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...Russians during the two Chechen wars of the 1990s, which killed tens of thousands of people. Since then, the group has chosen nonviolent resistance from abroad as a way of achieving its goal of winning independence for the Caucasus. But they still maintain contacts with the leaders of the violent insurgency at home, including the fighters loyal to the Chechen warlord Doku Umarov...
...Russian security forces] are violent with us, and we have the right to act out in violence against them, to defend ourselves and our relatives. So this idea, this word terrorist, when it is applied to people fighting in the Caucasus, is an artificial word that was made up to discredit the resistance," she said. After describing how she took up arms in 1993 against Russian-backed forces in Abkhazia, a disputed region of Georgia, she added, "We lose our men and we choose to fight back. Does that make us terrorists...
...There's a real fear that once the Second Amendment is abridged, the First [guaranteeing free speech] will be the next to go," says Scott Wheeler, a writer for the U.S. Patriot Network. Despite the reverence for guns, however, "the vast majority of people in the militias are not violent or dangerous," says James Aho, a sociologist at Idaho State University who has interviewed 368 members of the radical right...
Extremism occurs among the political left and the political right. But some would have you think that violent extremists are all conservatives...
...deadly federal-building bombing was not the act of a mainstream political activist. Those on the left tend to overlook another mass murderer, the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, who sent 16 deadly package bombs to advance his extreme environmentalist throwback agenda. They also ignore the violent trashing of Seattle by socialist-leaning anarchists...