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   From: d@ray   
      
   Combating terrorism has become the top priority of American intelligence   
   services since the 9/11 attacks.   
      
   At first, surveillance tools and invasive national security investigations   
   focused on Muslims, but since the 2016 election of Donald Trump, the 2017   
   Unite the Right protest, and the breach of the US Capitol in 2021, the FBI,   
   Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Justice have placed   
   white Americans with Constitutionally protected conservative, religious or   
   nationalist beliefs in their crosshairs.   
      
   Federal officials have shaken billions of dollars from taxpayer coffers to   
   fight domestic terrorism, claiming that this is the deadliest threat facing   
   the homeland today. While Congress has gone along with signing them a blank   
   check, the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act obligates federal   
   agencies to provide oversight committees with annual data on domestic   
   terrorism. So far, they have refused to comply.   
      
   A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by the left-leaning   
   Brennan Center seeking transparency on this question has finally revealed   
   why the Department of Justice has been so secretive. During proceedings,   
   Judge Randolph Moss ordered the DoJ to release dockets related to 1,140   
   criminal prosecutions internally labeled as terrorism cases from between   
   2006 and 2020. Amazingly, it was found that only a 71, or 6% of this   
   sample, had an actual nexus with terrorism of any stripe.   
      
   On the question of domestic terrorism, a large percentage of cases labeled   
   as such were interpersonal disputes or isolated “hate crimes” that were not   
   connected to furthering the goals of a political movement. The majority of   
   the cases were non-violent, as in, they did not harm human life. Only 40%   
   were related to “Violent Militia Extremism,” “Sovereign Citizens,”   
   “Racially Motivated Violent Extremism,” — which the FBI, DHS and DoJ   
   publicly name as chief influences in domestic terrorism. The rest dealt   
   primarily with radical environmentalist attacks on corporate property.   
      
   The revelation that the feds are, in effect, lying to the US Congress and   
   American people by inventing domestic terrorism statistics it does release   
   triggered a harsh rebuke from Judge Moss.   
      
   After an in-camera examination of several criminal cases marked by the DoJ   
   as terrorism related, an indignant Moss addressed the FOIA plaintiffs by   
   saying that the “fact that you are not getting more from the government   
   strikes me as pretty powerful information that you’re obtaining with   
   respect to what the government has been reporting to Congress and to the   
   public over the years with respect to their efforts to combat terrorism.”   
   He concluded by stating that what has been publicly reported by the   
   government on the threat of domestic terrorism is “vastly overstated.”   
      
   Moss added that a cross burning on somebody’s property, apparently one of   
   the cases he looked over, while it could technically be classified as a   
   hate crime, it does not fit the statutory definition of domestic terrorism,   
   which requires inflicting or planning to inflict physical harm.  Over time,   
   the Judge grew increasingly irritated by the government’s refusal to   
   explain what criteria it has been using to classify a criminal   
   investigation as a terrorism case, “many millions of dollars of money are   
   being appropriated to fight this thing, whatever it might be. It would   
   really be good to know what the Government thinks it is.”   
      
   These court disclosures support what FBI whistleblowers have been telling   
   oversight committees for years, which is that federal agents and DoJ   
   prosecutors knowingly miscategorize criminal investigations as “domestic   
   terrorism” in order to serve a political agenda seeking to prosecute First   
   Amendment protected speech or activities. Another whistleblower noted that   
   agents are internally rewarded for domestic terrorism arrests with   
   promotions and raises.   
      
   In one example, a whistleblower described how FBI supervisors pressured him   
   to divide a single domestic terrorism investigation into four separate   
   cases in order to create the impression that the issue was more pervasive   
   than it really was.   
      
   The FBI continues to demand even more money for its 2024 budget to expand   
   its Joint Terrorism Task Force program in the name of combating domestic   
   terrorism, even as popular opinion hardens against them. Presidential   
   candidates such as Donald Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy have made abolishing   
   America’s political police core campaign promises. It is also point 8 of   
   the National Justice Party platform, “We demand the FBI, which acts as   
   nothing more than a political secret police force for elite interests, be   
   abolished and replaced with a legitimate federal law enforcement agency.”   
      
      
      
      
      
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