https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/trump-cant-designate-antifa-or-any-movement-domestic-terrorist-organization/
“There’s no legal process or meaning” for what the president said,
Patel told us. “He’s reflecting on the process that we use for foreign
terrorist organizations.”
The secretary of state has the legal authority to designate groups as foreign terrorist organizations under federal law.
The federal government makes those FTO designations through a six-step
process involving the State Department and other agencies. The
designations enable the federal government to freeze assets, prosecute
individuals for aiding those groups and restrict immigration for members
of those groups, as the Government Accountability Office explains.
Nevertheless, groups like Antifa need to be called out.
ReplyDeleteImagine the streets in Germany in the late 20's and early 30's. On one side you had the Fascist Brown Shirts rioting. But who were their opponents? The Communists, a group just as evil and destructive. The lesson is that just because one side is terrible doesn't mean the other side isn't as well.