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lindysalsagal

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Thu Sep 25, 2025, 09:01 PM Sep 25

He's ordering the end of opposing political organizations: The real fascism move happened today: [View all]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/enforcing-the-death-penalty-laws-in-the-district-of-columbia-to-deter-and-punish-the-most-heinous-crimes/

-mods- I doubt a presidential decree is in violation of the DU 4 paragraph limit. He can't claim copyright infringement. It's a potus decree.
Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence
Presidential Memoranda
September 25, 2025

Sec. 2. Investigating Domestic Terrorist Organizations. (a) The National Joint Terrorism Task Force and its local offices (collectively, “JTTFs”) shall coordinate and supervise a comprehensive national strategy to investigate, prosecute, and disrupt entities and individuals engaged in acts of political violence and intimidation designed to suppress lawful political activity or obstruct the rule of law. This strategy shall include the investigatory and prosecutorial measures set forth in this section.

(b) The JTTFs shall investigate potential Federal crimes relating to acts of recruiting or radicalizing persons for the purpose of:

(i) political violence, terrorism, or conspiracy against rights; or

(ii) the violent deprivation of any citizen’s rights.

(c) The JTTFs shall also investigate:

(i) institutional and individual funders, and officers and employees of organizations, that are responsible for, sponsor, or otherwise aid and abet the principal actors engaging in the criminal conduct described in subsections (a) and (b) of this section; and

(ii) non-governmental organizations and American citizens residing abroad or with close ties to foreign governments, agents, citizens, foundations, or influence networks engaged in violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (22 U.S.C. 611 et seq.) or money laundering by funding, creating, or supporting entities that engage in activities that support or encourage domestic terrorism.

(d) The JTTFs shall consult and coordinate with executive departments and agencies (agencies) as needed to determine whether such agencies can apply existing authorities or exercise their own authorities, as appropriate, to support the JTTFs’ investigations and relevant prosecutions of political violence.

(e) The JTTFs may, to the extent permitted by law, request operational assistance from and coordinate with law enforcement partners when investigating domestic terrorism.

(f) The National Joint Terrorism Task Force shall provide regular progress updates to the President through the Assistant to the President and Homeland Security Advisor.

(g) The Attorney General shall direct the Department of Justice to prosecute all Federal crimes, to the maximum extent permissible by law, related to the investigations described in subsections (a) through (c) of this section.

(h) The Attorney General shall issue specific guidance that ensures domestic terrorism priorities include politically motivated terrorist acts such as organized doxing campaigns, swatting, rioting, looting, trespass, assault, destruction of property, threats of violence, and civil disorder. This guidance shall also include an identification of any behaviors, fact patterns, recurrent motivations, or other indicia common to organizations and entities that coordinate these acts in order to direct efforts to identify and prevent potential violent activity.

(i) The Secretary of the Treasury (Secretary), in coordination with the Attorney General, shall make available all resources, to the maximum extent permitted by law, to identify and disrupt financial networks that fund domestic terrorism and political violence. The Secretary, acting through the Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Office of the Department of the Treasury, shall deploy investigative tools, examine financial flows, and coordinate with partner agencies to trace illicit funding streams. The Secretary shall provide guidance for financial institutions to file Suspicious Activity Reports and investigate indicia of illicit funding streams to ensure such activity is rooted out at the source and referred for law enforcement action, as appropriate.

(j) The Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (Commissioner) shall take action to ensure that no tax-exempt entities are directly or indirectly financing political violence or domestic terrorism. In addition, where applicable, the Commissioner shall ensure that the Internal Revenue Service refers such organizations, and the employees and officers of such organizations, to the Department of Justice for investigation and possible prosecution.

(k) All Federal law enforcement agencies with investigative authority shall question and interrogate, within all lawful authorities, individuals engaged in political violence or lawlessness regarding the entity or individual organizing such actions and any related financial sponsorship of those actions prior to adjudication or initiation of a plea agreement. Investigations should prioritize crimes such as the following: assaulting Federal officers or employees or otherwise engaging in conduct proscribed by 18 U.S.C. 111; conspiracy against rights under 18 U.S.C. 241; conspiracy to commit offense under 18 U.S.C. 371; solicitation to commit a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. 373; money laundering under 18 U.S.C. 1956; funding of terrorist acts or otherwise facilitating terrorism under 18 U.S.C. 2339, 2339A, 2339B, 2339C, and 2339D; arson offenses under 18 U.S.C. 844; violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (18 U.S.C. 1961 et seq.); and major fraud against the United States under 18 U.S.C. 1031.

