This is an article which refers primarily to politics and covid skepticism being targeted.
For example, there is widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19.
However, note this sentence, emphasis mine.
the proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions;
Since Climate Change has been politicized and institutional capture appears to have occurred at the EPA, The Department of Energy, The Bureau of Land Management, NOAA, NASA (Earth Science), The Department of State, The Department of Education, The CDC, and more, this notice declares ordinary speech protected by the 1st Amendment, to be an indicator of potential terrorism and sedition. It is difficult the express the banality and danger of this notice, probably written by a 20’s something grievance studies major. Frightening doesn’t even begin to describe the descent into madness indicated by the issuance of this notice.
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DHS: Anyone Who Doubts Government Covid-19 Positions is a Seditionist
h/t Breitbart; According to a DHS Bulletin, anyone, especially foreigners, who promote Covid or 2020 narratives the Biden administration thinks are false are promoting sedition, which could lead to mass casualty attacks.
The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information (MDM) introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors. These threat actors seek to exacerbate societal friction to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions to encourage unrest, which could potentially inspire acts of violence. Mass casualty attacks and other acts of targeted violence conducted by lone offenders and small groups acting in furtherance of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances pose an ongoing threat to the nation. While the conditions underlying the heightened threat landscape have not significantly changed over the last year, the convergence of the following factors has increased the volatility, unpredictability, and complexity of the threat environment: (1) the proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions; (2) continued calls for violence directed at U.S. critical infrastructure; soft targets and mass gatherings; faith-based institutions, such as churches, synagogues, and mosques; institutions of higher education; racial and religious minorities; government facilities and personnel, including law enforcement and the military; the media; and perceived ideological opponents; and (3) calls by foreign terrorist organizations for attacks on the United States based on recent events.
Duration
Issued: February 07, 2022 02:00 pm Expires: June 07, 2022 02:00 pm
Additional Details
The primary terrorism-related threat to the United States continues to stem from lone offenders or small cells of individuals who are motivated by a range of foreign and/or domestic grievances often cultivated through the consumption of certain online content. The convergence of violent extremist ideologies, false or misleading narratives, and conspiracy theories have and will continue to contribute to a heightened threat of violence in the United States.
Key factors contributing to the current heightened threat environment include:
The proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions:
For example, there is widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19. Grievances associated with these themes inspired violent extremist attacks during 2021.
Malign foreign powers have and continue to amplify these false or misleading narratives in efforts to damage the United States.
Continued calls for violence directed at U.S. critical infrastructure; soft targets and mass gatherings; faith-based institutions, such as churches, synagogues, and mosques; institutions of higher education; racial and religious minorities; government facilities and personnel, including law enforcement and the military; the media; and perceived ideological opponents:
Foreign terrorist organizations and domestic threat actors continue to amplify pre-existing false or misleading narratives online to sow discord and undermine public trust in government institutions. Some of these actors do so to encourage unrest, which could lead to acts of violence against the facilities, individuals, institutions, and organizations cited above.
Violent extremists inspired by a range of grievances and ideologies continue to target crowded venues traditionally perceived to be soft targets, such as commercial and publicly accessible facilities, public gatherings, certain government and state facilities, and houses of worship.
The recent attack on a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas highlights the continuing threat of violence based upon racial or religious motivations, as well as threats against faith-based organizations.
Threats directed at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and other colleges and universities, Jewish facilities, and churches cause concern and may inspire extremist threat actors to mobilize to violence.
As COVID-19 restrictions continue to decrease nationwide, increased access to commercial and government facilities and the rising number of mass gatherings could provide increased opportunities for individuals looking to commit acts of violence to do so, often with little or no warning. Meanwhile, COVID-19 mitigation measures—particularly COVID-19 vaccine and mask mandates—have been used by domestic violent extremists to justify violence since 2020 and could continue to inspire these extremists to target government, healthcare, and academic institutions that they associate with those measures.
Domestic violent extremists have also viewed attacks against U.S. critical infrastructure as a means to create chaos and advance ideological goals, and have recently aspired to disrupt U.S. electric and communications critical infrastructure, including by spreading false or misleading narratives about 5G cellular technology.
Some domestic violent extremists have continued to advocate for violence in response to false or misleading narratives about unsubstantiated election fraud. The months preceding the upcoming 2022 midterm elections could provide additional opportunities for these extremists and other individuals to call for violence directed at democratic institutions, political candidates, party offices, election events, and election workers.
A small number of threat actors are attempting to use the evacuation and resettlement of Afghan nationals following the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan last year as a means to exacerbate long-standing grievances and justify attacks against immigrants.
Calls by foreign terrorist organizations for attacks on the United States based on recent events:
Foreign terrorist organizations will likely continue to maintain a highly visible online presence to attempt to inspire U.S.-based individuals to engage in violent activity.
Supporters of foreign terrorist organizations have encouraged copycat attacks following the January 15, 2022 attack on a synagogue in Colleyville, Texas.
Foreign terrorists remain intent on targeting the United States and U.S. persons, and may seek to capitalize on the evolving security environment overseas to plot attacks. The Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) or its affiliates may issue public calls for retaliation due to the strike that recently killed ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi.
How We Are Responding
DHS and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) continue to share timely and actionable information and intelligence with the broadest audience possible. This includes sharing information and intelligence with our partners across every level of government and in the private sector. We conduct recurring threat briefings with private sector and state, local, tribal, territorial, and campus partners, including to inform security planning efforts. DHS remains committed to working with our partners to identify and prevent all forms of terrorism and targeted violence, and to support law enforcement efforts to keep our communities safe.
DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis established a new, dedicated domestic terrorism branch to produce the sound, timely intelligence needed to counter related threats. The Department expanded its evaluation of online activity as part of its efforts to assess and prevent acts of violence, while ensuring the protection of privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties.
In 2021, DHS designated domestic violent extremism as a “National Priority Area” within its Homeland Security Grant Program HSGP), resulting in at least $77 million being spent on preventing, preparing for, protecting against, and responding to related threats.
In 2021, DHS’s Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP) provided $180 million in funding to support target hardening and other physical security enhancements to non-profit organizations at high risk of terrorist attack.
DHS is working with public and private sector partners, as well as foreign counterparts, to identify and evaluate MDM, including false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories spread on social media and other online platforms that endorse or could inspire violence.
DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) works with public and private sector partners – including U.S. critical infrastructure owners and operators – to mitigate risk against our cyber and physical infrastructure and increase nationwide cybersecurity resilience.
How You Can Help
Stay Informed and Prepared
Be prepared for emergency situations and remain aware of circumstances that may place you at risk. Make note of your surroundings and the nearest security personnel.
If you know someone who is struggling with mental health issues or may pose a danger to themselves or others, seek help.
If You See Something, Say Something®. Report suspicious activity to local law enforcement or call 911.
The National Terrorism Advisory System provides Americans with alert information on homeland security threats. It is distributed by the Department of Homeland Security. More information is available at: www.dhs.gov/advisories. To receive mobile updates: twitter.com/dhsgov
If You See Something Say Something® used with permission of the NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
The sheer absurdity of this hardline position is illustrated by the changing narrative on the origins of Covid-19.
In 2020, Dr. Fauci dismissed claims Covid-19 leaked from a lab.
… Anthony Fauci, the U.S.’s top infectious disease expert, was dismissive of the theory of an accidental escape.
“A group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences in bats as they evolve. The mutations that it took to get to the point where it is now are totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human,” he said Friday in the White House press briefing in response to a reporter’s question on the theory. …
… Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday again pushed back on criticism he “deliberately suppressed” the theory that Covid-19 originated in a lab in Wuhan, China, claiming he’s always kept an “open mind” about how the virus first spread—but a review of his comments over the last year shows the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, like other scientists, has become more open to other theories even as he continues to assert, like the majority of scientists, that the virus likely came about naturally …
This growing uncertainty about the official position led to Facebook hilariously announcing in April 2020 that members are now permitted to discuss the lab leak hypothesis. Facebook had previously been vigorously censoring such posts.
