Poll: Should the FBI investigate threats of physical violence against local school board members when localities won't

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Ted Cruz thinks we should do nothing because only a quarter of the reported threats are violent.

 

[hal2kilo]

Ted Cruz thinks we should do nothing because only a quarter of the reported threats are violent.

So, what is needed, 50%?

 

[eelw]

So, what is needed, 50%?

The chicken shit won’t defend his wife. So that % will have to be far higher

 

[pauldun170]

Has a FEDERAL crime been committed?
That would be the determining factor.

First the mission of the FBI - https://www.fbi.gov/about/faqs/what-are-the-primary-investigative-functions-of-the-fbi

Based on observations of our local school boards
- Individuals recruited by various groups who operate across state lines to attend attend school board meetings and implement a prepared plan using established tactics and materials.
- These tactics include intimidation
- Members of said groups on various outlets and social media platforms discussing violent tactics and scenarios and loaded language that can be interpreted as incitement
- Reported incidents of various threats and actual assaults by recruited individuals at school boards meetings.

Organized effort that crosses state lines that impact federal and state resources, and public officials.

Figure it the fuck out

 

[imported_tajmahal]

What a couple bullshit poll questions. Can you make them any more stupid and biased ? No, no you couldn't even if you fucking tried.

1. Yes, school officials need Federal protection and the FBI is the only one that can provide it.

2. No, school officials should all rot in hell!!

 

[MichaelMay]

What a couple bullshit poll questions. Can you make them any more stupid and biased ? No, no you couldn't even if you fucking tried.

1. Yes, school officials need Federal protection and the FBI is the only one that can provide it.

2. No, school officials should all rot in hell!!

You'd still vote for the second option.

In reality the poll questions describe reality, you just don't like reality so you replace it with whatever you want to be true.

 

[FelixDeCat]

I’m confused, are you ok with the FBI not going after those people or are you fine with it? Do you hold the same feelings about the insurrection perpetrators?

Left wing agitators are dangerous and liable to burn down your city at any time. There is nothing confusing about that.

And the Jan 6th perps have had the weight of the gov upon them from the beginning for committing crimes.

Dont you think its time for the same standard to be applied equally?

 

[FelixDeCat]

I'll answer for him. He believes in the Ron Johnson defense. He's comfortable with what white Trump supporters did on Jan 6. BLM supporters, his opinion would be different.

WTF? You are a nincompoop and are unable to speak for me or anyone else since you cant even form good sentences.

 

[SmCaudata]

Left wing agitators are dangerous and liable to burn down your city at any time. There is nothing confusing about that.

And the Jan 6th perps have had the weight of the gov upon them from the beginning for committing crimes.

Dont you think its time for the same standard to be applied equally?

14,000 plus arrest related to Floyd protests.

What exactly are you wanting? Lynching?

 

[FelixDeCat]

14,000 plus arrest related to Floyd protests.

What exactly are you wanting? Lynching?

An arrest is not a conviction, most had their charges dropped and few faced any repercussions.

 

[VW MAN]

Left wing agitators are dangerous and liable to burn down your city at any time. There is nothing confusing about that.

And the Jan 6th perps have had the weight of the gov upon them from the beginning for committing crimes.

Dont you think its time for the same standard to be applied equally?

You tiny brain does know that many of those so called left wing agitators were actually right wing nut jobs fueling the flames ..right? Or do your handlers not share those facts with you?

Here is a prime example- https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...-allegedly-firing-ak-47-minneapolis-precinct/

In other words - get your own fucking house in order before claiming others are the bad guys.

 

[SmCaudata]

An arrest is not a conviction, most had their charges dropped and few faced any repercussions.

Here you go. Man pleads guilty to firing at Minneapolis precinct.

Texas man in 'boogaloo' movement pleads guilty to firing at police station during Floyd protest

Ivan Harrison Hunter, a self-proclaimed member of the “boogaloo bois,” is accused of firing 13 rounds from a semi-automatic assault-style rifle at a Minneapolis station.

www.google.com

Also. You claims are false. The Jan 6 people were not treated more harshly. If anything the fact that basically no one was arrested while storming the capital and trying to subvert democracy speaks otherwise.

Records rebut claims of unequal treatment of Jan. 6 rioters

Some people charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and their Republican allies claim the Justice Department is treating them harshly because of their political views.

apnews.com

You are either incredibly intellectually dishonest or just manipulated by conservative talking points.

 

[ivwshane]

Here you go. Man pleads guilty to firing at Minneapolis precinct.

Texas man in 'boogaloo' movement pleads guilty to firing at police station during Floyd protest

Ivan Harrison Hunter, a self-proclaimed member of the “boogaloo bois,” is accused of firing 13 rounds from a semi-automatic assault-style rifle at a Minneapolis station.

www.google.com

Also. You claims are false. The Jan 6 people were not treated more harshly. If anything the fact that basically no one was arrested while storming the capital and trying to subvert democracy speaks otherwise.

Records rebut claims of unequal treatment of Jan. 6 rioters

Some people charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and their Republican allies claim the Justice Department is treating them harshly because of their political views.

apnews.com

You are either incredibly intellectually dishonest or just manipulated by conservative talking points.

To be fair, he could be both, intellectually dishonest and manipulated by conservative right wing talking points.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Here you go. Man pleads guilty to firing at Minneapolis precinct.

