#No War No KKK No Fascist USA!

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

"TIME FOR A SWITCH, ARMY OF THE RICH...!"

PIC(S) INFO: Mega-spotlight on Dave Dictor, vocalist/lyricist of American hardcore punk band MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS (MDC), performing live at the Skylite Club in Long Beach, CA, c. 1983. 📸: Linda Aronow.

[CHORUS]

"Dead cops! [4x]

Time for a switch, Army of the rich, Macho fuckin' slaves, We'll piss on your graves!"

-- "Dead Cops/America's So Straight" (1982) by MILLIONS OF DEAD COPS

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/2897546977605040927 (all found on Picuki).

[dailyalbumrecs]

Millions of Dead Cops - MDC

MDC's first album is a fantastic hardcore punk record that I think deserves more praise. One of their songs, Born to Die, was rerecorded in 2016 with the lyric "No war, no KKK, no fascist USA" changed to "No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA", and that version got covered by Green Day. The song Church & State is a fantastic critique of the excessive influence of Christianity in the US. My favorite track is John Wayne Was a Nazi.

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[nerdgirlriot]

oh nooooo people are complaining that my favorite punk band did a punk thing oh noooooooo

gtfo Billie Joe has been speaking truth to power SINCE the American Idiot album came out 20 fucking years ago and it was about Bush Jr. and how the War on Terror was being grossly mishandled, during a period of American history where patriotism was the norm and if you did protest songs, people hated you

but Green Day did that because it needed to be said

for people who complain about "snowflakes" all the time MAGAts sure seem overly sensitive

It's not even the first time they switched the lyrics to songs to protest Trump:

here they are at the American Music Awards in 2016 during a live performance of "Bang Bang" where Billie starts chanting "No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA"

during the Global Citizen festival in 2017, Billie changes the lyrics in American idiot from "redneck agenda" to "dumb Trump America"

so yeah this wasn't the first time

[yourlegacysnotyourstosee]

Part 3 of my Green Day themed vest that I’m going to wear to The Saviors Tour! (Part 2 here)

I finished the album themed patches in my last post, so this is everything else!

Money Money 2020- Popular song by a band called The Network that’s totally definitely not a side project of Green Day. I had another patch with the logo on it, but I’m waiting to put in on since 2 patches for the Network on a Green Day themed vest might be excessive. 2020 is written vertically in yellow on the right side of the patch, on the left side of the patch, 2 dollar signs are painted in green, each one lining up with one of the “20”s. On black fabric.

Foxboro Hottubs- Another side project of Green Day’s. Recommended to make this patch by @pinterestbbg. Call me lazy, but this ones also screen printed onto black fabric. When I took these photos, I hadn’t sewn this patch or the Father of All patch yet.

No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA- Something Green Day chanted during the 2016 AMAs. It’s a reference to MDC’s song “Born to Die” (the original lyric was “no war, no kkk no fascist usa”). The line was adopted by a lot of protesters in 2016 and later changed to “no Trump”.

Compilation?- I made this patch before Saviors came out, for the Hella Mega Tour. It’s meant to look like fragments of each Green Day album that fit together like a puzzle. I do not consider myself an artist, and especially not a painter, so it doesn’t look realistic to each album, but I’m still pretty proud of it, even if I made it 3 years ago or so.

If you made it this far, congratulations! You get to vote on the next patch I add to this vest!

[randomlonelytorment]

[hompunkulus]

22. What do you disagree with Luciferians/Satanists most?

Nazi sympathy. "Strength through Joy" (German, "kraft durch Freude") is a Nazi Germany slogan to promote National Socialism through youth exercise programs. The term is used in the Eighteenth Enochian Key from The Satanic Bible.

O thou mighty light and burning flame of comfort!, that unveilest the glory of Satan to the center of the Earth; in whom the great secrets of truth have their abiding; that is called in thy kingdom: “strength through joy”, and is not to be measured. Be thou a window of comfort unto me. Move therefore, and appear! Open the mysteries of your creation! Be friendly unto me, for I am the same!, the true worshipper of the highest and ineffable King of Hell!

