request the gold and silver investors god. call today eight hundred two five seven go. that n.r.t. when it comes to terrorism in the u.s. most americans associate that word with dark skin that from some foreign country but coming up we'll show you why your neighbor just may be a bigger threat than extremists from other countries. and it's no secret that americans love their guns we're the number one country in gun sales but there's a new twist to this trade and it involves a or fifteen plastic and one heavy duty printer the details coming up. plus stars from the adult film industry are inserting themselves into presidential politics lining up behind either mitt romney or barack obama will this porn power raise approval ratings well and cover the issue.

it's thursday august ninth six pm here in washington d.c. i'm liz wall and you're watching our. lawyer begin this hour zeroing in on two mass shootings that have rocked u.s. community is the massacre at a colorado movie theater and just days later a gunman opens fire at a sikh temple in wisconsin both cases tragic unsuspected and thinkable for the most part they're seen as isolated incidents in both cases the suspects are young white males not the typical face of terror but someone has stirred controversy highlighting the fact that homegrown terrorism as a dangerous threat in america today. former d.h.s.s. analyst daryl johnson wrote a report titled right wing extremism current economic and political climate fueling

resurgence and radicalization and recurrent recruitment many on the right criticize it as politically motivated fear mongering wing extremists here. this is one of these stories and. this is what we. like to tell it oh my god. does that mean they're going to be spending so despised . there are no timothy mcveigh he's out there right now if they're going to issue these reports for this made up threat serbians as posing a bigger threat to this country than terrorists naming veterans groups as possible extremist groups targeting veterans. career was essentially over because the administration didn't support his findings so while homegrown terrorism appears to be on the rise why isn't the media recognizing it to discuss this and more i'm

joined now by jennifer rowland program associate for the new america foundation jennifer welcome. so right wing extremism doesn't factor appear to be on the rise why does theirs why does there seem to be this hard time acknowledging it. i think it sensually it's that for the past decade terrorism has meant something very specific in the united states it's tended to mean that something that was associated with al qaeda that was fueled by osama bin laden's ideology and it's also been seen as something very other to us. whereas right now extremism can come from someone who a lot of americans might not expect it to come from and who is harder to sort of identify and put into a country hold a certain profile. and we see terrorism again it's coming from something outside the united states and it's it's tough to think that we might have to deal with

something that is inside the united states right under our noses and very hard to identify. ever i do want to read this quote from this very controversial ass report on this very issue we have it there states quote threats from ways of promises and violent anti-government groups are in two thousand and nine have been largely rhetorical and have not indicated plans to carry out violent acts nevertheless the consequences of a prolonged economic downturn including real estate foreclosures unemployment and an inability to obtain credit could create a fertile recruiting environment for right wing extremists and even result and confrontations between such groups and government authorities similar to those in the past so jennifer what do you think there is there a danger that this type of extremism is becoming a trend. you know it could be it does remain to be seen one of the difficulties

about finding and preventing terrorist from acting is differentiating between sort of the rhetoric and then actual plans to carry out violent acts. but a lot of the right wing extremists that we've seen have tended to be disenfranchised individuals. and it definitely makes for an easier target when someone is already angry at the government because they feel that they've been wronged for some reason. it does make them more vulnerable to right wing extremists who do exist out there to sort of recruit them and how ask them to join the cause and you know there's word terrorists it evokes a pretty specific image to americans do you think that people have a hard time calling white males terrorists that they it's just it doesn't really add up in our minds i do i do and i think again that's one of the reasons that this

has been something of an overlooked problem in our country. i think that the government for very good reasons did focused on jihadist terrorism for the past decade after nine eleven and it was a threat to our nation but right wing extremism as as our research has shown that is also a huge threat. and attacks since nine eleven by right wing extremists for political motives which we define as terrorist attacks. have been more frequent then jihadist terrorist attacks in the united states excluding nine eleven and when you do have this you know this preconceived bias or this stereotype as to what a terrorist really is and i guess failing to acknowledge the full picture of where other dangers can come from and that a that including a homegrown terrorist how can be that a tubes in perceptions possibly be getting in the way of national security.

