"(...) Today, Homeland Security Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability Chairman Dan Bishop (R-NC) delivered the following remarks during a hearing for National Police Week on how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) can help state and local law enforcement better anticipate, prepare for, and respond to threats in the wake of violence perpetrated by left-wing agitators, as well as how anti-police rhetoric has negatively impacted law enforcement (...)."
"(...) However, another threat to free expression is the contemporaneous phenomenon of more and more left-wing, organized violence that likewise appears designed to co-opt and suppress open debate. Time and again, across the nation, Americans have seen both episodic and in some cases sustained violence against people, especially law enforcement, and property damage from so-called anti-fascist and anarchist groups. But it often seems that, of this, the federal government takes little notice (...)"
"(...) Our colleges and universities – once the symbol of free and open debate – are increasingly scenes of violent intimidation by left-wing extremists to silence those with whom they disagree.
"(...) In another recent incident, left-wing agitators at Stanford Law School disrupted a student-organized lecture from a judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Protesters shouted him down and refused to let him deliver his speech. And then the University DEI administrator who appeared didn’t act to establish order and contain the heckling; instead she took the podium to deliver prepared remarks praising the disruptive intimidation and suggesting that Stanford rethink its commitment to free speech. The judge eventually had to be escorted out by federal marshals (...)"
"(...) These groups are sophisticated. They are well-trained and financed. They have extensive logistical support. And, they are extremely clever in masking their activities. According to the FBI, groups like Antifa avoid traditional hierarchies and leadership structures. They prefer small-cell activities tailored to specific events. Some use the opaque nature of groups like Antifa as an excuse to claim Antifa is a “false issue” or a myth. But, the law enforcement personnel and journalists on the ground, including our witnesses, know the threat is real. And, the opaque and diffuse nature of groups like Antifa means local law enforcement often lack the insights they need to prepare for and counter destructive activities (...)
Subcommittee Chair Bishop on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability (USA Congress)
May 16, 2023
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