Operation Radio Werewolf, an offshoot of the Church of Satan, founded and formerly headed by Nikolas Schreck utilized Nazi imagery and symbolism in the late 80's

The Nazi dog whistles are there: the Wolfsangel symbol, an ancient German insignia appropriated by the Nazis and then American neo-Nazi groups, printed on the flags; the rally was held on 8-8-88, an overt deployment of 88 — or "Heil Hitler" among neo-Nazis.

These exaltations of Nazism and Mansonite ideologies, Laycock explained, was likely an attempt to elevate the Church of Satan to the pantheon of these two hate movements in the public hive mind. And based on retroactive interviews with Rice and others, who explicitly disavowed Nazi ideologies, the defense could very well be mounted that they were just messing with Rivera and the media industry that preyed on tales of Satanic panic for viewership.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/amp/Church-of-Satan-8-8-88-rally-San-Francisco-Lavey-16333009.php

Stephen E. Flowers, author of Lords of the Left Hand Path (whose pen name for Teutonic magic books is Edred Thorsson) is an early member of the Asatru Folk Assembly, formerly Asatru Free Assembly, which is deemed an 'extremist group' by the Anti-Defamation League. The Asatru Folk Assembly also owns rights to many of Edred Thorsson's material. He is also a former initiate of both the Church of Satan and Temple of Set. It appears he no longer holds the same extremist values as he is a co-founder of the Ring of Troth, or the Troth, which clearly states

The Troth is open to all who seek to know and to honor the Gods, ancestors, and values of the Germanic Heathen traditions, regardless of gender, race, nationality or sexual orientation. The Troth stands against any use of Germanic religion and culture to advance causes of racism, sexism, homophobia, white supremacy, or any other form of prejudice

Updated June 16, 2016

Thetroth.com

Despite the above, where he stands now is not clear, but his past is clearly speckled with White Nationalism.

As Satanists do we forgive someone's known racist past with no clear definition of present ideologies? Is it okay to use Nazi symbolism and tactics just to get a rise out of 'vanilla' people? As Luciferians is it okay not to shed light on these topics and vehemently reject them? Fuck no.

Racism is for the ignorant and hateful, Satanism and Luciferianism are for the intelligent pleasure seeker. We may not be able to change people's minds but we can cut ties with people, organizations, and rid ourselves of literature that continues to sympathize with racist and Nazi ideoligies.

(Other Satanic groups that share Nazi sympathy are Order of Nine Angles (ONA) and Joy of Satan.)

[skytouches]

Can’t believe I was listening to the Rocketman soundtrack when I found out there were LITERAL nazis at the Pride parade in Detroit wearing REGALIA and now I will be listening to harsh punk music until I go to bed

[stephenjaymorrisblog]

USA Leniency for Right Wing Terrorists

Stephen Jay Morris

8/10/2022

©Scientific Morality

It took decades before January 6, 2021 to awaken the USA government to the fact that Right wing terrorists are a danger to the security of American society. In the 60’s, the general public laughed at the conspiracy group, The John Birch Society. The famous meme back then was of little old ladies in tennis shoes, with pro-gun bumper stickers on their 4-door Fords. Otherwise, most people respected the Republican Party. Why? People thought of Conservatives as the true representatives of the USA. Exiles from communist countries became United States citizens who would then register as Republicans because they were considered true Americans.

The American Right has a bloody history of terrorism. There were cross burnings by the KKK to synagogue vandalism by the local Anti-Semites. When any of these incidences occurred, the police and other government authorities would turn their backs and pretend it never happened. Oil magnate, John D. Rockefeller, called the governor to have him send the state militia to slaughter hundreds of Left wing union workers. Way before there was a Soviet Union, the 1% demonized the Left as evil monsters. The Jews were portrayed as demons of Satan. The only freedom the Conservatives cared about was the grand potentates of American capitalism: their rights to underpay their workers and pay zero taxes. Conservatives in the 18th and 19th Centuries would change positions in a blink of the eye. When the government was helping the poor, they were Anti-government; but, when the government was protecting the rich, they were the most patriotic sons of bitches you could meet!

During World War II, in secret war rooms in Congress, there was talk of using the “Big One” to end the war. There are alleged classified documents of those debates: “Should we drop the Atom Bomb on the German Aryan people?” Votes were cast by both Democrat and Republican Congressman for an astounding “no!” “How about those yellow savages in Japan!” They all voted unanimously, “Hell, Yeah!” So...they dropped the evil bomb just a week before Japan was going to surrender anyway, just to showcase White American might! It was a warning to the whole world: “Don’t fuck with the USA!”

