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Hekate

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32. If I understand correctly, it is the Legislature that passes laws. Right?
Fri Feb 12, 2021, 11:17 PM
Feb 2021

So off to the House we go, in search of adequate laws for the present day.

At which point, the DOJ has more to work with.

https://www.propublica.org/article/domestic-terrorism-a-more-urgent-threat-but-weaker-laws

But federal authorities have had more success combating international terrorists than those with a domestic focus, reflecting legal limits on investigations of American political groups, the opaque and elusive nature of the threat, and President Donald Trump’s embrace of far-right groups, experts say.

One fundamental problem is that while federal statutes provide a definition of domestic terrorism, there is not a specific law outlawing it.

The reasons date to 1975, when an inquiry by the Church Committee of the U.S. Senate documented that the FBI had abused its powers by engaging in a pattern of spying on American citizens in groups ranging from the Black Panthers to the Ku Klux Klan. The government placed strict limits on the ability of the FBI and other agencies to infiltrate and track such organizations, with new laws and rules establishing more rigorous requirements for surveillance on Americans than foreigners. Today, FBI counterterrorism officials make a point of saying they target individuals rather than groups, and violent acts rather than ideologies.

What's your alternative course of action? WarGamer Feb 2021 #1
I don't have one CanonRay Feb 2021 #3
What would that do? WarGamer Feb 2021 #4
Valid point. I have no idea. CanonRay Feb 2021 #7
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The Law of Attraction pfitz59 Feb 2021 #29
precisely. WarGamer Feb 2021 #30
Deprogram them bdamomma Feb 2021 #16
Kinda like the Uighurs? WarGamer Feb 2021 #28
So WE are failing SlogginThroughIt Feb 2021 #8
We. As in the USA. Collectively. CanonRay Feb 2021 #11
Congress met and confirmed the electoral vote the same day as the insurrection. panader0 Feb 2021 #23
Our inability to remove or even sanction a lawless President CanonRay Feb 2021 #24
"We could snuff this out right now" TwilightZone Feb 2021 #2
See my response above. We can't succeed alone. CanonRay Feb 2021 #5
We're not alone. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #14
OK. Maybe not wipe out, but certainly turn the tide CanonRay Feb 2021 #17
The GOP is fracturing. McConnell has lost his caucus, his position and his power. Irish_Dem Feb 2021 #6
I bet bdamomma Feb 2021 #19
Yes usually the made men feel like they have protection. Irish_Dem Feb 2021 #20
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A successful progressive society will fix it. WarGamer Feb 2021 #13
This is the American public you're talking about. TwilightZone Feb 2021 #15
But we're not there yet. WarGamer Feb 2021 #26
It's for Republicans, their voters and donors, to clean up their own house. meadowlander Feb 2021 #18
A whole bunch of people have to go to prison for a whole bunch of years... Hekate Feb 2021 #22
It's not up to Democratic lawmakers to decide who DoJ prosecutes or not. meadowlander Feb 2021 #25
If I understand correctly, it is the Legislature that passes laws. Right? Hekate Feb 2021 #32
How do you suggest the prosecutors deal with change of venue requests and WarGamer Feb 2021 #27
Sorry, can't talk you down. Just listened to Malcolm Nance on Joy Reid's show... Hekate Feb 2021 #21
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