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Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
April 8, 2017
They’ve been trying to do this forever.
So it isn’t at all surprising.
It is, however, disturbing.
When James Jackson allegedly stabbed Timothy Caughman to death in Manhattan in March, people across the country denounced the act as a hate crime and Jackson as a white supremacist. But the New York County District Attorney’s Office gave Jackson an additional label — terrorist.
The DA indicted Jackson last week on two state terrorism charges never before used in Manhattan: murder in the first degree (in furtherance of an act of terrorism) and murder in the second degree as a crime of terrorism. States rarely levy these kinds of charges because terrorism is almost exclusively dealt with by the federal government.
Jackson pleaded not guilty on Wednesday.
“It’s really interesting what gets called terrorism and what doesn’t,” said Emily Berman, assistant professor of national security law at the University of Houston Law Center. “Usually, it means that a Muslim did it. Whereas if a white person did it, they’re ‘crazy’ or something along those lines.”
But Jackson is white, and there’s no evidence that he is connected to jihadi groups like al-Qaida or the Islamic State group. If New York State successfully convicts him, the case has the potential to change how America defines and prosecutes terrorism.
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“There’s this whole long list of things that can be deemed terrorism in the international sphere,” said Heidi Beirich, who studies hate groups at the Southern Poverty Law Center. “But domestically, it is a very limited legal state.”
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New York has successfully used its anti-terrorism statutes in at least two earlier cases. In May 2011, Ahmed Ferhani was arrested on state terrorism charges for plotting to attack a Jewish synagogue. A few months later, Jose Pimentel was also charged with terrorism for plotting to build and detonate bombs in the city after being inspired by an al-Qaeda cleric. Both men faced state instead of federal charges because the Justice Department reportedly declined to take on the cases.
That experience may prove vital in prosecuting Jackson. “[The district attorney’s] office has developed an expertise in terrorism over the last eight years,” Vance said at a March 30 New York City Council committee hearing. “[Jackson’s] case falls squarely within what we believe domestic terrorism statutes are designed to address and prevent.”
While President Donald Trump refers repeatedly and almost solely to “radical Islamic terrorism,” Jackson’s prosecution and other cases involving similar state charges could expand people’s definition of terrorism.
“When we don’t call domestic terrorism what it is, it causes the public to not think this problem is as big as it is,” Beirich said, adding that attacks by white supremacists and anti-government extremists are far more widespread than most people know. That’s why Jackson’s case, Beirich says, could help Americans reckon with the country’s “indigenous terrorist problem.”
Obviously, it isn’t terrorism, because he was not involved with a group with stated political ideology or goals.
It isn’t just me saying that. It’s a legally defined concept, which this guy does not meet the standards of.
But who cares, right?
Gotta get whitey.
Anyway, I’m fine with this, as long as in the future, every single case of a black-on-white hate crime is also charged as terrorism.
