> On Wednesday, a couple of clowns from George Washington University’s Program on Extremism wrote an article in the Washington Post complaining that we don’t have enough domestic terrorism laws on the books to prosecute people who like wearing Hawaiian shirts and bearing arms. > Their claim is that because two suspects were arrested for allegedly trying to support Hamas — an Iranian-backed terrorist organization based in Palestine — there should be more laws allowing the federal government to target people here in the United States. > As the Supreme Court explained in Bond v. United States back in 2014, the drafting of criminal law traditionally falls within the purview of the states. Drafting a national anti-terrorism law infringes upon the right of states to govern their own affairs. It would also lead not only to the expansion of an already bloated and generally incompetent federal government, but would permit state-sanctioned acts of terror and domestic casualties. > If the feds are so concerned about anti-government sentiment, maybe they should reflect on their actions before granting themselves more even authority to persecute the people. Or perhaps they’re just accelerationists? Who knows?