He will be charged as a Super Mega Patriot, and will be sentenced to a weekly gig on Fox News for only $250k a year.
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Well, crap! That’s my whole day’s dose of enraging news in one story.
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It goes against the narrative that there are no white nationalist terrorists.
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Hey, c’mon, he was just kidding around. Can’t anybody take a joke?
JK
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None. He would be dead already. Cops feared for their life.
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If stocking piling fire arms with spreadsheets of targets that are the perceived oppositions to an admired supporter of white supremacy, does not qualify as domestic terrorism…
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2331
Then perhaps it is STOCHASTIC Terrorism…
the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement of a violent act, which is statistically probable but whose specifics cannot be predicted:
The lone-wolf attack was apparently influenced by the rhetoric of stochastic terrorism.
One can only hope that NOT charging him with domestic terrorism will not result to opinions of “an otherwise blameless life” or “very fine people on both sides”!
Terrorism of any kind…international, domestic, stochastic…should never be a partisan issue because it endangers people’s lives!
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Silly TPM. White people aren’t terrorists. Only brown people are terrorists.
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Well it certainly looks like the Coast Guard Officer did something.
Looks like a disturbed loner to me.
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And lots of thoughts and prayers (even though she’s a heathen and got what she deserved*).
*snark alert
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He seems nice…
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and
A Coast Guard spokesman has said Hasson will remain on active duty until the case against him is resolved.
He even gets to keep his pay.
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Last year(2018), a series of investigative reports by ProPublica and “Frontline” found multiple members of violent neo-Nazi groups among the ranks of the military.
And a 2017 poll conducted by the Military Times found that nearly 25 percent of service members surveyed said they encountered white nationalists within their ranks. That poll found that 30 percent of troops said they saw white nationalism as a bigger threat to national security than the wars in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
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He could bring some much-needed diversity to Guantanamo Bay.
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Innocent until etc. But if I were his commanding officer, I would isolate him in an assignment location where he could not harm his fellow service members or others.
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White nationalism
This story would be hard to believe, except that this is something that literally happens ALL THE TIME.
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Sad to say, this isn’t surprising. Depressing, but not surprising.
What would the actual crime be? Couldn’t he argue that his hit list was just “fantasy” or maybe “world building for short stories”? Having a shit ton of guns is clearly A-OK for whatever reason so that don’t count.
Sooooooo, when does his promotion / pay raise come through?
MAGA’ing all up in here.
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