… In light of ongoing investigations into the origin of COVID-19 and in consultation with public health experts, we will no longer remove the claim that COVID-19 is man-made or manufactured from our apps. We’re continuing to work with health experts to keep pace with the evolving nature of the pandemic and regularly update our policies as new facts and trends emerge. …
How are we meant to interpret the DHS bulletin? Are seditionists who promoted lab leak theories in early 2020 now forgiven, because official positions have changed? Or are they still considered seditionists, because they promoted the lab leak theory during a time the official position was that the lab leak theory was an unfounded conspiracy theory? Is Facebook guilty of sedition, because they changed their censorship policy before Fauci officially softened his position on the origin of Covid-19?
The situation would be hilarious if it wasn’t so serious. People should be free to express their opinion, no matter how outlandish. Otherwise, how are we better than Communist China? How will we ever learn the truth, when the government gets it wrong?
Time to move to Justin Trudeau’s Canada !
In good old days when Dr Svalgaard and I use to have prolonged disagreements about the solar stuff (my website had visitors tracking) department of Homeland Security was a regular visitor, but they lost interest eventually.
It’s coming here. That is part of the reason “the science” on masks and lockdowns has done a 180 in just a couple weeks in a lot of democrat run states.
Norman Doidge points out (in a 3 hour video) that the government and institutions have amply earned the distrust of the vaccine hesitant. He also points out that increased repression is ineffective at increasing trust in institutions.
Exactly Derg. The founding fathers would have though trust in government to be a very bad idea. Now that the government has become far bigger and more powerful than they ever imagined, we should be trusting them even less. Not trusting government, is among the most patriotic of pass times.
So now you’re a terrorist if you do anything they have been doing during the 4 years of Trump.
Without the unpatriotic Patriot Act this would not have been possible. Now they are closing the net.
Those in government are puppets. The real masters who were able to print all needed to buy/corrupt the system are behind the curtain.
I don’t know enough about what is happening on the ground Izaak, I’m certainly not going to accept Rolling Stone’s word for what is happening. But surely we can all agree that disagreeing with the government should not automatically be considered “sedition”.
What is “protest?” In the First Amendment – “Congress shall make no law respecting … the right of the people PEACEABLY to assemble, and to PETITION the GOVERNMENT for a redress of grievances.”
“Protest” does NOT mean the destruction of property (public or private), impeding the free movement of private citizens, or trespass upon private property. So far as I can tell, with the exception of “interfering with government meetings,” these laws pass the conditions laid down by the Amendment.
Of course, equal enforcement is the main problem. How many of the Code Pink “protestors” that have invaded the Capitol Building over the years have spent even ONE night in jail?
I don’t know how someone can equate verbal protest at city council meetings with trespass at explosive oil and gas facilities. The protests against oil and gas that I’m familiar with always had sabotage as the intent and either did or almost resulted in death.
I’m a bad person, I suppose. I thoroughly enjoyed the video of the Darwin Award recipient on the Left Coast that got an impromptu (and brief) flying lesson.
That article as essentially a rant about how people should be allowed to risk other people’s lives by messing around with petrochemical industrial installations. That isn’t peaceful protest – it’s highly dangerous vandalism.
Massive fail by Rolling Stone, Grist, and you Izaak.
Not quite yet. Our PM has determined that they are merely racists and misogynists. “Domestic terrorists” is probably reserved for when they call in the army to move them.
Why would you want to “help” the burgeoning surveillance/police state to string along the “useful idiots” who have been indoctrinated to believe they are supporting “Socialism” if they support the surveillance/police state?
You know “Socialism” is just a vague feelgood term for ‘controlled society’, and I know Socialism is just a vague feelgood term for controlled society, but the useful idiots think it means the Government would be “religiously” dedicated to making the ordinary people’s lives ever so pleasant and fulfilling . .
So, I suggest you avoid using any of the vague feelgood terms that the thuggish antisocial personality disorder control freaks surely prefer to be identified with, rather than thuggish antisocial personality disorder control freaks. I mean, if that’s what you believe they really are . .
Our First Amendment protects political speech and the right to peaceably assemble. Nowhere is vandalism, arson, or theft mentioned as being justified by a claimed grievance. Such behavior itself is a legitimate grievance for those harmed by the behavior.
Alexy Scherbakoff
February 9, 2022 10:50 pm
My take on this is that as an Australian citizen who comments on some US-based site and not agreeing to Biden’s climate change or covid opinions am guilty of terrorist activity.
I can probably expect a CIA ‘black ops’ retaliation where I will be incarcerated in a secret prison and forced to listen to rap 24/7.
Listening to good music is like eating a piece of candy, the first thing you do is get rid of the wrapper. Could be worse tho, they could pipe in country music too so that in just a few weeks you’d be sporting a mullet, an extra small wife-beater tank top, and eating your boogers while doing your shopping at Wal-Mart.
ditto and they prob have logged us and I couldnt give a rats!
lets go brandon works for me even in aus
re XiDan
Chris Hanley
February 9, 2022 11:19 pm
It’s spreading like a virus, in the latest annual threat assessment Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) chief said: ‘the rise of ideologically motivated extremism, as witnessed during anti-vax and anti-government Covid-19 protests was now deemed a significant security risk that would escalate’ (The Australian).
Mission creep on stilts: an organisation (ASIO) that was set up after WW2 to deal with foreign espionage now regards Australian citizens and taxpayers who happen to to think the government Covid-19 measures were gross overreactions and who claim sovereignty over their bodies as dangerous security risks.
and F asio too!
as much use as a chocolate teapot for the majority of the time
useless when its needed and billions spent and little to show
they manage to skim a few young east/asian whatevers but usually entrapment like fbi/cia use it appears
Rod Evans
February 9, 2022 11:55 pm
All skeptics are targets because they choose not to accept the word of the authorities. By that logic all “proper” scientists are being targeted because scientists, when they are doing the job properly are sceptics.
November can’t get here fast enough.
Since I’m probably on some list already-
FJB and all the Orwellian Ministers of Truth.
michel
February 10, 2022 12:51 am
There are two striking elements in this.
The first is the emphasis on “false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions”.
This, taken at face value, would apply to much of the BLM and Critical Race Theory ideologies, and indeed to the whole 1617 project. They do indeed tend to undermine trust in US government institutions by portraying the US as a nation founded on (and continuing to depend on) enslavement and oppression of minorities. The historical basis for the 1617 project is a classic case of misinformation and misrepresentation. And they certainly ‘sow discord’!
The second however is the absence of any reference to any of the main events which have emerged from these ideologies, in particular the rioting and arson of last summer. After all, in Portland, such basic institutions as the police stations and city hall were being attacked, and whole areas of the city were being turned into no-go areas for the authorities.
This was accompanied by inflammatory and misleading claims about the extent, nature and causes of police violence – and such narratives would on the face of it fit the criteria. You cannot get much clearer examples of the phenomenon being addressed than the demand that, on the basis of false claims about police violence, the police department should be defunded.
On the face of it, identity politics, in which the ethnic background or skin color is treated as the defining thing about someone, is absolutely calculated to ‘sow discord’ and lead to the formation of conflicting identity oriented interest groups.
It is a classic phenomenon in political or cultural revolutions that the institutions which the revolutionaries create are then turned on the inventors. The quoted document is an example of policies which can be turned back on the originators.
Its worth noting that something similar is happening in other Western countries. For example, the attempts in the UK, and particularly in Scotland, to ban speech which offends, is something which sooner rather than later will be applied to speech by the righteously indignant left. Its traditional on the left of the Labour Party to refer to the Conservatives in the most immoderate terms – here for instance is Angela Rayner, the deputy head of the Party, as reported in the Guardian:
“We cannot get any worse than a bunch of scum, homophobic, racist, misogynistic, absolute vile … banana republic, vile, nasty, Etonian … piece of scum,” she said at the event, before adding that she had “held back a little”.
