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    It's a start

    U.S. Will Give Terrorist Label to White Supremacist Group for First Time

    The designation of the Russian Imperial Movement reflects growing concerns among U.S. officials about violent white supremacists with transnational links.

    WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is expected to announce on Monday that it is designating an ultranationalist group based in Russia as a terrorist organization, according to officials. It is the first time the government will apply the label to a white supremacist group.

    While the label of specially designated global terrorist has been frequently used for Islamist extremists, there have been growing concerns among U.S. officials about violent white supremacists with transnational links over the past five years. In 2018, the White House added that threat to the government’s National Strategy for Counterterrorism.

    “These designations are unprecedented,” said Ambassador Nathan A. Sales, the State Department’s counterterrorism coordinator. “This is the first time the United States has ever designated white supremacists as terrorists, and this illustrates how seriously this administration takes the white supremacist terrorist threat. We are doing things no previous administration has done to counter this threat.”

    The State Department’s designation for the organization, the Russian Imperial Movement, sets up the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control to block any American property or assets belonging to the group. It will also bar Americans from financial dealings with the organization and make it easier to ban its members from traveling to the United States.
    Now---let's get the home grown species.
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    This is the first I've heard of this group.

    Russian Imperial Movement: Our Manifesto
    https://spear-national.org/russian-i...our-manifesto/

    "Today, when the new president of the United States, Donald Trump is weaker than any of his previous predecessors, the European Union suffers from deep structural crisis, and completely new powers take the stage of global international policy, the old order seems to draw to a close end. It is the fact that requires from us a specific answer. That is why, we need real cooperation between European nationalists movements and sincere unity amongst us more than ever."
    - The Spear, RIM

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    I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead

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    Quote Originally Posted by UTAH View Post
    - The Spear, RIM
    So the guy who calls himself "The Spear" is the one with the RIM job...I'm sorry, I had to say it......Ben
    The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...

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    Don't be sorry Ben, we all say bull roar stories every day and lets all enjoy.
    Old redneck hillbilly borned and raised on a redwood stump.

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    Ahhh… If it should be said, Ben. We here are the likely sources.

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    Ahhh, for the good old days when vague white supremacist groups were our worry. Hopefully we can return to such a time when worries of that order will be in our consciousness, especially if they are half way around the world.
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