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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by darawk on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:37PM (#23786522)
There is no such thing as a 'domestic terrorist organization'. It is illegal to classify any domestic organization as terrorist. That's why the KKK isn't one, and it's why Antifa isn't one either, Trump's blustering about it notwithstanding.
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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by FilterSweep on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:37PM (#23786526)
Antifa is considered a domestic terrorist organization to the trump admin.

Even though being antifa is simply being against fascism.

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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by drusepth on Thursday July 09, 2020 @09:57PM (#23787384)
"Being antifa" has a lot more connotations than just being against fascism.

Equating the antifa group and it's loose "members" with just an anti-ideology is a cop-out that isn't helpful to differentiating a desirable mindset (anti-fascism) with the undesirable tactics that many "members" of Antifa use.

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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by darawk on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:46PM (#23786582)
It's not though. Not in any legal sense.
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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by FilterSweep on Thursday July 09, 2020 @08:15PM (#23786789)
Is it or is it not? Per this tweet, I really don’t know: https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1267129644...
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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by darawk on Thursday July 09, 2020 @08:21PM (#23786825)
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/trump-cant-designate-antif...

Fortunately our legal system doesn't operate on the basis of Trump's tweets.

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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by minerjoe on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:06PM (#23787427)
I'd call TigerSwan a domestic terrorist organization with the way they handled the Standing Rock protest.
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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by darawk on Thursday July 09, 2020 @10:17PM (#23787481)
Again, what I would call them is not the point. The point is that it is unconstitutional to designate any domestic organization a 'terrorist organization'.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/trump-cant-designate-antif...

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Re:Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affilia... by aspenmayer on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:58PM (#23786667)
Actions that prevent fair and free exercise of civil rights are against the law. The designation of the groups under the law is not relevant to the actions of the KKK already being illegal if they interfere with the above.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Enforcement_Act

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