After the war, America was at the top of its might. The Republican Party became anti-Communist fanatics. When Nazis and Klansmen marched in the streets, they were merely dismissed as a bunch of nut cases. However, when a bunch of “Ban the Bomb” Beatniks protested against nuclear weapons in 1959, the newspapers claimed that they were personally sent by Fidel Castro! Speaking of Anti-Castro exiles, they bombed a beloved Hollywood, California, folk-blues club called “The Ash Grove,” in 1973. Why? Because a Trotskyite Socialist group used the place for meetings. No one was ever arrested or convicted for the crime; the incident quietly went into the cold files.

The 1960’s first militia group, “The Minutemen,” in California, were involved in bombings and drive-by shootings. They liked to threaten the so-called “New Left.” They threatened to disrupt anti-war demonstrations with automatic rifles. Was there an investigation by authorities? No. The FBI was too busy with the New Left and the CIA was fighting against Communists that were taking over Fascist foreign governments.

The Right never protested against Fascists. They did support the “Hard Hats” in New York as they were beating up anti-war protesters. The New York cops turned their heads and didn’t lift a finger to help the protesters. Did you ever hear the expression, “Silence is complicity?” I get the feeling that Conservatives like Fascism better than Communism. If the Republican Party doesn’t denounce Fascism, then they are Fascist sympathizers!

The Democratic Party has already denounced Communism, so don’t ask!

[mywonderfullyimperfectlife]

Please go read this letter I wrote to Christians and U.S citizens! It's something that needs to be said!

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=475156309508600&id=100010427048808

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

HARDCORE '83 -- PEAK AMERICAN STYLE PUNK ON THE GROUNDS OF PENN STATE.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on previously unseen shots of hardcore band's CRUCIFIX and WASTED TALENT (no shot of FANG, though), from the HUB Ballroom gig at Penn State (State College, PA), on May 5, 1983. 📸: Ed Desautels.

Source: www.facebook.com/story.php?id=100040534957069&story_fbid=963724834988673.

[amereinconvenience-blog]

Civil Opportunities

We can delve into more Our only hindrance We lack the will to explore So bide and bite your tongue until the fall of man revolves the rising sun

- Erasing history With every chapter written previously Monument of humanity's failure to coexist Another segregatious war crossed off the list The quelling of the heathens came not without resistance Such a battle never existed

- We're creating what's in store Our future is dependent We don't need a God with good intentions We need a mindset of dissent Sedition with a twist We will overcome this

[queen-mabs-revenge]

January 19, 2021

Dear Speaker Pelosi, Majority Leader McConnell, Minority Leader McCarthy, and Minority Leader Schumer:

We write to you today in the aftermath of one of the darkest days for American democracy. While we are all concerned about the security of the Capitol and armed attempts to interrupt our legislative business, we wish to state our strong opposition to the expansion of the domestic national security and surveillance powers of the United States government, as has often been the country’s reaction to horrific acts of violence like the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Trump mob’s success in breaching the Capitol was not due to a lack of resources at the disposal of federal law enforcement, and in this moment we must resist the erosion of our civil liberties and Constitutional freedoms, however well-intentioned proposed security reforms may be.

While we are not necessarily opposed to reforms to address the law enforcement and intelligence communities’ inability or unwillingness to seriously confront domestic white nationalist violence, we firmly believe that the national security and surveillance powers of the U.S. government are already too broad, undefined, and unaccountable to the people. To further degrade those rights and liberties in reaction to this attack would undermine our democracy at a time when we must join together to defend it with all our collective might.

While many may find comfort in increased national security powers in the wake of this attack, we must emphasize that we have been here before and we have seen where that road leads. Our history is littered with examples of initiatives sold as being necessary to fight extremism that quickly devolve into tools used for the mass violation of the human and civil rights of the American people such as:

The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) -- As we all know, the HUAC -- born as a reaction to the rise of pro-Nazi, fascist elements in the U.S. in the lead up to the Second World War -- quickly turned a blind eye to domestic fascist activity and used its powers to target a wide variety of Civil Rights and leftist leaders (1), such as the Honorable Coleman A Young (2) and Langston Hughes (3).

