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There are increasing bipartisan demands that the Department of Homeland Security - controversially created after 9/11 and that has been the source of many civil liberties assaults - now be directed primarily to domestic threats. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/domestic-terror--particularly-white-supremacist-violence--as-big-a-threat-as-isis-al-qaeda-dhs-says/2019/09/20/dff8aa4e-dbad-11e9-bfb1-849887369476_story.html
Tom Ridge, the first Bush/Cheney DHS Secretary, makes a cameo appearance urging that it be unleashed domestically. Also, his notorious color codes have been re-activated in a slightly less adolescent form and are now being used to flag domestic threats.
Leftist activist who dislikes Trump and Biden was arrested by the FBI after they decided that his social media posts show he was on a “path toward radicalization.” The magistrate agreed, ordering him held without bail. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/14/fbi-arrest-left-wing-violence/
This the new Domestic War on Terror. Its won't be confined to right or left, but to anyone who is a real dissident from the neoliberal order. That's why the ones who want this new War on Terror are establishment luminaries: it's to crush their adversaries https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/14/fbi-arrest-left-wing-violence/
The tweet below is 100% true. All the tactics being used by the government are identical, as are the attacks on those arguing that the threat is overstated and the powers the government is demanding are excessive and unnecessary: https://twitter.com/ChrisV3141/status/1361367245914574857?s=20