The current head of the Liberal Democrats said, in a piece printed in the Times:
“I hereby float the idea of a Remain alliance to decaptitate that blond head in Uxbridge and South Ruislip if Johnson calls a snap election to deliver Brexit,” he said.
David Lammy, a Labour MP, compared Brexit Leavers with Nazis, and said that understated their evilness.
The more inclusive the left makes the definition of hate speech, the sooner and more fiercely it is going to get turned on them.
Jordan Peterson in his interview by Cathy Newman on Channel 4 got to the nub of the problem when he questioned her right to offend him while expecting him accept offensive questions from her. Gotcha!
The real crime wave that the U.S. is suffering – the one the DHS prefers we didn’t see – has nothing to do with conservativism. It has everthing to do with dysfunctional families, easy access to guns, abysmal housing, drugs, alcohol, and violent underclasses that despise work. The clear target of the DHS proclamation is conservatism. DOJ’s Merrick Garland and others in the Biden administration are nurturing various memes about racism and domestic terrorism to smear conservatives of all types. If you see government overreach as a threat, you’re a conspiracy theorist. If you see crime as the chief problem you’re a racist. Meanwhile they turn a blind eye to the anti-police rhetoric that fuels the biggest spike in criminal violence in decades.
The clearest and most pernicious fomenters of social chaos are our current crop of liberal government officials.
A New Crime Wave—and What to Do About ItNew York City rejected the policing lessons that led to its success, and violence is surging. Heather Mac Donald
This is called Crisis Management – see the International Crisis Group, a Soros outfit. Now note ICG Jake Sullivan’s (U.S. National Security Advisor) awesome declarations about Russia, and China, on a daily basis. Makes the DHS look amateur!
Another ICG board member is Lord Malloch-Brown, of Smartmatic voting machine fame.
Result is ordinary people are disoriented, while noting the disaster in the wallet, fail to see the real crisis about to hit – the everything bubble blowout.
UN Climate Finance advisor Marc Carney, ex-Bank of England chief, made it very clear at COP26 – the ruthless, relentless pursuit of NetZero and $100 TRILLION. Anyone getting in the way of this ruthlessness is, well naive to say the least!
It is about greening finance GFANZ, NGFS. An astronomical green bubble to inflate into. The system of the City of London and WallStreet is in real serious trouble. Otherwise Schwab and Carney would never be so direct. BlackRock et. al. fully on board.
See Carney’s Bloomberg COP26 video interview :
Welcome to pre-reunification East Germany.
Inform on your neighbours if they upset you in any way.
How will the powers-that-be regard disturbances such as have happened in Portland and Seattle? Or will they have a free pass because the people involved think the ” right ” way?
“Only” imposing modern Lysenkoism!
“Although it’s impossible to say for sure, Trofim Lysenko probably killed more human beings than any individual scientist in history. Other dubious scientific achievements have cut thousands upon thousands of lives short: dynamite, poison gas, atomic bombs. But Lysenko, a Soviet biologist, condemned perhaps millions of people to starvation through bogus agricultural research—and did so without hesitation. Only guns and gunpowder, the collective product of many researchers over several centuries, can match such carnage.” https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/trofim-lysenko-soviet-union-russia/548786/
Know someone who got access to his Stasi files. Found out his dad’s best friend was the snitch for years!
One condition for access (kilometers of files) was no civil war! Imagine the disgust!
If You See Something, Say Something®. Report suspicious activity to local law enforcement or call 911.
I suggest the good citizens of the USA make numerous phone calls to report the false and misleading tripe dished up by climate models. All climate modellers should be jailed for producing false and misleading “information” and calling it The Science.
We should also report all the false and misleading tripe put out by the Democrats.
It is the radical Democrats and the Biden administration who are the real spreaders of false and misleading information. They do it constantly. Deliberately.
The problem here is that unless we do put a policeman on every corner, the police will always need the help of citizens to help them solve crimes.
The fact that many people are no longer willing to talk to the police is one of the reasons why the percentage of crimes that remain unsolved has increased.
Problem lies on both sides, MarkW. Last time I talked to the police, over a property crime against my property, I was told that I didn’t own the property and they were closing the case.
Makes you wonder “why bother”
When it comes to property, the police were correct. Only the owner of the property can bring charges.
Since you didn’t say what happened, I can only speculate. However I suspect you could try to bring up public nuisance charges.
I think you missed this part? “over a property crime against my property”
Doors were stolen from a mobile home I own that was being prepared to be moved. I was told that because it had been abandoned (it was vacated so it could be moved) I no longer owned it.
A follow up with the community ombudsman resulted in being flat-out ignored.
The problem is that there are enough go along to get along Republicans who will prevent this fascist skeleton from being dismantled, so that the next time Democrats have control, they will be able to continue from where they left off.
I’m afraid you are correct. Senate Republicans seem to be making an issue out of the RNC criticizing Liz Cheney.
There is a good reason for criticizing Liz Cheney. Complaining that Liz Cheney should not be criticized means the Senators do not see the existential threat to personal freedom posed by the radical Democrats with the support of idiots like Liz Cheney.
How many stupid Republican Senators are going to tell us they can’t see the danger the Democrats pose to the personal freedoms of all of us?
If they don’t see the danger from the radical Democrats and their useful idiots like Liz Cheney, then they should not be elected to public office because they also pose a danger to the personal freedoms of all of us because of their delusional thinking.
The Democrats are the problem, not Trump or his supporters. Get that through your thick heads, Republicans. Or you become an additonal problem.
Pelosi declared that only Republicans who agreed in advance as to what her committee should find would be allowed on her committee. Cheney, quite predictably was eager to get publicity from supporting Pelosi.
Republicans are not the answer. Conservatives that are Constitutional Constructionists are.
The uniparty types are the ones that must be removed from power and the only way that can happen is to eliminate their political funding that comes from the oligarchs and in some cases money from China etc.
BTW, I’m a Hoosier, and I would not vote for Pence for Dog Catcher. He is uniparty.
Tom Abbott
February 10, 2022 2:32 am
From the article: “Foreign terrorists remain intent on targeting the United States and U.S. persons, and may seek to capitalize on the evolving security environment overseas to plot attacks”
The terrorists can also capitalize on the wide-open Biden Southern U.S. Border and its lack of security.
Tom Abbott
February 10, 2022 2:49 am
From the article: “DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis established a new, dedicated domestic terrorism branch to produce the sound, timely intelligence needed to counter related threats.”
The Biden administration set this up specifically to attack Trump and his supporters.
Democrats think it is ok to use the power of the federal government to attack their political enemies. The Obama administration did it to Trump, and now the Biden administration is doing it to Trump.
When sanity again rules in the U.S. (Republican majorities), we need to put these Democrat traitors in jail and show them that it is unacceptable/illegal to use the power of the federal government to attack their political opponents in an effort to retain their political power.
There are not enough “domestic terrorists” in the U.S. to fill a football stadium. Domestic terrorism is much ado about nothing. It’s just being blown out of proportion by the Biden adminstration in an effort to try to justify attacking Trump and his supporters.
It’s all about attacking Trump, because the Democrat Socialists fear he will take their political power away from them. And he will. So the Democrats declare Trump and all his millions of supporters as being domestic terrorists with the real goal of cracking down on behavior or thoughts the Democrats don’t like and suppressing any support Trump might have.
We are in a battle for our personal freedoms with power-hungry, ruthless, criminal Democrats who will stop at nothing, legal or illegal, to keep their political power.
We need to wake up to this reality before it’s too late.
What about the power-hungry, ruthless, criminal Republicans who are in on all of this?
