cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/79747
The Trump administration is drawing up “secret lists of terrorist groups inside the United States,” Senator Elissa Slotkin said on the floor of Congress yesterday — the first such reference to the effects of National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7). The directive, as I’ve reported, lays out Donald Trump’s policies with regard to equating “anti-Christian” and “anti-capitalist”…
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“The Trump administration define[s] domestic terrorism incredibly broadly,” Slotkin said. “It suggests that any group that talks about anti-Christian values, views they don’t like on migration or race, differing views on the role of the family, religion, or morality could all be grounds for labelling an organization as domestic terrorists.”
So it was fine when only radicals and minorities were on the list?
All Trump has done is expand the repression to normal people. It’s your problem too, now.
I don’t know where you get the idea anyone thinks it was fine. We’ve known it was terrible ever since the early 2000s. It just got a bit worse.
The people warning us about Trump’s list were silent about the other lists. Do you think Elissa Slotkin cared if Biden kept lists of anti-Zionists protesting the genocide? There are definitely some people who have been concerned about the lists of targets the government keeps no matter who the President is, but Senators don’t give a shit unless their people are on the list.
Right, yes, it’s typical privileged centrist liberal stuff. Much closer to the fascists than they like to think.