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White supremacy is top security threat, Garland says
Yahoo news ^ | May 12th, 2021 | Alexander Nazaryan

Posted on 05/12/2021 5:43:59 PM PDT by Mariner

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland told Congress on Wednesday that violence incited by white supremacists poses “the most dangerous threat to our democracy.” That assertion reflects near-universal consensus among national security experts, including those who worked for the Trump administration.

Garland’s warning came during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, which was conducted by supporters of then-President Donald Trump and incited by white supremacist groups like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. Five people died as a result of the attack.

“In my career as a judge and in law enforcement, I have not seen a more dangerous threat to democracy than the invasion of the Capitol,” Garland said, calling the attack an “attempt to interfere with a fundamental element of our democracy, the peaceful transfer of power.” The attorney general went on to say that “there has to be a hierarchy of things that we prioritize. This would be the one we’d prioritize.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; doj; falsenarrative; gettrump; injusticedepartment; liberalracism; merrickgarland; policestate; reichstagfire; selfhatingwhite; smearcampaign; tyranny
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To: Mariner

That’s okay...I’m not even white and white liberals would say I was one.


61 posted on 05/12/2021 6:22:57 PM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Mariner

democrat party government is the enemy of the people.


62 posted on 05/12/2021 6:24:18 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Mariner

I’ve always attempted to be the best at what I did - so I’ll be a damned good white supremicist if that’s how they want to lable me.


63 posted on 05/12/2021 6:29:03 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: Mariner

Unmitigated BS


64 posted on 05/12/2021 6:30:22 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: Mariner

Imagine if this jerk had been confirmed to the Supreme Court!


65 posted on 05/12/2021 6:33:48 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Mariner

But for Mitch McConnell, this guy would be on the Supreme Court.


66 posted on 05/12/2021 6:36:12 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: Mariner
Define a "White Supremacist", Judy?

I'm white and I like Diana Ross & the Supremes.

Gaslight/Projection much?

Boy, the Trump Presidency sure shined a spotlight on a lot of rat nests.

67 posted on 05/12/2021 6:36:48 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: Mariner

I’m waiting for the order from the Harris/Biden Department of Just Us that people like me are required to wear a yellow cross.


68 posted on 05/12/2021 6:37:19 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Trump: "They're After You. I'm Just In The Way")
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To: Mariner

Uh, Garland, you’re white. (Thank God this guy didn’t get on the supreme court.)


69 posted on 05/12/2021 6:39:03 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: Mariner

White have been the supreme race for, what now, a couple three thousand years now? And nothing has changed this - for a couple three thousand years.

There is a reason for this. I don’t know what it is myself, and I’m not saying any race is inferior to another. But how did all THIS happen?


70 posted on 05/12/2021 6:40:55 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Mariner
Ludicrous. It is like one of those old Bizarro Superman comics.

Garland himself is the real threat to American democracy.

71 posted on 05/12/2021 6:48:41 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (Working like Crazy to support the Lazy.)
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To: Mariner

Since I’ve had to work all my life for everything I have or have accomplished, I don’t feel supreme OR privileged.


72 posted on 05/12/2021 6:48:43 PM PDT by Old Yeller (Whatever doesn’t kill you will make you stronger. Except bears. Bears will definitely kill you.)
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To: Mariner

Just curious, anybody else disturbed that the attorney general doesn’t seem to realize that the United States is not a democracy but a republic??


73 posted on 05/12/2021 6:56:10 PM PDT by Okimi2200 (Semper Fi to the constitution not the white house)
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To: Mariner

74 posted on 05/12/2021 6:58:27 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Mariner

This genius Garland was supposed to be on the Supreme Court?? Really?


75 posted on 05/12/2021 7:02:13 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: Mariner

I don’t give a fig for Their Democracy.


76 posted on 05/12/2021 7:04:49 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: Lazamataz

Remember when they kept lecturing us how centrist and moderate he was?


77 posted on 05/12/2021 7:06:51 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: Mariner

“Attorney General Merrick Garland told Congress on Wednesday that violence incited by white supremacists poses “the most dangerous threat to our democracy.””

Tell that to Asians who have been subject to the “knockout game” by a group who cannot be mentioned, Garland, you crummy commie.


78 posted on 05/12/2021 7:07:06 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Election Fraud Deniers--Won't follow the science, won't follow the law.)
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To: Spok

While dozens of cities, not just Seattle and Portland, had looting, vandalism, streets blocked and then burning of buildings for most of 2020 and more in 2021- -——THAT isn’t a terrorist threat to the country?
Just free expression.

They are setting Deplorables up for jail, canceling, doxxing and most importantly death. Just like in China, Stalin’s Soviet Union and other totalitarian regimes including the treatment of Jews and other dissenters in WWII Germany.

In the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer, which I read all the way through, one young German man was accused of murder of a Jew as the pre-concentration camp days went on. His plea was that there was so much anti-Jewish publicity and the news and government said so much against Jews that he shouldn’t be blamed for losing control and just killing a Jew. Judge agreed and he was let go.

Today: “Judge, I watched the TV news a lot....” “Not guilty.”


79 posted on 05/12/2021 7:13:37 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

To think the GOP dragged their feet on confirming this jerk to the SCOTUS in past times. For the lifetime appointment.


80 posted on 05/12/2021 7:14:56 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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