And it could easily be used to persecute ordinary, law-abiding Americans who dissent from the establishment agenda.
“Connecticut’s Blumenthal and Murphy Urge Passage of Bill That Some Say Would Shield Islamists from Anti-Terrorism Efforts,” by Bradley Vasoli, Connecticut Star, :
Connecticut’s two U.S. senators, both Democrats, are urging passage of a bill that they say will help prevent incidents similar to the recent Buffalo mass shooting, though it actually narrows rather than expands federal anti-terrorism concerns.
At a press conference on Friday, senior Sen. Richard Blumenthal called the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2022 a “chance to take a stand and an opportunity to send a message to the hate mongers that enough is enough.”…
Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives first proposed the legislation in January 2021. In so doing, they purported to aim for heightened focus on the threat of white supremacism to Americans’ safety. But the measure actually addresses “domestic terrorism” in a way that critics worry would shield Islamist terrorists and other violent extremists from proper federal scrutiny.
The current legal definition of domestic terrorism refers to actions that endanger human life, violate U.S. criminal laws and are apparently meant to either “intimidate or coerce a civilian population,” “influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion” or “affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.” Such activities must “occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.”
No exceptions, ideological or otherwise, apply regarding this definition. The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act, however, focuses exclusively on “the domestic terrorism threat posed by White supremacists and neo-Nazis…” and neglects anti-police organizations like Antifa as well as violent Islamists.
U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA-01), a moderate Republican and erstwhile sponsor of the bill, said he cannot support its current version because it would give the Justice Department “too much leeway in picking and choosing what it considers to constitute domestic terrorism.”…
Another of the bill’s Republican cosponsors, Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), said in a statement that he reversed his original support because the current version of the legislation would authorize “use of funds from the National Intelligence Program to ‘monitor’ and surveil American citizens, including our police, servicemembers, and parents.” He said “literally hundreds of constituents” told him they believe the Biden administration would misuse the bill to surveil Americans who are not members of violent organizations.
somehistory says
Sen. Rand Paul says this would not be used fairly and he is against it.
This person, probably would like to see it as she is mozlum and wouldn’t be targeted for her terror connections. while people who just voice disagreement with gov decisions…could end up in jail with charges of terrorism against them.
“Ilhan Omar’s Islamist extremism strikes again”
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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) can’t seem to stay away from Islamist conferences featuring radical speakers. This time, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is joining the questionable proceedings as well.
Omar, the consistently antisemitic left winger, has a history of scheduling remarks at radical Islamist conferences. Saturday evening, she is slated to speak at a conference in Baltimore sponsored by the Islamic Circle of North America. Ellison will speak there”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ilhan-omars-islamist-extremism-strikes-again
gravenimage says
Domestic Terrorism Prevention Bill would shield jihad terrorists from federal scrutiny
And it could easily be used to persecute ordinary, law-abiding Americans who dissent from the establishment agenda.
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Sounds like the *exact opposite* of an terrorism prevention bill.
Westman says
The decision to not prosecute lesser crimes let to, “Smash and Grab”, and untrammeled shoplifting.
A law shielding Jihadists will lead to more terrorism and it won’t be from “White Supremists”.
OLD GUY says
Why pass another law, these idiots can’t and won’t enforce the laws already on the books. Just take a look at the Southern border, or the non-charging and jailing of theft under $1000. They can’t even follow the election laws. We have enough laws and rules, our Government just picks and chooses which ones they want to enforce.
Janetmarie says
t’s not about guns, politics or the police. We are so fortunate to have those men in blue at least until Holder and Obama changed them.
Mothers need to tell their children how much they are loved. Parental psychological abuse is the reason for the hate. AMEN.
Alfredo says
The delusional thinking of these two pasty white senators is astonishing in their misguided stupidity.
The hate on white people in the US continues unabated and will inevitably lead to more mass shootings by deranged whites.
“You sow the wind, and you will
harvest the whirlwind.”
Imagine if instead of white supremacists the proposed law would be reversed to blacks or POCs? The holws of indignation by the SJWs types at CNN, the WaPo and NYT would go on for a long time indeed.
Absent in this delusional discourse are the Islamic garden variety kind.
Oh no. Those types don’t exist in the make believe world of these two democratic senators.
Why is that so? Because it doesn’t fit the phantasmagorical world in which these two dimwits dwell. They’re more interested in virtue signaling, than actual virtue forming.
No wonder the black on black murder rate continues in Chicago as if nothing is happening in the windy city, under that enlightened mayor there…
Why not a peep from these two paragons of virtue signaling? Because Chicago is run by a democratic mayor. That’s why.
These people inhabit another world indeed, where blacks are not racist against whites. Blacks don’t murder blacks for looking the wrong way.
All this astonishing stupidity is happening because the lying media and the brain dead morons who still pay to watch and read their crap, are not being fact checked by people with the honesty to tell the truth.
The intimidation campaign is running roughshod over too many people who are too afraid to speak up, for fear of being cancelled by the cancel mob.
“First they came for them, but because I was not one of them, I did not speak up for them. But when they came for me, there was no one to speak up for me, because everyone was too afraid to speak up for me.”
But that was last century. Now we’re in the next one, and still too many people are too intimidated to dare to speak up. So where’s the progress the “progressives” keep talking about?
Pray Hard says
Told ya so.