To smear the Justice Department, Republicans cling to a discredited myth
If the Justice Department under Merrick Garland and Joe Biden is genuinely so awful, why do Republicans keep resorting to a baseless lie about it?
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Exactly. First of all, when the Right accuses, they’re actually confessing to their own actions.
Next, it’s as we discussed yesterday: if there was a “deep state” as the entity the Right says it is, Trump would have been convicted then expelled from the presidency in his initial impeachment, and also criminally charged and tried. That he is-albeit a convicted and sentenced felon-ascending to the US presidency once again proves there is no weaponization by Dems, and no criminally invasive deep state.
Finally, we’ll recall that the Right began working on this frame back when Clinton was in office, because of the rightwing messes like Waco and the OKC bombing. The Right waited briefly, then began accusing federal law enforcement of illegally surveilling and incriminating rightwing nutjobs with guns and criminal militia groups. The rightwing Christianists joined in with the political rightwing to claim invasive unreasonable searches of rightwing groups, even as those were the groups where general threats were hatching.
The Right has been on this ever since, taking advantage of “victimhood” while their side continues to commit crimes against the peace and dignity of the US and we the people. I could go on, but I’ll stop here.
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Hi Ali. I agree. Do you remember the rights / republican outrage at the report that labeled violent white supremacist as a national security risk and a domestic terror threat? Republicans in congress forced the pulling of the report. I thought it was under Obama but I can’t find it. I find stuff on them from 2018 and 2020 listing them as the greatest threat of violence. But I can’t find the republicans and Fox entertainment melt down over the idea that the democrats were saying white male militias were a threat. Hugs
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Yes, I do. It’s what’s led to Trump, among many others, not being timely prosecuted. When it’s a rightwinger who breaks the law, all careful handling is done. I remember the right being up in arms again about that when Pres. Obama was in office, but that report began under Pres. Clinton, and was either released under him, or W. I think it was W. I’m in between 2 calls right now, or I’d look it up. Any way you slice it, if a person’s a rightwinger, they get better treatment as to law breaking!
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That was kind of rude of me, and I’m sorry.
Anyway, here’s what I found from the FBI. It’s not too long, but the print is tiny, so whatever you’re up for reading. This report is dated 2/6/2002, which would put it under W, but it goes back into the Clinton years with McVeigh and such. It also touches on all the threats, not only rightwing violence. I think you’ll recall this, though, when you get started on it. We were still on dial-up at the time, and still reading actual news in papers and magazines!🤣
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Ali I forgot to mention I saved the page you linked to, getting to read it now. I have the ability with my browser to post it up very large so even blind me can read it. Here at the highlights I noticed.
Of these, 247 were attributed to domestic terrorists, while 88 were determined to be international in nature.
Threats emanating from domestic and international terrorists will continue to represent a significant challenge to the United States for the foreseeable future. Further, as terrorists continue to refine and expand their methodologies, the threats they pose will become even greater.
During the past decade we have witnessed dramatic changes in the nature of the terrorist threat. In the 1990s, right-wing extremism overtook left-wing terrorism as the most dangerous domestic terrorist threat to the country.
Domestic right-wing terrorist groups often adhere to the principles of racial supremacy and embrace anti-government, antiregulatory beliefs. Generally, extremist right-wing groups engage in activity that is protected by constitutional guarantees of free speech and assembly. Law enforcement becomes involved when the volatile talk of these groups transgresses into unlawful action.
On the national level, formal right-wing hate groups, such as the National Alliance, the World Church of the Creator (WCOTC) and the Aryan Nations, represent a continuing terrorist threat. Although efforts have been made by some extremist groups to reduce openly racist rhetoric in order to appeal to a broader segment of the population and to focus increased attention on anti-government sentiment, racism-based hatred remains an integral component of these groups’ core orientations.
Right-wing groups continue to represent a serious terrorist threat. Two of the seven planned acts of terrorism prevented in 1999 were potentially large-scale, high-casualty attacks being planned by organized right-wing extremist groups.
Ali I think this last part is what caused so much outrage among the right wing and also the stuff about religious groups using terrorism to get their way also fed the fire, l think the right / republicans knew what they were doing and where they wanted to go and so wanted to redirect all the threats to the leftest groups that had become so much less a threat. This was a warning the rest of us should have taken very seriously. Hugs
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Thank you Ali for the information. I really couldn’t find the report but i remember it. Thanks for letting me know it was not Obama. It seemed everything the republicans could throw at him in a negative light they screamed about even when untrue as most were. But not all right wingers get better treatment, just some groups that often have police members in them like the proud boys and other white suprmacist gangs, and the more well off republicans. Hugs
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