In the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder, our so-called Department of Justice has removed access to a study they did that showed the opposite of the narrative currently trying to be spun by the White House, the FBI, Twitter (which is mostly Russian and Chinese bots these days), and Fox. They desperately want folks to believe it's the Democrats and other leftists sowing the seeds of violence when instead the data shows clearly that the call is coming from inside the house: that it's mostly those who vote Republican who are responsible.
We're being lied to, each day a new falsehood, like it's Nineteen Eight-Four. The removed study was titled "What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism" and it use to live here on ojp.gov. Now? "The requested page could not be found." How convenient. It may be put back eventually with a brief and false explanation as to its prior removal. We'll have to wait and see. As I write this, however, it's gone. Luckily, the internet is full of archivists, so you can find the PDF on the Wayback Machine at archive.org. It's also stored there as a web page if you'd prefer it that way.
Why do they want this study gone? Even without diving into the data, the introductory paragraph provides more than enough obvious clues.
Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist 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. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives. A recent threat assessment by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concluded that domestic violent extremists are an acute threat and highlighted a probability that COVID-19 pandemic- related stressors, long-standing ideological grievances related to immigration, and narratives surrounding electoral fraud will continue to serve as a justification for violent actions.
Note: I added the bold for emphasis.
This doesn't align at all with the lies Donald Trump is saying in front of news cameras from the Oval Office. He believes, and he wants everyone else to believe, that the so-called "radical left" is responsible for the violence in this country. He's instructed his completely unqualified and sycophantic FBI director, Kash Patel, to say the same nonsense despite evidence to the contrary. This bullshit message, quite literally the "fake news" they're always going on about, is being blasted around Twitter at break-neck speeds. Reality doesn't match this lie, and as such this study must be removed from the public's sight ⸺ just like a mural on the side of a business was never there once it's covered over.
I'm hosting the study here too because why not. It's only 225 KB in PDF form.
I detest the direction this country is going. And as crazy as all this has been, we're not even eight full months into the current presidential term! We're sliding toward fascism at an accelerating pace, and it seems there's not much of anything can be done about it. Nationalism and white supremacy pushed into place under the guise of conservatism never ends well. How could they? Expecting peace to arise from a definitionally unpeaceful political worldview is naive.
Today's lie was removing public access to a study. What will tomorrow's be? When does it stop? Sadly, I don't think it can or will stop. This slide downward into violence and fascism will continue until these folks are removed from power. Is that likely to happen? No, I don't think so. With the Department of Defense recently becoming the Department of War, why not rebrand the Department of Justice into what it's becoming: the Ministry of Truth.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
And all that constant violence perpetuated by the right? It was actually the left!
Update: The Cato Institute found the same thing
The Cato Institute is one of those "think tanks" that may or may not have its hands all over and inside our government. I mean, the Heritage Foundation is also one of those think tanks, and its been the driving force behind Trump's second term. He's following the playbook they developed during the Biden administration in case he managed to win again. That playbook is called Project 2025, and it's destroying the federal government from the inside out to push us toward an autocracy as we speak.
In any case, Cato researched political murders since 1975, excluding 9/11 as that would trump everything else for obvious reasons, and they found that most of them were committed by right-wingers. Surprising, eh?
It gets even better when you consider that the American far-right and Islam extremists are basically one and the same. In both cases they're the far-right sector of the prevailing political and religious powers in their respective countries. Were you to combine the two on the graph above, political murders from the right would total up to a mere 534 of 620 ⸺ a paltry 86.13% of them!