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When Eric Holder announced that the DOJ is bringing back its committee on Domestic Terrorism, right wing hypocrisy on terrorism was on full display. Simply put, when white supremacists use violence and terrorize communities to further their political agenda, its free speech. Only foreign terrorism counts, except when theres an opportunity to engage in a little home grown Islamophobia, racism or both.
So when you go after people who are merely good conservatives who bomb abortion clinics and murder doctors youre just going after people who disagree with you. How dare the government go after good faux Christian White Supremacists? Thats not going after domestic terrorists, its going after anyone who is white and opposes the Obama Administration.
Got it?
Pat Dollard claimed this is about mobilizing to wage war on white men. Alex Jones wasnt about to miss out on the opportunity to dismiss the reality of domestic terrorism when it sounds so much scarier to say that Obama is going after his political enemies.
Glenn Beck took the opportunity to chime in with: This regime is now justifiably terrified that attempts to overthrow them and re-establish our constitutional government and the rule of law may occur. A nazi/Stalin regime like rule is about to begin where people will be arrested and detained without evidence but on suspicion alone. Unlike Germany, there are no allies to come to our rescue to stop it.
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randys1
(16,286 posts)do almost anything you want including point guns at federal agents
Holder better be prepared to actually follow thru with this, which will mean fireworks
Rod Beauvex
(564 posts)Is that people like Cliven Bundy or people like Occupy Wall Street protesters.
denbot
(9,901 posts)Who threatens "2nd amendment solutions?
Rod Beauvex
(564 posts)You know what I meant by it.
denbot
(9,901 posts)What you think I know..
central scrutinizer
(11,666 posts)torching Forest Service or BLM offices, bombing federal buildings.
Rod Beauvex
(564 posts)How Americans define domestic terrorism isn't necessarily how the government defines it.
struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)Rod Beauvex
(564 posts)Gee, let's see here:
Section 1-A could be used against all these corporations polluting the country with their various failures and negligence. Oil train explosions, oil rigs polluting the ocean, the spills on West Virginia, ect ect.
Section 1 - B -ii could be used against Cliven Bundy
My point that everyone keeps deliberately ignoring in their ass-over-tea kettle rush to contradict me is that I believe the Government and Eric Holder has exactly zero intention of pursuing Domestic Terrorism charges for any of these people and events.
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)Environmentalists? Protesters of every stripe? I never thought I would see something called "free speech zones" in this country. Nothing would surprise me. I hope the definition is well spelled out and narrow in scope.