Should the US prosecute white nationlist attacks as terrorism?

[Jyaku]

White nationalist attacks should be prosecuted as terrorism, lawmakers say

“The only good Muslim is a dead one.” Rep Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., teared up as she read the chilling words from hate mail she had recently received.

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We do have a designated category of enemy combatant for citizens committing acts of terrorism against the US. I'm sure we can fit those pricks in there.

Article from hearing going on in Congress about that very thing. Democrats are apparently capable of something else besides impeachment.

While U.S. law does define domestic terrorism, there is no specific criminal charge for it. That means white nationalists can be prosecuted on charges related to weapons, hate crimes and other laws, but they are not prosecuted or punished the same way as terrorists affiliated with a foreign group like the Islamic State would likely be.

 

[MacNfries]

Interestingly President Trump declares himself as a white nationalist.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/23/trumps-embrace-fraught-term-nationalist-could-cement-dangerous-racial-divide/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.c53330a87218

 

[subhub174014]

hell yes but under Atila the None nothing will ever happen.....he knows who helped put him in office....the KKK and others

 

[BigBlackBull76]

First define what is terrorism.

Then ask yourself are there foreign and domestic terrorists? Do these people cause fear, harm, and ******* innocent Americans? Have you ever read the US Military service oath?

"I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic;"

I rest my case.

I just saw this interesting article yesterday and I'm all for it as well. In addition to the Mexican Cartels, the Chinese are shipping ******* and flooding the American streets with ******* too so put some of their organized crime groups on the list too.



The Mexican cartels are exploiting a widespread opioid epidemic that’s killing nearly 130 Americans each day and Ohio, like other states, is at the epicenter of their deadly supply of prohibited substances.

The state is taking steps to fight back.

The point was stressed during a hearing last week with the Ohio House Criminal Justice Committee, which is considering the passage of concurrent House Resolution Bill 10 to urge the federal government to designate several of the Mexican ******* cartels Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Currently, the ******* cartels are classified as transnational criminal organizations. It would still have to seek passage of the full Ohio House legislature.

House Resolution 10:
RESOLVED, That we, the members of the 133rd General
Assembly of the State of Ohio, respectfully urge the federal
government to designate the ******* cartels operating from Mexico
as foreign terrorist organizations, so that the government may
use appropriate means to mitigate and eventually eliminate the
operations of the cartels;

In Ohio and across the country families and communities have been ripped apart, while the major Mexican ******* cartels like Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generacion have been amassing billions of dollars off of the death and addiction of Americans.

“The Mexican ******* cartels don’t fly planes into buildings, but they aggressively ship poison into our communities, ” Heidi Riggs explained to the Ohio House Criminal Justice committee last week. Riggs, a mom who lost her ******* Marin to ******* addiction is now an advocate fighting the epidemic. Tragically, Marin died just two weeks after her twentieth birthday from a ******* overdose. Marin fought long and hard to beat her addiction, but the ******* took ultimate control and claimed her life as collateral damage of a greater problem.

Riggs testified alongside investigative reporter Sara A. Carter and former ******* Enforcement Administration Special Agent Derek Maltz, who has spent his career battling the cartels and terrorist organizations.

Maltz passionately delivered his message to the committee.

“Bottom line is the state of Ohio is inundated with crime, *******, violence fueled by the Mexican ******* cartels,” he said. “The cartels are taking advantage of these people that are addicted. If you want to declare a group a terrorist organization just look at the State Department’s website: they must be a foreign organization. Check. The organization must engage in terrorism. Check. The organization, or terrorist activity, must threaten the U.S. security or national security. Check. Long overdue designation in Washington but they’re a

The trio’s paths crossed last year during the production of the documentary Not In Vein,which focuses both on addiction and prohibited substances trafficking across the border. They are hoping to push for real change. The film was produced by Carter’s nonprofit The Dark Wire Investigation Foundation and in conjunction with Full Story Foundation, based in Ohio.

Their latest ask is for the state of Ohio to designate the Mexican cartels Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) in the hopes of setting precedent on the national level.

“I call it a terrorist action.”
Ohio is an important starting point. In 2017 alone, the midwestern state ranked second for the number of opioid related deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control. “This state has been known as ground zero for the ******* and opioid epidemic. The DEA identified Dayton and Columbus as major cartel distribution points,” Carter testified Thursday.

Carter said the Mexican cartels view states like Ohio, Georgia, or Virginia “as a potential marketing place to gain more and more addicts, infiltrate the school systems, make their money and bring it back to Mexico, and continue to perpetuate this horrific epidemic,” she continued, “and I call it a terrorist action.”

According to the DEA, it’s the perfect marketplace seeing an unprecedented increase in demand between 2013 and 2015. The Mexican cartels met that demand by ramping up their ******* production by 169 percent. In “Not in Vein”, a documentary produced by Sara A. Carter, Chris Farrell, Director of investigations and research at government watchdog group Judicial Watch, put it simply, the cartels operate exactly like Walmart. “Walmart never runs out of milk, the cartel never runs out of *******,” said Farrell.

The Search for the Next Dose
In many cases, pharmaceutical companies have patients hooked. After all, Purdue Pharma was charged with “misbranding” the highly addictive prohibited substance ******* OxyContin as a ‘miracle *******’ claiming ‘little risk of addiction or abuse.’ But, even in this case, once patients exhaust prescriptions, they do anything and everything for their next dose. It’s typically illicit street pills or ******* that’s the next readily available and cheapest option. And it’s the greatest source of euphoria, according to addicts who spoke with SaraACarter.com.

Ashley Evans is a survivor of ******* addiction. It was a ******* that took control of her life and she called it “the devil.” Evans’ story is featured in “Not in Vein”, which was released last year. Evans told Carter that her addiction led her to using ******* while pregnant with her ******* Olivia. Miraculously, Olivia was born a healthy baby and is now in her mom’s care following several months of separation while Ashley was in treatment.

This satanic ******* is being brought into our country by the Mexican ******* cartels. They are growing it in large quantities in Mexican fields and trafficking it across our southern border. To meet the demand for more ******* that are stronger, the cartels are mixing ******* like ******* and methamphetamine with fentanyl, a highly potent synthetic opioid. The cartels are conducting these operations beyond the western hemisphere obtaining fentanyl from China.

Call The Cartels By Their Name
Last year, in an interview with Hill.TV, DEA acting director Uttam Dhillon called the Mexican cartels “the biggest criminal threat the United States faces today.” Now, the Mexican cartels are classified as “Foreign Transnational Criminal Organizations”, and as Chris Farrell stated in “Not in Vein”, the designation “just isn’t cutting it.” “You give the Mexican government a choice, they can cooperate and get on board and help us to fight them as what they are: terrorist organizations, or we can do it ourselves,” Farrell explained.

The legal criteria is cut and dry. According to U.S. Department of State, the organization must be foreign, it must ‘engage in terrorist activity,’ and it must pose a threat to our national security. Derek Maltz said exactly this in his testimony Thursday. “It’s long overdue for this designation in Washington, but they’re asleep, they’re not getting it done, and people are dying,” said Maltz.

It’s time to call the cartels by their true name terrorist organizations and allocate the necessary resources at the federal and state levels to obliterate their operations.

REF: https://saraacarter.com/ohio-house-...ls-foreign-terrorist-organizations-heres-why/

 

[Jyaku]

Funny how the Trump defenders are silent.