Texas man in 'boogaloo' movement pleads guilty to firing at police station during Floyd protest

Ivan Harrison Hunter, a self-proclaimed member of the “boogaloo bois,” is accused of firing 13 rounds from a semi-automatic assault-style rifle at a Minneapolis station.

www.google.com

Also. You claims are false. The Jan 6 people were not treated more harshly. If anything the fact that basically no one was arrested while storming the capital and trying to subvert democracy speaks otherwise.

Records rebut claims of unequal treatment of Jan. 6 rioters

Some people charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and their Republican allies claim the Justice Department is treating them harshly because of their political views.

apnews.com

You are either incredibly intellectually dishonest or just manipulated by conservative talking points.

You can keep bringing up examples of the January riot but dont expect me to defend them. However, you seem keenly interested in defending your left wing agitators.

I hope you continue to do so when cities are on fire again due to their antics, which again, will go unpunished.

 

[ivwshane]

You can keep bringing up examples of the January riot but dont expect me to defend them. However, you seem keenly interested in defending your left wing agitators.

I hope you continue to do so when cities are on fire again due to their antics, which again, will go unpunished.

I’m sure we are all scared of the hellscape you think is coming from left wing agitators./eye roll

Do you piss yourself all the time when you see liberals or just when your source of information shows you liberals?

 

[MrSquished]

Don't forget the right wingers that murdered a cop or two in cali during the protest season, and another right wing white nationalist that was on the lamb and shot a cop in the leg. Right winger shot a protestor dead in Texas, and then we have Kyle who went illiegal militia-vigilante and poured gas on a fire and murdered three people. These were all political hits.

Many protestors last year got arrested and charged, and those that were looting or breaking store windows should have. But to compare them to people trying to overthrow democracy is just insane.

But righties like Felix and Taj are insane and evil people. There is no other way to describe such loons anymore.

 

[eelw]

I really wonder how the snowflakes would have reacted if the police actually fought back with the same force as the George Floyd riots?

 

[ElFenix]

congrats, you guys have fallen for felixdetroll's whatabouting the conversation from school boards needing protection

 

[SmCaudata]

You can keep bringing up examples of the January riot but dont expect me to defend them. However, you seem keenly interested in defending your left wing agitators.

I hope you continue to do so when cities are on fire again due to their antics, which again, will go unpunished.

First, I brought up Jan 6 in response to you after you claimed they were being investigated more intensely than BLM rotestors. So, you kinda were defending them.

I am not defending anyone that commits a crime. I pointed out that people using the cover of a protest to cause chaos through looting and destruction are being convicted, contrary to your claim.

I lived in St Paul during the murder of George Floyd. It was my home.


Man, you are typical of the GOP now. Making claims then trying to weasel back when called out. You probably call people racist for pointing out actual racism too.

I revise my last post. It is clear dishonesty on your part. Why don't you people simply have the courage to say tha you are racist and proud instead of trying to mask with really, really bad arguments. You are just another right wing internet troll.

 

[HomerJS]

What a couple bullshit poll questions. Can you make them any more stupid and biased ? No, no you couldn't even if you fucking tried.

1. Yes, school officials need Federal protection and the FBI is the only one that can provide it.

2. No, school officials should all rot in hell!!

The way you asked is bullshit. I asked what is really going on. Ever heard of truth? Try it sometime.

Your pea brain missed the entire point of this thread. Republicans on that committee outright lied about the words and actions of Merrick Garland.

 

[HomerJS]

WTF? You are a nincompoop and are unable to speak for me or anyone else since you cant even form good sentences.

Have you ever once condemned those people for the Jan 6 insurrection?

I know exactly how people like you think. That why I have over 1/2 dozen deplorable predictions. Most months in advance.

 

[Meghan54]

Ultimately the courts decide. But you do a "sniff test" of the complaint before you investigate anything at all. If it's obviously not going to meet any legal threshold, stop there. If not, then next talk to local law enforcement that punted on it, do another sniff test at that level, and so forth.

The important thing is more intangible, which is the disposition of the feds. If they're on a "mission," then that could go in a scary direction easily, as post 9/11 taught us. The disposition should only be "we're the last resort if local authorities egregiously fail to act. We aren't going to intercede in borderline cases." Abstracting away the current issue, I'm wary of expanding the venn diagram of acts that can prosecuted both at the state and federal level, as giving government two bites at the apple.

Out of curiosity, would you support federal prosecution of rioters and looters in, say, BLM protests, when state and local authorities fail to act?

Prosecute actual looters? Sure, why not?

And guess what your “sniff test” requires? A bit of investigation.

 

[Vic]

Yes if true threats. No if just aggressive/rude.

Your posting history indicates that you would not be so apologetic to criminal threats of violence if those threats were coming from different persons, with whom you do not align with politically. Can you explain the reason for the obviously apparent bias?

 

[Vic]

Make no mistake, people, the Trumpist 'conservatives' are violent radicals who openly want to see everyone they disagree with killed. By the govt preferably (in their minds), but by their own hands if necessary. They brag and boast of this desire of theirs constantly, and support their own 2a rights only because they oppose yours.
I keep saying liberals need to stop being naive, and GOP support in Congress for persons who violated the law by threatening death on citizens who were just doing their job to uphold the law should not be tolerated.

 

[HurleyBird]

Your posting history indicates that you would not be so apologetic to criminal threats of violence if those threats were coming from different persons, with whom you do not align with politically. Can you explain the reason for the obviously apparent bias?

A "true threat" is a criminal threat of violence. And I said that I'm OK with prosecuting those. How exactly am I being apologetic?

Feel free to provide receipts anyway.