Our current overly powerful federal government is a Uniparty, and the left-wing Democrats and right-wing Republicans are just different wings on the same bird. Both sides are bought and paid for by the same GEBs. The two wings of the same bird are to give us the illusion of choice.
The DC establishment will quash anyone who is remotely perceived as a threat to their criminal** business model which provides their power and wealth, which is skimmed from the taxpayers.
**I chose ‘criminal’ due the Fed’s practice of ignoring the US Constitution and selective enforcement of laws that are often unconstitutional themselves. The Federal Government has been weaponized against We, The People and no longer serves The People. It has become an exclusive club for the self-serving, self-enriching class that considers themselves above all other Americans and above any laws. So… ‘criminal’.
As usual, Tom, you have a lot more faith in Republican politicians to take action than I do. I have yet to see any indication they have the will to do anything. Instead, you have McConnell joining with Dems saying stuff like “violent insurrection”
You won’t. This is not something that can be fixed in even a few elections. Until campaign funding is reformed to be completely transparent we are bound to be ruled by politicians owned by those that fund them.
Ron Long
February 10, 2022 2:51 am
Good thing I live in Argentina, they don’t have an Extradition Treaty with America. Press on.
just confirms what we all know
your leaders a fruitcake and your mil leaderships just as warped as it ever was
ANY excuse they can find to gain more power and control at home as well as elsewhere
lies R Usa could be their brandname
Good to see you’re back on track Peta. Your recent comments have been a little … unfocused?
Duane
February 10, 2022 5:02 am
Don’t get your panties in a knot. The bulletin clearly is discussing violent actions, such as the attempted coup of our national government on January 6 by a violent mob of extremists, not protected speech.
Your problem is reading Breitbart, a humongous purveyor of political bullshit appealing to rightwingnut Trumplicans.
Many of those arrested have already been held in jail for longer then any possible sentence they would have received, even if they were convicted of everything they are being charged with.
Key factors contributing to the current heightened threat environment include: The proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions:
For example, there is widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19. Grievances associated with these themes inspired violent extremist attacks during 2021.
Malign foreign powers have and continue to amplify these false or misleading narratives in efforts to damage the United States.
IMO the DHS is saying any who contributes to a narrative they don’t approve is contributing to violent extremism. This is an unacceptable position in a free society.
Interesting. Speaking as an outsider from north of the border, I wonder if those who complain about Russian interference in the 2016 election would be included in the “proliferation of false or misleading narratives”. Should concerned Americans be reporting them to the DHS? There seemed to be quite a few of them, including the spouse of a former president, and they probably need to be sent for re-education.
It really is sad how hatred of one man has totally destroy Duane’s ability to think rationally.
This coup attempts exists only in your rage soaked mind.
You are willing to totally destroy everything in order to strike back at those who don’t agree with you.
How can you say, with a straight face, “the attempted coup of our national government”?
People without any leadership or chain of command, whose only unifying ideology was a belief that the election had been fraudulent, armed only with ‘weapons’ as fearsome as a flag staff and a fire extinguisher taken off the wall, confronted armed police only slight smaller in number. There was no real plan or attempt to usurp the government (To perhaps be run by a figurehead shaman with mental issues?), and no means to run the government had they been successful, however you want to define “successful.” You are not being rational or realistic! It was a riot, pure and simple, that was no more likely to replace the existing form of government than any of the violent ‘BLM’ riots during the Summer.
A coup (“a sudden illegal, often violent, taking of government power, especially by part of an army:”) was an impossibility. Whether one calls it a coup or an insurrection, it is an inaccurate characterization of a group of people whose goal was a thorough investigation of the fraud charges raised about the election. Anyone who resorts to using a pejorative term like “coup,” is demonstrating a strong bias that they are willing to support by lying.
Wade
February 10, 2022 5:17 am
Before Biden was sworn in as president, you had party-worshipping democrats say that “hate speech” should not be protected by the 1st Amendment. Who defines what is “hate speech”? Why, the very same ones who say it shouldn’t be protected. What they are really saying is that you are free to say what you want, as long as we — the leftists — agree with it.
Soon after Biden went to the White House, he said that the 2nd Amendment was not absolute.
Can you see how this will go? If the 2nd Amendment is not absolute, then so is the 1st Amendment. The 1st Amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” If the US Bill of Rights is not absolute, then it is acceptable for the President or any one of their three-letter agencies to take away freedom of speech and freedom of religion. As long as Congress does not take it away, it will not violate the text of the 1st Amendment. Or worse, a treaty which takes these things away.
What else wouldn’t be absolute? The 5th Amendment, so a person’s silence means he is guilty. The 6th Amendment, so a person will not entitled to a speedy trial and can languish in prison without charges. Habeas corpus was already suspended once in the US history, what is to stop it from happening again? After all, the combination of COVID-24 and climate change is a crisis unlike any crisis we have seen before. They will argues that it is okay to suspend these things, because these rights are not absolute and the crisis is too great not to do anything.
Many of those arrested during the Jan 6th riots have been held without bail for over a year. Most of them, even if convicted of everything, will only get sentences of a few months.
… the right to a speedy and public trial ….’ has already been violated.
‘the right … to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor….‘ cannot be allowed, as specific govt agencies would embarrass the hell out of itself)
I can’t see how, at this point, that any of them (that are determined to be sane) won’t just walk away at the end of the process. At this point in time the assholes in charge are spending more time trying to figure out how they will be avoiding lawsuits, rather than how they will be prosecuting the prisoners.
If they had been tried and convicted on day one, they would be out of jail by now. Note: I’m not making any assumptions regarding their guilt or innocence. They have already served their sentence, without benefit of actually being tried.
Terrorism is the use of fear and intimidation for political purposes.
Since climate skeptics insist there is no crisis, nothing to fear as such, no need to “act” are not the terrorists the ones raising the alarm to force compliance?
What crime could be worse than destroying the entire world? There are plenty of calls out there for skeptics to be punished or even executed, for imaginary crimes against the environment.
So you’re a terrorist if you do anything they have been doing during the 4 years of Trump.
John the Econ
February 10, 2022 5:58 am
Inevitable. If they couldn’t convince everyone with contrived science, they’ll convince the holdouts with brute force.
BERNARD STEPHEN FITZGERALD
February 10, 2022 6:13 am
No question about it fully expect to be rounded up and herded on to rail trucks to be “processed” in a hidden camp in the forest. Being a coward I’ve rehearsed “HEIL HOCKEY STICK” to placate the Gretastapo.
MarkW
February 10, 2022 6:30 am
Anyone who gets between a socialist and power/money is at a minimum a criminal, if not a full blown terrorist.
MarkW
February 10, 2022 6:34 am
which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions;
How is this any different from something that might have been written in Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, or Mao’s China.
Whenever they get into power, the totalitarian streak of the socialists comes through.
2hotel9
February 10, 2022 6:34 am
Anyone who refuses to accept leftist ideology is a terrorist according to leftists.
This DHS warning is explicitly Unconstitutional and violates US organic law.
This DHS document explicitly violates our unalienable First Amendment rights:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/
RevJay4
February 10, 2022 7:34 am
Looks like a step to set up as the gummint being the final word on what is “misinformation” thereby branding those who disagree with the powers that be as seditionists. A slippery slope created by the bureaucrats which may not end well. For anyone.
undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions
Those institutions don’t need any outside help for that to happen.
Olen
February 10, 2022 9:05 am
Their tactic is anti American because it is an attempt to not only silence free speech but is designed to make the public fearful of the government.
What they are attempting is to separate themselves from the American people using their government office. People will remember this at the voting booth and they know it.
Curious that all the adverse violent effects that they are warning could be the result of these “evil” actions causing distrust of the gov’mt, have been ongoing for some years by the LEFT–antifa, blm, etc.
Trying to Play Nice
February 10, 2022 9:36 am
I see a potential threat. The Biden administration and the entire DNC are trying to undermine the Constitution.
