U.S. Will Give Terrorist Label to White Supremacist Group for First Time

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is expected to announce on Monday that it is designating an ultranationalist group based in Russia as a terrorist organization, according to officials. It is the first time the government will apply the label to a white supremacist group.

While the label of specially designated global terrorist has been frequently used for Islamist extremists, there have been growing concerns among U.S. officials about violent white supremacists with transnational links over the past five years. In 2018, the White House added that threat to the government’s National Strategy for Counterterrorism.

“These designations are unprecedented,” said Ambassador Nathan A. Sales, the State Department’s counterterrorism coordinator. “This is the first time the United States has ever designated white supremacists as terrorists, and this illustrates how seriously this administration takes the white supremacist terrorist threat. We are doing things no previous administration has done to counter this threat.”

The State Department’s designation for the organization, the Russian Imperial Movement, sets up the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control to block any American property or assets belonging to the group. It will also bar Americans from financial dealings with the organization and make it easier to ban its members from traveling to the United States.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/us/politics/terrorist-label-white-supremacy-Russian-Imperial-Movement.html

ETA: International Project of Russian Imperial Movement video

[Wounded Bear]

1. About 10 years too late, but I'll take it...

It should include a couple of American groups, too.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. Absolutely

[blogslut]

2. All white supremacist groups need to be designated as terrorists

Especially the ones within the USA.

As for this horseshit:

“This is the first time the United States has ever designated white supremacists as terrorists, and this illustrates how seriously this administration takes the white supremacist terrorist threat. We are doing things no previous administration has done to counter this threat.”

It smells

[ck4829]

5. Putin gave his seal of approval for them to be listed, his fall guys

[malaise]

3. When will they label Don the Con and his

KKKakistocracy?

[ck4829]

4. Too little, too late. I knew it would be some ragtag localized group.

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Meanwhile the Atomwaffen Division is linked to a growing number of murders and the Daily Stormer was the meeting place for two mass shooters and for Joshua Ryne Goldberg.

[Cyrano]

6. Little late. The KKK was/is the original U.S. white supremacist terrorists

[Progressive Jones]

8. What about the White Supremacist scum in the US?

It's only the potential for jail time that keeps white supremacist scum safe from me.