{"id":1554662,"date":"2022-07-14T16:37:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1554662"},"modified":"2022-07-14T16:37:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T20:37:32","slug":"house-democrats-pass-measure-to-identify-neo-nazis-in-military-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-democrats-pass-measure-to-identify-neo-nazis-in-military-law-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"House Democrats Pass Measure to Identify \u2018Neo-Nazis\u2019 in Military, Law Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-democrats-pass-measure-to-identify-neo-nazis-in-military-law-enforcement%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1554662&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-house-democrats\">House Democrats<\/a> on July 13 voted to add an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ndaa\">NDAA<\/a>), the annual military spending bill, to identify \u201cneo-Nazis\u201d in the military and law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The NDAA amendment was sponsored by Rep. Brad\u00a0Schneider (D-Ill.) and instructs the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Department of Defense (DOD) to publish a report analyzing \u201cwhite supremacist and neo-Nazi activity\u201d within military and law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment passed in a 218\u2013208 vote where it faced unilateral opposition from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-republicans\">Republicans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch behavior, such extremism is a threat to us in all segments of society. There is no reason to believe that our military is any different,\u201d Schneider said on the House floor late on the evening on July 13 in defense of the amendment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are exceptions,\u201d Schneider insisted. \u201cThey are rare, but we must do everything we can to identify them and to thwart them before risks become a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the amendment is passed by the Senate, the FBI, DHS, and DOD would be required within 180 days to send Congress a report on the number of people discharged from either military service or law enforcement for \u201cwhite supremacist\u201d or \u201cneo-Nazi\u201d ideology.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans opposed the amendment, which they said was overly intrusive and \u201cdenigrates\u201d law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis amendment attempts to create a problem where none exists by requesting investigations into law enforcement and the armed services for alleged rampant white supremacist or white national sympathies,\u201d one such critic, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), said in opposition to the amendment on the House floor.<\/p>\n<p> Similar Measures Blasted As \u2018Thought Police\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>This is not the first effort by Democrats to pass such a measure, and similar measures have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/senate-republicans-reject-domestic-terror-bill-claim-democrats-are-creating-thought-police_4493088.html\">faced condemnation by Republicans<\/a> in the past for trying to impose \u201cthought police\u201d on military service members and law enforcement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats on July 13 voted to add an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the annual military spending bill, to identify \u201cneo-Nazis\u201d in the military and law enforcement. The NDAA amendment was sponsored by Rep. Brad\u00a0Schneider (D-Ill.) and instructs the FBI, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Department of Defense (DOD) to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1554662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1554662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1554662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1554662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1554662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1554662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}