well i think that the sikh temple shooting shows that very well if we fail to provide security to a segment of the population that was threatened by an extremist group. or a book by an extremist individual excuse me who is motivated by ideologies that are promoted by certain groups. and a lot of the right wing extremism has targeted it's primarily targeted against minorities and also against the government in two thousand and nine the f.b.i. came out with a report about the threat rightly extremists posed a lot of force. and assessing that threat and that is something that could absolutely be a threat to our national security. and. here we are in this post nine eleven world and in the aftermath of that we are seeing this rise

and islamophobia. and as a result of that we're seeing this rise in these hate groups i mean what do you think this all has to say about what america has become post nine eleven you know i do think all of this requires sort of a national conversation about america's treatment of minorities america's perception of minorities and us versus the other. i don't i think that yeah i think it to require is another conversation i think another reason that right wing extremism has been overlooked a little bit is because it's been targeted it hasn't been it's not perceived as something that might be random or indiscriminate against all american civilians but it against a certain segment of the population but that doesn't mean that it's not still a very very real threat and those segments of the population are clearly just as

american as everyone else and it definitely does speak to the wider question of equality in the united states and the issues that we've struggled with here in country however what do you think it would take to alter the mindset of the american people and i guess expand their interpretation of what exactly a terrorist is and to have it not be so limited to the stereotype that exists today you know that's a great question not what i'm sure you have a definitive answer to but education and exposure to and communication with people that are not exactly like you definitely something that people can be encouraged to do. but again it's just going to take people talking it's going to take hopefully the media picking up on these issues and and broadcasting them and not buying into the stereotypes the government as well trying to sort of downplay

and phase out these stereotypes that we've managed to create over the past decade jennifer thank you so much for coming on the show and weighing and that was jennifer rowland program associate director of program associate for the new america foundation thanks for having me. well you've heard all about three d. movies no more people are using three d. printers while many celebrate the advances in the versatility of three d. printing others are growing concerned over possibly using it to print out deadly weapons and american gun smith made this reality a user by the name have blew a ar fifteen dot com a firearms form claimed to have fired two hundred rounds from is part plastic pistol it's the first successful firing of a three d. printed gun how blue did not use a printer in an entire gun only a part called the lower receiver you see there well there is component is the only

part of the gun regulated for sale under us law and must carry a serial number that is unless it's made by someone for personal use so how blue is not breaking any laws apparently so is this another example of how easy it is for anyone to craft their own deadly weapons earlier i was joined by our t.v. producer andrew blakey explained the unique process of this printer gun. for the last couple of years of the coming i don't see the certainly mainstream but there's certainly breaking through and becoming for one thing fordable for an hour for just a few hundred dollars to a to a low grade consumer model to a few thousand dollars to something a bit nicer you can pretty much it's exactly what i said it's a three d. printer you design something using a cad design on a computer you make a three d. rendered image you take it you import it to a big machine like a big xerox and you import different polymers or plastic or resin into it send the

file through it and within a couple minutes couple of hours or maybe a couple of days you can hold whatever it is you had in your head you can design and it people have made guitars people have made keys people have made little toys and this is one fellow just recently made a gun or at least most of a gun he was able to make the bottom half of it almost all of it trigger component to the safety of the magazine he combined it with a little bit of metal hardware and was able to fire off two hundred rounds own just like that without really ever having to even go to wal-mart and go buy one and sell wow i mean seems like you can do a lot are there any limitations and they endure a lot of what you can do i mean you can't there's no interest in what you can do but it's limitations do you know what's going to what you can get away with i suppose that that's what really comes down to there aren't really strict intellectual property laws to it that apply specifically to three d.

printing that because people don't really know about it i mean it's been twenty years. cd ours have been able to let you know any consumer in america go ahead and kate any sort of software music or any sort of digital file it's been twenty years and since that became kind of like a mainstream thing and people are still trying to for a new ways to regulate that so no it's not just you know stealing someone's music copying it and being able to distribute it it's being able to look at something designed it put it onto a computer and then actually be able to hold it in your hands and. it's really is that simple as long as you know a little bit about computer aided design you can design something and bam there you go you just need a few hundred dollars in fact mr slick we believe is the fellow who designed this gun he said that he only needed around and he said thirty to fifty dollars worth of plastic to do it and he used one of the lower grade machines could've done it and cheaper wow so seems like it doesn't take too many resources to get you know i mean

it's kind of it's amazing that if you can dream it you can really make it happen that you can do and you know it's not just like painting a picture sitting down in you know having a melody in your head going back home and recording a song it's really as simple as is dreaming something and then coming back with this actual tangible object and you know people have been using this for years now really on a consumer level but people have used it in the industrial sector to design a prototype cell to come up with basic blueprints maybe architects actually used in the past to design smaller scale models of properties that there are thinking about building and they're able to go through it and you know have everything in scale go well all right that works out there that works out there how can we make it more appropriate to what we want exactly and you can do that in the thing with mr gosset was actually saying an interview that he did a few weeks ago that the great thing about this was you know he went ahead he went through the blueprints and went ok well this didn't work out too well so what i'm going to do i'm just going to go back and do it again it's just a matter of moving around a couple of points on

