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As mainstream media sued by James Comey distracted the show, Trump has signed a somewhat obvious national security directive to determine that “anti-Christian” and “anti-American” views are radical indicators of leftist violence. It is known as the National Security President Memorandum 7 and is called “NSPM-7” by government insiders.
“This is the first time in U.S. history to eliminate left-wing terrorism,” said Stephen Miller, Trump's homeland security adviser.
To a certain extent, the main media have noticed the directive (even c Span! ) mistakenly labeled it as an “executive order”, just like last week when “Antifa” was called a domestic terrorist organization.
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Since returning to office, Trump has signed more than 200 execution orders, and it is hard to exaggerate how different NSPM-7 is.
Executive Orders openly list courses for daily federal government actions; although the National Security Directive is an exhaustive policy ordinance for defense, foreign policy, intelligence and law enforcement agencies. National security directives are often secret, but in this case, the Trump administration chose to publish NSPM-7 – the seventh since he took office. )
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The executive order comes amid a widespread attack on the First Amendment by the Trump administration.
Previous national security directives have caused controversy, even political shaping. For example, in 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed the Supreme Secret Presidential Directive 59 (“PD-59”) to direct new nuclear war policies that continued until the end of the Cold War. When revealed, PD-59 aroused public outrage.
Similarly, President George W. Bush signed a series of confidential national security directives after 9/11, most notably the NSA's illegal domestic interception, which was not publicly disclosed until four years later.
In NSPM-7, “Opposing domestic terrorism and organized political violence”, President Trump guide The Justice Department, the FBI and other national security agencies and departments fought against his political violence in the United States, re-editing the Joint Terrorism Task Force network to focus on “leftist” political violence in the United States. As Trump aide Stephen Miller said, a massive counter-terrorism army composed of federal, state and local agents will form “a central hub for this effort.”
NSPM-7 guides a new national strategy to “destroy” any individual or group “this fanatical political violence”, including “before leading to violent political acts.”
In other words, they are targeted before the crime, reference Ethnic Minority Report.
The Trump administration targets not only organizations or groups, but also individuals and “entities” as NSPM-7 calls it.
- Anti-Americanism,
- Anti-capitalism,
- Anti-Christianity,
- Support the overthrow of the US government,
- Extreme immigration,
- Racial extremism,
- Gender extremism
- Hostile to those who think of traditional American views,
- Hostility to those who have traditional views on America and religion, and
- Hostility to those who have traditional views on morality.
“The United States needs a national strategy to investigate and undermine networks, entities and organizations that incite political violence so that law enforcement can interfere with criminal conspiracy Before they lead to violent political behavior,” directive state (focused on mine).
“Pre-crime” efforts to prevent attacks before they occur are at the heart of the post-9/11 counter-terrorism itself. After the facts brought terrorists to justice and no longer satisfied with investigating terrorist acts, the Bush administration took pre-emptive action. Overseas, this leads to air stabbing and “special operation” killing missions on drones. At home, this led to a counter-terrorism campaign marked by excessive and illegal government surveillance and the use of undercover agents and “confidential human sources” to capture (and be in trouble) potentially becoming terrorists.
Now, with Donald Trump’s instructions re-tuning counter-terrorism tools to follow Americans at home, it means surveillance of political activity or speech as a way to find “radicalism.” (Contrary to other national security documents in the Post-Watergate era, NSPM-7 doesn't even mention the First Amendment or fundamental rights of Americans to organize and protest).
The focus on voice is obvious throughout NSPM-7. The directive said that political violence is the result of “organized movements” that often (left) begins dehumanizing goals in “anonymous chats, face-to-face meetings, social media and even educational institutions.”
To understand how widespread this statement, Trump earlier called Antifa a domestic terrorist group and accompanied by the White House fact sheet, he picked out the people who “celebrated” Luigi Mangione, allegedly the killer Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthCare Ceo, last December last December. As I wrote at the time, this describes a lot of Americans!
Trump's new national security memorandum also hints at Mangione, but adds a larger category of potential targets.
NSPM-7 is fundamentally a law enforcement directive that eliminates the complications of the pursuit of political violence using active duty military personnel or the National Guard. It directed the Ministry of Justice to focus approximately 200 Joint Terrorism Task Forces (JTTFs) on the new mission. The FBI’s task force network includes more than 4,000 members – including FBI personnel and task force officials (or TFOs) from more than 500 state and local agencies and 50 federal agencies, including special agents, police, intelligence analysts and surveillance technicians. Established for the first time in New York City today to systematically collaborate with the FBI and NYPD, there are task forces across the country today, including each of the FBI's 55 field offices.
The advantage of using an existing network for the Trump White House is that it bypasses congressional oversight, scrutinizes and even masks federal activities by governors and legislatures at the state level. State, city and local police have signed memorandums with the Federal Reserve’s agreement to combat terrorism and have assigned officers as task force officials.
NSPM-7 said JTTFS “should investigate” federal crimes related to “political violence, terrorism or conspiracy to rights; and any violent deprivation of civil rights” in connection with “recruitment or acts of radicals.” It authorizes JTTFS to investigate individuals, organizations and funders to “responsible, sponsor or otherwise assist, and teach the principal actors of the criminal act.”
“The Attorney General should issue specific guidance to ensure domestic terrorism priorities, including politically motivated terrorist acts, such as organized challenge movements, blowing, riots, robbery, robbery, invasion, violation, property violation, threats of violence, violence and civilian diseases,” NSPM-7 said. Folk diseases?
I don't want to sound hyperbolic, but it's clear that NSPM-7 is a war declaration against anyone who doesn't support the Trump administration and its agenda. Yes, it repeats the word “violence” over and over again, just to hunt down citizens who are moved, but it also directs surveillance and intelligence gathering to map and target new “evildoers” to borrow the bush label he took out from the Bible in the days after 9/11.
The party's focus is no longer obvious.
“The real problem is: because Charlie [Kirk] Murdered – A friend of mine was assassinated – nothing changed around them. “The White House Counter-Terrorism newsmax After signing of NSPM-7. “No one leader – no one left-wing thought leader, MPs, senators – no one says we are distanced from violent speech.”
“The left refuses to get rid of the violence, so President Trump is taking steps to protect us from violent rhetoric by sniper and bullets,” Gorka continued.
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