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Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 10:01 AM Jan 2018

Very quietly, Justice Department charges white supremacist with domestic terrorism

One would think that when the Department of Justice nabs a terrorist, they would be beaming from ear-to-ear, and, taking pains to let the public know about their success. Perhaps a press release. Maybe a press conference. After all, arrests like that boosts careers. Unfortunately, the Trump Justice Dept., currently under the leadership of Jeff Sessions, is taking cues from the Big Kahuna himself, tending to downplay domestic terrorism. After all, said Trump, after this summer's neo-Nazi, Alt-Right tödlicher Aufruhr (deadly riot in German) in Charlottesville, Virginia, there are "some very fine people" on both sides. I'm assuming that Trump doesn't think that Taylor Michael Wilson is one of those

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/m/d8978bd8-aeec-396e-b901-4e25ea091e4c/ss_very-quietly%2C-justice.html

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one would think that when the Department of Justice nabs a terrorist, they would be beaming from ear-to-ear, and, taking pains to let the public know about their success. Perhaps a press release. Maybe a press conference. After all, arrests like that boosts careers. Unfortunately, the Trump Justice Dept., currently under the leadership of Jeff Sessions, is taking cues from the Big Kahuna himself, tending to downplay domestic terrorism. After all, said Trump, after this summer's neo-Nazi, Alt-Right tödlicher Aufruhr (deadly riot in German) in Charlottesville, Virginia, there are "some very fine people" on both sides.

I'm assuming that Trump doesn't think that Taylor Michael Wilson is one of those "very fine people." However, according to , "The Justice Department didn't do any of [the above] when federal prosecutors unsealed terrorism charges" against Wilson.



"The 26-year-old white supremacist from St. Charles, Missouri, allegedly breached a secure area of an Amtrak train on Oct. 22 while armed with a gun and plenty of backup ammunition," Reilly reported. "He set off the emergency brake, sending passengers as the train cars went 'completely black.'"

"He was going to go on a killing spree at these places with 11 AR-15s with speed reloaders and a drum magazine.

This was a narrowly avoided second vegas style massacre by a Trump cultist alt-righter, this should be bigger news. fuck."


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