One called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 “a greater infringement on freedoms than the Patriot Act.”…

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/79747

The Trump administration is drawing up “secret lists of terrorist groups inside the United States,” Senator Elissa Slotkin said on the floor of Congress yesterday — the first such reference to the effects of National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 (NSPM-7). The directive, as I’ve reported, lays out Donald Trump’s policies with regard to equating “anti-Christian” and “anti-capitalist”…

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“The Trump administration define[s] domestic terrorism incredibly broadly,” Slotkin said. “It suggests that any group that talks about anti-Christian values, views they don’t like on migration or race, differing views on the role of the family, religion, or morality could all be grounds for labelling an organization as domestic terrorists.”

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Racist? To track right wing terrorist groups that are mostly motivated by racism is racist?

      Also, terrorist groups like the Proud Boys, the Oath keepers, etc…doesn’t really have any corresponding leftist groups, unless you count vegan potluck meetings. Apparently, the W administration did count vegan potluck meetings.