Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., insists that the FBI has unfairly charged incidents of domestic terrorism based on race or religion, despite being told that such charges don't exist in a House hearing on Tuesday.
Ocasio-Cortez argued that violent perpetrators who were white, like at the Tree of Life synagogue shooting or the 2015 shooting at the South Carolina church where nine African Americans were killed, were let "off the hook" with hate crime charges instead of being charged with "domestic terrorism." Domestic terrorism charges, however, do not exist, nor has a law been passed by Congress defining specifically what domestic terrorism charges would be, though there is a statute defining domestic terrorism itself.
"You're using the word 'charge,'" FBI Assistant Director for Counterterrorism Michael McGarrity said to Ocasio-Cortez in the hearing. "So, as I said before, there is no domestic terrorism charge 18 USC § 2339 ABCD for a foreign terrorist organization. So, what we do both on the international terrorism side with the homegrown violent extremists and domestic terrorism, we'll use any tool in the toolkit to arrest them.”
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People are going to listen to this ignorant fishwife for only so long.
ReplyDeleteA person engages in domestic terrorism if they do an act "dangerous to human life" that is a violation of the criminal laws of a state or the United States, if the act appears to be intended to: (i) intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping. Additionally, the acts have to occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States and if they do not, may be regarded as international terrorism.
ReplyDeleteSection 802 does not create a new crime of domestic terrorism. However, it does expand the type of conduct that the government can investigate when it is investigating "terrorism." The USA PATRIOT Act expanded governmental powers to investigate terrorism, and some of these powers are applicable to domestic terrorism.
The patriot act was designed to reduce freedom with most citizens not realizing it
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Man this gal is funny. Congress is in such dissaray. And look who is mostly responsible. The Democrats and never Trumpers. Part of them are pursuing a wild goose chase after Trump, the other part is coming up with crazy ideas, and hate reteric thinking they're doing something important.What a joke.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if she will ever realize that she is just a tool. The left will use her, then throw her away.
ReplyDeleteIf AOC and her followers had any idea of what Nazi's actually are and the horrors they committed she would never compare those who simply disagree with her as Nazis.
ReplyDeleteEventually her lies will cost her in fines and stepping down. Ted Kennedy trained her well.
ReplyDeleteThe radical Left assholes that rioted during Pres. Trumps innogration got off. They broke windows in stores and burnt a limo!
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The elite bosses who control the Left
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Same people but you won't buy that, so I thought I would try to convince you otherwise