cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/49795
IN 16 pages, the Trump administration’s new official counterterrorism strategy outlines in broad terms who it views as terrorist threats and priority targets, ranging from anti-fascist activists to ISIS and so-called narco-terrorists. The line “We will find you, and we will kill you” appears in the memo.
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That’ll be a useful item for anyone in court when these thugs attack. They all have legal reason to fear for their lives now.
Is there an available list of whos on it? Because they should be getting ready.
We can use Trump’s memorandum from December as a guide:
The memorandum identifies “anti-Christian,” “anti-capitalism” or “anti-American” views as potential indicators that a group or person will commit domestic terrorism.
The memorandum claims that political violence originates with “anti-fascist” groups that hold the following views: “support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality.”
Source: Labeling dissent as terrorism: New US domestic terrorism priorities raise constitutional alarms
So anyone who isn’t a Christian, capitalist, fascist, racist, homophobe, transphobe, and misogynist will be classified as a potential terrorist and subject to anti-terrorist actions.
Text of the First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
It has always bothered me that the First Amendment says nothing about the Executive Branch doing these things (such as via Executive Order), only Congress.
Well, the Founders naively assumed that the official with the responsibility of executing the laws would also have to follow them. Somehow, our Originalist Supreme Court didn’t get the memo .
It doesn’t say anything about that because the president doesn’t have the power to make laws, only Congress has that power.
SCOTUS: What the founders really mean by this was only Republicans are allowed to. No one else. They didn’t write it down because it was just obvious at the time.
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Trump is picking a very interesting time to want to sick the military and his Gestapo on the US population, given how bogged down the military is in Iran and how desperately he wants to esculate it into a full blown ground invasion.
His German idol also made the mistake of declaring infinite wars too. Let’s see how this strategy plays out for him and the rest of MAGA. Especially when the US military is already extremely demoralized, unlike the German military was.
One can only hope that justice finds him and deals with him as soon as possible. I’d even take heavenly justice if worldly does not work.
I’m not scared, not even a little bit. Some pedophile traitor’s words hold little bearing on me. I’m someone who has actually given something to this country. I’ll not be intimidated by a fat fucking garbage billionaire scum fuck.
Every government says this kind of thing after attacks, but it’s always unsettling how quickly language meant for “counterterrorism” starts sounding limitless once fear and politics get mixed together.
