Republican North Carolina campaign office firebombed (VIDEO)

The firebombed Republican office in North Carolina illustrates a danger of violence normalization. The Trump campaign planted this seed early with it consistently violent rallies.

North Carolina Republican office firebombed

Somebody or somebodies firebombed a North Carolina Republican office inflicting approximately ten thousand dollars worth of damage. The New York Times reported the following.

A firebomb tore through the Republican Party headquarters in North Carolina’s Orange County on Saturday night, and graffiti warning its members to flee town was painted on the walls of a neighboring building, the party and police officials said on Sunday.

The party posted images on Twitter of the damaged building in Hillsborough, N.C., on Sunday afternoon that showed blackened walls, charred couches and burned campaign signs for Donald J. Trump and several local candidates. A window was broken, and a swastika was spray-painted nearby alongside the words “Nazi Republicans leave town or else.”

Trump tweeted the following after the bombing.

Animals representing Hillary Clinton and Dems in North Carolina just firebombed our office in Orange County because we are winning @NCGOP

Of course, Donald Trump has no clue who is the perpetrator of the firebombings. In fact, most thinking people would tend to believe that it is likely a Trump operative given that talk of acts of violence are one-sided, on the Right. Democrats are on the verge of a big win. Hillary Clinton condemned the bombing.

Democrats are on the verge of a big win. Hillary Clinton condemned this evil act.

I do fear that many on the Right are armed and cocked. The FBI for several years deemed many factions on the Right as a significant domestic terror threat.

In April 2009 DHS secretary Janet Napolitano released a report (see the report here) identifying right-wing extremists as posing a terror threat to the United States. The 2009 DHS report was based on three FBI reports on the subject — from 2004, 2006, and 2007 — written under the guidance and supervision of the George W. Bush administration’s Justice Department (the term “right-wing” was used by the FBI in these reports), but as Reuters reports (also see this Los Angeles Times report and this Salon story), the 2009 report was met with criticism from conservative commentators and lawmakers, who said DHS was playing politics.

What is clear from the FBI surveillance and analysis of extremist groups in the United States, surveillance which intensified after 9/11, is that the U.S. government has considered neo-Nazi and white supremacists as genuine threats for many years.  FBI documents declassified in July in response to Freedom of Information Act (fFOIA) requests by the National Security Archives (NSA), reveal that the bureau has considered these groups as threats for decades — so long in fact, that it has been lost on many that white supremacists, in the form of the Ku Klux Klan, pioneered modern homegrown terrorism.