Tesla and Terrorism Nonsense
The 9/11 attacks provided the U.S. government with one of the greatest opportunities in U.S. history to destroy the freedom of the American people. Declaring a “war on terrorism,” federal officials seized upon the crisis to exercise omnipotent powers, purportedly to keep the nation “safe” from the terrorists who were supposedly hell-bent on coming to get us. In the process, the war-on-terrorism racket became as effective in destroying liberty as the war-on-communism racket had done throughout the Cold War.
With the war on terrorism, U.S. officials don’t have to bother complying with constitutional restraints and the restrictions in the Bill of Rights. That’s because the U.S. is considered to be at “war.” Therefore, the executive branch is permitted to do pretty much anything it wants without concerning itself with interference by the other two branches — Congress and the federal judiciary. That’s a perfect recipe for the destruction of liberty.
We are now witnessing this phenomenon in cases involving criminal actions by people who are protesting the actions of President Trump’s buddy Elon Musk, who Trump appointed to head the so-called Department of Governmental Efficiency (DOGE). The acts that the defendants have purportedly committed are ordinary state-level crimes — trespass, vandalism, destruction of property, and arson that destroyed Teslas. Presumably, the suspects are retaliating against Musk for his DOGE activities. Ordinarily, it would be state officials who would be prosecuting them, given that vandalism, trespass, destruction of property, and arson are state-level crimes, not federal crimes.
Not here though. The feds are treating these state-level offenses differently. They have decreed that the defendants are actually guilty of the federal crime of “terrorism.” Apparently the notion is that instead of simply using these acts of violence to retaliate against Musk, they are instead using violence to coerce the federal government into changing its policies.
That notion gets them into federal court given that terrorism is a federal offense … except for one thing. Ever since the 9/11 attacks, terrorism has also been considered at act of war.
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