- A generation of domestic peace is increasingly difficult to imagine.
Let us empower the government to crush it.
...In practice, a “white supremacist” is anyone whom anyone in power dislikes enough to so label him.
Who would accept being outlawed at will?
Our ruling class plays with matches in a house drenched in gasoline.
Here is the latest.
The Wall Street Journal on Saturday featured an essay by one Clint Watts, formerly of the FBI and West Point’s Counter Terrorism Center.
Watts makes those proposals using the word “white” 16 times in 18 paragraphs.
The sociopolitical ideas rife among white people are the main matrix of terrorism in America, Watts contends.
...Watts proposes legislation that would permit designating persons associated with what the government may identify as “white supremacist ideology” as subject to surveillance to “preemptively assess whether these white supremacists are taking a radical turn toward violence.”
Watts also proposes “red flag” laws, that would allow the government to take away weapons from someone so designated.
Loss of weapons would be the least of burdens imposed on anyone so “red-flagged.”
Career, reputation, possibly family, would be gone because someone in the notoriously impartial FBI so decided, perhaps with the agreement of the highly scrupulous FISA court, subsequent to ex parte, secret proceedings...."
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