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>The American Civil Liberties Union last year warned that a presidential memorandum signed by US President Donald Trump in September on countering domestic terrorism and political violence could be used to target civil society and Trump’s critics. It named leftwing terror as a prime threat, alongside transnational drug gangs and Islamist terror groups but omitted any mention of violence by far-right groups.

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  1. Behind the paywall:

    Leftwing political violence is a “fatal cancer to civilisation”, Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, told an international summit on far-left terrorism convened by the US state department on Thursday. If left unchecked, political violence from the left “always becomes a Gulag”, Miller told the gathering, which was attended by senior officials from more than 60 countries in Europe and Latin America. “It always becomes the mass imprisonment of political enemies, the stripping of their rights and freedoms, inflicting immense pain, humiliation, suffering, in order to establish complete and total control, control through psychological and physical and actual terror,” Miller said. Trump administration officials claim that leftwing political violence remains a blind spot in international counterterror efforts, which have historically focused on the threat posed by Islamist extremism and far-right groups. The issue rose to prominence following the assassination last year of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Critics have warned that the administration’s focus on leftwing violence could lead to over-reach and that the government’s broad counterterror powers could be abused to target its critics on the left. The American Civil Liberties Union last year warned that a presidential memorandum signed by US President Donald Trump in September on countering domestic terrorism and political violence could be used to target civil society and Trump’s critics. “If anyone needed proof that ‘terrorism’ and ‘political violence’ are slippery and fraught categories subject to political, ideological and racial manipulation and bias — well, this is it,” wrote Hina Shamsi, the director of the group’s national security project. A counterterrorism strategy released by the White House earlier this year described leftwing extremism as “anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist”. It named leftwing terror as a prime threat, alongside transnational drug gangs and Islamist terror groups but omitted any mention of violence by far-right groups. Secretary of state Marco Rubio, who is presiding over the summit, described leftwing terrorism as a “distinctive and unique evil”. “It has always been driven by a hatred, above all else, a hatred for civilisation itself,” he said. Miller, the architect of Trump’s immigration crackdown, said leftwing antifa — or leftwing anti-fascist — protesters appeared to be “deformed” by their hatred. “Why is there not one normal-looking person among them? Every one of them, through the course of their life and their decisions, has scarred their body and their appearance in many different ways to the point in which their outer appearance becomes a manifestation of their inner hatred,” he said. An analysis by the Center for Strategic and International Studies released last year found that leftwing violence has risen in the US over the past decade, particularly after Trump’s entrance into the political arena in 2016. The report noted that leftwing attacks were “remarkably less lethal” than those carried out by the right or jihadis. In November, the Trump administration designated four European leftwing groups as foreign terrorist organisations and offered a reward of up to $10mn for information on their financing mechanism.

  2. Least_Will9910 on

    Putin’s been doing it, si has done it, Erdoğan is doing it. Seems like test beds for me.

  3. Joe_Stylin777 on

    Christian nationalism is the real and only cancer which must be fought on all fronts.

  4. ThatDamnRocketRacoon on

    I got bad news for you, but now that some socialists are getting voted into office, Democrats are going to be for this as well.

  5. LawStudent989898 on

    Conspiracy enthusiasts tend to be right-leaning but even they need to have eyes wide open with the continued consolidation of power within the executive

  6. Magehunter_Skassi on

    He’s talking about antifa, who has been celebrating the murder of a conservative social media influencer for nearly a year straight.

    They’re as evil as they were 100 years ago.

  7. The entire right wing is afraid of Trump and will never say or do anything to offend him. But soon it will be their turn to realize their options are slavery or Trumps way.

  8. LunarSolstice12 on

    This narrative was supposed to come from the murder of Charlie Kirk. Only, no body buys the official narrative.
    That’s why Miller has to make these speeches in order to lead people to the forgone conclusion, but people have seen this program before, so nobody follows ghouls like Miller (thankfully).
    The lesson is, these people want to harm everybody. Not just leftist, that’s just a start because the political climate changed post Biden. Right wing people with guns are soon to be the target. This is a script. Don’t do what they want you to do. Learn to move away from their structures. Stop voting, and stop grouping people by their votes, orientation, skin, religion, gender. That’s a trap. We are in a class conflict, and a system conflict. Grow your own food. Trade with your neighbors. Talk with real people. Form communities. Have strong families. Love people and reject the *machine*.

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