a cad design figuring out how you you want it to look going back and just doing it again it's not like you have to go in and actually order a whole new gun because you like the way this one shoots better this one holds better it's really oh this is what i have to do to fix it ok i can fix it and i never have to leave my house and so you know the bottom half of the gun and the what he made actually using on different plastics that is the part that is regulated that's the thing that's that's that's the powerhouse of the gun that's what you need to look out for and that's what the. government has a lot of restrictions on and by going ahead and making that in his own house and just using a little spare parts of metal to build the rest of the machine yeah he he didn't really this really break any laws he just created so and so that is i mean that could be troubling to some people i mean you and i literally does this mean that you know everybody that if you don't have a gun license or if your license was revoked you can take my three d. printer and make one on my own who's going to go i need to look at your blueprints

i want to know what designs you have in mind like are they going to start arresting people just based on the theory that oh they've looked at this therefore they're going to be able to create it because they that is very possible that this certainly that they're going to do that but if you have something in front of you you can go ahead and just make it on any scales that you want and infect the pistol that he made twenty caliber he managed to fire off two hundred rounds himself so that actually worked better than some of commercially available firearms and he was the same one the same weapons james holmes used last month india or colorado shooting so he was pretty much able to make more or less that exact weapon from his computer. pretty interesting kind of scary not sure what to make of it but if you're hearing by i think. that was our producer andrew blake. on an effort to stop iran's nuclear program the u.s. has piled on stiff sanctions against the country but other sanctions working are

sarah furthur reports on how tech savvy iranians are working arm around the u.s. embargoes in getting their hands on high tech gadgets. i pads i phones i pods apple's cool overall popularity has meant that their products earth familiar sight everywhere from our workplaces to our homes and on our high street there's one place you might not expect to find products like this on sale and that the iranian capital of tehran where apple along with many of the u.s. products abandon the functions that have been in place the year but it seems the text of the iranians are managing to outsmart this u.s. embargo and products like the ninety popular in toronto they're widely available as well just like any other apple next door this one in tiran is bustling and busy. i have no difficulty in importing electronics from the us nor do we feel any impact

on imports from sanctions doesn't come so easy indeed is getting technical support and updates for the products but we still managed to get them all the time. this is a case of us sanctions has been mainly on iran's banks and oil industry in a bid to curb the country's nuclear ambitions but when it comes to the bans on consumer products alternative trade routes and enterprising a rainy and tradesmen have meant this and forcing the sanctions has proved virtually impossible in fact it's estimated there are now hundreds of traders in the capital selling these kids. the only impact of these sanctions that we see is higher prices which alter the real sinking against the dollar we're also forced to charge more from costa mowers in order to keep getting our shipments well bypassing the sanctions and people still want to these gadgets even though they become more expensive. some of the sanctions working. sanctions have not. because if they. were going here new

sanctions being announced by the u.s. congress or. the western powers the fact that they're coming up with new sanctions . is an indication that the old sanctions been working in fact many critics of the sanctions feel that far from the achieving anything banning these products in bouquets of punishing the very people who will help in building around future creative individuals musicians film it is right is a key part of apple's clients know the world and even. the u.s. because too politically correct it seems like almost every week there is some group that's lodging a boycott or calling for an organization to change their views it's also happening and the ad industry some commercials are campaigns are pulled because they've upset some group or some person artie's honest takes

a look at some of these so-called offensive ads. provocation and risk appreciated by some offensive to others the pope kissing any mom the pope looks like a terrible kisser the u.s. president planting a wet want on china's leader this is like completely grosses me out it does yeah because here again sort of mixing the races like the advertisement and merchandise pushing the boundaries have been creating a storm of accusations of insensitivity intolerance and even bigotry and yeah and you do these days it's the least little bit creative is likely to offend somebody in an age of over the top demands for political correctness attention grabbing headlines and images are increasingly popular like this ad displaying milks favorite cookie deemed too shocking people need to see a more aggressive reading because everyone's done it on some level and on the receiving end or done it and i wish you a baseball cap infuriating the irish community and even a t.

