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发信人: gemini2012 (双子AB), 信区: USANews
标 题: 白宫对“将BLM定为恐怖分子组织”请愿的回复
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Jul 17 23:02:41 2016, 美东)
Last Updated Jul 17, 2016 7:36 PM EDT
After days of violence and heightened racial tensions in the U.S., the White
House responded this week to an online petition asking the federal
government to formally label the Black Lives Matter movement as a "terror
group."
"Terrorism is defined as 'the use of violence and intimidation in pursuit of
political aims,'" read the "We The People" petition, created July 6 on the
White House website. "This definition is the same definition used to declare
ISIS and other groups, as terrorist organizations."
Black Lives Matter, the petition said, "earned this title due to its actions
in Ferguson, Baltimore, and even at a Bernie Sanders rally, as well as all
over the United States and Canada." It asked the Pentagon to recognize the
group as such "on the grounds of principle, integrity, morality, and safety."
Because the online document received at least 100,000 signatures -- at the
time of this reporting, it had garnered over 141,000 names -- the White
House was automatically prompted to respond.
The "We the People" team noted that "The White House plays no role in
designating domestic terror organizations," nor does the U.S. government "
generate a list of domestic terror organizations."
"[T]herefore," the response read, "we are not able to address the formal
request of your petition."
The White House then went further: Acknowledging that it was a "difficult
time" for the country -- and that the debate remains a "charged" one -- the
statement additionally prompted petition signers to consider President Obama
's words calling for compassion towards the movement.
"I think it's important for us to also understand that the phrase 'black
lives matter' simply refers to the notion that there's a specific
vulnerability for African Americans that needs to be addressed," the
president said last week, talking to a Washington, D.C. gathering of
enforcement officials, civil rights leaders, elected officials and other
activists on the issue of racial disparities in the criminal justice system.
"We shouldn't get too caught up in this notion that somehow people who are
asking for fair treatment are somehow, automatically, anti-police, are
trying to only look out for black lives as opposed to others. I think we
have to be careful about playing that game."
The petition came on the heels of deadly officer-involved shootings in Baton
Rouge, Louisiana and Falcon Heights, Minnesota, and after days of Black
Lives Matter protests for more police accountability.
On July 7, one day after the petition published online, seven law
enforcement officers policing a BLM demonstration in Dallas, Texas were shot
and killed in a shower of sniper-like fire. And on Sunday, three more
policemen were shot and killed in Baton Rouge.
Black Lives Matter protesters condemned the massacre in Dallas, and
prominent members did the same after Sunday's Baton Rouge shooting of police
officers.
One public voice of the movement, DeRay McKesson, urged peace after news of
the Louisiana deaths broke.
"I'm waiting for more information like everybody else," McKesson told the
New York Times. "I have more questions than answers."
"The movement began as a call to end violence," he said. "That call remains."
Errol Barnett contributed to this report.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-responds-to-petition-to-label-black-lives-matter-a-terror-group/ | r****d
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