re: #259 opnion

What most people including me objected to in the DHS report was linking veterans with extemism. I know the report used a small percentage or words to that effect, but the number is statistically insignificant, so why mention vets at all?

I have to take off after this, but I want to answer this—

The report didn’t say ‘all vets’ were dangerous.
It pointed out that returning vets are VERY attractive to extremist groups, and that such groups go out of their way to recruit them.

It also pointed out that vets are capable of causing a lot more damage, if they want, than civilians. This is exactly why extremist groups WANT to recruit them. (let’s remember that McVeigh and Eric Randolph both had military backgrounds. The military isn’t what made them domestic terrorists—but their military training is WHY they were very deadly and in the case of Randolph, very skilled at evasion)

Finally— white supremacist groups have been trying to infiltrate the military for decades. They do it on purpose— they want to join up to get weapons/explosives training, and to try to recruit others,

The military knows this and has been policing its own ranks for the white supremacists and extremists for decades.

There is no reason for anyone to imagine that the DHS ‘singled out’ veterans, or that ‘all veterans’ are under suspicion.