Comment on Trump Classifies “Anti-Capitalism” as a Political Pre-Crime

• 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Try to do more than just cntrl+F.

  As defined by the FBI and DHS, anarchist violent extremism encompasses the potentially unlawful use or threat of force or violence in furtherance of an anti-government or anti-authority violent extremist ideology that considers capitalism and centralized government to be unnecessary and oppressive.

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  • edible_funk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You know it tracks that Wray wouldn’t be able to distinguish anti capitalism from anarchism. This is the dumbest fucking timeline.

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• zeezee@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not true?

  Straight from the Politico article:

  The document includes just one mention of “anarchist violent extremists” — the term the FBI uses when describing terror threats from people who view “capitalism and centralized government to be unnecessary and oppressive,” according to a May 2021 threat assessment.

  But in congressional hearings, FBI Director Christopher Wray — who Biden chose to keep in place, restoring a tradition Trump broke — has extensively discussed the bureau’s work investigating people in that category.

  “Antifa is a real thing,” Wray added at that hearing. “It’s not a group or an organization, it’s a movement or an ideology, maybe one way of thinking of it, and we have quite a number — and I’ve said this consistently since my first time appearing before this committee — we have any number of properly predicated investigations into what we would describe as violent anarchist extremists. Some of those individuals self-identify with antifa.”

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  • edible_funk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I took that to mean anarchists, since they specifically call them “anarchist violent extremists” but I suppose that’s an appropriately disingenuous take from the likes of Wray.

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