On the same day that President Biden issued his executive order on climate change, Acting Homeland Security Secretary David Pekoske issued a National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin “due to a heightened threat environment across the United States, which DHS believes will persist in the weeks following the successful Presidential Inauguration. Information suggests that some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence.”
Beware of DVE’s!! The bulletin claims, “Throughout 2020, Domestic Violent Extremists (DVEs) targeted individuals with opposing views engaged in First Amendment-protected, non-violent protest activity [such as the antifa and BLM riots and arson and looting! — ed]. DVEs motivated by a range of issues, including anger over COVID-19 restrictions, the 2020 election results, and police use of force have plotted and on occasion carried out attacks against government facilities.” It also cites long-standing racial and ethnic tensions, including against immigration — it references a 2019 mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, in which 23 people were killed. “DHS is concerned these same drivers to violence will remain through early 2021 and some DVEs may be emboldened by the January 6, 2021 breach of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. to target elected officials and government facilities,” it claims.