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) -- In the 1950s and 1960s, the FBI’s COINTELPRO domestic surveillance program, sold as a non-partisan program to target extremism on both ends of the political spectrum, failed to take serious action against the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) while targeting a wide array of Black, Indigenous, environmentalist, anti-war, leftist and peaceful protest groups with illegal wiretaps, warrantless searches, and other illegal, repressive activities (4). As the Department of Justice’s Nadine Frederique described in 2016, “The Bureau conducted a sophisticated vigilante operation aimed squarely at preventing the exercise of the First Amendment rights of speech and association on the theory that preventing the growth of dangerous groups and the propagation of dangerous ideas would protect the national security and deter violence.” (5) The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) adds that “The FBI used the information it gleaned from these improper investigations not for law enforcement purposes, but to “break up marriages, disrupt meetings, ostracize persons from their professions, and provoke target groups into rivalries that might result in deaths.”” (6) It was under this program that the FBI and CIA aided domestic right-wing paramilitary terrorist organizations such as the Minutemen and the Secret Army Organization (SAO). (7)

The USA Patriot Act -- In the aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, Congress hastily passed this disastrous legislative attack on Americans’ civil liberties in the name of national security that significantly undermined many of the reforms that stemmed from the Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities’ (Church Committee) investigation into -- amongst other scandals -- COINTELPRO. For two decades Congress has tried in vain to reign in (or at least conduct oversight of) the Pandora’s Box of surveillance and domestic intelligence programs contained within this Act with little success. (8)

The FBI’s Assessment Authority and Operation IRON FIST -- Following the birth of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in 2014 in response to the murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, the FBI has consistently utilized its “assessment” authority to target BLM activists for surveillance and harassment. By 2017, the FBI had invented a domestic terrorism category called “Black Identity Extremism movement.” Their justification? “An FBI intelligence report cited six unrelated incidents over a three year period in which Black subjects not associated with one another attacked police officers, to allege that a terrorist movement driven by ‘perceptions of police brutality against African Americans’ existed. (9) Put simply, this category is a bald-faced lie designed to terrorize Black Americans and their allies standing up to the very real terror of police brutality against the African American community. This lie was then used as a justification to conduct a nationwide assessment of an intelligence collection effort targeting BLM activists codenamed “Iron Fist.” The FBI prioritized this racist, pointless exercise over investigations into the very white supremacists and far-right extremists that attacked our nation’s Capitol on January 6th. (10)

These are just four examples from our recent history of expanded national security and surveillance powers being turned on law-abiding Americans. While it is clear that this attack represents one of the biggest intelligence failures in recent history, this does not mean that our government needs more national security and/or surveillance powers. To expand the government’s national security powers once again at the expense of the human and civil rights of the American people would only serve to further undermine our democracy, not protect it.

These white nationalist attackers and their forebears have benefited form increased state surveillance power at nearly every turn in our history. While not necessarily intentional, increasing the reach and power of our national security apparatus now would only serve to further the oppression of Black, brown, Indigenous, people of color, and leftist groups.

Instead we urge you to take action to achieve the following goals:

Fully investigate the violent January 6, 2021 attack in a non-partisan, transparent manner.

Commit today to release all findings from any investigations into the attack to the public.

Recognize white nationalist and QAnon groups as the national security threat that they are and take action to combat them through existing laws, powers, and regulations, which are more than sufficient to meet this threat

Recognize that the reason that the threat posed by these groups hasn’t already been adequately addressed is because of a deeply ingrained unwillingness and/or hesitancy to act against these groups within all three branches of government -- and especially in the law enforcement community, including the Department of Justice, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and the intelligence agencies -- and is not the result of insufficient domestic national security and/or surveillance powers.

Congress must have the courage to do what is right, not what is easy and popular. In the face of great tragedy, we must call on you to reject reactionary demands to further erode the rights and liberties of the American people. For our part, we pledge to oppose any attempts to expand the domestic national security or surveillance powers of the United States government at the expense of the rights of our people with every tool available to us as duly elected Members of Congress. We sincerely hope you will join us in this effort.