Josh Szeps attitude is a real breath of fresh air in contrast to the typical supercilious and sanctimonious leftism of Fanning. Fanning’s gabfest guests are a totally predictable procession of taxeaters and uni boofheads she throws leftist Dorothy Dixers at to get pat answers her producers and workmates would be smiling in unison with. In that respect I can’t see Josh lasting long at Aunty like Chris Uhlmann couldn’t stomach it and he was about as centrist as they come. Why Labor and the Greens are all for stuffing Aunty’s pockets with more taxes with their election promises.
niceguy
February 10, 2022 8:02 pm
“funding to support target hardening and other physical security enhancements to non-profit organizations at high risk of terrorist attack.
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Funny. Cite ONE non army thing in the US that is barely defensible.
I think it’s time to flip the script on this claim that citizens that disagree with CAGW are seditious. Realists should form a class action suit to sue the global warming/climate change supporters with sedition. Vet everything out in a court of law in front of a jury. I think it will be the trial of the century and the truth will prevail because the whole CAGW hypothesis is founded on junk science. CO2 is not an evil pollutant but rather a giver of life to our carbon based existence.
iheartagw
February 16, 2022 2:33 pm
Reverse gaslighting.
The gaslighters actually believe their pseudo reality.
And are trying their damndest to get the sane to believe their version of reality.
James Walter
February 16, 2022 5:27 pm
While this is bad, it is a further dilution of the effect of that terrorizing word, “terrorist.” When everything is terrorism, nothing is terrorism.
Humpty Dumpty“There’s glory for you!’
I don’t know what you mean by “glory,”‘ Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously.Of course you don’t — till I tell you. I meant “there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!”‘
But “glory” doesn’t mean “a nice knock-down argument,”‘ Alice objected. When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’ The question is,’ said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
The most significant undermining of public trust in the government – is caused by the government.
How very Orwellian sounding.
Time to move to Justin Trudeau’s Canada !
In good old days when Dr Svalgaard and I use to have prolonged disagreements about the solar stuff (my website had visitors tracking) department of Homeland Security was a regular visitor, but they lost interest eventually.
Well you never can tell with government IP addresses, are they tracking you or do they have a lot of time on their hands to surf the net?
Being a former government employee who would waste countless hours reading anything that interested me, I would consider both possiblities.
It’s coming here. That is part of the reason “the science” on masks and lockdowns has done a 180 in just a couple weeks in a lot of democrat run states.
Norman Doidge points out (in a 3 hour video) that the government and institutions have amply earned the distrust of the vaccine hesitant. He also points out that increased repression is ineffective at increasing trust in institutions.
Trust us we’re from the government comes to mind often.
or as Ronald Regan once quipped “The eight words you never want to hear are – “I’m from the government, I’m here to help.””
Exactly Derg. The founding fathers would have though trust in government to be a very bad idea. Now that the government has become far bigger and more powerful than they ever imagined, we should be trusting them even less. Not trusting government, is among the most patriotic of pass times.
As a former boss used to say:
The beatings will continue until moral improves.
So now you’re a terrorist if you do anything they have been doing during the 4 years of Trump.
Without the unpatriotic Patriot Act this would not have been possible. Now they are closing the net.
Those in government are puppets. The real masters who were able to print all needed to buy/corrupt the system are behind the curtain.
Where’s Toto when we need him?
“National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin – February 07, 2022 02:00 pm”
English version translated from the original German.
Eric,
If “. People should be free to express their opinion, no matter how outlandish” does that
mean you object to attempts to criminalise protests as discuss here for example:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/u-s-states-have-been-trying-to-criminalize-protests-for-the-past-five-years-1009986/
I don’t know enough about what is happening on the ground Izaak, I’m certainly not going to accept Rolling Stone’s word for what is happening. But surely we can all agree that disagreeing with the government should not automatically be considered “sedition”.
Apparently Rolling Stone feels that unless you are allowed to burn things when protesting, it isn’t really a protest.
What is “protest?” In the First Amendment – “Congress shall make no law respecting … the right of the people PEACEABLY to assemble, and to PETITION the GOVERNMENT for a redress of grievances.”
“Protest” does NOT mean the destruction of property (public or private), impeding the free movement of private citizens, or trespass upon private property. So far as I can tell, with the exception of “interfering with government meetings,” these laws pass the conditions laid down by the Amendment.
Of course, equal enforcement is the main problem. How many of the Code Pink “protestors” that have invaded the Capitol Building over the years have spent even ONE night in jail?
tell the same to BLM then
BLM is a criminal organization.
The Bureau of Land Management should be defunded, disbanded, and their land ceded to the states.
The other BLM actually bought some nice real estate that a few people will actually use.
I don’t know how someone can equate verbal protest at city council meetings with trespass at explosive oil and gas facilities. The protests against oil and gas that I’m familiar with always had sabotage as the intent and either did or almost resulted in death.
In MN, BLM held protests on freeways…very interesting place to protest.
Same in UK. Fortunately their protectors were on hand to keep them safe.
I’m a bad person, I suppose. I thoroughly enjoyed the video of the Darwin Award recipient on the Left Coast that got an impromptu (and brief) flying lesson.
That article as essentially a rant about how people should be allowed to risk other people’s lives by messing around with petrochemical industrial installations. That isn’t peaceful protest – it’s highly dangerous vandalism.
Massive fail by Rolling Stone, Grist, and you Izaak.
But of course the Canadian truckers are terrorists?
Not quite yet. Our PM has determined that they are merely racists and misogynists. “Domestic terrorists” is probably reserved for when they call in the army to move them.
So, basically you support terrorism as long as it advances your leftist political agenda. Got it.
So increasing the penalties for rioting is equivalent to suppressing dissent.
Socialists are so predictable.
Mental health issues have predictable symptoms.
Why would you want to “help” the burgeoning surveillance/police state to string along the “useful idiots” who have been indoctrinated to believe they are supporting “Socialism” if they support the surveillance/police state?
You know “Socialism” is just a vague feelgood term for ‘controlled society’, and I know Socialism is just a vague feelgood term for controlled society, but the useful idiots think it means the Government would be “religiously” dedicated to making the ordinary people’s lives ever so pleasant and fulfilling . .
So, I suggest you avoid using any of the vague feelgood terms that the thuggish antisocial personality disorder control freaks surely prefer to be identified with, rather than thuggish antisocial personality disorder control freaks. I mean, if that’s what you believe they really are . .
Our First Amendment protects political speech and the right to peaceably assemble. Nowhere is vandalism, arson, or theft mentioned as being justified by a claimed grievance. Such behavior itself is a legitimate grievance for those harmed by the behavior.
My take on this is that as an Australian citizen who comments on some US-based site and not agreeing to Biden’s climate change or covid opinions am guilty of terrorist activity.
I can probably expect a CIA ‘black ops’ retaliation where I will be incarcerated in a secret prison and forced to listen to rap 24/7.
Look on the bright side, free trip to America. I claim the window seat!
It’s not the trip. It’s listening to rap that concerns me.
Don’t worry, at Gitmo you get to listen to the Eagles at 110 decibels 24 hours per day. Look on the bright side!
It would be inhumane to listen to Biden’s speeches at normal level.
At least you’d catch up on some sleep. 😉
Are you speaking about sleep deprivation torture?
Don’t worry. He mostly whispers... VERY LOUDLY. 😉
Does RAP stand for Reeducation And Prison …
It’s supposed to be a form of music. (C)rap.
reminds me of the attached cartoon
Listening to good music is like eating a piece of candy, the first thing you do is get rid of the wrapper. Could be worse tho, they could pipe in country music too so that in just a few weeks you’d be sporting a mullet, an extra small wife-beater tank top, and eating your boogers while doing your shopping at Wal-Mart.
Thus speaks someone who has never stepped foot off asphalt.
