Right-wing groups fair game for investigation

The most recent mass murders have been labeled as domestic terrorism by the FBI. The alleged killer has ties to the white supremacy movement. If these turn out to be accurate, then this will not be the first nor unfortunately may not be the last such act by white supremacists.

The George W. Bush administration signed off on investigations of groups from both the left and right toward the end of his second term. No one from the left of center whined about this. Then after President Barack Obama came into office and carried forward many Bush policies, one of them being the continuation of those investigations, the right-wing cried/whined from their usual role - victimhood.

Virtually all left-of-center groups have been targeted and investigated for decades; many investigations have been decried by legal experts as crossing the lines. One group, the Black Panthers, was actively sought out and some even killed while

unarmed and sleeping, but the right-wing, did not seek to stop any of it.

It is time for stronger people to stand up to the bullying from the right and actually investigate the far too many extreme right-wing groups before more murders occur.

Thomas Sass

Iowa City