Swordsmyth
02-11-2018, 03:57 PM
To authorize dedicated domestic terrorism offices within the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to analyze and monitor domestic terrorist activity and require the Federal Government to take steps to prevent domestic terrorism.
That’s the text of a bill introduced in Congress on February 2nd called the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2018. (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4918/text?r=3)
The FBI defines domestic terrorism (https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism) as “U.S.-based movements that espouse extremist ideologies of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.”
But what is an extremist ideology? It’s easy to see on one end of the spectrum, once violence happens. But the FBI sees the progression as “crossing the line from First Amendment protected rights to committing crimes to further their political agenda.”
It sounds like they are saying speaking out is a precursor to terrorism. Exercising rights is suspicious.
The bill makes repeated reference to “patriot” groups as well as “anti-government militias.”
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, in 2015, for the first time in 5 years, the number of hate groups in the United States rose by 14 percent. The increase included a more than twofold rise in the number of Ku Klux Klan chapters. The number of anti-government militias and “patriot” groups also grew by 14 percent in 2015.
The problem is that one government agency already targeted innocent people based on their affiliation to the word “patriot.” The IRS targeted Tea Party Patriots (http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/tea-party-lawsuits-over-irs-targeting-settled-for-peanuts/) for scrutiny and intimidation by asking intrusive questions far out of the purview of tax collectors.
Now government policing agencies want to associate “patriots” and militias with the KKK and other racist groups. This bill throws out a large net, and innocent people are going to get caught up in it.
“Anti-government militias” and white supremacists should absolutely not be under the same label. They have entirely different motivations. The militias are defensive, seeking to protect themselves from government abuse. History has proven the need for a robust check on government military and policing power. (http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/genocide-which-of-these-8-stages-are-happening-now/)
In fact without militia-like entities, Cliven Bundy and his family may be in prison or dead right now.
Yet Bundy was recently cleared after extensive corruption of the FBI and Bureau of Land Management was revealed in their attempts to prosecute Cliven Bundy (http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/while-fbi-investigation-distracts-bundy-ranch-case-quietly-dismissed/). We know these agencies are politically motivated (http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/what-the-fisa-memo-reveals-about-the-fbi-dnc-gop-and-the-sketchy-timeline/). We know they often have ulterior motives for targeting people.
The government pushes this bill as a response to 77 deaths by domestic extremists in the USA since September 11, 2001, and 255 deaths from right-wing extremists since 1993.
In 1993 alone the government killed 77 people in one incident during the Waco siege! Without Bundy’s “militia” they may have done the same to him and his family (http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/while-fbi-investigation-distracts-bundy-ranch-case-quietly-dismissed/).
So-called “anti-government militias” seem like a better way to keep people safe than new powers for the Department of Homeland Security.
More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-10/domestic-terrorism-bill-targets-patriot-groups-and-citizen-militias
That’s the text of a bill introduced in Congress on February 2nd called the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2018. (https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/4918/text?r=3)
The FBI defines domestic terrorism (https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism) as “U.S.-based movements that espouse extremist ideologies of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.”
But what is an extremist ideology? It’s easy to see on one end of the spectrum, once violence happens. But the FBI sees the progression as “crossing the line from First Amendment protected rights to committing crimes to further their political agenda.”
It sounds like they are saying speaking out is a precursor to terrorism. Exercising rights is suspicious.
The bill makes repeated reference to “patriot” groups as well as “anti-government militias.”
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, in 2015, for the first time in 5 years, the number of hate groups in the United States rose by 14 percent. The increase included a more than twofold rise in the number of Ku Klux Klan chapters. The number of anti-government militias and “patriot” groups also grew by 14 percent in 2015.
The problem is that one government agency already targeted innocent people based on their affiliation to the word “patriot.” The IRS targeted Tea Party Patriots (http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/tea-party-lawsuits-over-irs-targeting-settled-for-peanuts/) for scrutiny and intimidation by asking intrusive questions far out of the purview of tax collectors.
Now government policing agencies want to associate “patriots” and militias with the KKK and other racist groups. This bill throws out a large net, and innocent people are going to get caught up in it.
“Anti-government militias” and white supremacists should absolutely not be under the same label. They have entirely different motivations. The militias are defensive, seeking to protect themselves from government abuse. History has proven the need for a robust check on government military and policing power. (http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/genocide-which-of-these-8-stages-are-happening-now/)
In fact without militia-like entities, Cliven Bundy and his family may be in prison or dead right now.
Yet Bundy was recently cleared after extensive corruption of the FBI and Bureau of Land Management was revealed in their attempts to prosecute Cliven Bundy (http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/while-fbi-investigation-distracts-bundy-ranch-case-quietly-dismissed/). We know these agencies are politically motivated (http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/what-the-fisa-memo-reveals-about-the-fbi-dnc-gop-and-the-sketchy-timeline/). We know they often have ulterior motives for targeting people.
The government pushes this bill as a response to 77 deaths by domestic extremists in the USA since September 11, 2001, and 255 deaths from right-wing extremists since 1993.
In 1993 alone the government killed 77 people in one incident during the Waco siege! Without Bundy’s “militia” they may have done the same to him and his family (http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/while-fbi-investigation-distracts-bundy-ranch-case-quietly-dismissed/).
So-called “anti-government militias” seem like a better way to keep people safe than new powers for the Department of Homeland Security.
More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-10/domestic-terrorism-bill-targets-patriot-groups-and-citizen-militias