This hearing will look at a range of violent antigovernment actors, movements, and organizations, highlighting recent threats from militia extremists and accelerationists, including the Boogaloo Movement, who seek to accelerate society toward violent collapse. Anything that is threatening institutions, we also look at it. That is what we are doing today. It is incredibly irrelevant to me which groups we look at so long that we are looking at the principal ones that threaten peoples lives. Some of these Extremist Movements stream from ideologies that are decades old. Others are both having new. Others are relatively new. These threats range from decentralized and leaderless accelerationist networks to more structured militia groups. Antigovernment extremism is one of the Common Threads, but we often see overlap with antiimmigrant, antisemitic, antiblack, antimuslim ideologies as well, bringing these extremists into common cause with others who are extremist in nature. Today we had an op
Including the seeking to accelerate the society. This is something happening on the left, the right, anywhere on the political spectrum with violence, pending society, threatening institutions and weve got to look at it and that is what we are doing today. So, it is incredibly irrelevant to think which groups we look at so long looking at the principles of fresh in peoples lives. Some of these movements stem from ideology that are decades old and others are relatively new. Some range from decentralized to more structured militia groups. Its one of the Common Threads we often see a overlap with bringing these into common cause of with others who are extremist in nature. They have a collective opportunity to discuss the current Threat Landscape so we can develop an understanding of how they flourish in the communities and mind space. We have seen horrific acts of violence. A man in texas was arrested after straining a Facebook Live searching for a Law Enforcement officer to ambush and ch
The things we do with the budget resolution, on the bus appropriation bill, separate appropriation bills that follow, sequestration across the board cuts to allow agencies, departments, to allocate their resources. Hopefully that will enable us to look at risks, areas of risk, put more money there and areas of risks put less money there but in terms of what we can do to help you do your work better, give us one good idea. I will start. Having answered my question, you had given my response and it is recognizing that this country there are a number of risks that we face. Is a large country and part of the conversation we have to have, the department of Homeland Security administration and lawmakers and American Public is we cant mitigate every threat so it is understanding those that have the most significant consequences and ensuring we are having a conversation, mitigating them, personnel to go about doing that so having the conversation that we have today over the course of time, wha
We have debate and over the course of time are, i think, whats critical. You have already taken steps by moving away from sequestration. That will be helpful to us as well. But again i think that recognizing that we have to manage risk and that we cant prevent every incident, and as long as we are adapting. General . Yes, sir. The federal protective services to the be very brief, very brief. We have to work and weve our way through both state, local, federal, and civilian contractors environments. And we do that with a very small force. Your help in helping us to your support in helping us move through and navigate through some of those areas is critical, quite frankly. Because we are trying to look out and predict, if you will, what is coming down the road to keep our people safe. And we really need the support of folks like yourself and this committee to help us see through that and help us to work through some of these challenges. Brief response, please. We believe that continuing t
In fact, he said, and i quote, that many of the ideas he fought for, that just a few years ago were considered radical, are now mainstream in the democratic party. At the root of their agenda is the belief that america is driven by envy, not aspiration, that millions of americans harbor ill will toward our neighbors instead of loving our neighbors as ourselves. The radical left believes that the federal government must be involved in every aspect of our lives to correct those american wrongs. They believe the federal government needs to dictate how americans live, how we should work, how we should raise our children. And in the process, deprive our people of freedom, prosperity and security. Their agenda is based on government control. Our agenda is based on freedom. [ applause ] where President Trump cut taxes, joe biden wants to raise taxes by nearly 4 trillion. Where this president achieved Energy Independence for the United States, joe biden would abolish fossil fuels, end fracking