No. of Recommendations: 2
Why is that "quaint"? The regime is using a very broad brush to paint opponents as "terrorists". Read the edict again. "anti-Christian" and "anti-capitalism" thought are now markers for "terrorist" activity.
Once you tag someone as a "terrorist", seems the Bill of Rights goes away. Remember how Jose Padilla, a US citizen, arrested in the US, was tossed in prison, for years, without any legal due process, entirely on an unchallenged regime claim of being a "terrorist"? Remember the Bush junta issuing legal opinions that torture inflicting pain equal to "organ failure" was acceptable?
Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
Common threads animating this violent conduct include anti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality. whitehouse.gov - Countering domestic terrorism and organized political violenceTrump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”
An executive order publicly lays out the course of day-to-day federal government operations; whereas a national security directive is a sweeping policy decree for the defense, foreign policy, intelligence, and law enforcement apparatus. National security directives are often secret, but in this case the Trump administration chose to publish NSPM-7 — only the seventh since he’s come into office.)
NSPM-7 directs a new national strategy to “disrupt” any individual or groups “that foment political violence,” including “before they result in violent political acts.”
In other words, they’re targeting pre-crime, to reference Minority Report.kenklippenstein.com - Trumps nspm labels common beliefsA couple days ago, I posted links that even FEMA is being used in this program, using funds appropriated for disaster relief to fund state and local programs to enforce NSPM-7.
Steve