A talking head on MSNBC has called for a post 9/11 style government crackdown as a means of winning "a battle for hearts and minds" of Americans who might turn against the leftist mindset and become overly patriotic.
Paul Rieckhoff, founder of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America and Righteous Media compared the "threat" of such a scenario to the "number one threat" after 9/11, effectively suggesting conservatives and Trump supporters are akin to terrorists.
"A lot of Americans are up for grabs. I wouldn't dismiss it as just something only people on the right or watching Fox News latch on to. We are in a battle for hearts and minds and there people are on the fence," Rieckhoff asserted.
"You got to have leaders and messages and messengers and programs to get to those people that bring them over into community organizing and into non-profit organizations and away from the Patriot Front and Oathkeepers," he continued.
Rieckhoff further declared that "the same kind of tectonic shift" in culture is needed now as was experienced immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, which ushered in draconian police state style crackdown on liberties.
Rieckhoff suggested that wasn't enough back then and the authorities should go further this time.
"I think the parallels of 9/11 are important. We talked about this before. After 9/11, the laws didn't work. They made massive changes to respond to a new threat," Rieckhoff said.
He continued, "I think we have to face the fact that many structures, laws and policies may not work. After 9/11 we created the Department of Homeland Security, there was the Patriot Act. There was massive change in our entire society to face the number one threat, or at least what was communicated as the number one threat."
Rieckhoff then claimed that Americans on the right, such as former Trump National Security Advisor General Mike Flynn are "continually calling for violence."
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America needs all the (intelligent) patriotism it can get at the moment.
In the 9/11 case this led to the Patriot act as law, though it was written in the 90s. This set up the "fake" "war on terrorism" and the Islamic states were the target.
The jan 6 "insurrection" was to identify the next targets, "domestic terrorists" especially "white supremacist domestic terrorists". This has been promulgated to attack patriots, conservatives, any dissident, and churches, families, and parents. This is a strategy to threaten all Americans to bow down or be incarcerated in indoctrination camps.