(l) All Federal law enforcement agencies with investigative authority shall adopt strategies similar to those used to address violent crime and organized crime to disrupt and dismantle entire networks of criminal activity.


Ice going after mexicans was just the test pattern. He's seizing everyone who he thinks might be a political enemy. OUr civil rights are gone as far as his thugs are concerned.

I think his embarrassment at the UN kicked it into high gear. I also think seeing the TV capitulate to the viewers really scared. him.
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THIS malaise Sep 25 #1
Yea right.... Lovie777 Sep 25 #4
Doxxing isnt terrorism but its used as an example of terrorism SSJVegeta Sep 25 #2
So, no legal processes at court to stop this? NeoTrajan Sep 25 #3
Tell that to the thousands of people Ice has already disappeared. lindysalsagal Sep 25 #7
What? Cirsium Sep 25 #24
Chilling doesn't even begin to express my reaction. yellow dahlia Sep 25 #5
Yeh cool story bro dweller Sep 25 #6
Exactly... returnee Sep 26 #38
"(i) institutional and individual funders, and officers and employees of organizations, that... LudwigPastorius Sep 25 #8
Lawyer? Cirsium Sep 25 #25
I feel I_UndergroundPanther Sep 25 #9
" directly or indirectly financing political violence or domestic terrorism." BlueWaveNeverEnd Sep 25 #10
This message was self-deleted by its author 58Sunliner Sep 25 #11
Aren't protests civil disorder? Diraven Sep 25 #14
No... returnee Sep 26 #39
As some (of us) B.See Sep 25 #12
Irony is not dead. Chemical Bill Sep 25 #13
Obviously popsdenver Sep 25 #15
Welcome to the Final Solution johnnyplankton Sep 25 #16
Nothing scared him. This is all part of Project 25's seize of power. They get an A+ on that. live love laugh Sep 25 #17
You lost me on the "pushing through legislation like this" part. There's nothing about Congress in this order. ancianita Sep 25 #19
A PR campaign! Cirsium Sep 25 #27
Yep. lol a quasi-Riefenstahl campaign to distract media and public from the Epstein files ancianita Sep 25 #30
Your point? Cirsium Sep 26 #42
You made your point about Riefenstahl. I was just free associating. Move on. ancianita Sep 26 #45
Probably. But remember, investigating isn't evidence. Judicial rules of evidence have resulted in many grand juries ancianita Sep 25 #18
problem is, THEY ARE INVENTING "EVIDIENCE" Skittles Sep 25 #21
We don't know that and a judge knows all the rules of evidence, so that's not gonna happen. Don't forget ancianita Sep 25 #22
there's a reason why these fascists are stacking the courts with rightwing hacks Skittles Sep 25 #31
Yep. Try as he might... Even the vast majority of trump appointed judges have been ruling against him. ancianita Sep 25 #33
Oh, come on Cirsium Sep 25 #28
LOL ancianita Sep 25 #32
You can't be serious Cirsium Sep 26 #41
You'll find out. ancianita Sep 26 #43
Theater? Cirsium Sep 26 #44
Sooooo... angrychair Sep 25 #20
Always. Every day. That's what they call the "enemy within" while never looking at the mirror. ancianita Sep 25 #23
These are the motherfuckers that stole all the government's data. rubbersole Sep 25 #26
Yep. But we still got ways to find out stuff... ancianita Sep 25 #34
Thanks for these numbers (facts!) And good that you linked to this from DFW's post today. erronis Sep 27 #46
yw Numbers matter. Esp when corporate media don't fairly report public opinion. ancianita Sep 27 #47
Literalky everything Trump and MAGA are guilty of. pfitz59 Sep 25 #29
And the original is on file in... moondust Sep 26 #35
This plus Hegseth's gathering at Quantico yorkster Sep 26 #36
None of This is Constitutional. None of It MrWowWow Sep 26 #37
There is at least one clause in there that most Republicans will protest against most vigorously DFW Sep 26 #40
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