Tuesday, Donald Trump He stopped in front of more than 800 generals and admirals in the US Army. And he informed them about his new enemy: his US fellow citizens.
“Our story is full of military heroes who faced all enemies, foreigners and domestic,” Trump said. “You know that phrase very well. That is what the oath says: foreigner and Domestic. Well, we also have domestic. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, George Bush and others used the Armed Forces to maintain domestic order and peace. … now they like to say that Oh, you can’t use the army.“
Trump is used, in that speech, to refer to both “the enemy from the inside” and a new war, “a war from the inside”, that the generals would be asked to fight.
In the event that there was an ambiguity about which enemies here in the United States, the president intends to attack, either with the military or other weapons of the federal government, a national security directive published the week before him is not the spigum and the United States.
On September 25, the White House launched “NSPM-7” A radical order aimed at “anti-fascist”, “anti-Christian”, “anti-capitalist” and “anti-American” speech, as well as a speech that expresses “support to the United States government; extremism on migration and gender; US opinions about family, religion and morals.”
The memorandum announced a new strategy “to investigate and interrupt the networks, entities and organizations that are fun with political violence so that the police can intervene in criminal conspiracies before it results in violent political acts.”
There are few debates that political violence is increasing, and a survey recently showed that Growing number of Americans See such violence as necessary “for the country to return to the track.”
The problem is that the permanent majority of political violence does not come from the places that Trump, through NSPM-7, is the application of the federal law. The week before the new Trump memorandum, the Department of Justice Deleted a report From its website that showed “the number of extreme right attacks continues to overcome all other types of domestic terrorism and extremism.”
“Since 1990, extreme right -wing extremists have committed much more ideological homicides than Islamist extremists of the extreme left or radical, including 227 events that touches more than 520 lives,” reads the report now arquited. “In this same period, extreme left extremists committed 42 ideological motivated attacks that Tok 78 lives.”
The White House Secretary, Abigail Jackson, inadvertently cited similar statistics when a picture is published with the headline, “leftist terrorism rises to 30 years of height”, a graph that tries that man, for example, has right -wing terrorists as attacks of the left high.
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But the same week as Trump’s speech, and in the midst of the new repression of the administration, Kash Patel, director of the FBI, announced that the agency has ties with the Anti-Defamation League and the Poverty Laws of the South, dedicated to the main anti-Semitism and white nationalism, respectively. (This, after a lobbying campaign by a right -wing influencers).
The SPLC, in particular, is known for its efforts to trace violent extremists and hate groups, experience that previous administrations had asked to help their own investigations. (“For decades, we have shared data and analysis with the public to protect civil rights and hold extremists,” said a SPLC spokesman in a statement to Rolling stone. “We remain committed to exposing hatred and extremism while we work to equip communities with knowledge and defend the rights and safety of marginalized people”).
Now, investigating local individuals and groups that are much more likely to commit terrorism in the United States, the federal government is prepared to persecute individuals and, potentially, non -profit, political rights. And civilians.
The representative RO Khanna (D-Calif.), Who ran for Congress in 2003 against Patriot Law, described NSPM-7 as a “greater violation of freedoms.” In an email to Rolling stoneKhanna wrote: “The threat of retaliation is destined to silence people and give administration the authority to persecute political opponents.”
The ACLU sounded a similar alarm, with Hina Shamsi, director of the National Security Project of the non-profit organization, calling the NSPM-7 strategy to point to the speech “a shameful and dangerous movement.”
“After one of the most heartbreaking weeks for our rights of the first amendment, the president is invoking political violence, which we all condemn, as an excuse to attack non -profit organizations and activists with the false and stigmatizing label of a statement.
A TUPY or Lawyer firm They have issued their own guide warning about the expansive threat represents by the memorandum, while more than 3000 Non -profit organizations They have raised their own groups on the memorandum, publishing an open letter criticizing NSPM-7.
“This attack against non -profit is not happening in a vacuum, but as part of a wholesale offensive against organizations and individuals who advocate ideas or serve the communities that the president objectable findings, and that they consider applying”, letter of Letelits. “Whether the objective is a church, an environmental or good governmental group, a refugee assistance organization, university, a law firm or an anterior or current government official, putting together the executive branch to punish or its views.”
Matthew Sanderson, director of the political Law Group at Caplin & Drysdale, One of the Law Firms that issued Guidance About NSPM-7, Said That While The Operating Aspects of the Memo Are Tailored, Specify Concaporismy, Hema Orsrorismy, I have plepicaligy, I have plepicalialsy, I have plepicalsaly, terroricy, I have plepicalsalysy, terporsaltsSSCytsCytsCytsssCtscetscetscetscetscetsCesCestsCTtssssscscaAltTtsattts, it was attacked by the White House, it was attacked by the White House Of language, Stephen Miller’s submissioniopantile, used at a press conference announcing the directive. “He used the term” the entire government “several times, so I don’t think this is a simple messaging vehicle, such as some executive orders,” says Sanderson. “I think this means something and will have lasting consequences.”
It has not yet been seen how the NSPM-7 will be applied, but if there are three things that Donald Trump has made clear since he returned to power, they are not shy to persecute their enemies, such as Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif), New York Attorney General, Tish James, former FBI director James Comey, and many others can attack that he is willing to close the speech that he is willing to close the speech. Close the speech that he is willing to a speech that he is willing to make him a speech that he is willing to a speech that he is willing to a speech that he is willing to a speech that he is willing to a speech that he is willing to a speech that he is willing is willing to He is willing to a speech that he is willing to be willing to a speech. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, not in the troops that itch is the itching with itching in the itching.
Speaking in Memphis, the last city led by Democrat where Trump is sending to the National Guard and a city where he hit the crime in the city A minimum of 25 years In September: Miller led home how unpleasant could be a fight with a emboldened Trump administration. “Do the ganglings you face, do you think they are ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they are difficult? They have no idea how hard we are,” said Miller. “Do you think they are unconditional? We are much more hardcore than them, and we have all the weight of the United States government behind us. What do they have?”
