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As we discussed previously, Biden has often boasted of being the original author of the Patriot Act years before it was rapidly rolled out amid the fear and blind obsequiousness of the aftermath of 9/11. Now in the aftermath of the Capitol riot we are seeing a push to roll out new authoritarian laws around terrorism, this time taking aim at "domestic terror", which were also in preparation prior to the event used to manufacture support for them.
In a new article for Washington Monthly titled "It’s Time for a Domestic Terrorism Law", Bill Scher argues against left-wing critics of the coming laws like Glenn Greenwald and Jacobin's Luke Savage saying such "knee-jerk reactions" against potential authoritarian abuses fail to address the growing problem. He opens with the acknowledgement that "Joe Biden’s transition team was already working on a domestic terrorism law before the insurrection," and then he just keeps on writing as though that's not weird or suspicious in any way.
Scher lists among the growing threat of domestic terror not just white supremacists and right-wing extremists but "extremist left-wing domestic terrorism" as well. He approvingly cites Adam Schiff's Confronting The Threat of Terrorism Act, which "creates a definition of domestic terrorism broadly encompassing plots that carry a 'substantial risk of serious bodily injury' along with an 'intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population' or 'influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion.'" The ACLU has unequivocally denounced Schiff's bill, saying it "would unnecessarily expand law enforcement authorities to target and discriminate against the very communities Congress is seeking to protect."
Dave DeCamp
@DecampDave
This is sketchy. Anonymous FBI officials basically tell NBC the violence at the Capitol could have been stopped if it wasn't for free speech and the first amendment. They're priming us for domestic terrorist laws.
Worried about free speech, FBI never sent bulletin on Capitol threats
The New York Police Department’s intelligence unit sent a packet of information to police agencies nationwide, according to law enforcement officials. A separate report was sent directly to Capitol Police.
nbcnews.com
January 13th 2021
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Known CIA asset Ken Dilanian has also been trotted out to make the case that Americans have too many rights for their own good, co-authoring an NBC article titled "Worried about free speech, FBI never issued intelligence bulletin about possible Capitol violence".
"FBI intelligence analysts gathered information about possible violence involving the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6., but the FBI never distributed a formal intelligence bulletin, in part because of concerns that doing so might have run afoul of free speech protections, a current and two former senior FBI officials familiar with the matter told NBC News," the article warns, making sure to inform readers that "experts say the lack of a domestic terrorism statute constrains the FBI from treating far-right and far-left groups the same as Americans who are radicalized to violence by Al Qaeda or ISIS ideology."
We can expect to see more such articles going forward.
The only way to sincerely believe more Patriot Act-like laws will benefit Americans is to believe that the US will only have wise and beneficent leaders going forward, and the only way to sincerely believe the US will only have wise and beneficent leaders going forward is to be completely shit-eating stupid. The trajectory has already been chosen, and that trajectory is the one that has already given rise to Trump. Continuing along that same trajectory can only give rise to something far uglier, and that something far uglier will have whatever new authoritarian powers are added by Joe Biden.
They're not actually worried about "domestic terror", they're worried about any movement which threatens to topple the status quo. They want to make sure they can adequately spy, infiltrate, agitate and incarcerate into impotence any movement which provides a threat to America's rulers and the system which funnels them wealth and power at the expense of everyone else. The movements which most threaten this are not rightists, who are generally more or less aligned with the interests of the oligarchic empire, but the left.
This is who they'll end up targeting going forward, and whatever Biden and Company wind up rolling out to fight "domestic terrorism" will help them do so."
