Politicized DOJ Seeks Law To Go After “Domestic Terrorists”

But, certainly not Antifa and other Democratic Party voting groups

Domestic Terrorism Law Being Weighed by Justice Department

The Justice Department is “actively considering” whether to seek a new law that would let prosecutors bring specific charges for plotting and carrying out acts of domestic terrorism, a senior department official said.

“One of the things we’re looking at is would we need new authorities,” Brad Wiegmann, deputy assistant attorney general for the department’s national security division, said during a House hearing Thursday.

Wiegmann said the department has been successful using existing laws to fight domestic terrorism, such as bringing charges for offenses involving violations of weapons or explosives laws, hate crimes and arson. He said more than 430 arrests have been made in connection with the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol. The attack was carried out by extremist supporters of then-President Donald Trump.

The FBI has warned that domestic violent extremists pose a heightened threat for carrying out attacks in the U.S. in the near future, with white supremacists being the most lethal threat. (snip)

Currently, no U.S. law lets the government designate domestic extremists as terrorists or bring specific charges for domestic terrorism. That contrasts with laws to combat international terrorism, which allow the government to designate groups and bring charges for providing those groups with material support.

It seems oh-so-reasonable, doesn’t it? But, it’s how it’s applied, and how they can go after people who aren’t actually engaged in actions, but, merely for holding the Wrong Views. There are plenty of laws that can be applied, such as RICO. This allows prosecution for Wrongthink. ‘Domestic terrorism’ laws will soon become so broadly defined that merely voicing public opposition to liberal social policies will be seen as a form of ‘domestic terrorism.’ After all, ‘hateful’ words inevitably lead to ‘violence’ and ‘racism,’ according to the ‘woke’ crowd. This is what happens as a result of each new generation of Americans being dumbed-down by public school curriculums.

At least half of the charges against the BLM/Antifa rioters, who engaged in assault, property destruction, looting, attacking police officers, prior restraint against people and drivers, attacks on federal property, and, oh, yeah, attempting to burn down a federal building with people in it, have been dismissed by federal prosecutors. Yet, most of the so-called Jan 6th assault folks simply walked through the halls of Congress, the building that The People own. They weren’t burning it down. They weren’t looting and pillaging. They just scared lawmakers, who should be scared of We The People. The ones who did should be prosecuted.

This new law would give the federal government vast new policing powers, as well as to survey citizens engaged in First Amendment rights. And surely violate the 4th Amendment. Acts of actual, physical, terror are already illegal in every state of the union. An acquaintance of mine went to jail some years ago for “making terroristic threats”. The DOJ is not interested in actual terrorism; what they want is a law with sufficiently nebulous language that anyone who has a dissenting viewpoint from the system’s orthodoxy can be labeled as a “terrorist” and imprisoned. Laws such as this are a hallmark of Authoritarian regimes. They want to eliminate all who oppose Modern Socialism, and is just one more nail leading to, at best, a split of the country, at worse, a new civil war.