12:37 PM
Sep 17

The Justice Department has taken down a study that proves Republicans’ entire narrative wrong about left-wing violence.

DOJ Quietly Deletes Study on Politics of Domestic Terrorists newrepublic.com/post/200537/... via @newrepublic.com

Greed Apocalypse (@juanmunoz.bsky.social) 2025-09-16T21:36:35.758Z



404 Media has reported that in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump’s Justice Department deleted a study from its website stating that right-wing violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. This comes as the Trump administration and Republicans generally blame political violence solely on the left.

The study was available online at least until Friday, according to 404 Media, but can now only be found via a Wayback Machine link.

The study, published in 2024 and conducted by the National Institute of Justice, is titled, “What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism.” The first words are: “Militant, nationalistic, violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.”

“Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives,” the study noted. “In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives.”

It’s highly likely that the DOJ took this study down because it doesn’t fit with the narrative the GOP is trying so desperately to push about the left being to blame for the bulk of political violence in this country, willfully ignoring countless examples of that not being the case at all.

IronLionZion

(50,190 posts)
23. "the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism."
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 02:13 PM
Sep 17

So back to mental illness excuses then?

Much like gun violence, they like to increase a problem exponentially by pretending it doesn't exist. The "do nothing" approach yields deadly results. So might as well hide all data and reports studying it.

Skittles

(168,298 posts)
25. and the thing is
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 04:50 PM
Sep 17

they don't care about the treatment of mental illness any more than they care about gun carnage

IronLionZion

(50,190 posts)
28. They like to bloviate but do nothing for both problems
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 08:15 PM
Sep 17

They use the mental illness excuse to avoid any action on guns and deny the existence of right wing terrorism

RussBLib

(10,274 posts)
24. are they really that stupid? or brainwashed?
Wed Sep 17, 2025, 02:56 PM
Sep 17

...that they really really really think that the left is much more violent than the right? They believe it so absolutely that they commission (yet another) study which reveals that, "Hey, MORONS!" wake up to reality!

https://russblib.blogspot.com

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