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The Future of Right-Wing Terrorism in Canada /

13 Jul 2016

The last decade has seen the most visible cases featured in the media, including the discovery of the National Socialist Underground in Germany or Anders Behring Breivik’s attacks in Norway, as well as strings of serial murders of Roma and ethnic minorities in Hungary and Sweden.5 The primary ideological drivers for European right-wing terrorism are unemployment, immigration, nativism, anti-Semiti [...] Known as the Brown Army Faction, this small cell of neo-Nazis was linked to ten murders of Turkish and Greek merchants and a female police officer from 2000 to 2007, along with a dozen bank robberies and a bombing in Cologne in 2004.14 Two members (Uwe Boehnhardt and Uwe Mundlos) died prior to arrest, and the other two were captured in November 2011. [...] The FBI has identified right-wing extremist groups as the first category of serious domestic terrorist threats, and its investigations targeted groups like the Ku Klux Klan, Church of the Creator, Aryan Nations, National Alliance, and Christian Identity followers.34 The election of the nation’s first African-American President also motivated an explosion in the num- ber of hate groups. [...] The Roots of the Sovereign Citizen Movement Beginning in the early 1970s with a single group—Posse Comitatus—the sovereign citizen movement matured in the 1980s during a serious recession and simultaneous farm crisis that created a pool of potential recruits.41 Posse Comitatus, which is Latin for “power of the county,” was a revolutionary, anti-tax protest group. [...] The group openly advocated eliminating state and federal income taxes, abolition of the power of judicial review by the Federal Judiciary, abolition of the Federal Reserve System, and the restoration of the gold standard.
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Waterloo, ON, CA

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