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This is just one more step in labeling anything opposed to the Trump administration as enemies of the state. If you don't see that you are either ignorant or complicit. The fact that it's so badly defined is why it makes the perfect boogeyman. They can attribute any characteristics they want to "Antifa" and then anyone who espouses those characteristics is under suspicion of being a terrorist.
It's the same game Bush played with The War on Terror or Reagan with the War on Drugs. Write orders so vague and all-encompassing that virtually anyone could qualify based on a police officer or prosecutor having bad vibes.
Trump's running on a very time tested playbook
Holy shit you're dumb.
Both the "war on drugs" and Trump's Antifa move use intentionally wide nets so they can catch whatever they want and spin it however they want.
Now, the "war on drugs" is far enough in hindsight that we know it was a failure and we know it was a ploy by the Reagan admin to make it look like they were accomplishing something and gain support. What Trump is doing is the same, but far, far more dangerous.
You can't be this stupid. I mean you can, and are, but goddamn.
Same subjects - the poor, the marginalized, the minorities.
And "different time" is such a fucking cop out. It's always a "different time". What difference is that supposed to make? It's the same policy.
When this order gets interpreted and implemented, will they be reading Trump's mind (ugh, sick thought) or will they be reading the order?
Trump is like King Tommen, happily banging the seal of the King on whatever mommy puts in front of him. Whether or not he has the faintest idea of what he is signing is entirely irrelevant. The people who wrote the order know what they want it to mean, and they won't be interpreting it any other way. What Trump thinks is far less relevant than what Stephen Miller thinks.
Which part did you not understand?
I'll come at it from another direction. The executive order is nonsense from a legal perspective for any number of reasons, but that's assuming the Trump administration intends to follow the rule of law. I hope it's pretty obvious by now that we can't make that assumption.
Lets say you are an ideological enemy of Trump that the administration want's to railroad. They use this executive order to prompt the FBI to start digging. The FBI isn't going to push back and say that antifa isn't an organization, and they will never have to prove such a thing in court. They still have to find something to charge you with though, but you are a model citizen with no criminal record, and you have never said anything online that could possibly be twisted to sound like a threat. So, you are safe, except...
Since you have been implicated as a domestic terrorist, the intelligence agencies get roped in. Independent of the FBI, these agencies are the top experts in the entire world at finding your secrets and even at fabricating pretty much any document or other piece of evidence they want. As a terrorist (yeah, they drop the "implicated" part pretty quickly) you are a risk to national security. Suddenly the FBI is getting tips that lead them to whatever they need to put you away for whatever crime is most useful.
This is exactly how fascist governments operate.
Found the tankie.
I mean, we think the same of you.
Goddamn son. You need to pick up a fucking history book and get back to us.
Well, at least you're accidentally correct about this one
Just today Stephen Miller claimed that calling the Trump regime "authoritarian" was terrorism.
I don't know what you are smoking but you should stop, it is damaging your brain.