A Vacuous and Potentially Dangerous Response to Domestic Terrorism

On June 15, the White House issued a "Fact Sheet: National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism." This fact sheet is strangely devoid of facts and is vacuous in the extreme, but it communicates that the present administration sees a connection between defeating terrorism and having a government-controlled economy.

The shift from domestic terrorism to much greater control by the federal government of our economy on the last page of the document is the product of a sleight of hand or a verbal shell game.

The Fact Sheet includes the definition of domestic terrorism in federal law: "Intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States." Not one example of domestic terrorism is provided.

On page three, still without providing one example, the document boldly proclaims that the two most disturbing areas of domestic violence are those "Who advocate for the superiority of the white race" and "Anti-authority violent extremists, such as militia violent extremists." What could be more "Anti-authority" than all the riots and aggressive, name-calling protests and Molotov cocktail-throwing "Protests" against the police? What about domestic terrorism by those who advocate for the inherent badness of the white race or the abolition of capitalism? Yet, instead, the document surprisingly points its ignorant finger at "Militias."

What kind of an ex officio arrangement is this? Is it an agreement? A treaty needing Senate approval? What laws and rules will regulate this "Cooperative" and its representatives when they meet? What oversight is in place to insure the First Amendment rights of American citizens on the internet and off? How is it that Amazon, where I buy some vitamins or toothpaste, is now "Helping" protect the world from terrorism? Most importantly, why is it that the one reference to a terrorist event in this document is not domestic, but took place in a distant country? This international cabal is the only specific, institutional, practical response mentioned in this Fact Sheet about American domestic terrorism.

By the last page of the document, after repeating ad nauseam the dangers of domestic terrorism without specific facts, plans, logical inferences, or historical references except for our participation in the France-New Zealand initiative, the domestic terrorism fact sheet suddenly reminds the public of the supposed "Relief and opportunity" provided by three of the administration's legislative economic initiatives.

Thus, for the occupant of the White House, the expansion of the government's direction of the economy is part and parcel of our quest for safety from domestic terrorism.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/07/a_vacuous_and_potentially_dangerous_response_to_domestic_terrorism.html