Tuesday, June 15, 2021

The Better to Smear You With

 White House seeks $100 million to help DOJ fight domestic extremism [More]

They sure are trying hard to conflate those who believe in the Bill of Rights and Constitutional limits on government powers with haters, nutjobs, and low-hanging fruit.

With money appropriated from citizens who actually earned it...

[Via Mack H]

1 comment:

Mack said...

Add-Ons to your post:

1) The entire 32-page document is here:
* https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/biden-Domestic-Terrorism.pdf

2) https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/biden-strategy-domestic-extremism/2021/06/14/d88250c8-cd4e-11eb-9b7e-e06f6cfdece8_story.html

[SNIP]
McCord, who now heads the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown University Law Center, said that prevention also involves tactics such as undercover stings, which some civil liberties groups have deemed entrapment.

“You don’t want to be prosecuting the El Paso terrorist after he kills 23 people. You want to have prevented it,” McCord said. “That’s the challenge. Because anytime you’re engaging in preventive law enforcement, that comes with criticisms.”