By Sigal Chattah, January 5, 2025 3:58 pm
While most believe that October 7, 2023, provided a clear line of demarcation in the United States between proponents of terrorism and those of a civilized patriotic society, the line was put in motion on January 22, 2009, when President Obama signed Executive Order 13942, which reversed Bush-era policies and led this nation down a 15-year path of false narratives and threat assessments.
Conservative organizations and their leaders fell into the kill-zone of Obama’s DOJ, as gross abuses of the Patriot Act were engaged to falsely weave a narrative of synthetically created national threats of white supremacy, while Islamic fundamentalism and radicalism were allowed to grow exponentially.
After President Obama’s reckless disregard for America’s national security, it is now time for a complete overhaul of domestic policies and justice to secure our safety and our country’s existential future. Under the incoming Trump administration, there must be a conscious collaboration between all relevant administrative agencies, including the IRS, FBI, DOJ, NSA, and DOD. At best, this encore administration has four years to correct the course of the last 15 years of homegrown Islamic threats to America.
President Trump’s utilization of the Military Commissions Act of 2009 not only authorizes him to establish effective Military Commissions but ensures they are utilized to their maximum capacity to convict and detain those who are a substantial threat to our communities.
Despite being an opponent of the Bush Doctrine abroad, one cannot credit President G.W. Bush enough for the abundant security measures and innovation his administration advanced in a post-9/11 America. Bad cops abusing The Patriot Act aside, his brilliance in the creation of military commissions to deal with enemy combatants proved successful, much to the chagrin of his fierce opponents.
Now is the time to restore his philosophy and distinction between the prosecution of criminals under Article III Courts, while earmarking enemy combatants’ prosecution by military tribunals. Treating domestic terrorists as common criminals was the first of many failures by former Attorney General Eric Holder. Only through a radical correction and change of course will we be able to maximize domestic tranquility.
During the Bush era, the term “enemy combatant” was known to refer to individuals abroad, belonging to an enemy state or organization, not protected by the Fourth Geneva Convention, detained on U.S. Territory, and tried by military commissions. There is a moral imperative to address the growing threat of Islamic terrorism in this country and prosecute terrorists accordingly. To effectively eradicate these anti-American elements and bring them to justice, one must eliminate those who provide material support to terrorist organizations in the U.S.
Most Americans fail to understand that there exists a fundamental distinction between a criminal who seeks to take American lives based on political ideology, and an enemy combatant who shares an ideology and an intent to kill on behalf of Foreign Terrorist Organizations, such as ISIS or HAMAS. Both domestic terrorists may share a mission to kill, but an enemy combatant’s ethos and loyalty lie with the enemies of America, and thus his and his cohorts’ prosecutions and punishments must be observed and levied accordingly.
Recent history has demonstrated that radicalization and Islamic fundamentalism are often sowed in prisons, jails, and mosques and go undetected as a result of protectionist approaches to the First Amendment. The complexity of balancing civil liberties against national security is being parlayed by our enemies in plain sight while American lives are at stake.
The intersectionality of movements such as Black Lives Matter and Students for Justice in Palestine found themselves sharing a common goal: the subjugation of white colonialists and eradication of conservative American values. Over the past decade, the residual effect has been a feckless collaboration of administrative agencies to allow the demonization of conservative values and Americans, while true enemies of the state have flourished.
Our enemies’ utilization of our constitutional weaknesses to sow dissent and wreak havoc on university campuses and in our streets post-October 7, 2023, simply shed light on the failure of the administrative agencies to eradicate domestic threats through use of our existing laws.
For 15 years, even though the DOJ has been able to prosecute individuals in this country under 18 U.S. 2339B—for providing material support or resources to designated terrorist organizations—their actions have been abysmal. The DOJ’s ineffectiveness and failure in pursuing individuals providing material support to Foreign Terrorist Organizations have been glaringly apparent in American cities over the past 15 months.
As we embark on this new golden era, our leadership must be more diligent in effectuating and ensuring full compliance with congressional subpoenas issued to non-profit organizations providing material support to Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Administrative heads must cast aside ego and politics and unify to ensure the eradication of threats and common enemies.
The IRS must engage in full cooperation with administrative agencies seeking to eradicate domestically cultivated threats which are often shielded as non-profit organizations enjoying American tax exemptions.
These tax-exempt organizations become emboldened when political games substitute the pursuit of justice and national security. All agencies must ensure investigations, prosecutions, and convictions of our enemies. Fighting for peace in America should be the highest and best use of our national security resources over fighting any war abroad.
Sigal Chattah
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