FBI bypassed for antiterror measures

I should not post on the news of the day, for it is best understood months, years, decades, and usually centuries after it has happened. But every day I have been predicting the uselessness of the FBI for Trump’s anti terror measures. Its command structure is full of lunatics, and Kash Patel does not look capable of addressing this problem. It is not that they are lefter than regular leftists, they are not all that far left, it is that they are even more seriously detached from reality than regular leftists.

Instead of attempting to clean out the Augean stables, Trump is bypassing the FBI with the Department of Justice and the military. And this is working. Suddenly, Antifa is being arrested, and suddenly its financiers are are being stopped. The Antifa now being arrested are going to facing real charges, and suddenly their deep pockets sponsors are going away.

Now I am shutting up about the news of the day. Back to your regular programming with less frequent but more thoughtful updates, made in the light of information less likely to change the following day.

And, in not news of the day:

18 U.S. Code § 2331 — 5

the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that—
(A)involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B)appear to be intended—
(i)to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii)to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion;

This law has been sitting on the books being thoroughly ignored for two decades, but it allows the government to go after not just the particular individual who commits a particular crime, but the entire apparatus mobilising him, organising him, equipping him, and funding him. As, for example, Soros.

We have heard the announced intent to apply it, but Trump announces a lot of things that do not happen, or happen only after years, and then happen on a much smaller scale than promised, but, news of the day, stuff is happening right now, because the seriously deranged and thoroughly useless FBI has been bypassed. In a few months we shall be able to see where the stuff that is happening right now leads.

We shall see if Ubuntu turns its attention from sponsoring terror back to sponsoring open source software.