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The Terrorist

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Society & Culture, Documentary, News, News Commentary

4.712.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Frazier Glenn Miller spent years spreading racist, violent rhetoric, training Ku Klux Klan-affiliated paramilitary groups, and gathering arms to launch a "race war." But time and again, he escaped serious consequences. Many say that's because the government - and the media - failed to see the danger Miller posed until it was too late.

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0:00.0

Hey, just a heads up before we get started.

0:02.1

This episode includes descriptions of violence

0:04.4

and of racist extremist groups in the US.

0:07.2

So it may not be appropriate for everyone.

0:09.6

Okay, onto the show.

0:11.8

Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers,

0:12.8

and this is embedded from NPR.

0:15.6

This summer, the head of the FBI, Chris Ray,

0:18.6

said something to Congress that surprised some people.

0:21.6

Just in the first three quarters of this year,

0:25.0

we've had more domestic terrorism arrests

0:27.7

than the prior year.

0:28.9

And it's about the same number of arrests

0:30.5

as we have on the international terrorism size.

0:32.7

The FBI defines domestic terrorism

0:35.9

as acts by people or groups in the United States

0:38.6

that quote, espouse extremist ideologies

0:41.6

of a political, religious, social, racial,

0:44.4

or environmental nature.

0:46.7

And before this testimony,

0:48.2

there was a sense among people who study domestic terrorism

0:51.4

that officials weren't paying enough attention.

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