shirt with a positive message creating outrage in the u.s. oh my god this is ridiculous transgendered activists were upset that a transgendered model wore a t. shirt that said gay is ok so do the offended have a point or are they just too sensitive to the vatican demanded the ad scrapped after denouncing it as quote an acceptable provocation benetton will back an ad showing for what it is sixteen kissing a senior egyptian a mama the vatican needs to chill out and it will it's no secret advertising companies who shock and create scandal profit the most if i were working on madison avenue i would definitely be working the controversy card as much as possible we know that edgy works the metrics show it on television they show it on line edgy always works the newfound respect for correctness is recent yet often hypocritical things went wrong in the one nine hundred eighty s. and ninety's when it became not ok to use for example sexist language like you

couldn't call a woman a more but you can still pay her seventy seven. that dollar for every man for every dollar but i mean the list of those offended grows by the day if i wanted to i could probably organize a group today of color blind middle aged balding guys who are offended at how we're portrayed in the media i've got better things to do that while passions over advertising peak real issues with shocking truth have a hard time getting traction if i were the vatican i'd be more upset about like real kissing going on in the church between priests and real life kids and i would be about you know some photoshop thing well companies created scandal with the way by getting to milk the publicity they receive those getting upset are largely wasting time that could be better spent on campaigns more meaningful than with the situation. but we turn now to the porn industry in the united

states an estimated ten to fifteen billion dollar a year industry porn is said to be a recession proof and with its economic contribution as the november elections near more and more adult film stars are growing vocal about who they would like to see take the white house in the next election president obama has an entire entourage of porn stars a lot of these ladies we don't even need to name some of the main players in this elusive industry meanwhile picking up quite a bit of attention by the mainstream media was adult film queen jenna jameson said openly endorse governor mitt romney so with ford having a dramatic impact on the u.s. economy it's no wonder so many folks within the adult film community have opinions on how it's regulated help discuss this we're joined now by alex chance in adult film performer alex welcome. first want to ask you who you are indoors saying

obama obama why is that. i just think as far as being more porn friendly democrats have always been a little more lenient on that and i'm all for health care in the u.s. because i know a lot of people don't have health care especially in my industry it's not like it's something that's exactly clued in our plan they get to go to work that in there that's an important thing to have as part of your your work package but anyway as alex want to ask you why are porn stars concerned about politics i mean and what stake do they have in it. well it does affect our jobs and how things happen where people just like everyone else so we can have a political opinion and we do have fans so i guess he figured he might as well do whatever we can and influence and are you worried that

you had mentioned that porn there's always this attempt to regulate it you know we saw from some other republican presidential candidates their attempt to crack down on it is there a fear that there will be more of an attempt to regulate this industry i think there will be it's something that people have always tried to do. especially california nowadays so i can only imagine with a republican or a publican in office what's going to happen they're already trying to make us wear condoms i mean what's next. for you who knows what's next i do think it's important alex to mention that b. porn industry makes a pretty significant contribution economically at ten ten billion to fifteen billion dollar industry so porn is important and to the to the economy can you talk

a little bit about that how maybe you're not getting the appreciation for the economic contribution that your industry does make. we really aren't like for instance in l.a. with the you know them trying to make the new condom ordinance they don't realize exactly how many jobs porn creates just here in the city because there's hundreds of production companies and then there's the d.v.d. distribution the people that do that the performers that are actors the crew people it's you know it really does affect the industry and the economy here and talk about it is that consumers that actually buy the d.v.d.'s absolutely talk about this latest i mean you had mentioned. being mandated to wear condoms why could that be disastrous for the porn industry. the porn industry people do not want to see condom porn vivid tried it before it didn't work out there's very few

only companies there's a wicket and then bang bros and flora shoots condom only and there might be one or two i'm forgetting. but it's were tested every twenty eight thirty days sometimes even fourteen depending on the company it's up to us whether we would like to wear a condom or not we're the most tested population and where the porn industry is so it's our right to decide whether we want to or don't. you know they should have a right to choose it's not really necessarily about safety because we are safe. getting back to kind of the politics of that some some adult film actresses have expressed a desire to see a president from a third party what do you think about that do you think maybe a third party candidate might be a little bit more porn friendly. i think it just depends on the third party candidate but anyone that's porn friendly is good in my book. there you go you know

who just made a pretty high profile endorsement the legendary porn star ron jeremy recently told the boston herald he is voting for president obama what do you think about that is that a big endorsement for the president i think it really is i love ron he's great i've known him since actually before i got in the industry and met him when i was working i convention for a friend back last august like literally the weekend before i got into porn and he's i think everyone knows who he is and i've been around all of them and everyone knows who ron jeremy is so i mean people have come up with worse reasons to vote for someone. very interesting good luck to you oh that was alex chance she's an adult film performer. and we're going to leave it off there that's going to do it for this hour but for more on the stories we covered you can head over to our you

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