The Capitol Attack Was Enabled by America s Failure to Address Poverty and Racism
The country has the resources, the skills and the techniques to address these interconnected issues, but not the will to see it through.
Protesters wave American and Confederate flags during clashes with Capitol police at a rally to contest the certification of the 2020 US presidential election results by the US Congress, at the US Capitol Building in Washington, US January 6, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo
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On August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old white woman, was killed when a car deliberately attacked counter-protesters after a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. A man from Ohio who had demonstrated that day alongside a white nationalist group was charged with her murder.
An expanded no fly list. New crimes put on the books. Increased use of the death penalty. These are some of the ways that politicians, pundits and law enforcement want to head off a repeat of the 6 January attack on the Capitol. But a renewed national security push aimed at addressing domestic terrorism has civil liberties groups steeling themselves, concerned that moves to combat far-right extremism will instead redound against communities of.
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After last week’s storming of the US Capitol by a right-wing mob resembling an adult Halloween party gone awry (bring your own fur and anti-Semitism), talk is again resurfacing about expanding the War on Terror. On Thursday,
The Wall Street Journalreported that President-elect Joe Biden will “make a priority of passing a law against domestic terrorism,” noting that “he has been urged to create a White House post overseeing the fight against ideologically inspired violent extremists and increasing funding to combat them.”