JOHN CHUCKMAN COMMENT: EVENTS AT THE CAPITOL BUILDING WERE UGLY – BUT THEY CANNOT BE CHARACTERIZED AS TERROR OR INSURRECTION BY REASONABLE PEOPLE – RESPONSIBILITY FOR THOSE EVENTS LIES IN TWO PLACES – POLICE PROTECTION AND PLANNING WERE APPALLING – TRUMP AND HIS CLOSE ASSOCIATES WERE CRIMINALLY RECKLESS BY INCITING A MOB –TRUMP’S BEHAVIOR HAS BEEN JUST AS RECKLESS WITH CHINA OR IRAN OR ISRAEL – HE HAS SHAMED THE UNITED STATES MANY TIMES – BUT ONLY NOW DO WE SEE A SERIOUS REACTION AND THE REACTION IS INAPPROPRIATE AND ITSELF DANGEROUS – BIDEN PROMISES NEW DOMESTIC ANTI-TERROR LEGISLATION NOW AS A FIRST PRIORITY – IT IS THE LAST THING ANYONE NEEDS

 John Chuckman

COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN CONSORTIUM NEWS

“Joe Biden has announced plans to roll out new domestic terrorism laws in the wake of the Capitol Hill riot.”

“He said he plans to make a priority of passing a law against domestic terrorism, and he has been urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight.”

 

Just what the world needs, more anti-terrorism legislation. Thanks, Joe Biden, for making that your first priority.

But, no matter what, we may be sure that in America free speech remains securely in control.

After all, didn’t the Supreme Court tell us that money is free speech?

I just wonder how long it will be before the extrajudicial killing-by-drone industry gets extended into the domestic market?

It would be perfect for all those groups living in hard-to-reach places or police no-go areas.

In the past, the CIA’s work with other methods of control, such as assassination of leaders, gradually was adapted to domestic needs, starting around 1960.