i m also muslim-american. it made me very unique with my own identity, but with all that said, part of the challenge is that because the individuals being charged with the crimes for january 6th, because they re not part of formal terrorist organizations that the u.s. has identified overseas, that s why these more, the heavier sentences that you see on, or we used to see on home-grown extremism cases in the u.s. haven t been brought forward. because the proud boys are not listed as a domestic terrorism list, or qanon. so until the law changes, if at all with respect to capturing extremist groups here, prosecutors don t have the same tools that they would have used in the past. i don t think there s a racial bias here. should they? well, again, this is one of the really interesting debates in this conversation, about what more does the country need to do
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with respect to dealing with domestic terrorism environment as it is right now. i, i have argued for a while now that we at least need to have a conversation about what would a domestic terrorism organization list look like, and who would be in control of it, and how would it be managed to make sure it s not abused. but right now, the political will for that in congress doesn t seem to be there. so if it s not going to come through the law, where else would it come through? that s a really tough nut to crack, to get to this issue of is there racial bias in the way these cases are being handled right now. yeah, and of course when you re dealing with domestic concerns, you rub up against the first amendment and free freedom of speech. greatly respect your insights tonight. and thank you for making time for us at home.
and a whole host of senior officials have labeled it an act of domestic terrorism. so it definitely fits the definition take me through the process of how or why prosecutors choose to call the act itself an act of domestic terrorism but then charge individuals with things that don t reflect the seriousness of what we witnessed that day? and i know they re still building up their cases, but we re seeing things like trespassing, entering congressional property or trying to disrupt congressional proceedings, but we re not seeing the term terrorism applied in the charges leveled against these individuals. why do you think that is? this is one of the really difficult aspects of the domestic terrorism issue in the united states versus international terrorism. it s a complex of legal
watch that how could we not dunk on him. but the interaction between cruz and carlson also demonstrated just how far the right is willing to go to dpas light you into thinking january 6 was not a i mean, to be clear here, the fbi defines domestic terrorism as violent criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological. now with that definition in mind, how could anyone honestly look at that video from january 6 and call it by any other name other than terrorism? what happened on january 6 was domestic terror, and that s why the next time tucker carlson or your crazy uncle or anyone else tries to call it anything but