The country is still reeling from the horrific school shooting that occurred earlier this week when a transperson blasted their way into a Christian school and murdered six people.
SIX innocent people were killed in cold blood and where is the FBI?
Ok, scratch that. Why is the FBI not deeming this nefarious crime an act of terrorism?
The FBI’s definition of domestic terrorism is “Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.”
The shooter, a 28-year-old woman who identified as a man and was a former student at the Christian elementary school, was a former student there. Although transgender activists have criticized recent Tennessee legislative actions affecting transgender youth, police have not revealed a motive for the attack. The shooter had a “manifesto,” according to police, though the contents have not been revealed.
“If it was terrorism, we would have federal jurisdiction. Given that Nashville metro is leading the investigation, I think you can take a lot from that,” Elizabeth Clement-Webb, a spokesperson for the Memphis Field Office of the FBI — which includes Nashville.
She stated that local police were in charge of the investigation and that the FBI is “assisting” Nashville partners.
“I think we’ll learn more over time, but at this time it does not appear to be federal,” she said.
When asked if the FBI was specifically monitoring radical trans activists as a source of potential domestic terrorism, the FBI spokeswoman, who is the daughter of a former Democrat congressman, said “No,” adding that the FBI is always on the lookout for all threats.
A transgender radical group led by a former staffer for a Virginia Democrat lawmaker is organizing a “Trans Day of Vengeance” on Saturday to avenge “trans genocide.” The event, which organizers discuss on their website, is scheduled to take place at the Supreme Court. Justice Brett Kavanaugh is a target of trans radicals, and he narrowly avoided assassination last year.
The Supreme Court is under the jurisdiction of the FBI’s Washington Field Office. A spokeswoman for that office, whose email signature read “Carly R. Kennedy (she/her),” declined to say whether the FBI was monitoring the event or looking into radical trans activists as a potential source of domestic terrorism.
“I believe your request would be best handled by the National Press Office at FBI Headquarters,” she wrote.
The national press office responded to a question about the “Day of Vengeance” by writing that “membership in a group is not illegal in and of itself. In fact, it is protected by the First Amendment. The FBI will never open an investigation based solely on protected First Amendment activity. We focus on individuals who commit or intend to commit violence and criminal activity that constitutes a federal crime or poses a threat to national security.”
Despite the statement, the bureau has been chastised for labeling Christians and conservatives as domestic terrorists. This year, a document revealed that the FBI was keeping a close eye on “radical-traditionalist Catholics,” compiling a dossier that cited sources such as the Southern Poverty Law Center to say that the group needed to be monitored for “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists in radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology.” After the document was leaked to the media, the FBI rescinded it.
After the White House collaborated with the National School Board Association to develop a memo comparing members of the group to “domestic terrorists” and invoking the PATRIOT Act, the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division “threat tagged” parents who advocated before their school boards.
Rep. Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, later stated that he had evidence that the FBI was tampering with the statistics by excluding some leftist terrorism and twisting others to count them as “right-wing.”
A “fusion center” linked to the Department of Homeland Security issued a report days after Biden took office, claiming that there was a “rareity of targeted left-wing extremist attacks” and that right-wing domestic violent extremists “were responsible for the majority of deadly domestic terrorist activity.”