Posted on 04/06/2020 8:45:58 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Trump administration reportedly plans to designate the far-right Russian Imperial Movement as a terrorist organization, the first time the designation has been applied to a white supremacist group.
The designation will allow the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control to seize assets belonging to the organization in the U.S. and prohibit Americans from financial dealings with the group.
Officials said the U.S. will also designate three of the organization’s leaders, Stanislav Anatolyevich Vorobyev, Denis Valliullovich Gariev and Nikolay Nikolayevich Trushchalov, as terrorists, making them subject to similar sanctions at a personal level.
The group, an ultranationalist Russian organization, has aided in the recruitment of soldiers to back up pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, and in 2017, Swedish prosecutors said three men accused of plotting bomb attacks against asylum seekers were trained by members of the organization in St. Petersburg.
“These designations are unprecedented,” Ambassador Nathan A. Sales, the State Department’s counterterrorism coordinator, told The New York Times. “This is the first time the United States has ever designated white supremacists as terrorists, and this illustrates how seriously this administration takes the white supremacist terrorist threat. We are doing things no previous administration has done to counter this threat.”
The move amid pressure on the administration to apply the designation to white supremacist groups.
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There are 69 groups on the list. 53 of them are Islamic groups. I think Islam is covered.
This is a list of foreign groups. BLM is an American group. The Constitution makes the government putting Americans on lists a hairy subject.
Unless you want to count FBI Agents and their informants........none. Still no mention of Antifa or the nation of islam.
never heard of them - who are they and what is their beef??
No it isn't, it's been done periodically for certain groups since World War II. The DOJ published lists of groups designated under E.O. 9835 and 10540 during the Cold War.
I’m sure Barr will get right on it. /zzzz
bureau of land management? Wasn’t that the ones that brought the Dump Trucks to the Bundy Standoff with Mini-guns and Boxes of Ammo in the bed ?
Sounds like 53 ways of avoiding naming the obvious enemy which must not be named. ISLAM is the enemy. Period.
The US Congress published a long listing of extremist groups (pro-Nazi, pro-Japanese imperialism, White racist, communist, etc).in their “Guide to Subversive Organizations and Publications (and Appendixes), original version Jan. 2, 1957; Revised and published Dec. 1, 1961.
There was, in Appendix I, “Organizations Designated by the United States Attorney General as being Fascist or Otherwise Extremist in Character”. Included on this list of Japanese extremist groups were, under “Fascist Organizations” were the pro-Germany/Nazi organizations, while under “Organizations Which Have “Adopted a Policy of Advocating or Approving the Commission of Acts of Force and Violence to Deny Others Their Rights Under the Constitution of the United States”:
“American Christian Nationalist Party”
“Associated Klans of America”
“Association of Georgia Klands”
“Columbians”
“Knights of the White Carmellia”
“Ku Klux Klan”
“Original Southern Klans, Inc.”
“Protestant War Veterans of the United States, Inc.”
“Silver Shirt Legion of America”.
Most went out of existence during WW2, changed their names, or merged with the KKK’s major organization. A few may have become known as “The Citizens Committee for ....”
There was also the “Attorney General’s List of Subversive organizations” which the Democrats, through the courts, had abolished in the 1970’s.
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