Yahoo! News – Democrats: HSD Omits Right-Wing Threats

AMERICAblog points to this story: The Homeland Security Department (motto: no demolished skyscrapers or anthrax mailings for almost four years now!) makes a list of all the radical extremist groups that might be a terrorist threat to America…

WASHINGTON – The Homeland Security Department is focusing on possible terror threats from radical environmental and animal rights activists without also examining risks that might be posed by right-wing extremists, House Democrats said Tuesday.

… The document does not address threats posed by white supremacists, violent militiamen, anti-abortion bombers and other extremists that Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (news, bio, voting record), D-Miss., called “right-wing hate groups.”

ALF and ELF “are the left-leaning groups that they identified,” said Thompson, the top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee. “But they absolutely left out any of the other groups.”

… Thompson said he reminded Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff of threats by right-wing groups in a letter sent to the department Tuesday — the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. That attack, which killed 168 people, marks the worst act of domestic terrorism on U.S. soil.

ALF and ELF are accused by the FBI of committing hundreds of acts of arson or other attacks on property in the United States, causing millions of dollars in damages. None of their attacks, however, have caused human deaths.

But see, only radical pinko lefties and Islamic fundamentalists hate America. Right-wing militias, abortion clinic bombers, Arizona “Minutemen”, and people who shoot up courtrooms have nothing but love for our freedoms. Nothing to fear here…