Posted on 07/18/2016 7:41:55 PM PDT by CorporateStepsister
After days of violence and heightened racial tensions in the U.S., the White House responded this week to an online petition asking the federal government to formally label the Black Lives Matter movement as a "terror group."
"Terrorism is defined as 'the use of violence and intimidation in pursuit of political aims,'" read the "We The People" petition, created July 6 on the White House website. "This definition is the same definition used to declare ISIS and other groups, as terrorist organizations."
Black Lives Matter, the petition said, "earned this title due to its actions in Ferguson, Baltimore, and even at a Bernie Sanders rally, as well as all over the United States and Canada." It asked the Pentagon to recognize the group as such "on the grounds of principle, integrity, morality, and safety."
Because the online document received at least 100,000 signatures -- at the time of this reporting, it had garnered over 141,000 names -- the White House was automatically prompted to respond.
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“The White House plays no role in designating domestic terror organizations,” nor does the U.S. government “generate a list of domestic terror organizations.”
We all know better than that.
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We all know that's a pantload.
The .fedgov is populated with liars on a par with how Michael Jordan is good at basketball.
They likely get their list from the SPLC, JDL and ACLU.
Lies from the White House aka Obama. What a shock. NOT!
Someone needs to find out who the white liberal elites are who bankroll the BLM.
Typical dem DC two step side step non answer.
It should be against the law for any dem to hold the office of POTUS ever again. Of course we all know how well the dem’s obey our laws. They just don’t bother with them at all.
Pretty sure most people already know it's soros.
Are you going to leave us in mystery, or are you going to tell us what the White House response was?
I’m not clicking through to read the article ‘cause that’s how Freepers roll ;-)
WH responds to petition to label Black Lives Matter a “terror” group
After days of violence and heightened racial tensions in the U.S., the White House responded this week to an online petition asking the federal government to formally label the Black Lives Matter movement as a “terror group.”
“Terrorism is defined as ‘the use of violence and intimidation in pursuit of political aims,’” read the “We The People” petition, created July 6 on the White House website. “This definition is the same definition used to declare ISIS and other groups, as terrorist organizations.”
Black Lives Matter, the petition said, “earned this title due to its actions in Ferguson, Baltimore, and even at a Bernie Sanders rally, as well as all over the United States and Canada.” It asked the Pentagon to recognize the group as such “on the grounds of principle, integrity, morality, and safety.”
Because the online document received at least 100,000 signatures — at the time of this reporting, it had garnered over 141,000 names — the White House was automatically prompted to respond.
The “We the People” team noted that “The White House plays no role in designating domestic terror organizations,” nor does the U.S. government “generate a list of domestic terror organizations.”
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“[T]herefore,” the response read, “we are not able to address the formal request of your petition.”
The White House then went further: Acknowledging that it was a “difficult time” for the country — and that the debate remains a “charged” one — the statement additionally prompted petition signers to consider President Obama’s words calling for compassion towards the movement.
“I think it’s important for us to also understand that the phrase ‘black lives matter’ simply refers to the notion that there’s a specific vulnerability for African Americans that needs to be addressed,” the president said last week, talking to a Washington, D.C. gathering of enforcement officials, civil rights leaders, elected officials and other activists on the issue of racial disparities in the criminal justice system. “We shouldn’t get too caught up in this notion that somehow people who are asking for fair treatment are somehow, automatically, anti-police, are trying to only look out for black lives as opposed to others. I think we have to be careful about playing that game.”
The petition came on the heels of deadly officer-involved shootings in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Falcon Heights, Minnesota, and after days of Black Lives Matter protests for more police accountability.
On July 7, one day after the petition published online, seven law enforcement officers policing a BLM demonstration in Dallas, Texas were shot and killed in a shower of sniper-like fire. And on Sunday, three more policemen were shot and killed in Baton Rouge.
Black Lives Matter protesters condemned the massacre in Dallas, and prominent members did the same after Sunday’s Baton Rouge shooting of police officers.
One public voice of the movement, DeRay McKesson, urged peace after news of the Louisiana deaths broke.
“I’m waiting for more information like everybody else,” McKesson told the New York Times. “I have more questions than answers.”
“The movement began as a call to end violence,” he said. “That call remains.”
Errol Barnett contributed to this report.
People, including a man wearing a confederate flag, hug after taking part in a prayer circle after a Black Lives Matter protest following the multiple police shootings in Dallas, Texas, U.S., July 10, 2016. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri - RTSH9MX: rtsh9mx.jpg © REUTERS rtsh9mx.jpg
Should be re-named to
Black Leftists Murder.
I think there are more connections... darker ones.
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