New Zealand declares US far-right Proud Boys and the Base terrorist groups

[speak easy]

Source: The Guardian

New Zealand’s government has declared that the American far-right groups the Proud Boys and the Base are terrorist organisations.

The two groups join 18 others, including the Islamic State group, that have been given an official terrorist designation, making it illegal in New Zealand to fund, recruit or participate in the groups, and obligating authorities to take action against them.

The US groups are not known to be active in New Zealand, but the South Pacific nation has become more attuned to threats from the far right after a white supremacist shot and killed 51 Muslim worshippers at two Christchurch mosques in 2019.

The New Zealand massacre inspired other white supremacists around the world, including a white gunman who killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, in May.

In the US, the state department only lists foreign groups as terrorist entities. But the Proud Boys were last year named a terrorist group in Canada, while the Base has previously been declared a terrorist group in Britain, Canada and Australia.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/01/new-zealand-declares-us-far-right-proud-boys-and-the-base-terrorist-groups

[DonCoquixote]

1. YES

Now it is time for us to do the same, and dammit if the JD vances of the world whine!

[lonely bird]

2. Ummm...

Isn’t al-Qaida Arabic for “the base”?

[IronLionZion]

5. Yes, white nationalists are not the sharpest tools in the shed

and they don't think of themselves as terrorists since they are white. The founder of The Base even held Top Secret security clearance while working counterterrorism for the FBI and Pentagon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Base_(hate_group)

[EndlessWire]

4. IMO, it needs to be done.

Declare the Proud Boys a terrorist group. If we do not, we might as well endorse their activities against Gays. They are starting to escalate into some kind of warfare and oppression of Gays.

Gays are the next Jews a la Hitler's Germany. And now you have Proud Boys going around attacking people who are minding their own business.

There is no reason that I can see not to do it. Better do something, Joe. You've got cops just standing there watching. Your job is to protect us. It would take next to nothing to at least make the declaration against Proud Boys. They are starting to transition from 1st Amendment rights to actually attacking Gays. Don't let them do it.

[ck4829]

6. Kick