08-10-2019, 04:35 AM
SteveO wrote:
No domestic terrorism laws on the books. STILL. He'll walk scot-free. How long did it take for the Patriot Act to get passed...this was, over what, a thousand pages of law? Just googled, took about 6 weeks. Yet we've had this same white supremacist and/or just fsckin crazy-ass terrorist human target gallery scenario over and over for years now. Hell, go back to McVeigh in what, '95 or so? 25+ years now. And still....nothing.
#MassacreMitch
Doing some more research on this, it looks like there are in many cases (all? IDK) sufficient laws on the books to go after domestic terrorists. Apparently they're not applied with the same consistency to domestics as they are to internationals. And that's just one aspect of the issue, although certainly colossal:
The way the Justice Department has applied the controversial material support law, which criminalizes providing assistance to terrorists, is a good example of the double standard officials apply to right-wing extremists compared to extremists with international ideologies.
Since 9/11, the Justice Department has used the material support law only once against a right-wing extremist — an engineer who built a remote control for a white supremacist’s radiological weapon. By contrast, during that same period, federal prosecutors charged more than 400 terrorists with international ideologies with material support, in some cases for offenses involving nothing more than talk and driving to an airport.
https://theintercept.com/2019/08/08/el-p...terrorism/