Leftists say they don't want a deeper police state... Then a deeper police state is created.

Who could have possibly predicted this.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC Jan 9, 2021·Twitter for iPhone

As the Vice Chair of the Oversight subcommittee who ran investigations into domestic terror laws, I respectfully disagree. Our problems on Wednesday weren’t that there weren’t enough laws, resources, or intelligence. We had them, & they were not used. It’s time to find out why.

Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein

The House must as an immediate step pass a domestic terrorism statute, with a focus on white supremacist terrorism, and send it to the Senate.

https://archive.vn/XRwE6 https:// www. thedailybeast. com/after-the-capitol-riots-the-last-thing-we-need-is-another-war-on-terror

The Last Thing We Need Is Another War on Terror

NO SEQUEL OPINION

The U.S. government does not need new domestic terrorism laws to stop white insurrectionists. It needs the will to confront a violent and deeply American legacy on the march.

Spencer Ackerman Senior Nat’l Security Correspondent

Published Jan. 13, 2021 4:57AM ET

“Last week’s events were traumatizing—not least for the Members of Congress and Capitol staff who were onsite. But we must not give into fear or allow ourselves to be terrorized by those who seek to harm us. The answer is not a broader security structure, or a deeper police state,” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) told The Daily Beast.

Throughout the Trump era, there have been understandable but misguided calls to pass a domestic terrorism law expanding an investigative dragnet around Radical White Terror. Every law needed to combat Radical White Terror already exists. Further empowering law enforcement is more likely to give the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and local police tools to target people who meant to donate money to legitimate right-wing causes and religious charities—after which, in keeping with historical practice, they will have an expanded domestic ambit to target nonwhite and left-wing groups, causes and enterprises. The very police entities that would be empowered tend to make common cause with those they ostensibly target.

“We should not lose sight of our disgust at the double standards employed against white protesters and Black ones, or against Muslims and non-Muslims,” Omar told The Daily Beast. “But at the same time we must resist the very human desire for revenge—to simply see the tools that have oppressed Black and Brown people expanded.”

Never forget Spencer "Call Them Racists" Ackerman from Journolist:

https://archive.ph/Riacr https:// www. wsj. com/articles/SB10001424052748703724104575379200412040286

'Call Them Racists'

How "journolists" tried to suppress the news.

By  JAMES TARANTO

Updated July 20, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

Most damning is a long quote from a Spencer Ackerman, who worked for something called the Washington Independent:

I do not endorse a Popular Front, nor do I think you need to. It's not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright's defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger's [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically.

And I think this threads the needle. If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they've put upon us. Instead, take one of them--Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares--and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes them sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.

https://archive.ph/gEUwH https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/ca-podcaster-gets-visit-from-police-after-aoc-tweet/

CA podcaster gets visit from police after ‘lightly’ criticizing AOC on Twitter

By Dana Kennedy April 10, 2021 | 4:52pm | Updated

Ryan Wentz, who goes by the Twitter handle @queeralamode, said the plainclothes California Highway Patrol officers came to his door Thursday, after he posted video of some vague remarks made by Ocasio-Cortez on Israel and Palestine and criticized her comments as “incredibly underwhelming.”

AOC was not behind the police visit to Wentz, who is the cohost of the left-wing podcast “Left Bitches,” the Capitol Police said in a statement.

“USCP investigates all threats that are reported by Congressional offices,” the department said. “The Department also monitors open and classified sources to identify and investigate threats. This is standard operating procedure for the Department. As it pertains to this incident, the Congresswomen (sic) did not request that USCP initiate an investigation.”

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Robert Barnes‏ @barnes_law 6 Jul 2021

Guess which federal police force is completely exempt from the Freedom of Information Act, completely outside executive branch control & completely beholden to most corrupt members of Congress. The same one extending its authority to the whole country, w/ cross-country offices.

Los Angeles TimesVerified account @latimes

U.S. Capitol Police announced that the agency is opening regional field offices in California and Florida to investigate threats to members of Congress in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

https://archive.ph/PxNN5 https:// www. latimes. com/politics/story/2021-07-06/u-s-capitol-police-to-open-california-office-following-jan-6-attack

U.S. Capitol Police to open California office following Jan. 6 attack

By SARAH D. WIRE | STAFF WRITER  JULY 6, 2021 UPDATED 1 PM PT

WASHINGTON —  The U.S. Capitol Police on Tuesday announced that the agency was opening regional field offices in California and Florida to investigate threats to members of Congress in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

“At this time, Florida and California are where the majority of our potential threats are,” a department spokesperson said in a statement. “The field offices will be the first for the Department. A regional approach to investigating and prosecuting threats against Members is important, so we will be working closely with the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in those locations.”

The police agency rarely provides information to the public on how it operates, citing security concerns and member safety. For example, unlike other government agencies, the internal watchdog’s reports are not publicly available.

A spokesperson did not answer questions Tuesday about how many staff would be hired or what the cost to taxpayers would be.

The spokesperson said other regional offices were expected.