Monday, June 9, 2014

Eric Holder Brings Back Thought Police

Greg Corombos writes:
The Justice Department is resurrecting a program designed to thwart domestic threats to the United States, and Attorney General Eric Holder says those threats include individuals the government deems anti-government or racially prejudiced.

The Domestic Terrorism Executive Committee was created in the wake of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing but was scrapped soon after the 2001 terrorist attacks as intelligence and law enforcement officials shifted their focus to threats from outside the country. The committee will be comprised of figures from the FBI, the National Security Division of the Justice Department and the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee.

In his statement announcing the return of the committee, Holder said he remains concerned about the specter of attacks prompted by Islamic extremists, but he said this committee will be tasked with identifying other threats.

“We must also concern ourselves with the continued danger we face from individuals within our own borders who may be motivated by a variety of other causes from anti-government animus to racial prejudice,” Holder said.

According to reporting from Reuters, the American Civil Liberties Union is pushing back against the DOJ plan, fearing “it could be a sweeping mandate to monitor and collect controversial speech.”

5 comments:

  1. Domestic terrorists = political opposition

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    1. "Domestic terrorists = political opposition"

      This.^^

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  2. "“We must also concern ourselves with the continued danger we face from individuals within our own borders who may be motivated by a variety of other causes from anti-government animus to racial prejudice,” Holder said."

    Eric Holder meets both of those criteria.

    "According to reporting from Reuters, the American Civil Liberties Union is pushing back against the DOJ plan ..."

    The ACLU poses no threat to their comrade, Eric Holder:

    The ACLU’s untold Stalinist heritage
    http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/04/the-aclu%e2%80%99s-untold-stalinist-heritage/?print=1

    Bernardine Dohrn - Discover the Networks
    http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2190

    "Dohrn is currently an associate professor of law at Northwestern University, where she is also director of the Legal Clinic’s Children and Family Justice Center. She sits on important committees and boards of the American Bar Association, and she formerly served as an advisory board member for the American Civil Liberties Union."

    law.northwestern.edu
    http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/assets/documents/cv-DohrnBernardine_v2012-08-30;120657.pdf

    "BERNARDINE DOHRN
    ...
    "PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
    ...
    "1990-1991 ... Children's Rights Project, Roger Baldwin Foundation of the American Civil Liberties Union."

    American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) - Discover the Networks
    http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6145

    "The ACLU was established in 1920 by Roger Baldwin (1884-1981), who served as its executive director until 1950. Baldwin was a socialist who counseled subterfuge as the preferable means of promoting his political agendas in the United States. In a private 1917 letter (to the journalist/activist Louis Lochner, who was affiliated with a radical organization), Baldwin wrote: “Do steer away from making it look like a Socialist enterprise. We want to look like patriots in everything we do. We want to get a lot of flags, talk a good deal about the Constitution and what our forefathers wanted to make of this country, and to show that we are really the folks that really stand for the spirit of our institutions.” In the ACLU's early years, Baldwin hailed the Russia of Lenin and Stalin as “a great laboratory of social experimentation of incalculable value to the development of the world.” In 1928 Baldwin told his allies: “I am for socialism, disarmament, and ultimately for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek social ownership of all property, the abolition of the propertied class, and sole control by those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.”"

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  3. There certainly are very dangerous people "within our borders." They include the likes of Eric Holder.

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  4. “We must also concern ourselves with the continued danger we face from individuals within our own borders who may be motivated by a variety of other causes from anti-government animus to racial prejudice,” Holder said.

    2 things, 1- does writing, buying, or supporting a book entitled "Against the State" count?

    2- notice the linking of anti government sentiment to racism. It is similar to the linking of 9-11 to Iraq.

    Why is John Lennon's "mind games" playing in my head?

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