Mawyer said he believes the favorable treatment from local law enforcement boils down to politics.
“You can speculate about why the local law enforcement community always puts out such positive stuff about these groups, but put yourself in their position. They don’t have any legal means to do anything with these camps, and to try to face re-election every four years with the possibility that you have a terrorist training camp in your jurisdiction, it’s just easier to try to say these are not terrorist camps, just peace-loving people trying to educate their own kids and do their own farming,” he said. “There’s a lot of political pressure on these sheriffs.”
Gaissert said one thing is certain – that political correctness has seemed into law enforcement at the federal level and some of that has leaked down to the state and local levels.
“It seems that if an attack is sponsored or directed by a terrorist organization they will label it a terrorist act. But if an act or event is jihadist inspired, that is by someone who was radicalized by a teaching in a mosque or over the Internet, they will not call it an act of terrorism,” he said. “But a rose by any other name is still a rose. Why would you want to cloud the issue or deny the reality of it?”
Sheriff Stevie Thomas of Franklin County, where the larger of the two Georgia camps has operated for years, near Commerce, did not return repeated phone calls from WND. Sheriff Bruce Bryant of York County, S.C., which also has a large MOA enclave, also did not return calls.
“So for any sheriff to claim that we put out false information, they will never put a finger on anything we’ve shown that is in anyway false because they can’t. It’s all very well researched,” Mawyer said. “We hear this all the time, not just from sheriff’s departments. Is the video false? Are Gilani’s own words false?”
Mawyer points to Gilani’s diatribe in the captured video from Colorado as the most damning evidence.
“He said, ‘We are establishing the most advanced Islamic warfare training camps and we’re in upstate New York, we’re in Georgia, we’re in Michigan and you can reach out to join us. And America is the enemy.’”
Mawyer said he has no message for the local sheriffs who ignore or denigrate his research.
“They have a duty to perform in their communities,” he said. “I hope they do it well.”
“Why Sheriff Jones (of Charlotte County) feels these are nice peaceful people, I don’t know,” he continued. “Our entire goal was just to say ‘Look, they are here and here’s what they’ve done in the past, and here’s what they are capable of doing now.’”
What happened in Colorado in 1992 should stand as a lesson, he said.
“They had their Colorado compound raided and shut down, and if you were to read all the newspaper pieces from back prior to that raid it would sound the same way — these are nice peaceful people — and then they found cashes of weapons and explosives.”
I went last night to a terrorist camp
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