Sincerely,

Rashida Tlaib, Member of Congress

Jamaal Bowman, Ed. D., Member of Congress 

Pramila Jayapal, Member of Congress 

Mondaire Jones, Member of Congress 

Ro Khanna, Member of Congress 

Barbara Lee, Member of Congress 

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Member of Congress 

Ilhan Omar, Member of Congress 

Ayanna Pressley, Member of Congress 

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(1) Brian L. Zirkle and Pam Dixon, House Un-American Activities Committee, in Surveillance in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics and the Law, 2016, p. 215-219

(2) Detroit Historical Society, Encyclopedia of Detroit: Young, Coleman, A., Detroit Historical Society (accessed January 11, 2021), https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/young-coleman.

(3) Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation of the Committee on Government Operations, Volume 2, Volume 107, Issue 84 of S. prt. Beth Bolling, ISBN 9780160513626, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Publisher: U.S. GPO. Original from the University of Michigan p.988.

(4) Nadine Frederique, COINTELPRO, Brittanica (July 21, 2016), https://www.brittanica.com/topic/COINTELPRO.

(5) Id.

(6) American Civil Liberties Union, More About FBI Spying, ACLU, https://www.aclu.org/other/more-about-fbi-spying.

(7) FBI Funds Right Wing Violence, Ann Arbor Sun (September 3, 1975), https://aadl.org/node/200028

(8) American Civil Liberties Union, Surveillance Under the USA/Patriot Act, ACLU (accessed January 11, 2021), https://www.aclu.org/other/surveillance-under-usapatriot-act

(9) Michael Germain, The FBI Targets a New Generation of Black Activists, Brennan Center for Justice (June 26, 2020), https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/fbi-targets-new-generation-black-activists.

(10) Id.

[simonrriley]

shit that makes me want to fucking overthrow the government and commit war crimes: NO TRUMP NO KKK NO FASCIST USA

[kdxn]

Always Strictly Antifascist - ANTIFAという言葉について

トランプが「ANTIFAをテロ団体に指定してやる！」と言ったために、にわかに地上波でも「ANTIFAとは？」みたいなコーナーをやっていて、どれもデタラメでおもしろい。

これはネトウヨの小松なんたらが司会するテレ朝のワイドショー。

「極左集団ANTIFAのメンバー」とか言うけど、そうすると私も「メンバー」になるのかということで、誇らしい気持ちにもなったりする。ただ、多くはブラックブロックと混同しているようで、おもにトランプの言う「暴力を先導する集団」という認識に引きずられているようだ。

しかし、「極左」というのはそんなに間違ってはいない。

日本でヘイトスピーチへのカウンター運動が盛り上がって、ANTIFAの意匠を援用することも多くなった頃、よく海外のANTIFAから「日本の極左の状況を教えてくれ。連帯しよう」みたいなメールが来ていた。ANTIFAフラッグを使ういわゆるANTIFAは、基本的に反レイシズムであると同時に反資本主義で反グローバリストで、アナキストも多い。自認は「極左（Extreme Left）」なのだ。

そういうメールが来るたびに、「日本のANTIFAの多くは極左というわけではなく、欧米で言うところの社会民主主義者みたいなのが大半で、中には右翼もいる」と返答していたが、そうすると連絡が来なくなったりする。ANTIFAという言葉が持つ意味とは、そういうものなのだ。

これが2015年あたりまでの基本状況で、今もヨーロッパではベーシックなところでそんなに変わらないとも言えるが、少し様子が変わったのは2016年からである。トランプの選挙戦において反トランプ陣営がANTIFAを自称し始めたからだ。かつてはゴリゴリのANTIFA組織しか使っていなかった "No Nazi, No KKK, No Fascist USA" というスローガンが、広く一般リベラル層にも共有され、デモで叫ばれるようになった。つまり、現在のアメリカで言うところのANTIFAは、むしろ日本の反ヘイトスピーチ・カウンターや反安倍政権運動の人たちとかなり近い層が担っていると言えるのである。

そしてトランプが「ANTIFA」をテロ組織認定したのは何も今回が初めてではなく、大統領選〜当選直後の段階ですでに同じことを言っているのだ。そのときも、「ANTIFAをどうやって指定団体にすんだよ笑」と、大いに笑われていた。海外のANTIFAグループのSNSアカウントが「定期：ANTIFAとはAntifascistの略語」といった投稿を繰り返すのは、こうした事情による。

