{"id":41324,"date":"2021-02-15T13:34:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41324"},"modified":"2021-02-15T13:34:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T18:34:08","slug":"the-title-sounds-so-innocent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=41324","title":{"rendered":"The Title Sounds So Innocent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration has declared war on domestic terror. That sounds good. We really don&#8217;t need domestic terrorists roaming around the country. But what do they mean? <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/15\/bidens-domestic-war-on-terrorism-may-seek-to-criminalize-political-dissent\/?fbclid=IwAR1z6ZJM-_MGhBU_p-EUrs6ZYl3E-cgHlQHjULJiEVK-UVPFAEGmc3joLCM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Federalist<\/a> posted an article today that might provide some insight into the coming war on domestic terror.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The Biden administration is planning to use the full force of the federal government in pursuit of a new war. Its target? American citizens.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>This countering \u201cdomestic violent extremism\u201d effort, declared in the wake of the latest Capitol riot, represents the real-world counterpart to the corporate media rhetoric about the need to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/liberal-media-members-deprogramming-deplatforming-trump-supporters\">deprogram<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/01\/14\/msnbcs-joy-reid-calls-for-de-baathification-of-the-gop\/\">de-ba\u2019athify<\/a>,\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lukewearechange\/status\/1357732626338037761?s=20\">drone<\/a> the Deplorables.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>If this is a dangerous political witch hunt masquerading as a national security imperative, it should disturb every American. Half of the country could potentially be ensnared as would-be if not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/02\/02\/963343896\/former-cia-officer-treat-domestic-extremism-as-an-insurgency?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_term=nprnews\">actual<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9154623\/General-McChrystal-compares-MAGA-riot-evolution-Al-Qaeda.html\">terrorists<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In a little-discussed Jan. 22 press <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2021\/01\/22\/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-jen-psaki-and-national-economic-director-brian-deese\/\">briefing<\/a>, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki asserted \u201c[the] assault on the Capitol \u2026 underscored what we have long known: The rise of domestic violent extremism is a serious and growing national security threat.\u201d\u00a0Consequently, the administration plans a three-part response:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Developing a comprehensive threat assessment, coordinated with the FBI and Department of Homeland Security on domestic violent extremism.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Building \u201cNational Security Council capability to focus on countering domestic violent extremism,\u201d including conducting \u201ca policy review effort to determine how the government can share information better about this threat, support efforts to prevent radicalization, disrupt violent extremist networks, and more.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Coordinating \u201crelevant parts of the federal government to enhance and accelerate efforts to address DVE \u2026 an NSC-convened process will focus on addressing evolving threats, radicalization, the role of social media, opportunities to improve information sharing, operational responses, and more.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In short, the Biden administration plans to turn the institutions and tools used to pursue foreign adversaries on \u201cwrong-thinking\u201d Americans. There are several reasons this is so troubling.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article concludes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>It\u2019s also worth noting who is leading this effort, and his political and policy predilections. As Psaki revealed, Joshua Geltzer will be responsible for the \u201cscoping effort.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>During a September 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/CHRG-116hhrg37975\/html\/CHRG-116hhrg37975.htm\">hearing<\/a> before the House Oversight Committee\u2019s Subcommittees on National Security and Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the former Obama administration National Security Council official and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/faculty\/joshua-geltzer\/\">prolific Trump critic<\/a> called for adopting a \u201ctransnational\u201d approach to countering \u201cviolent white supremacy.\u201d This included increased terror organization designations, use of the intelligence capabilities of the \u201cinternational terrorism\u201d-focused National Counterterrorism Center, and tech companies \u201cpolicing their platforms to remove not just incitement to violence, but also, the ideological foundations that spawn such violence.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Geltzer was careful to caveat that creating a \u201cdomestic analog to the foreign terrorist organization designation regime\u201d might be unconstitutional and that efforts to counter violent white supremacy \u201cmust not be used as an excuse for interfering with the lawful expression of political advocacy.\u201d But it is hard to square these seemingly conflicting statements.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>In this charged and hysterical political environment, we should be all the more so concerned about the threats to our liberties, particularly of a national security regime with vastly expanded domestic powers.\u00a0The first role of government is to protect our lives and liberties. The heavy burden is on our leaders to justify infringements on the latter in service of the former.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration has declared war on domestic terror. That sounds good. We really don&#8217;t need domestic terrorists roaming around the country. But what do they mean? 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