Analyst:

Trump's rhetoric could encourage copycat bombers

Rasa - US President Donald Trump's divisive rhetoric could encourage copycat bombers, according to Myles Hoenig, an American political analyst and activist.

News ID: 441243

Date: 28 October 2018 - 16:22

RNA - Hoenig, a former Green Party candidate for Congress, made the remarks in an interview on Saturday after Trump accused the media of trying to "score political points" against him by reporting on the series of improvised explosive devices sent to high profile Democratic leaders this week.

On Friday, FBI agents arrested a man named Cesar Sayoc, 56, in southern Florida. He is suspected of sending at least 14 pipe bombs to the residences of Bill and Hillary Clinton, former President Barack Obama, the offices of Democratic Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Maxine Waters, and others.

Sayoc has reportedly been an ardent supporter of the Trump administration and was seen attending his campaign rallies in 2017.

The incident happened ahead of key midterm elections on November 6, with Republicans trying to hang on to control of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

According to Press TV, Hoenig said, “Data has long shown that most political violence in the US comes from the far right. Whether they be the KKK, neo-Nazi and other white supremacist groups, anti-women’s health terrorists, or others, the likelihood of such violence is also under reported in the news media. The media is quick to lay blame on Muslim terrorists if that were to be the case, but lone white gunmen are usually in need of mental counseling with the usual thoughts and prayers for their victims, and extremist right wing murders barely get reported.”

“So much attention is on an invisible radical left as a way of diverting attention and awareness to the real threats in America. The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified 953 hate groups in the United States, with a 22 percent increase in total neo-Nazi groups in 2017. The majority of these hate groups overall are on the far right of the political spectrum,” he stated.

“This recent rash of bombings related to critics of President Trump is feared to be a beginning of a wave of such bombings. Considering that none has gone off, one can hypothesize that they were to create a sense of fear, rather than actual mayhem and death. The real fear is that copycats will take up where Cesar Sayoc left off. As much as this would be a frightening turn of events in US history, similar to the Weathermen bombings of the 60s and the defensive actions of the Black Panthers, the political establishment sees this in their terms. How will it affect the mid-term elections? Does it show how extreme the President has activated, motivated and encouraged a base of murdering lunatics?” he asked.

“The election is just two weeks away and the Machiavellians in the White House are going to need a diversion until after the election. It is fortunate for them that they have a mass migration of exploited and oppressed Central Americans making their way to the US border for asylum, protection, and to secure a better life taken from them by the repressive governments conceived by US economic interests. Although the US’s actions when they reach the border could backfire against the Republicans, as the military is saying they have no plans at this time to fire on them, much of the Republican base stands behind a strong armed presence to hold them off,” the analyst noted.

“Things are moving out of control for this White House and when its leader whose sole interest is maintaining his own control and power, we are left to fear more bomb packages and more ratcheting up of hostilities nation-wide as a way of keeping the nation on edge,” he concluded.

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