C.R.A.C.はこれまで「ANTIFA」の文字が入ったグッズを販売したこともなく、三本矢のアンチファ・シンボルを採用したこともない。略語は使わず、必��� "Anti-Fascist" または "Antifascist" という言葉を使っている。しかしその理由は、「暴力的なANTIFA」というイメージを恐れてのことではない。反資本主義も反グローバリズムも前面に掲げていない反ヘイト団体が、第二次大戦時以来の正統的左翼の歴史を持つANTIFAの意匠を使うことに気後れしていたからにすぎない。

トランプの宣言に対して、多くの人が似たような反応を返している。代表的なものはこれ。

My grandfather was part of an Antifa organization. It was called the United States Army when he was in World War 2 and fought the fascists and Nazi in Europe for the freedom of the world. When did being anti fascist become a bad thing in the US?

— Eric Garcia (@EricG1247)

May 30, 2020

「私の祖父はアンチファ組織に属していた。それは合衆国陸軍といい、第二次大戦時にヨーロッパで自由のためにファシストやナチと闘ったのだ。反ファシストであることが、いつからアメリカでは悪いことになったのか？」

当たり前である。ANTIFAであることが悪いことなわけがない。そして私はもちろん、今後も常に厳格にANTIFAでありつづける。

[guerrilla-operator]

MDC // Born to Die

Goin' home

My mind is blown

I spilled my race

I found my case

I'm shot down on a fence

I'm dead in self defense

I live in a world of hate

With no regret a Nazi state

A racist dream, a world of hate

With no regret a Nazi state

No war, no KKK, no fascist USA

No war, no KKK, no fascist USA

[ramen540k]

“Terrorism”: Inequities of Association

Sai Hudspeth

S5126293

Media Production

Level 4 Terrorism has many different yet similar definitions and as such is not wholly defined legally in many areas (Al Jazeera, 2014). Due to the lack of consistent definition, terrorism has often been assosiated with foreign forces, especially post-9/11. A series of attacks were committed by a terrorist organisation known as “Al-Qaeda” on September 11th, 2001 (Bergen, 2020). These attacks went down in history as the single largest act of terrorism in history being live broadcasted all over the world and leaving a lasting fear in the hearts of American Citizens. Since, and to a lesser degree prior to, the attacks of 9/11 the world has experienced a heightened sense of Islamophobia. With heightened fear and a common enemy, an anti muslim rhetoric was adopted in the media and soon after, the “War on Terror” (Bergen, 2020). Even though it has been almost a decade since the the 9/11 attacks, anti muslim sentiments continue to grow while acts of terror committed by white supremacy groups are utterly disregarded, and racial equality organisations are labeled as domestic terrorist organisations (Al Jazeera, 2010).

Post 9/11 showed a 90% increase from 1,171 to 2,227 deployments by federal tactical teams between 2005 and 2014 based on research done by the Congressional Research Service (Grabianowski, 2007). It was SWAT’s initial purpose to be a higher powered response to increases in bank robberies in Philadelphia but later was expanded to cover a range of high risk situations including; hostage situations, search warrants, anti terrorism, and riot control (Grabianowski, 2007). As previously shown in the CRS research, SWAT’s expansion has put in place a large amount of high powered forces across the usa, accounting for around 1,200 teams in total countrywide (Federal Tactical Teams, 2015). It is important to note this as the way the USA and other countries’ media defines terrorism may warrant use of high powered forces on unwarranted situations. By observing race politics, the media’s rhetoric, and the ethics behind the use of the word “terrorism”, we are able to discern when the word “terrorism” should be used.

The war on terror was not confined to the USA, a major defining contributor to islamaphobia were a series of bombings in London that shook the foundation of “British Liberality”. Known as 7/7 these attacks on July 7th, 2005 launched the UK into severe paranoia just as 9/11 had in the USA (Sky News, 2014). Due to two proliferators of this act of terror being under surveillance for two years prior to 7/7, the public was in serious unrest over the lack of decisive action taken by the British Intelligence Service, which many thought could have prevented two of the attacks (Sky News, 2014). In addition to the lack of action, and the fact that the bombers were born and raised in Leeds, UK further instigated anti-immigrant/muslim ideologies of the British public (Al Jazeera, 2014).

