Posted on 02/03/2021 2:48:54 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
CHICAGO - As federal officials grapple with how to confront the national security threat from domestic extremists after the deadly siege of the U.S. Capitol, civil rights groups and communities of color are watching warily for any moves to expand law enforcement power or authority.
They say their communities have felt the brunt of security scrutiny over the last two decades and fear new tools meant to target right-wing extremism or white nationalists risk harming Muslims, Black Americans and other groups, even if unintentionally.
Their position underscores the complexity of the national debate surrounding how to balance First Amendment expression protections with law enforcement’s need to prevent extremist violence before it occurs. In particular, many Muslim advocates oppose the creation of any new domestic terror statute modeled after existing laws that criminalize support for foreign terror organizations.
The Jan. 6 attack, when an overwhelmingly white mob of Donald Trump supporters and members of far-right groups violently breached the Capitol, has refocused attention on white extremism and prompted questions about whether a racial double standard exists in investigating and countering violence.
The debate now is how to address the rise of white supremacist violence while not targeting the same people white supremacists seek to harm.
“White violence is consistently perpetuated and then used as justification for increased surveillance or increased state power against communities of color,” said 26-year-old Iranian American activist Hoda Katebi, who is Muslim, wears a headscarf and grew up defending herself against harassment and being called a terrorist in the years after Sept. 11, 2001.
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It is written as if the BLM riots through most of last year were Habitat for Humanity meetups.
Can you say Police State?
So they can call us a mob but when actual rioters are called a mob,that’s racist.
Not a "mostly peaceful protest"?
“them” set up this lame attack to misdirect attention from the coup they just ..so far successfully.. ran on “us”
So the problem is how to crack down on normal traditional Americans without annoying Iranians, Somalis, Mexicans and blacks? That is what big tech and the FBI secret police are all about.
I saw a meme where a fat liberal woman with purple hair was being pepper sprayed by a cop from what looked like a small fire extinguisher. She was being DOUSED. The graphic pointed a line at her and said, “Wants more government.” The one pointed at the armored, helmeted cop dousing her said, “More government.”
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The 1/6 lie is magnificent for the left and anti-Trump right.
The AP is using many poisonous words to describe Americans:
national security threat
domestic extremists
right-wing extremism
white nationalists
The Jan. 6 attack
overwhelmingly white mob
far-right groups
violently breached the Capitol
white supremacist violence
white violence
The Establishment hates us.
Odd, isn’t it, how there are right-wing “extremists,” but no right-wing “activists?”
Get a dozen white drivers license photos.
Put them on one sheet of paper.
That is a mob.
You “activists” are useful idiots. You served you purpose and now you are disposable. You may be called upon to go riot somewhere but now... You’re inconvenient. The democrats don’t care, and never have cared, about you.
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