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An undercover investigation has revealed Australia's right-wing extremists hide behind suburban normality to hoard guns and raise money while planning a new 'ethno-state', and even exposed links to the Christchurch mosque killer.
There used to be a time when right-wing nutters were treated as a bit of a joke. After all, things didn't end so well for their idol Adolf Hitler, and ever since his death in a German bunker his corrupt national socialist ideology has not exactly enjoyed any mainstream endorsement.
Anyway, Western governments have had more on their minds than neo-Nazis and their ilk. There was a new bunch of bad guys on the block, and those radical Islamists proved they were capable of large-scale atrocities, as demonstrated by dozens of attacks on Western targets around the world and the unforgettable events of 9/11, now 20 years ago.
In focusing attention on overthrowing despots like Iraq's Saddam Hussein, Libya's Muammar Gaddafi or, more recently, Syria's Bashar Assad, in what we were all led to believe were successive attempts to deprive Islamist terrorists of shelter, support and finances, Western nations have taken their eye off the ball.
They should have been paying more attention to the growth of the extreme right-wing movements from which evil killers like New Zealand mosque murderer Brenton Tarrant and Norwegian crazy Anders Breivik have emerged.
The fact they didn't has proven to be a serious mistake. Because while everyone's been distracted with fighting Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) and their offshoots in dusty, far-off hellholes, an Australian
investigation broadcast this week shows domestic,
right-wing extremists have been organising in suburban homes, just like the ones you or I might live next door to, and are far more sophisticated than most folk would ever believe.
Comment: UPDATE 20/8/2021 More details from the arrest of Mr. Roseberry: