The nickname "Redcatchers" was adopted early on and referred to the units mission of seeking out and destroying the communist reds they were created to combat in Southeast Asia.
Posted on 02/05/2021 6:27:31 AM PST by Heartlander
The Washington Examiner, an ostensibly “conservative” publication, published an article this week demanding we treat right-wing “extremists” like al-Qaeda.
In the article, former Homeland Security official Kevin Carroll argued we must do five things to protect our nation from this menace. The first is to “bring the heaviest felony charges possible on as many participants in the [Capitol] insurrection.” “We ruthlessly hunted down foreign terrorists after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and must do the same to their domestic equivalents,” Carroll writes. This assumes that a few hundred demonstrators illegally entering the Capitol and taking selfies is equivalent to the 9/11 attacks.
The second act is to make all law enforcement and firemen sign loyalty oaths that commit them to “not to engage in acts to overthrow the government.” Failure to uphold this oath will result in federal prosecution and departments that fail to implement such measures could be stripped of federal funds.
The third act is to “ban extremist chatter through government censorship or private de-platforming, use radical chat rooms as honeypots, as FBI-led Joint Terrorism Task Forces have done with violent, radicalized Islamists since 2001.”
The fourth measure calls for the abolition of militias.
The final proposal would “add domestic terrorism as a predicate to the material support for terrorism statute, including its civil liability provisions.”
“We defeated al-Qaeda and can do the same to the fascist thugs who attacked our democracy last month. But only if we take similar hard measures against the enemy within,” Carroll concludes his article.
The type of system Carroll proposes would strip potentially millions of Americans of their rights and enlarge our already bloated security apparatus. And for what purpose? To ensure that Trump supporters never protest again?
Carroll never clearly defines who he wants this massive security state to target. He offers hints, such as his mention of militia members, but there’s not much else to go on. Leaders clearly defined the enemy in the War on Terror as radical Islam; in Carroll’s estimation, the enemy today is just unspecified domestic terrorists.
The implication, of course, is that Trump supporters and ordinary conservatives who may have a problem with the government are the problem. America is supposed to be a free country where you’re allowed to not like your government. According to Carroll and authoritarian liberals, you’re not allowed to think that anymore. In this dystopian regime, you would be banned from the internet and possibly face jail time for these beliefs, which happen to be protected by the First Amendment.
Sadly, Carroll isn’t alone in his zeal to wage war on his fellow Americans. The Capitol riots spurred numerous calls for new laws and efforts to counter domestic terrorism. Influential people, not random trolls on Twitter, have described average Trump supporters as terrorists and the former president as the new Osama bin Laden. Elizabeth Neumann, who served Trump as the assistant secretary of homeland security, says her old boss “was that spiritual leader [for Capitol protesters] that bin Laden was for al-Qaeda. He was that face, and that spokesperson, that rallied the troops.”
And it’s not just empty rhetoric either; it results in the serious disregard of our civil liberties. Multiple Capitol protesters have been denied bail primarily due to their political beliefs, not their actions.
Dana Kurtbek, a 54-year-old woman who attended Trump’s peaceful rally on January 6, was flagged by facial recognition technology as a Capitol rioter. This error has resulted in multiple stops at the airport and a visit to her home from FBI agents. The FBI agents reportedly said they received anonymous tips saying Kurtbek was a woman in a CNN video of the riot. Luckily, Trump supporter was able to prove that it was not her in the picture.
“I had been flagged by my government as a potential domestic terrorist simply because I attended a rally in support of the president,” Kurtbek told The Post Millennial. “Our rights as American citizens have been removed and the government is using this incident to intimidate those with differing views into compliance.”
She added: “We have been referred to as traitors, un-American, racists, homophobic, ignorant, brainwashed, and now domestic terrorists by the same people who proudly display ‘Hate Has No Home Here’ placards in their front yards.”
This is life now for Trump supporters. They can’t speak on social media, they can’t assemble to support their man, and they can’t even fly without extra screening. They’re the deep state’s number one enemy, and few in power want to question that standing.
Trump’s impeachment is not just a threat to the former president—it’s an indictment of all 75 million of his voters. The deep dtate and liberal elites want to convict Trump and possibly jail him, but that’s not enough for them. They want to make examples of Trump and his supporters to browbeat millions into getting in line. Trump supporters must accept the 2020 election as the freest and fairest in human history. They must apologize for their white privilege and only support nice Republicans like Mitt Romney, who does what he’s told. The Trump masses must conform to the dictates of technocrat-guided “democracy.” Any deviation may mark them as domestic terrorists.
Liberal elites claim these radical steps are all needed to “safeguard democracy.” In reality, these measures mock the very idea that we live in a democracy. Healthy democracies don’t label the opposition terrorists and eliminate basic civil liberties.
So does Liz Cheney.
It’s a two-party system — and if you vote for the wrong party, you are now Al-Quaeda.
We are terrorists, a threat, to the deep state. We are not indoctrinated, and we don’t blindly accept what government tells us. When your goal is control, that is a very toxic element to have in your populace.
They’ve just begun to squeeze us. This is going to get very bad.
it became a faux-republic decades ago..about the time they blew off JFK’s head.
Its merely taken them almost another 60 years to fill the grave
We should only hope to be treated as well as Al-Qaeda by the deep state. I remembering them telling us that Al-qaeda was just some misunderstood and oppressed middle-easterners and that we need to be more understanding and they are the religion of peace.
They fear the right because we don’t burn down our own neighborhoods. We come to DC and directly address the source of the problem.
And that is what keeps a nation healthy.
What does that tell you about the mental health status of the Dim party,
or even the people who elected the Washington mayor ?
Enough said !
We think they are the old Soviets, and NAZIs rolled into one “wondrous” future.
They thought that even before Trump. Remember when Time did a cover with AG John Ashcroft dressed as a member of the Taliban?
Every day I read these things and look around to see if anything is real any more. These new realities are simply impossible to grasp.
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~John Jay, 1st Chief Justice U.S. supreme Court, 1789
“The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.”
~Samuel Chase, U.S. supreme Court Justice, 1796, Signer of the unanimous Declaration
“The jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both law and fact.”
~Oliver Wendell Holmes, U.S. supreme Court Justice, 1902
“The law itself is on trial quite as much as the cause which is to be decided.”
~Harlan F. Stone, 12th Chief Justice U.S. supreme Court, 1941
“The pages of history shine on instances of the jury’s exercise of its prerogative to disregard
instructions of the judge...” ~U.S. vs. Dougherty, 473 F 2nd 1113, 1139. (1972)
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ROOM as a vehicle to stem the tide of oppression and tyranny: To prevent bloodshed by peacefully
removing power from those who have abused it. The JURY is the primary vehicle for peaceful
restoration of LIBERTY, POWER AND HONOR TO “WE THE PEOPLE!”
My circle calls Trump supports American patriots
You have a point.
They are not going to ask “Why do they hate us?” when dealing with conservatives. They’re just going to try to destroy us.
It's all a ruse.. They're saying such just to gain leverage and as an excuse to use force of arms when the time comes.. And it WILL come, so get prepared.. :(
It’s much-much more than the Deep State. It’s the media, the education system, The entire Democrat party, and some Republican party leaders, too. It’s good that the rest of us outnumber them, though that’s why they’re so worried.
Have you ever thought that in THIS country-
When one party “wins” an election, that they would then declare the “losing” party as criminals and slowly make it ILLEGAL to support that other party?
Here in the USA?
This isn’t funny anymore.
No they dont but the narrative serves a purpose....a means to an end at least in their eyes.It keeps the racial strife the left loves so much alive and well at time when theyre riding high on a wave of phony activism that a huge segment of the population has bought into hook line and sinker. Some havent even bought in but must obey or be cancelled.
The nickname "Redcatchers" was adopted early on and referred to the units mission of seeking out and destroying the communist reds they were created to combat in Southeast Asia.
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