WATCH: Washington State Creates 'Ministry Of Truth' To Tackle These Controversial Topics

By Ryan Canady | Wednesday, 01 March 2023 12:00 PM
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Washington state has decided to create a 13-member commission with the office of the Attorney General to develop a data collection process for information about “domestic violent extremism (DVE).”

This is all based on a piece of legislation currently moving its way through the Washington House. The bill does not define violent domestic extremism. Still, based on Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s description, it would include non-criminal activities and might even violate free speech rights.

The Post Millennial reports that Democratic Rep. Bill Ramos has sponsored HB 1333 to create the Domestic Violent Extremism Commission to combat “disinformation and misinformation”.

Ferguson has pushed this legislation because he checked out a “Domestic Terrorism” study that his office funded in 2022. That study sought to implement “effective state intervention to address these threats” and “has the potential to implicate speech or association that may be protected by the First Amendment, or the individual right to bear arms protected by the Second Amendment.”

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The Post Millennial reports that the Attorney General’s 2022 report argues “rather than exclusively address’ domestic terrorism’ per se, these recommendations seek to best support Washington State to respond to this panoply of challenges, which together combine to create the threat of—and indeed, are often precursors to—acts of domestic terrorism.”

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Plenty of critics have argued that the report is far too broad and seeks to define many different types of people as “domestic terrorists” who shouldn’t be labeled as such in any form or fashion. It goes way too far for most people, who are upset that things have been allowed to get this far.

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One of the slides used by the Anti-Defamation League in the report listed some of the following examples of things and activities that might be considered “domestic terrorist” activity: “election fraud narratives,” “anti-mask and anti-vaccine narratives,” “anti-critical race theory narratives,” and “anti-LGBTQ ‘Grooming’ narratives” lead to “Increased threats against election officials, medical professionals, and school board members” as well as “Protests and disruptions at school board meetings, pride events and drag queen story hours.”

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These are the types of protests often conducted by conservative Americans, and it seems that is exactly what’s being targeted in this legislation. Overall, many people feel like this piece of legislation might have gone way too far and that it should be rolled back.

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