Trump Administration: Anti-Fascists, Drug Dealers, And Trans People Are Terrorists

Failures

from the hetero-druggy-fascists-are-the-heroes-this-country-deserves dept

As was covered here last week, ProPublica’s Hannah Allam reached out to Trump’s “terrorism czar” Sebastian Gorka to ask him about the wreckage he’s caused since being elevated to a position of power he clearly has no expertise to handle.

Gorka’s no expert in domestic security. While his resume may include occasional work for government agencies here in the US as well as in Hungary, he’s mostly known for being a useful font of propaganda in service of the MAGA worldview.

Allam asked him to comment on the apparent dismantling of the government’s counter-terrorism apparatus as Trump reshuffled pretty much every US law enforcement agency to provide manpower for his anti-migrant surges. No comment was given but Gorka decided to attack Allam personally via social media.

Another question that went unanswered?

As of writing, exactly two months into the Iran war, Gorka’s counterterrorism strategy has yet to appear.

Well, we have an answer now. And it’s just as awful as you expect it to be.

Wednesday’s document, masterminded by White House “counterterrorism czar” Sebastian Gorka, does not mention far-right violence at all. It identifies “Violent Left-Wing Extremists, including Anarchists and Anti-Fascists” as a security threat of equal severity to “Legacy Islamist Terrorists” and “Narcoterrorists and Transnational Gangs.” The administration will now apparently “prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.”

In a bizarre but familiar turn, the document also blames transgender people for the shooting of Charlie Kirk. “Americans have witnessed the politically motivated killings of Christians and conservatives committed by violent left-wing extremists, including the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a radical who espoused extreme transgender ideologies.”

The full “strategy” [PDF] can be read below. Brace yourself. It’s horrible and horrific. It contains nods towards “God-given rights” while simultaneously making it clear a lot of people aren’t allowed to access these rights. It’s written by people who truly love their own brand of domestic terrorism — MAGA in-crowd fuckwits who, if given the chance, would rather be John Wilkes Booth than Abraham Lincoln.

It’s stupid and hurtful and harmful and shitty. And it boldly makes the assertion that to oppose this administration and its goals is to attack America and Americans themselves, which is the sort of thing we’ve come to expect from this self-absorbed administration and the death cult that supports it.

It contains lie after lie, beginning with its opening paragraphs:

Our counterterrorism operations will be executed apolitically and founded upon reality-based threat assessments. Our counterterrorism powers will not be used to target our fellow Americans who simply disagree with us.

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The fact pattern under the Biden Administration was clear: individuals at the highest level of the U.S. Government used their significant powers to politically target individuals in the interests of those they favored, wanted to keep in power, or to help win elections.

This is coming from an administration that has turned the DOJ in the Department of Vindictive Prosecutions and continues to blame Biden for things that happened while Trump was still serving his first term as president.

The “CT Strategy” has been written to justify extrajudicial murders committed in international waters by the Department of Defense and its administration partners in this latest bastardization of the “war on drugs.” It’s been written to justify any violence/killings going forward that involve US residents and citizens.

The document claims “mass migration” is a threat to the Western World in general. It also claims religious oppression is a latent threat to world peace… but only if it’s African nations targeting “Christians.” It also baldly states that the US is the center of the universe as far as the world is concerned, so any counterterrorism efforts it puts forth will focus on this nation’s well-being first.

In between all the stuff that might look semi-plausible with GOP-tinted glasses, there’s this:

Our nation has not been well served by its Intelligence Community (IC), which has been mired in old ways of looking at threats, or has been actively weaponized by its leadership as a political tool. Whether plotting against conservative Catholics attending traditional mass in Virginia, parents standing up for their children at schoolboard meetings, Members of Congress, or President Trump and his associates, this Administration will continue to prohibit the IC from being used politically against innocent Americans. As real threats were ignored or underplayed, Americans have witnessed the politically motivated killings of Christians and conservatives committed by violent left-wing extremists, including the assassination of Charlie Kirk by a radical who espoused extreme transgender ideologies.

In addition to cartels and Islamist terror groups, our national CT activities will also prioritize the rapid identification and neutralization of violent secular political groups whose ideology is anti American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist. We will use all the tools constitutionally available to us to map them at home, identify their membership, map their ties to international organizations like Antifa, and use law enforcement tools to cripple them operationally before they can maim or kill the innocent. We will do the same with the state sponsors of such groups and those governments undertaking lethal plots on U.S. soil or against Americans anywhere.

No other administration would say these things out loud, much less deliver them to the public as a policy statement. This administration simply does not care how this looks to normal Americans. It has no qualms delivering a counterterrorism strategy that sees no difference between international terrorist groups, drug cartels, and people who just want to see transgender people’s rights respected. And, after turning a bunch of people with ideological disagreements into terrorists, it moves on to pretend “Antifa” is an violent, organized, multi-national terrorist organization rather than just the loose collection of people opposed to fascism that it has always been and continues to be.

The biggest threat to this nation is the party running it. And allowing Seb Gorka to oversee this vile interpretation of “existential threats” is worse than simply allowing the foxes to guard the hen house. This is a document that makes it clear the hens brought this violence on themselves by daring to exist in places they’re not wanted.

Filed Under: antifa, bigotry, evil, seb gorka, terrorism, trans rights, trump administration, white nationalism