Terrorist Speech: Parental Pushback on Critical Race Theory Spurs FBI Domestic Terror Probe

I’m of mixed mind about this one.

IF there’s nothing more spurring this on than some angry parents following the rules at school board meetings and zero threat of anyone being illegally menaced by parents in a manner that falls under terrorist statutes in Federal Jurisdiction …

THEN the FBI has no jurisdiction in the first place and Merrick Garland has overstepped his authority.

SO Garland, the Dept. of Justice and anyone who follows an unlawful extrajurisdictional order is breaking the law themselves.

BUT they get away with it because right now neither the government nor the media will take them to task for this kind of thing.

That doesn’t make it right but the exercise of power is badly and rapidly drifting away from what in America has traditionally been considered right rather than wrong …

The FBI only has jurisdiction in Federal matters. Which include interstate issues to bridge juridictions between state boundaries, the creation of mass effect weapons, malfeasance by any Law Enforcement Agency, things like that. The FBI is not meant to function as America’s Secret Police and we need to be very vigilant to keep that from happening, or in the present situation keep it from getting worse.

Bill says above that if there were an actual real-world justification for this “parents as domestic terrorists” stance then it would be getting splashed all over the news. That’s not necessarily true. The FBI does not as a rule broadcast its punches. The problem there is that we won’t actually know if someone has done something stupid until they’re arrested. If they’re not arrested then we probably won’t ever know what’s going on without a Congressional hearing. Even then, I’m noticing a lot of “I’m not going to discuss confidential matters in an open hearing” coming from people called to account before Congress.

All of this makes it exceedingly difficult to grasp the situation. Because if someone has done something that actually qualifies as real terrorism and we don’t know who did it or what the act was, we can’t condemn it properly the way it should be condemned. We instead come out looking like we’re siding with terrorists when the arrests are eventually made and the charges publicized.

So I’d like to know more about how Merrick Garland justifies involving the FBI in this issue. He can’t just tell the FBI to go out and start arresting people without probable cause. OK, he can try to do that but it won’t hold up in the courts and that’s really where the rub comes in for this kind of thing. When that fails in the courts it’s a serious bloody nose for their side.

Temperatures are running high and that means a lot of hot-headed people, which the conservative ideology certainly has no lack of, are doing a lot of hot-headed stupid things because they’re talking themselves into a “state of war” mindset.

Yes, we are literally at war with Leftist ideology. No, that does not mean you can dig out your cammies, web gear and weapons to start living out the hero’s role of a movie playing only in your own mind. It’s not that kind of war, yet.

In the last little over a week I’ve seen people advocating some pretty damn stupid crap.

I’ve seen someone who thought that pulling his mask down to his chin on an airplane, admitting he will pull it back up if asked to, take on the mantle of “hero of the resistance” and go from that minor act of sneaky rebellion to advocating “burning, killing and looting” because “Hey, the bad guys do it so why shouldn’t we?”

That’s sheer stupidity in full bloom on public display.

I’ve seen someone openly advocating breaking Federal Laws trying to contact criminals who could provide criminal services to him because that person felt somehow that painting a target on his back was a great idea and an effective means of fighting back. It’s not, you don’t win anything by giving your adversary exactly what he wants by putting yourself completely in his power.

That’s like hitting someone in the fist with your face and expecting to win a brawl. Right now our enemies are searching diligently for that sort of thing to both suppress the counter-narrative and to use as ammunition against the rest of us who are not doing such stupid things. (Incidentally he didn’t care even a little bit if this kind of idiocy took a whole lot of other people down with him.)

Don’t think for a minute that what you say here, at PJ, the Daily Wire or behind any other pay wall are not subject to scrutiny. That’s the most dangerous kind of naïveté.

Etc. I realize that much of this garbage is just that. It’s garbage talk that won’t amount to any real action and just hot-heads blowing off steam. But you can get burned by steam the same as by fire.

So while I’m completely averse to the FBI poking its nose into things that are extrajurisdictional to that agency, I’m seeing a fair amount of hot-headed stupidity that plays right into the hands of Leftist dominance of our political system too.

If you’re helping the enemy, you are the enemy.

Like the January 6th “insurrection”, which was nothing more than a few people who got carried away and damaged some property while trespassing. Far, far less than the other side’s “summer of love”, burning, killing and looting. The other side will ride a horse like that for every ounce of propaganda they can gin up to scare the already excessively timid and generate support for their agenda. That was a stupid thing for those people to do. They played right into the hands of the opposition in doing that. It allowed them to for all practical purposes seize the capital of the United States of America and put it under martial jurisdiction. With armed troops in the streets of the national capital.

The juice from that one was not only not worth the squeeze, they were trying to squeeze lemons to get orange juice.

When you do those things, you play right into their hands. You’re not helping our side, you’re helping theirs. You are for all practical purposes charging blindly across a mine field and when you get yourself blown up the enemy camp will crow and point at your remains as evidence you’re trying to attack them. Well, duh, you are trying to attack them but an effective attack does not entail you showering shredded pieces of yourself on their heads. That’s not going to win any battles.

All of that said, I’m not saying you shouldn’t be angry. You should. I’m not saying you shouldn’t take action. You absolutely should do that too. What I’m saying is to make sure you’ve got all the facts and then when you think you have them, check again. Once that’s done, be smart about what you’re going to do. Blundering into an enemy minefield all fired up with righteous outrage is not a tactic that wins battles. Your anger is justified, your rash acts and speech are not.

I saw Sean Hannity interview Newt Gingrich a couple nights ago. Newt was maintaining that the Left is playing with fire. They are most certainly doing that. What we need to do is help them find ways to burn themselves without burning our own fingers in the process.

In this case of parents being branded as potential domestic terrorists –
There are very specific Federal Statutes that define what is and is not Terrorism. I.E. the “1989 Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act” spells out specifically what constitutes terrorism by the use of bio-weapons. I’m sure that there are statutes that apply here, either for considering something an act of terrorism or defining what fails to meet that standard. But I’m not a lawyer. So Fox News, The Daily Wire or some other private entity that does have such lawyers needs to look into this to see if what Merrick Garland is calling terrorism has some statutory basis or if he’s just blowing smoke out his ass. Then call him on it if that’s what he’s doing.

If you have a membership at a place which might have such lawyers you should be contacting them to inquire if they’re looking into this along those lines.

Demand of your Congressmen and Senators that the DOJ produce a statutory justification for calling parents domestic terrorists, too. If you can get an answer from them, which is admittedly hard to do, then make sure where ever you’re following this gets a copy of the reply.

Fight smart.