AOC asks the FBI why they give white supremacists a pass
@liquidus wrote: Sort of tooting my own horn here but that’s not FBI. Technically, that’s not even a US govt body. Read full topic
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@LDoBe wrote: Ah, I guess I stand corrected there. I still think it’s very strange how the FBI doesn’t have any trouble classifying organizations like ACORN domestic eco-terrorists, and claiming...
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@liquidus wrote: Assuming you mean ALF/ELF, the difference is that rich developers with congresscritters on speed dial probably had some input into getting the FBI to take an aggressive stance against...
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AOC asks the FBI why they give white supremacists a pass
@knoxblox wrote: liquidus: Seizing federal lands happened once and a bunch of those guys went to jail shortly thereafter. Just jumping in to point out the irony of the “legality” of federal lands that...
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@navarro wrote: i’m not really attempting to disprove your “point” because it’s irrelevant to the larger conversation. the domestic groups don’t have to be dealt with under terrorism laws to be...
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AOC asks the FBI why they give white supremacists a pass
@liquidus wrote: navarro: your attempt to go off on a tangent about terrorism is almost a derailment and has nothing much to do with my point, as well as aoc’s point. It’s AOC’s entire point, no?...
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@navarro wrote: that’s part of her point but there is also a larger point to be made, which was my main point. that being that violence and attacks by right-wing groups are being virtually ignored...
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AOC asks the FBI why they give white supremacists a pass
@gracchus wrote: navarro: an unfortunate tendency of federal agents as well as state and local law enforcement officers to sympathize with right-wing groups. On the local front, this stands out as...
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AOC asks the FBI why they give white supremacists a pass
@Wanderfound wrote: gracchus: Law enforcement usually tends to side with conservative authoritarians, especially white male ones, to one degree or another. To put it mildly. Reminder that this is the...
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AOC asks the FBI why they give white supremacists a pass
@gracchus wrote: Well, that symbol also appears above the Senate House rostrum. There are historical reasons why American institutions of law use the ancient Roman fasces as a symbol. Technically, a...
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@Wanderfound wrote: That’s the House of Reps, I thought. Note that those carvings aren’t some bit of archaic iconography that predates modern fascism. They were added in 1950. Read full topic
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AOC asks the FBI why they give white supremacists a pass
@gracchus wrote: You’re correct. Fixed above. You can also see the fasces on the wall pre-remodel, famously and ironically in the photos of FDR declaring war on Japan (e.g. on the middle left in this...
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AOC asks the FBI why they give white supremacists a pass
@stinkinbadgers wrote: liquidus: rich developers with congresscritters I think this paints a little too politically one sided- it might have just been my particular vantage point, but it was kind of a...
View ArticleAOC asks the FBI why they give white supremacists a pass
@stinkinbadgers wrote: This is very much “careful what you wish for”, and why I wish looking at mechanisms down the road were more important than This Issue Right Now. Whenever there is x and y and x...
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@Jim_Campbell wrote: Maybe the difference between seeing something as “terrorism” in the modern context and just crimes is that with terrorism we look for patterns and organizations that led to the...
View ArticleAOC asks the FBI why they give white supremacists a pass
@liquidus wrote: I don’t think you’re moving goalposts, but you definitely want a broader talk then I desire. I’m just responding to AOC’s narrow question of why X were treated as hate crimes while Y...
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AOC asks the FBI why they give white supremacists a pass
@Wanderfound wrote: Wanderfound: To put it mildly. twitter.com MEK (Mek_4Real) @ColumbusPolice “Officer on preliminary review was protecting bystanders” https://t.co/IJ6MLG2QIi 8:32 PM - 8 Jun 2019...
View ArticleAOC asks the FBI why they give white supremacists a pass
@LDoBe wrote: Wow. That pig really went all Rodney King on a brother. Makes cops look like a fucking skinhead prison gang members. Read full topic
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@Wanderfound wrote: Every damned day. twitter.com Black 24/7 (Blackmediagrp) This Is Going To A Long Summer For The BLACK MAN Another Black Man Almost Got Shot By #Hawthorne CA PD 4 ALLEGED Armed...
View ArticleAOC asks the FBI why they give white supremacists a pass
@LDoBe wrote: Like I’ve said elsewhere on the bbs: the cops are rotten to the core. Policing as an institution needs to be completely dismantled, and rebuilt from scratch including nobody from the old...
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AOC asks the FBI why they give white supremacists a pass
@Wanderfound wrote: twitter.com marc (marcklock) Today at Motor City Pride, a friendly LGBT+ event, Detroit PD escorted Nazi's in full uniform outside of the entrance to the festival. Detroit PD...
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AOC asks the FBI why they give white supremacists a pass
@Wanderfound wrote: LDoBe: People say “but there’s good cops too! twitter.com LeftsidefromNY Ⓐ ☭ (LeftsidefromNY) These are the same cop. He’s known as the dancing cop in Columbus, Ohio. When y’all...
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@moortaktheundea wrote: In the cases people have talked about in the thread so far the most important thing accepting these acts for the terrorism definition they clearly fit 2331 (5) is that it opens...
View ArticleAOC asks the FBI why they give white supremacists a pass
@Humbabella wrote: Like, for goodness’ sake, they arrested Rakem Balogun for expressing opinions on Facebook because they identified “black identity extremists” as terrorists. They do whatever they...
View ArticleAOC asks the FBI why they give white supremacists a pass
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