For mainstream lawmakers, the January 6 attack was a wake-up call to a simmering threat. No longer able to pretend white nationalist violence is a fringe remnant of a bygone era, some elected officials have drawn attention to law enforcement’s negligence to prevent the violence at the capitol and are calling for new approaches.
However, some of their calls to action point toward old approaches that have only entrenched the forces of white supremacy: domestic terrorism laws. In the immediate aftermath of the January 6 attack, President Joe Biden expressed support for a domestic terrorism law. Brian O’Hare, the president of the FBI Agents Association, called on Congress to make domestic terrorism a federal crime. In a February
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A U.S. Sailor stands watch over a cell block at U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Photos: MGN Online
WASHINGTONâTwenty years after the first detainees arrived at Guantánamo Bay Detention Center in Cuba, the United States is still holding 40 detainees, indefinitely, most without charge and none having received a fair trial.
âAfter 9/11 happened, I was kidnapped from Mauritania to Jordan, from there to Afghanistan and from there to Guantanamo Bay where I was tortured,â Mohamedou Ould Slahi told the virtual audience at the Rights or Rightlessness Event, to commemorate the 20thAnniversary of the first detainees arriving at Guantanamo Bay.