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Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 04:01 PM Aug 2017

Forget calling these criminal Alt Righters Nazis and White Supremacists. They are GANGS.

Gangs that roam the country terrorizing people. The definition of terror is so politically ridiculous. The government is basically stereotyping terrorists as exclusively ISIS and Al Qaeda or any other persons not a naturalized U.S. citizen. So if that is their game, then these criminals need to be called just what they are. Criminal Gangs. Criminal Gangs that roam the U.S. intimidating and murdering people.
The man that shot the Congressman on a baseball field was a lone, probably a mentally ill, conspiracy obsessed individual.
The criminal gangs who use white supremacy and fascist political beliefs as an excuse to terrorize people should have the same status as any other common criminal. Participation in that gang should be forbidden. Because it is a conspiracy to commit crimes, terror and murder. Those types of associations are against the law. Conspiracies to rob banks, commit murder and blow up buildings are prevented all the time resulting in the arrests of these conspirators.

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Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
3. It does. But not as much weight as them having commited a crime by just associating with
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 04:08 PM
Aug 2017

that political belief. They could be arrested for just being a member. Freedom of association does not give one a get out of jail card free if one associates with criminals conspiring to commit a crime.
Some identified as White Supremacists and Nazis. If that criminal gang association was illegal they would not be able to march anywhere.

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
6. If it is a criminal gang that conspires to commit a crime they are. i submit that Nazis and
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 04:14 PM
Aug 2017

White Supremacist conspire to commit crimes all the time. Their conspiracy is in the open. You can find it all over the place on the net.

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
5. Yes they are. But Nazis as an entity are not considered criminals in this country.
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 04:12 PM
Aug 2017

Hate speech is considered free speech. But acting on that hate is illegal. They are criminals. Conspiring to commit terrorism and harm to innocent people.

Iggo

(47,534 posts)
7. I'm never calling a nazi anything other than a nazi.
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 04:15 PM
Aug 2017

You want me to refer to a gang of them as a nazi gang or a gang of nazis? I'm okay with that.

But I'm never not calling them nazis. They're nazis.

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
9. That's great! That's what I'm getting at. Whatever we call them,
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 06:43 PM
Aug 2017

they need to have the word criminal included in there names.

Initech

(100,040 posts)
8. Forget that - they're full blown terrorist organizations.
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 04:16 PM
Aug 2017

It's just sad that we have a president and a government that refuses to recognize these bastards as such.

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