{"id":47626,"date":"2019-08-05T19:35:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T00:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47626"},"modified":"2019-08-05T19:35:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T00:35:19","slug":"americans-should-be-very-skeptical-of-calls-for-new-terrorism-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47626","title":{"rendered":"Americans Should Be Very Skeptical Of Calls For New \u201cTerrorism\u201d Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Americans Should Be Very Skeptical Of Calls For New \u201cTerrorism\u201d Laws<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Two mass shootings<\/a> have rocked the United States in less than 24 hours, leaving dozens dead and many more wounded. The first in El Paso, Texas was allegedly perpetrated by a white supremacist<\/a>whose racist motives are outlined in a rambling \u201cmanifesto\u201d, the second allegedly by a self-described \u201cleftist\u201d<\/a> whose motives, like the 2017 Las Vegas shooter<\/a>, are presently unknown<\/a>. These incidents occurred a week after another mass shooting in Gilroy, California<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the usual US gun control debates have of course reignited, which is understandable. Alongside this debate, however, we are seeing another, far more pernicious agenda being raised that I would like to address here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Malcolm discusses the need for congress to pass domestic terrorism laws. @MalcolmNance<\/a> #AMJoy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview<\/a> with MSNBC\u2019s Joy Reid, notorious liar<\/a> and propagandist<\/a>Malcolm Nance claimed that existing laws aren\u2019t sufficient for prosecuting the El Paso shooter, because there are no laws designating his act of mass murder as \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think that Congress needs to take up right away a series of domestic terrorism laws,\u201d <\/strong>Nance said.<\/p>

\u201cIt\u2019d be very simple: just match them to the words \u2018international terrorism\u2019, so that a member of al-Qaeda and a member of a white nationalist terrorist cell or a militia that thinks they\u2019re going to carry out international acts of terrorism are equal all the way around. Right now there are no laws called \u2018domestic terrorism law\u2019. They can get you for firearms, they get you for hate crimes, but you are not treated as a terrorist. This act in El Paso was clearly by all definitions a terrorist attack in the United States, but of course by the nature of the person being white and American he can\u2019t be treated like a member of ISIS or al-Qaeda. He can\u2019t even be detained, he can only be treated as a murderer.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Americans Should Be Very Skeptical Of Calls For New \u201cTerrorism\u201d Laws Two mass shootings have rocked the United States in less than 24 hours, leaving dozens dead and many more wounded. The first in El Paso, Texas was allegedly perpetrated by a white supremacistwhose racist motives are outlined in a rambling \u201cmanifesto\u201d, the second allegedly by a self-described […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17039,16354,26452,19759,26453,827],"class_list":["post-47626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-domestic-terrorism","tag-domestic-terrorism-laws","tag-gun-control","tag-mass-shootings","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47627,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47626\/revisions\/47627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}