Is the Council of Conservative Citizens a Terror Group?
Definitions of Terrorism in the U.S. Code
18 U.S.C. § 2331 defines "international terrorism" and "domestic terrorism" for purposes of Chapter 113B of the Code, entitled "Terrorism”:
"Domestic terrorism" means activities with the following three characteristics:
Involve acts dangerous to human life that violate federal or state law;
Appear intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination. or kidnapping; and
Occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the U.S.
https://www.fbi.gov/...
So what does this mean?
"Domestic terrorism" means activities with the following three characteristics:"
Note not all 3 characteristics we just need to prove one characteristics and we get the Council of Conservative Citizens banned and the FBI investigating who has funded them for the last few decades. Also every other racist group that shares members with, shares people who funded them, shares people who they coordinate with, share email lists with etc will also be investigated.
I am sure many corporations will be named and suddenly be facing boycotts. I am sure more politicians will be named and a bunch of secret racists will be revealed and voted out of congress.
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion;
Check One The Council of Conservative Citizens has given money to a group of politicians a mile long check the link
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Why did the Council of Conservative Citizens give those politicians money?
" (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; "
So those politicians could promote laws like
three strikes and your out which only seem to be applied to minorities certainly not banks for example.
So those politicians could promote strict anti drug laws ( Crack until recently got you much more jail time than Coke but Minorities were seen as Crack users so the punishment was worse). The enforcement of drug laws are selective more Minorities go to jail even though Whites use drugs more than most Minorities
Black youth are arrested for drug crimes at a rate ten times higher than that of whites
Native American youth fared worst, with 15% having a substance use disorder, compared to 9.2% for people of mixed racial heritage, 9.0% for whites, 7.7% for Hispanics, 5% for African Americans and 3.5% for Asians and Pacific Islanders.
http://healthland.time.com/...
Check Two These actions do "Appear intended (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; "
Imagine a population where only 3.5% do drugs but they get arrested at 10 times the rate Whites do who at 9% drug use do almost 3 times as many drugs as African Americans. Being Punished more than other people doing the exact same thing you are doing sure sounds like intimidation to me and not enforcing the law.
Another way to look at this question is what do the police/the troops on the ground as it were think?
In a survey we conducted with the Police Executive Research Forum last year of 382 law enforcement agencies, 74 percent reported anti-government extremism as one of the top three terrorist threats in their jurisdiction; 39 percent listed extremism connected with Al Qaeda or like-minded terrorist organizations. And only 3 percent identified the threat from Muslim extremists as severe, compared with 7 percent for anti-government and other forms of extremism.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
The majority of police surveyed think Right Wing Groups are a bigger problem than Muslim Terror Groups so why is the US Government not going after Right Wing Groups like they do Muslim Terror groups?
Another way to look at this is the Muslim way Muslims claim you can support Jihad by action joining the fight, by giving money to support the fight, or by talking to support the fight. . Who are we to argue with Muslims about what is or is not Jihad?
The Council of Conservative Citizens claims what they say is free speech well their words and lies did just inspire a violence and I'm sure this was not the first time.
Next America does already spy on Muslim internet sites they just think will inspire violence and we call those who support those sites terrorists what makes the Council of Conservative Citizens any different than Muslim Terror sites? A higher Body Count... by the Right Wing groups.
Since 9/11, an average of nine American Muslims per year have been involved in an average of six terrorism-related plots against targets in the United States. Most were disrupted, but the 20 plots that were carried out accounted for 50 fatalities over the past 13 and a half years.
In contrast, right-wing extremists averaged 337 attacks per year in the decade after 9/11, causing a total of 254 fatalities, according to a study by Arie Perliger, a professor at the United States Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center. The toll has increased since the study was released in 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
A higher body count than Muslim Terrorists after 9/11 but Right Wing Groups are not terrorists ?? I guess all those political contributions do buy influence in Washington.
Unequal school funding, school segregation, and attempts by Bill Gates and Campbell Brown to send minority children to charter schools that they would never think of sending their own kids too are also racist attempts to keep minorities in their place. Notice how many Right Wing Politicians backed by the Council of Conservative Citizens support charter schools and oppose increased funding for schools especially when the increase would be in minority or rural schools. http://firedoglake.com/...
Uneducated people are easier to enslave
If the Council of Conservative Citizens is a Terror Group then the Klan, the American Nazi's etc will soon be next. The Hate groups will scream about their rights be violated, and even worse their Funders being outed publicly and be subjected to runious boycotts.
But if the Council of Conservative Citizens is not a Terrorist group trying to take over America's government and take away Minority, LBGT rights then Al Quidea should sue since they have killed less people than Right Wing Groups and share many of the same views as Right Wing Groups concerning (subsitute Minority for Non Muslim) LBGT people, Morals in Society, etc.
Is their crime being Brown? Muslim? or just not giving any campaign cash to Right Wing Politicians?
Being serious now the victims of the church shooting should sue the Council of Conservative Citizens and go after their personal assets. After all how many will hate in a Capitalist Society if Hate becomes too expensive a Vice?