My self driving ev truck done left me.
Ready willing and able to dial 911, if you hear any of that radicalizing country music playing, eh bubble boy? ; )
ditto and they prob have logged us and I couldnt give a rats!
lets go brandon works for me even in aus
re XiDan
It’s spreading like a virus, in the latest annual threat assessment Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) chief said: ‘the rise of ideologically motivated extremism, as witnessed during anti-vax and anti-government Covid-19 protests was now deemed a significant security risk that would escalate’ (The Australian).
Mission creep on stilts: an organisation (ASIO) that was set up after WW2 to deal with foreign espionage now regards Australian citizens and taxpayers who happen to to think the government Covid-19 measures were gross overreactions and who claim sovereignty over their bodies as dangerous security risks.
and F asio too!
as much use as a chocolate teapot for the majority of the time
useless when its needed and billions spent and little to show
they manage to skim a few young east/asian whatevers but usually entrapment like fbi/cia use it appears
All skeptics are targets because they choose not to accept the word of the authorities. By that logic all “proper” scientists are being targeted because scientists, when they are doing the job properly are sceptics.
Terrorists or tyrants, we are all one or the other. Which will you be, take sides now.
Good people ought to be armed as they will, with wits and guns and the truth.
November can’t get here fast enough.
Since I’m probably on some list already-
FJB and all the Orwellian Ministers of Truth.
There are two striking elements in this.
The first is the emphasis on “false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions”.
This, taken at face value, would apply to much of the BLM and Critical Race Theory ideologies, and indeed to the whole 1617 project. They do indeed tend to undermine trust in US government institutions by portraying the US as a nation founded on (and continuing to depend on) enslavement and oppression of minorities. The historical basis for the 1617 project is a classic case of misinformation and misrepresentation. And they certainly ‘sow discord’!
The second however is the absence of any reference to any of the main events which have emerged from these ideologies, in particular the rioting and arson of last summer. After all, in Portland, such basic institutions as the police stations and city hall were being attacked, and whole areas of the city were being turned into no-go areas for the authorities.
This was accompanied by inflammatory and misleading claims about the extent, nature and causes of police violence – and such narratives would on the face of it fit the criteria. You cannot get much clearer examples of the phenomenon being addressed than the demand that, on the basis of false claims about police violence, the police department should be defunded.
On the face of it, identity politics, in which the ethnic background or skin color is treated as the defining thing about someone, is absolutely calculated to ‘sow discord’ and lead to the formation of conflicting identity oriented interest groups.
It is a classic phenomenon in political or cultural revolutions that the institutions which the revolutionaries create are then turned on the inventors. The quoted document is an example of policies which can be turned back on the originators.
Its worth noting that something similar is happening in other Western countries. For example, the attempts in the UK, and particularly in Scotland, to ban speech which offends, is something which sooner rather than later will be applied to speech by the righteously indignant left. Its traditional on the left of the Labour Party to refer to the Conservatives in the most immoderate terms – here for instance is Angela Rayner, the deputy head of the Party, as reported in the Guardian:
The current head of the Liberal Democrats said, in a piece printed in the Times:
David Lammy, a Labour MP, compared Brexit Leavers with Nazis, and said that understated their evilness.
The more inclusive the left makes the definition of hate speech, the sooner and more fiercely it is going to get turned on them.
Jordan Peterson in his interview by Cathy Newman on Channel 4 got to the nub of the problem when he questioned her right to offend him while expecting him accept offensive questions from her. Gotcha!
God Bless Jordan B. Peterson. Peterson for president of the world.
Some of us are trying to avoid having anyone elected ‘President of The World’ no matter how much we agree with their positions.
Decentralization of power as much as possible to the individual level provides the greatest amount of freedom.**
**Note: With great personal freedom comes great personal responsibility.
1619
Close enough for government work.
Is the essence of the definition of racism!
At one point in time liberals declared that they were 100% opposed to racism.
Now days, they require it.
They were for it, before they were against it.
The real crime wave that the U.S. is suffering – the one the DHS prefers we didn’t see – has nothing to do with conservativism. It has everthing to do with dysfunctional families, easy access to guns, abysmal housing, drugs, alcohol, and violent underclasses that despise work. The clear target of the DHS proclamation is conservatism. DOJ’s Merrick Garland and others in the Biden administration are nurturing various memes about racism and domestic terrorism to smear conservatives of all types. If you see government overreach as a threat, you’re a conspiracy theorist. If you see crime as the chief problem you’re a racist. Meanwhile they turn a blind eye to the anti-police rhetoric that fuels the biggest spike in criminal violence in decades.
The clearest and most pernicious fomenters of social chaos are our current crop of liberal government officials.
https://www.city-journal.org/new-york-city-violence-surging
A New Crime Wave—and What to Do About ItNew York City rejected the policing lessons that led to its success, and violence is surging.
Heather Mac Donald
This is called Crisis Management – see the International Crisis Group, a Soros outfit. Now note ICG Jake Sullivan’s (U.S. National Security Advisor) awesome declarations about Russia, and China, on a daily basis. Makes the DHS look amateur!
Another ICG board member is Lord Malloch-Brown, of Smartmatic voting machine fame.
https://www.crisisgroup.org/who-we-are/board
Result is ordinary people are disoriented, while noting the disaster in the wallet, fail to see the real crisis about to hit – the everything bubble blowout.
UN Climate Finance advisor Marc Carney, ex-Bank of England chief, made it very clear at COP26 – the ruthless, relentless pursuit of NetZero and $100 TRILLION. Anyone getting in the way of this ruthlessness is, well naive to say the least!
With an emphasis on $100 Trillion. I wonder what this is all about. It can’t be about money. Klaus Schwab said that we will own nothing and be happy.
We, the populace in general, will own nothing and be happy – he says nothing about the privileged few in positions of power and their chosen friends.
It is about greening finance GFANZ, NGFS. An astronomical green bubble to inflate into. The system of the City of London and WallStreet is in real serious trouble. Otherwise Schwab and Carney would never be so direct. BlackRock et. al. fully on board.
See Carney’s Bloomberg COP26 video interview :
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2021-11-01/net-zero-a-ruthless-relentless-focus-for-gfanz-carney-video
We, not he.
Welcome to pre-reunification East Germany.
Inform on your neighbours if they upset you in any way.
How will the powers-that-be regard disturbances such as have happened in Portland and Seattle? Or will they have a free pass because the people involved think the ” right ” way?
“Only” imposing modern Lysenkoism!
“Although it’s impossible to say for sure, Trofim Lysenko probably killed more human beings than any individual scientist in history. Other dubious scientific achievements have cut thousands upon thousands of lives short: dynamite, poison gas, atomic bombs. But Lysenko, a Soviet biologist, condemned perhaps millions of people to starvation through bogus agricultural research—and did so without hesitation. Only guns and gunpowder, the collective product of many researchers over several centuries, can match such carnage.” https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/12/trofim-lysenko-soviet-union-russia/548786/
Rachel Carson would give Lysenko a run for his money.
Know someone who got access to his Stasi files. Found out his dad’s best friend was the snitch for years!
One condition for access (kilometers of files) was no civil war! Imagine the disgust!
There is a movie about that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lives_of_Others
and another about a choice all East Germans had to make:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question_7
I suggest the good citizens of the USA make numerous phone calls to report the false and misleading tripe dished up by climate models. All climate modellers should be jailed for producing false and misleading “information” and calling it The Science.
We should also report all the false and misleading tripe put out by the Democrats.
It is the radical Democrats and the Biden administration who are the real spreaders of false and misleading information. They do it constantly. Deliberately.
You know that will be used as reporting on yourself – confessing your sins.
The problem here is that unless we do put a policeman on every corner, the police will always need the help of citizens to help them solve crimes.
The fact that many people are no longer willing to talk to the police is one of the reasons why the percentage of crimes that remain unsolved has increased.
