The State Department said they were making the designations as “part of a broader U.S. government effort to address the transnational dimensions of the threat posed by REMVE actors and reflect the Biden-Harris Administration’s continued commitment to countering domestic terrorism (DT), which includes REMVE.”
Great. They specifically said “domestic” in that. Now do the American neo-Nazi groups.
IANAL but my understanding is that there would have to be a change in the law to allow designating domestic terror groups and it’d be tough to make it constitutional. Like, international groups don’t have any constitutional protections so the State Department can make a list. For domestic groups, we have hate crime laws and the FBI can infiltrate groups and foil plots but no government agency makes a list (so it falls to non-profits like the SPLC and others).
“Peaceful protesters” is an officially designated domestic terrorist group since Occupy Wall Street.
Might be a different kind of designation?
They can’t.
We need American Neo-Nazi groups to be our cops who attack the actual terrorists, “peaceful protesters”.
