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No, We Shouldn’t Launch A ‘War On Terror’ Against Trump Voters
Except to those seeking an excuse to turn the national security apparatus on American citizens, the Capitol riot was not equivalent to the horror of 9/11.
No, We Shouldn't Launch A 'War On Terror' Against Trump Voters (thefederalist.com)Except to those seeking an excuse to turn the national security apparatus on American citizens, the Capitol riot was not equivalent to the horror of 9/11.
4 Feb 2021 ~~ By Nathanael Blake
The occupation of West Virginia is going to be a sight to see.
Following the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, some pundits and members of the national security state have been demanding a new war on terror. This time, however, the targets will be Americans. To take a representative example, Kevin Carroll writes in the Washington Examiner, “We ruthlessly hunted down foreign terrorists after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and must do the same to their domestic equivalents.”
But the Capitol riot was not equivalent to the horror of 9/11, except to those eager for an excuse to unleash the national security apparatus on their fellow Americans.
Those who broke into the Capitol and attacked the police guarding it were largely a disorganized rabble, sprinkled with a few instigators who planned for violence. Their behavior was deluded and wicked, but it was not the equivalent of al-Qaida bringing down the Twin Towers, blowing a hole in the Pentagon, and murdering nearly 3,000 Americans. Frankly, it’s nothing short of grotesque to pretend the situations are equivalent.
Furthermore, even if the situations were similar, launching a War on Terror 2.0 against American citizens would be unnecessary. Law enforcement has been diligently tracking down and arresting those who participated in the rioting.
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Indeed, he and those who share his views do not respect the Constitution. As far as they are concerned, enumerated powers and the Bill of Rights are obstacles to be overcome, not limits to be observed. Spying on Americans, and then lying about it to Congress, is routine for them.
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They (Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrats) don’t believe in democracy or the rule of law, they believe in their power. The permanent security state that has been setting American policy in Iraq and Afghanistan and Yemen and Syria and all the rest have already wrested huge amounts of control from the elected branches of government. Giving more power, especially over American citizens, to such people is a greater threat to our constitutional government than the idiot rioters who attacked the Capitol.
If the War on Terror 2.0 gets to the “arming the moderates on the ground” stage, however, please ignore these criticisms and put me down as one of the “moderates.” I promise to make good use of the pallets of cash and guns.
Comment:
Progressive Marxist/DSA Democrats Leftists tell us, they have to destroy the Constitution in order to save it.
I thoroughly enjoyed the videos of congress-SCUM being scurried around like beheaded chickens.
That's how it looks when an American election gets stolen.
They should be thankful there wasn't a REAL insurrection... instead their trying to make it a Reichstag fire - like the Nazis they are.
PM/DSA Democrat Commie Leftists have declared war on the conservative moderate right. They should be careful about what they ask for. They have close similarities to fascist regimes, including the Nazi Party.
Oddly, anarchist rioters spent 5 months burning, looting, murdering in the name of Anifa and BLM marxist ideology have been allowed to rove and menace as they please in a catch and release program. Same for the pussyhats who stormed the Senate office building. Same for the leftist teachers who stormed the Wisconsin state house. The Keystone pipeline idiots who caused a mountain of damage and delay. You name it...
They only get angry about demonstrations FOR normal America to be saved, not rising against it.
What a strange dichotomy from the riots of Jan 20, 2017:
Sounds like the PM/DSA Democrat Commie left is ramping up for their own "Night of Broken Glass." This is why all the gun confiscation laws are being pushed, because they want a helpless victims, not ones that can shoot back.
They want the enact "The Purge", but only one way (their way).
They should be thankful there wasn’t a REAL insurrection... instead their trying to make it a Reichstag fire - like the Nazis they are.
It’s interesting to note the similarities between the Dems and the Nazis:
1) Both put party ahead of everything else, including country;
2) Both had their “militia,” the SA (Brownshirts) and the Dems (Antifa and BLM);
3) Both employed terror, and blamed it on their political opponents;
4) Both had their “Nights of the Broken Glass;” the Nazis had Kristallnacht and the Dems had the Antifa/BLM riots and destruction of 2020;
5) Both manufactured red flag operations to justify crackdowns on their political opponents: the Nazis had the Reichstag Fire and the Dems had the January 6 Capitol “insurrection;”
6) Both politicized federal law enforcement against their perceived enemies: The Nazis had the Getaspo and the SD; the Dems have the alphabet agencies;
7) Both ignored or perverted their nation’s existing constitutions to establish dictatorships: The Nazis in 1933 (see #5 above) and the Dems — incrementally — over many years, but in earnest since 2009;
8) Both purged the military of “dissenters;”
9) Both eagerly employed censorship;
10) Both advocated the use of “re-education camps” for their political opponents or boogey-man du jour;
11) Both vigorously sought to disarm the citizenry;
12) Both used “the private sector” for implement their political philosophies and goals.
There are other similarities, but you get the picture.2) Both had their “militia,” the SA (Brownshirts) and the Dems (Antifa and BLM);
3) Both employed terror, and blamed it on their political opponents;
4) Both had their “Nights of the Broken Glass;” the Nazis had Kristallnacht and the Dems had the Antifa/BLM riots and destruction of 2020;
5) Both manufactured red flag operations to justify crackdowns on their political opponents: the Nazis had the Reichstag Fire and the Dems had the January 6 Capitol “insurrection;”
6) Both politicized federal law enforcement against their perceived enemies: The Nazis had the Getaspo and the SD; the Dems have the alphabet agencies;
7) Both ignored or perverted their nation’s existing constitutions to establish dictatorships: The Nazis in 1933 (see #5 above) and the Dems — incrementally — over many years, but in earnest since 2009;
8) Both purged the military of “dissenters;”
9) Both eagerly employed censorship;
10) Both advocated the use of “re-education camps” for their political opponents or boogey-man du jour;
11) Both vigorously sought to disarm the citizenry;
12) Both used “the private sector” for implement their political philosophies and goals.