Problem lies on both sides, MarkW. Last time I talked to the police, over a property crime against my property, I was told that I didn’t own the property and they were closing the case.
Makes you wonder “why bother”
When it comes to property, the police were correct. Only the owner of the property can bring charges.
Since you didn’t say what happened, I can only speculate. However I suspect you could try to bring up public nuisance charges.
I think you missed this part? “over a property crime against my property”
Doors were stolen from a mobile home I own that was being prepared to be moved. I was told that because it had been abandoned (it was vacated so it could be moved) I no longer owned it.
A follow up with the community ombudsman resulted in being flat-out ignored.
To summarize: the scientists that agree with the narrative are experts. All the other scientists are terrorists.
Something like that.
You are a terrorist if you don’t agree with Joe Biden or the Democrats.
What happens when Joe Biden doesn’t agree with the Democrats?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-scramble-reverse-course-covid-restrictions-midterms
AOC has been quite vocal about how the Democrats are failing her.
Time to build a database with names of those pushing this kind of thing. It will be needed for the coming tribunals of the witchfinders general.
The new Republican congress is going to be busy. They have about 15 years of Democrat criminality to investigate.
Hillary should be nervous. But she’s not the only one.
Unfortunately, a significant number of the Republican leadership are neck deep in this bullshit and they have the neck to show it.
Some Democrats are crazy enough to think that Republicans should be illegal.
This article points out that the road to totalitarianism is paved by numberless acts of petty bureaucratic control.
This is the skeleton on which could be built a traditional fascist state. It seems to me we could be in a great deal of trouble.
Oh, yes, we are headed down that road for sure if the Democrats get their way.
It looks to me like the Democrats are going to fall short of attaining their goals of total domination but it won’t be for a lack of trying.
We need to stay vigilant.
The problem is that there are enough go along to get along Republicans who will prevent this fascist skeleton from being dismantled, so that the next time Democrats have control, they will be able to continue from where they left off.
I’m afraid you are correct. Senate Republicans seem to be making an issue out of the RNC criticizing Liz Cheney.
There is a good reason for criticizing Liz Cheney. Complaining that Liz Cheney should not be criticized means the Senators do not see the existential threat to personal freedom posed by the radical Democrats with the support of idiots like Liz Cheney.
How many stupid Republican Senators are going to tell us they can’t see the danger the Democrats pose to the personal freedoms of all of us?
If they don’t see the danger from the radical Democrats and their useful idiots like Liz Cheney, then they should not be elected to public office because they also pose a danger to the personal freedoms of all of us because of their delusional thinking.
The Democrats are the problem, not Trump or his supporters. Get that through your thick heads, Republicans. Or you become an additonal problem.
Pelosi declared that only Republicans who agreed in advance as to what her committee should find would be allowed on her committee. Cheney, quite predictably was eager to get publicity from supporting Pelosi.
Republicans are not the answer. Conservatives that are Constitutional Constructionists are.
The uniparty types are the ones that must be removed from power and the only way that can happen is to eliminate their political funding that comes from the oligarchs and in some cases money from China etc.
BTW, I’m a Hoosier, and I would not vote for Pence for Dog Catcher. He is uniparty.
From the article: “Foreign terrorists remain intent on targeting the United States and U.S. persons, and may seek to capitalize on the evolving security environment overseas to plot attacks”
The terrorists can also capitalize on the wide-open Biden Southern U.S. Border and its lack of security.
From the article: “DHS’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis established a new, dedicated domestic terrorism branch to produce the sound, timely intelligence needed to counter related threats.”
The Biden administration set this up specifically to attack Trump and his supporters.
Democrats think it is ok to use the power of the federal government to attack their political enemies. The Obama administration did it to Trump, and now the Biden administration is doing it to Trump.
When sanity again rules in the U.S. (Republican majorities), we need to put these Democrat traitors in jail and show them that it is unacceptable/illegal to use the power of the federal government to attack their political opponents in an effort to retain their political power.
There are not enough “domestic terrorists” in the U.S. to fill a football stadium. Domestic terrorism is much ado about nothing. It’s just being blown out of proportion by the Biden adminstration in an effort to try to justify attacking Trump and his supporters.
It’s all about attacking Trump, because the Democrat Socialists fear he will take their political power away from them. And he will. So the Democrats declare Trump and all his millions of supporters as being domestic terrorists with the real goal of cracking down on behavior or thoughts the Democrats don’t like and suppressing any support Trump might have.
We are in a battle for our personal freedoms with power-hungry, ruthless, criminal Democrats who will stop at nothing, legal or illegal, to keep their political power.
We need to wake up to this reality before it’s too late.
What about the power-hungry, ruthless, criminal Republicans who are in on all of this?
Our current overly powerful federal government is a Uniparty, and the left-wing Democrats and right-wing Republicans are just different wings on the same bird. Both sides are bought and paid for by the same GEBs. The two wings of the same bird are to give us the illusion of choice.
The DC establishment will quash anyone who is remotely perceived as a threat to their criminal** business model which provides their power and wealth, which is skimmed from the taxpayers.
**I chose ‘criminal’ due the Fed’s practice of ignoring the US Constitution and selective enforcement of laws that are often unconstitutional themselves. The Federal Government has been weaponized against We, The People and no longer serves The People. It has become an exclusive club for the self-serving, self-enriching class that considers themselves above all other Americans and above any laws. So… ‘criminal’.
As usual, Tom, you have a lot more faith in Republican politicians to take action than I do. I have yet to see any indication they have the will to do anything. Instead, you have McConnell joining with Dems saying stuff like “violent insurrection”
You are correct. Delusional Republicans are a big problem.
Let’s hope this can be fixed in the next election.
You won’t. This is not something that can be fixed in even a few elections. Until campaign funding is reformed to be completely transparent we are bound to be ruled by politicians owned by those that fund them.
Good thing I live in Argentina, they don’t have an Extradition Treaty with America. Press on.
https://www.revolver.news/2022/02/biden-dhs-officially-unveils-the-ministry-of-truth/
Revolver is investigating, going on a deep dive.
just confirms what we all know
your leaders a fruitcake and your mil leaderships just as warped as it ever was
ANY excuse they can find to gain more power and control at home as well as elsewhere
lies R Usa could be their brandname
Andrew Bolt on Sky News promoting terrorism presumably-
Google pulls ads on meteorologist tracking climate for ‘unreliable and harmful claims’ (msn.com)
paranoia occasioned by sugar poisoning
Good to see you’re back on track Peta. Your recent comments have been a little … unfocused?
Don’t get your panties in a knot. The bulletin clearly is discussing violent actions, such as the attempted coup of our national government on January 6 by a violent mob of extremists, not protected speech.
Your problem is reading Breitbart, a humongous purveyor of political bullshit appealing to rightwingnut Trumplicans.
The “attempted coup” appears to be an FBI entrapment operation.
Has there ever been a weaponless coup attempted in history?
Many of those arrested have already been held in jail for longer then any possible sentence they would have received, even if they were convicted of everything they are being charged with.
A Fedsurection. See
https://www.revolver.news/2021/12/damning-new-details-massive-web-unindicted-operators-january-6/
Yes, and they didn’t even have a single bouncy castle.
Key factors contributing to the current heightened threat environment include:
The proliferation of false or misleading narratives, which sow discord or undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions:
For example, there is widespread online proliferation of false or misleading narratives regarding unsubstantiated widespread election fraud and COVID-19. Grievances associated with these themes inspired violent extremist attacks during 2021.
Malign foreign powers have and continue to amplify these false or misleading narratives in efforts to damage the United States.
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IMO the DHS is saying any who contributes to a narrative they don’t approve is contributing to violent extremism. This is an unacceptable position in a free society.
The ideal of freedom is founded on a mistrust of government institutions. That was the whole point of the Constitution.
The problem is that they are putting the emphasis on whether there is official approval. Whether the narrative is true is not important to them.
