{"id":50069,"date":"2016-06-23T12:28:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T16:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=50069"},"modified":"2016-06-23T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T18:08:08","slug":"democrats-war-on-due-process-and-terrorist-fearmongering-long-predate-orlando","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2016\/06\/democrats-war-on-due-process-and-terrorist-fearmongering-long-predate-orlando\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats\u2019 War on Due Process and Terrorist Fearmongering Long Predate Orlando"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Even worse was the messaging that came from an operative with CAP, who has become a little Twitter star among the Democratic faithful for his\u00a0endless Cheneyite exploitation\u00a0of terrorism fears to attack Republicans and justify gun watchlists. This is how he described Feinstein\u2019s bill:<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s hard to put into words how appalling that is. This CAP official is\u00a0not only outright lying about Feinstein\u2019s bill:\u00a0pretending that it bars \u201cterrorists\u201d \u2014 rather than people placed on\u00a0a suspicion watchlist \u2014 from buying guns.\u00a0Worse than rank dishonesty, he is literally, explicitly equating\u00a0people who will be deemed suspicious by the U.S. government \u2014 overwhelmingly Muslim, needless to say \u2014\u00a0with \u201cterrorists.\u201d As Sam Adler-Bell put it<\/a> about this tweet, \u201cReferring to all people on the DOJ\u2019s watchlist as \u2018terrorists\u2019 is legally incorrect and ethically ugly.\u201d In\u00a0Volsky\u2019s\u00a0mind, or at least in his propaganda, anyone deemed by the government to be suspicious is now a \u201cterrorist\u201d \u2014 no evidence needed, no trial held, no due process accorded.<\/p>\n

For eight years, this mentality was the driving force behind the worst Bush\/Cheney war-on-terror abuses. No matter what the extremist policy was \u2014 indefinite detention, warrantless eavesdropping, torture, no-fly lists, Guant\u00e1namo, rendition, CIA black sites \u2014 Republicans would justify it by saying it was merely\u00a0being done to \u201cterrorists\u201d and would accuse their due process-advocating critics of wanting to \u201cprotect terrorists.\u201d What they actually meant was that all of this was being done to people accused<\/em> by the U.S. government of involvement in terrorism. But in their mind, \u201cgovernment accusations of terrorism\u201d were synonymous with \u201cproof of guilt.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is\u00a0exactly<\/em> the warped, Orwellian formulation Democrats embrace: As is extremely obvious, the\u00a0Democrats\u2019 definition of\u00a0\u201cterrorist\u201d is \u201canyone whom the U.S. government suspects of being a terrorist.\u201d Just as was true of all those GOP abuses, what makes these Democratic proposals so dangerous is that they constitute a war on the most basic right of due process. As Vox<\/em>\u2019s Dara Lind explained<\/a>, \u201cIf you give the government more power to ban terrorists from having guns, you\u2019re reinforcing the power it has to define who counts as a terrorist.\u201d That\u2019s why the ACLU yesterday wrote to the Senate<\/a> and denounced Feinstein\u2019s bill:<\/p>\n

Source: Democrats\u2019 War on Due Process and Terrorist Fearmongering Long Predate Orlando<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Even worse was the messaging that came from an operative with CAP, who has become a little Twitter star among the Democratic faithful for his\u00a0endless Cheneyite exploitation\u00a0of terrorism fears to attack Republicans and justify gun watchlists. This is how he described Feinstein\u2019s bill: It\u2019s hard to put into words how appalling that is. This CAP…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,5,17,22,9],"tags":[1332,12,2071],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50069"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50069"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50077,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50069\/revisions\/50077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}