So now we're terrorists? This piece in the Washinton Examiner casts the QAnon movement as domestic terrorists... “There’s a lot of legitimate cause of concern,” said Michael Smith II, terrorism analyst and Johns Hopkins University lecturer on global security and intelligence. “You have seen growing instances of right-wing extremists modeling behaviors that can have an effect of inspiring competence in their sympathizers' interest in perpetrating violent crimes against minority groups, as well as against people who don’t ascribe to their political beliefs." “When we see political leaders demonstrating an aversion to more aggressively speaking out against white conservative extremist elements, this can, meanwhile, have an effect on bolstering confidence in their causes among a wide array of known and obscure elements, raising from the KKK to the sorts of fringe groups that you’re seeing an increase of new media coverage of,” Smith said. A far-left extremist group may see a physical attack by a far-right group that is not widely condemned as somehow legitimate, prompting the far-left group to “inspire a sense of urgency to act,” Smith said. The far-left group would then only have to convey to supporters that “they will have to do more to defend their interests against that group that is somehow being nurtured.” The author of the article apparently has a touch of Biden syndrome evidenced by this next inane sentence: The threat of a surge in domestic terrorism is not only from groups on the far-right, including the Boogaloo movement, QAnon, and 09A, and antifa and other groups on the Left that reject the government’s authority. The article continues with academic blather about domestic terrorism that isn't particularly interesting or insightful.  The point is that QAnon is being categorized as a 'far-right' domestic terrorist group.   We're lumped together with O9A, which is so obscure that I had to look it up.   O9A (not 09A--the author gets the acronym wrong) is apparently an esoteric philosophy called The Order of Nine Angles that is mischaracterized by the media as a kind of militia. So let's turn the tables and fat check...er...fact check the author of the lame article. Meet Anna Giaritelli. Maybe set her straight about Q on her twatter account.