Why is the Republican Party not being designated as a "Domestic Terrorism" organization?

[Edwcraig]

Section 802 of the USA PATRIOT Act (Pub. L. No. 107-52) expanded the definition of terrorism to cover ""domestic,"" as opposed to international, terrorism. A person engages in domestic terrorism if they do an act "dangerous to human life"

550,000 thousand dead and counting.

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;

Opposition to Black Lives Matter and support of police brutality. Formed in opposition to Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act. and supporters of white nationalists.


(ii) influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion;

Support for January 6th attack on our government

or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.

Failure to speak out against he kidnapping of Michigan's Governor. Failure to condemn the destruction of out Capitol.

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.



What am I missing?

[link:https://www.aclu.org/other/how-usa-patriot-act-redefines-domestic-terrorism|

[uponit7771]

1. K&R, reminds me of the movies Avengers where the Group doesn't think about cutting the head off

... Thanos because they didn't take seriously they threat he caused.

[SunSeeker]

2. The only reason: IOKIYAR

There's just different rules for Republicans.

[gibraltar72]

3. If the NRA never was I don't think the RepuliQuans will be either.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. It should be. I'd be very interested in seeing just how many Congressional republicans were

around the rioting on 1/6/2021. I suspect quite a few of them were...

[brooklynite]

5. Question: what has the Republican Party done?

And before you answer, let me suggest that the “Republican Party” is as abstract a concept as “Antifa” is. There is a national Committee which raises funds and helps organize State Committees. Which SPECIFIC part of the Republican Party structure are you accusing, and which SPECIFIC statutes are you claiming they’ve violated?

[catsudon]

6. well

ever since Lincoln free the slaves, it went downhill from there and has never recovered. who knows, in 100 years maybe the ideology will swap parties again.

[SheltieLover]

7. I've been asking this for years!

[Cryptoad]

8. I've never known a GOP member that,,,,

was not a Bigot and a Thug.

[jaxexpat]

10. That is the current truth about republicans. It wasn't always that way.

They were once known as the "loyal opposition". The purpose they served was to temper the more over-reaching or impractical elements of progressive innovation. An example I recall, since I actually lived it, was the "new math" phenomenon.

Educational "experts" had taken the reins on reform. One of their innovations was what became known as "new math", as labeled by its detractors. What it was is that all students by their 8th grade year were presumed to have achieved proficiency in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. At that time they were then universally instructed in a new regimen which was essentially exposure to the elemental concepts of algebra. Often the instructors were unqualified to administer the curriculum which departed from the previous. Up until then it was reinstruction, review and re-entrenchment of all the previously studied math tools. This had been the norm for 50 years because the majority of students' post high school math usage had been the monitoring of their personal finances and other simple forms of accounting. Students who had only vague notions of checkbook balancing were, and I witnessed this personally, expected to benefit from the study of "sets" in lieu of practical instruction. Simple as it sounds it was devastating for many who simply had not retained the proficiency, predicted by the experts, in math basics. They were left to flounder as were most of their instructors who themselves had no background in higher mathematics which at that time included introductory algebra. Parents were aghast that their children were given no discernable life skills in this system. A system they did not understand. A system which had been wrought upon them by those progressive thinkers who felt they were tasked to prepare a generation that would lead the way in science and engineering. There was no consideration of those non-science, non-engineer types. There were union jobs which paid well for those types.
The whole thing left the nation, in a very subtle way, divided. Along urban vs rural, wealth vs poverty, white collar vs blue collar, union vs non-union. But in a real way these progressive intellectuals, failing to understand the true demographics of their constituency, laid one of the basis for our current national division. And this foundation was laid 55 years ago with the best of intentions.

The stupid we wake up to is sometimes is the stupid we seduced the night before.

[intheflow]

9. Does promotion of ecocide/environment destruction count as terrorism?

The GQP is happiest when their biggest donors can pollute freely and obstruct opportunities to combat worsening global climate change. That feels like terrorism on a global scale to me.

[Amishman]

11. Because that would likely result in a civil war

I swear a lot of people haven't been listening when Joe talks about bringing this country back together. Declaring the opposition party a terrorist organization doesn't exactly fit with a message of political healing.

[Initech]

12. How do you play nice with people who want you dead?