The Hunt for Dissidents
Pedro Gonzalez
https://americanmind.org/features/whos-n...for-dissidents/
Summoning an imaginary specter of white supremacy, the Administration declares war on all who oppose the powerful.

On June 15, President Joe Biden unveiled his battle plan for the war on domestic terrorism. His pitchfork is aimed specifically at the scarecrow of white supremacy. “We cannot ignore this threat or wish it away,” Biden wrote in the strategy document. “Preventing domestic terrorism and reducing the factors that fuel it demand a multifaceted response across the federal government and beyond.”

Summarized by the sympathetic New York Times, Biden’s so-called “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism” calls for “improving information sharing among law enforcement agencies, preventing recruitment by extremist groups, investigating such groups and confronting the longstanding drivers of domestic terrorism: racism and bigotry.” It entails swelling the ranks of an already bloated bureaucracy with more prosecutors and intelligence analysts—jobs that would naturally attract the pettiest of petty tyrants.

Moreover, only a very specific flavor of racism and bigotry is on the menu. The introductory paragraph of the document places all of our troubles on the shoulders of white Americans. And indeed, the definition of white supremacy preferred among our chattering classes is sufficiently elastic to make at least 26% of Americans into criminals—probably more. Whatever they don’t like, they can redefine as white supremacy and therefore terrorism. They have that power now.

In the background, as Biden declared war, those with ears to hear caught the sound of a shooting spree that stretched across Georgia and Alabama over the weekend.

On June 11, Justin Tyran Roberts, a black man, shot a white man as he exited his vehicle in Phenix City, Alabama. Roberts subsequently-- excerpt, rest at link above --