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Tulsi Gabbard: Domestic-Terrorism Bill Is ‘a Targeting of Almost Half of
the Country’
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2020 Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard
speaks during a news conference at the The 9/11 Tribute Museum in New
York City, October 29, 2019. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)
Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic representative from Hawaii, on
Friday expressed concern that a proposed measure to combat domestic
terrorism could be used to undermine civil liberties.
Gabbard’s comments came during an appearance on Fox News Primetime when
host Brian Kilmeade asked her if she was “surprised they’re pushing
forward with this extra surveillance on would-be domestic terror.”
“It’s so dangerous as you guys have been talking about, this is an issue
that all Democrats, Republicans, independents, Libertarians should be
extremely concerned about, especially because we don’t have to guess
about where this goes or how this ends,” Gabbard said.
She continued: “When you have people like former CIA Director John
Brennan openly talking about how he’s spoken with or heard from
appointees and nominees in the Biden administration who are already
starting to look across our country for these types of movements similar
to the insurgencies they’ve seen overseas, that in his words, he says
make up this unholy alliance of religious extremists, racists, bigots,
he lists a few others and at the end, even libertarians.”
She said her concern lies in how officials will define the
characteristics they are searching for in potential threats.
“What characteristics are we looking for as we are building this profile
of a potential extremist, what are we talking about? Religious
extremists, are we talking about Christians, evangelical Christians,
what is a religious extremist? Is it somebody who is pro-life? Where do
you take this?” Gabbard said.
She said the proposed legislation could create “a very dangerous
undermining of our civil liberties, our freedoms in our Constitution,
and a targeting of almost half of the country.”
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“You start looking at obviously, have to be a white person, obviously
likely male, libertarians, anyone who loves freedom, liberty, maybe has
an American flag outside their house, or people who, you know, attended
a Trump rally,” Gabbard said.
The Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2021 was introduced in the
House earlier this week in the aftermath of rioting at the U.S. Capitol
earlier this month that left five dead.
“Unlike after 9/11, the threat that reared its ugly head on January 6th
is from domestic terror groups and extremists, often racially-motivated
violent individuals,” Representative Brad Schneider (D., Ill.) said in a
statement announcing the bipartisan legislation.
“America must be vigilant to combat those radicalized to violence, and
the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act gives our government the tools to
identify, monitor and thwart their illegal activities. Combatting the
threat of domestic terrorism and white supremacy is not a Democratic or
Republican issue, not left versus right or urban versus rural. Domestic
Terrorism is an American issue, a serious threat the we can and must
address together,” he said.
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