As stated in The impact of counter-terrorism measures on Muslim communities, a study done by the research department of Durham University, “There is a danger that Muslims in contemporary Britain may become the new suspect community. Policymakers and operatives are grappling with the old dilemma: it is an inescapable fact that the majority of those suspected of terrorist activities are Muslim, and that counter-terrorism measures are likely to target Muslims.” (Choudhury and Fenwick, 2011) With the rise of hostility the freshness of a home grown attack provided space for people to vocalise and bring physical attacks against both immigrants and muslims alike due to fear. As a caller on LBC said “The population of the third world widens by 5% every year...there are 23000 people among us who are plotting to kill our families” (Ferrari, 2018) referring to people of interest to the British Intelligence Service, representing both the concern for the public's safety and the connotation between people of interest and islamic terrorists. By piggybacking off this fear legislation was pushed by both the USA and UK in an attempt to prevent future acts of terror. This however led to more frequent stop and searches of racial/religious minorities as well as higher levels of police presence in the USA and the UK.

As we move further and further from 911 and 7/7, the definition of terrorism has been used more loosely used and not allocated to some blataint acts of terror. In the USA, there is no “...statute that applies to domestic ideology inspired extremisms...” (Former Acting Assistant Attorney General, Mary Mccord) and as they are not associated with foriegn terrorist organisations they cannot be charged with terrorist crimes (ITV News, 2019). This effectively omits one of the most prolific terrorist ideologies in the USA, white supremacy. A combined disregard for white domestic terrorism combined with hightened conservative media spokes people, tentions have risen contributing further to the race rift as well as provide a normalised culture around white terrorism. Conservative news outlets took up the call to action, during Obama’s presidency, spreading defamatory statements such as “This president I think has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep seeded hatred for white people…” (Fox and Friends) and commentary on the economic depression that was “caused by immigrants” further hightening both conservative and white supremacist ideologies (Al Jazeera, 2010).

With the onslaught of antiterrorism rhetoric, and a widening race gap, the USA would face its biggest turning point yet with the inauguration of Trump in 2016. Following his inauguration, incidents in Charlottesville known as “Unite the Right” in 2017 where the largest white supremacy gathering occured, resulting in an act of terror in which a white supremacist drove their car through an anti fascist protest killing one and injuring 20 others (PBS, 2019). Thus, the birth of media’s buzz word “antifa” would become interchangable with terrorism. After this act of terror, Trump would take to live broadcast and condemn “this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence, on many sides…” (PBS, 2019). Following this press conference, the former leader of the KKK tweeted saying he was grateful for Trump to “condemn the leftist terrorists in antifa and Black Lives Matter.” (PBS, 2019) sparing national outrage and further social unrest. Simultaneously with acts of terrorism against minorities, combined with more acts of police brutality caught on video and distributed throgh various media outlets, the single party and democratically fascist government consciously decided to negate any mention of the word “terrorism” in association with white supremacy.

With continued social unrest the ethicality of the use of the word “terrorism” in mass media, is an important conscideration to take. If a country is not willing to define domestic acts of terror as “terrorism” yet uses the word to amplify their own political views as Trump has done by attempting to label antifa (an ideology not an organisation) and BLM as terrorists on national news (France 24 News, 2020). As we take into account the current and past events that led to the condition both the USA and UK are in, associating “terrorism” with minorities and immigrants must be reconscidered when part of the rising threat of terrorism is contributed to by white supremacy as preducated by National Police Chief’s Council lead for counter terrorism policing, Neil Basu in a Channel 4 Interview. In this interview, Basu says 7 of the 22 plots foiled since 2017 have been in association with white supremacy. The only effective way to deal with this and other racial and religious biases, is to elect people into power who provide fair and equal ideas for the betterment of our global society. In doing so, we will be able to provide a clear definition for terrorism and an equal understanding that the treat of terror can not solely be attributed to minorities or immigrants without running into ethical issues as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has stated in her question to the FBI over the double standard that goes into labeling organisations and people as terrorists (Guardian News, 2019). When a topic such as terrorism is spoken about on mass media outlets, we must understand our words have consequences legally, socially, and ethically. Using words such as terrorism in connotation with minorities can have long lasting affects on the legislation of a country, and the ability for the general public to coexist in a multicultural society.

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