Season 4 Podcast 83 “Liberalism Pt II.”
On December 13, 2022, The Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, House of Representatives, 117th Congress, Second Session met for the 7th and final time on the Subject of White terrorism.
The following is the opening statement, by the Honorable Jamie Raskin (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding.
Well, I want to recognize myself for an opening statement. I want to thank our excellent witnesses for joining us today. This is our seventh. And it is our final of several years; worth of hearings that we’ve conducted on the problem of violent White supremacy, a traditional and pernicious enemy of the voting rights, the civil rights, and the civil liberties of the American people.
From statements such as “pernicious enemy of the voting rights, the civil rights, and the civil liberties of the American people” would you like to guess the foregone conclusion of the committee on who the enemy is. Let me give you another clue provided by The Honorable Jamie Raskin, a democrat representing Maryland’s 8th Congressional District, an attorney, law professor, and Harvard Graduate. Quote,
“In prior hearings over the last three years, long before violent insurrectionists bearing confederate battle flags overran the Capitol on January 6, 2021, we found that violent White supremacy and its partner, antidemocratic extremists, today constitute the most serious domestic terror threat facing our people.”
The committee met 7 times. Let me remind of the theme of committee meeting number 6 held September 29, 2021, as suggested by the following statements from the transcript:
1. The protest that turned into a riot and an insurrection had been promoted and incited by then-President Donald Trump.
2. The well-trained battalions of domestic violent extremists consisted of Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, Three Percenters, Q-Anon followers, Aryan Nations, Boogaloo Boys, armed militiamen, white Christian nationalists, and other violent extremists. They rallied behind the banner of Donald Trump’s Big Lie:
3. And yet Trump’s Big Lie unified these disparate violent groups into a mass street movement to ``stop the steal” and storm the Capitol to interrupt the counting of Electoral College votes for the very first time in the history of the United States, nearly toppling the peaceful transfer of power in our country.
4. During the Trump Administration, top officials focused on the threat posed by far-left extremism, while a right-wing insurrection against the Capitol was planned in plain sight on social media, in the newspaper, on the airwaves.
5. Ninety percent of those plots were committed, as you can see, by domestic extremists, 67 percent by far-right groups.
6. ``Countering Violent Extremism in the Trump Era; which estimates that 85 percent of countering violent extremist grants and over half of the programs targeted minority groups.
7. New York Times report from February 2021. It details how the Trump Administration’s obsession with antifa hindered Federal law enforcement’s attempts to counter the rising tide of right-wing violence.
8. The report details how personnel and other resources were diverted from investigations into white supremacist and far-right anti-government groups to satisfy President Trump’s desire to target so-called antifa activists.
In other words, the violent white supremacists are Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans.
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