Interesting. Speaking as an outsider from north of the border, I wonder if those who complain about Russian interference in the 2016 election would be included in the “proliferation of false or misleading narratives”. Should concerned Americans be reporting them to the DHS? There seemed to be quite a few of them, including the spouse of a former president, and they probably need to be sent for re-education.
It really is sad how hatred of one man has totally destroy Duane’s ability to think rationally.
This coup attempts exists only in your rage soaked mind.
You are willing to totally destroy everything in order to strike back at those who don’t agree with you.
How can you say, with a straight face, “the attempted coup of our national government”?
People without any leadership or chain of command, whose only unifying ideology was a belief that the election had been fraudulent, armed only with ‘weapons’ as fearsome as a flag staff and a fire extinguisher taken off the wall, confronted armed police only slight smaller in number. There was no real plan or attempt to usurp the government (To perhaps be run by a figurehead shaman with mental issues?), and no means to run the government had they been successful, however you want to define “successful.” You are not being rational or realistic! It was a riot, pure and simple, that was no more likely to replace the existing form of government than any of the violent ‘BLM’ riots during the Summer.
A coup (“a sudden illegal, often violent, taking of government power, especially by part of an army:”) was an impossibility. Whether one calls it a coup or an insurrection, it is an inaccurate characterization of a group of people whose goal was a thorough investigation of the fraud charges raised about the election. Anyone who resorts to using a pejorative term like “coup,” is demonstrating a strong bias that they are willing to support by lying.
Before Biden was sworn in as president, you had party-worshipping democrats say that “hate speech” should not be protected by the 1st Amendment. Who defines what is “hate speech”? Why, the very same ones who say it shouldn’t be protected. What they are really saying is that you are free to say what you want, as long as we — the leftists — agree with it.
Soon after Biden went to the White House, he said that the 2nd Amendment was not absolute.
Can you see how this will go? If the 2nd Amendment is not absolute, then so is the 1st Amendment. The 1st Amendment states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” If the US Bill of Rights is not absolute, then it is acceptable for the President or any one of their three-letter agencies to take away freedom of speech and freedom of religion. As long as Congress does not take it away, it will not violate the text of the 1st Amendment. Or worse, a treaty which takes these things away.
What else wouldn’t be absolute? The 5th Amendment, so a person’s silence means he is guilty. The 6th Amendment, so a person will not entitled to a speedy trial and can languish in prison without charges. Habeas corpus was already suspended once in the US history, what is to stop it from happening again? After all, the combination of COVID-24 and climate change is a crisis unlike any crisis we have seen before. They will argues that it is okay to suspend these things, because these rights are not absolute and the crisis is too great not to do anything.
Many of those arrested during the Jan 6th riots have been held without bail for over a year. Most of them, even if convicted of everything, will only get sentences of a few months.
“Justice delayed is justice denied.” Everyone is ‘guaranteed’ a speedy trial.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt6_2_1_2_1/
I can’t see how, at this point, that any of them (that are determined to be sane) won’t just walk away at the end of the process. At this point in time the assholes in charge are spending more time trying to figure out how they will be avoiding lawsuits, rather than how they will be prosecuting the prisoners.
If they had been tried and convicted on day one, they would be out of jail by now. Note: I’m not making any assumptions regarding their guilt or innocence. They have already served their sentence, without benefit of actually being tried.
The J6 committee is about trying to disqualify Trump from running again. That is what it was about from the beginning.
Terrorism is the use of fear and intimidation for political purposes.
Since climate skeptics insist there is no crisis, nothing to fear as such, no need to “act” are not the terrorists the ones raising the alarm to force compliance?
What crime could be worse than destroying the entire world? There are plenty of calls out there for skeptics to be punished or even executed, for imaginary crimes against the environment.
They sound a lot like ISIS, don’t they?
So you’re a terrorist if you do anything they have been doing during the 4 years of Trump.
Inevitable. If they couldn’t convince everyone with contrived science, they’ll convince the holdouts with brute force.
No question about it fully expect to be rounded up and herded on to rail trucks to be “processed” in a hidden camp in the forest. Being a coward I’ve rehearsed “HEIL HOCKEY STICK” to placate the Gretastapo.
Anyone who gets between a socialist and power/money is at a minimum a criminal, if not a full blown terrorist.
How is this any different from something that might have been written in Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Russia, or Mao’s China.
Whenever they get into power, the totalitarian streak of the socialists comes through.
Anyone who refuses to accept leftist ideology is a terrorist according to leftists.
“Someday will come a real rain to wash all the scum off the streets.”
– Travis Bickel
I used to think he was talking about Times Square, but maybe he was talking about inside the Beltway.
The problem with the beltway, is that most of the scum aren’t out on the streets.
Very simple, It is an election year so anyone questioning any Democrat talking point is a terrorist.🤪
New York Times Magazine reporter scolds civil rights icon Al Sharpton for daring to suggest that it’s wrong to ignore petty crimes.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/nikole-hannah-jones-scolds-al-sharpton-covering-trader-joes-shoplifter
This DHS warning is explicitly Unconstitutional and violates US organic law.
This DHS document explicitly violates our unalienable First Amendment rights:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-1/
Looks like a step to set up as the gummint being the final word on what is “misinformation” thereby branding those who disagree with the powers that be as seditionists. A slippery slope created by the bureaucrats which may not end well. For anyone.
undermine public trust in U.S. government institutions
Those institutions don’t need any outside help for that to happen.
Their tactic is anti American because it is an attempt to not only silence free speech but is designed to make the public fearful of the government.
What they are attempting is to separate themselves from the American people using their government office. People will remember this at the voting booth and they know it.
The First Amendment has been suspended.
Curious that all the adverse violent effects that they are warning could be the result of these “evil” actions causing distrust of the gov’mt, have been ongoing for some years by the LEFT–antifa, blm, etc.
I see a potential threat. The Biden administration and the entire DNC are trying to undermine the Constitution.
They’ve been trying to undermine the entire constitution for over 100 years. Unfortunately they have been very successful.
Please contact your psychiatrist. Whatever you are talking, the dosage needs to be doubled.
Perhaps the worm is turning with the odd protester for free speech amidst the Groupthink at Aunty-
The moment smug ABC host mocks ‘conspiracy theorist’ Joe Rogan | Daily Mail Online
Josh Szeps attitude is a real breath of fresh air in contrast to the typical supercilious and sanctimonious leftism of Fanning. Fanning’s gabfest guests are a totally predictable procession of taxeaters and uni boofheads she throws leftist Dorothy Dixers at to get pat answers her producers and workmates would be smiling in unison with. In that respect I can’t see Josh lasting long at Aunty like Chris Uhlmann couldn’t stomach it and he was about as centrist as they come. Why Labor and the Greens are all for stuffing Aunty’s pockets with more taxes with their election promises.
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Funny. Cite ONE non army thing in the US that is barely defensible.
I think it’s time to flip the script on this claim that citizens that disagree with CAGW are seditious. Realists should form a class action suit to sue the global warming/climate change supporters with sedition. Vet everything out in a court of law in front of a jury. I think it will be the trial of the century and the truth will prevail because the whole CAGW hypothesis is founded on junk science. CO2 is not an evil pollutant but rather a giver of life to our carbon based existence.
Reverse gaslighting.
The gaslighters actually believe their pseudo reality.
And are trying their damndest to get the sane to believe their version of reality.
While this is bad, it is a further dilution of the effect of that terrorizing word, “terrorist.” When everything is terrorism, nothing is terrorism.
Humpty Dumpty“There’s glory for you!’
I don’t know what you mean by “glory,”‘ Alice said.
Of course you don’t — till I tell you. I meant “there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!”‘Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously.
But “glory” doesn’t mean “a nice knock-down argument,”‘ Alice objected.
When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone,it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
The question is,’ said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many different things.’