WASHINGTON, DC- Even prior to the January 6 “insurrection,” during the summer of violent BLM and Antifa riots, Democrats were focused not on domestic terrorism coming from the left, but claiming the riots which consumed the nation for much of the summer of 2020 were coming from so-called “right wing militia groups” and “white nationalists,” all of course with no proof.
Last week, the Department of Justice informed a Senate committee that the department would be forming a “Domestic Terror Unit” comprised of a select group of attorneys, citing the January 6 incident which some claim was helped in no small part by that same Department of Justice (FBI).
The DOJ claims that investigations of alleged domestic terrorists have more than doubled since the spring of 2020, as reported in The Federalist.
How many of those “domestic terrorists” are from Black Lives Matter and Antifa is unknown, but with far-left idealogue Merrick Garland now running the show, it probably varies between slim and none.
One DOJ official, who was unable to define what exactly constitutes a crime that falls under “domestic terrorism,” the official said the unit would invoke a “criminal code” which allows for enhanced sentences for crimes defined as “terror offenses.”
There are of course reasons to be concerned about the authenticity of the federal government’s efforts against what they call a “persistent and evolving” threat, especially given their apparent lack of interest in so-called domestic terrorism coming from the left side of the political spectrum.
Even more so, the lack of specific definitions of what falls under “domestic terrorism,” leaving room for “interpretation” by a government apparently hell-bent on punishing its detractors, is extremely concerning.
Under the National Defense Authorization Act’s definition of “domestic terrorism,” it refers to “unlawful use or threat of force of violence in furtherance of ideological agendas” in addressing political or anti-government extremism, The Federalist notes.
Furthermore most definitions of such conduct require violence as an important component.
That doesn’t seem to matter to the Department of Justice, since the title of “domestic terrorists” has been implied of parents who object to what their children are being taught who vocalize those objections at school board meetings.
The label has also been applied to those who protested at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
For example last July, one of the non-violent participants in the Capitol trespass…
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