AMENDMENT TO THE AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE TO H.R. 5602 OFFERED BY MR. BUCK OF COLORADO 1 On page 1, at the end of line 6, insert the following: 2 “Antifa and far-left-wing extremists together with”. 3 On page 1, line 8 insert “one” between “are” and 4 “the”. 5 On page 6, between lines 15 and 16, insert the 6 following and redesignate all that follows accordingly: 7 “(2) The anarchist, socialist-progressive, political 8 left in the United States, particularly since President 9 Trump won the 2016 Presidential election, has engaged in 10 a series of criminal acts used to intimidate and terrorize 11 peaceful, law-abiding citizens, law enforcement 12 personnel, members of the United States military, and 13 elected officials, regularly resulting in violent assaults, 14 vandalism, and death threats including in each of the 15 following incidents: 16 “(A) On March 4, 2010, a registered 17 Democrat with anti-government views shot and 18 wounded two Pentagon police officers; 19 “(B) On September 1, 2010, an individual 20 who was a left-wing, eco-terrorist that viewed 21 humans as global parasites and whose anti- 22 population manifesto was heavily influenced by 2 1 Democratic Vice President Al Gore’s An 2 Inconvenient Truth, took three people hostage 3 inside of Discovery’s headquarters in Silver Spring, 4 Maryland; 5 “(C) On August 15, 2012, Floyd Corkins II 6 entered the Washington. D.C. office of The Family 7 Research Council (FRC), shooting an unarmed 8 security guard, and later confessed during a post- 9 arrest police interrogation that he chose his target 10 based on information found on the website of a far- 11 left hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center 12 (SPLC), demonstrating this was a politically 13 motivated attack; 14 “(D) On August 15, 2013, an envelope 15 containing ricin addressed to a Republican United 16 States Senator was intercepted by the United States 17 Capitol Police and, it was later determined, had 18 been mailed by James Dutschke, who 19 unsuccessfully ran for election for commissioner of 20 Lee County, Mississippi as a Democrat; 21 “(E) In June 2016, in San Jose, California, a 22 group of Trump campaign supporters were 23 viciously attacked by a leftist mob and a subsequent 24 lawsuit alleges that San Jose Police directed the 25 Trump supporters towards the mob, and away from 26 safety, where the police then abandoned the Trump 3 1 supporters – putting them directly and intentionally 2 in harm’s way; 3 “(F) On July 7, 2016, an individual shot and 4 killed five Dallas police officers and wounded nine 5 others along with two civilians and, according to the 6 Dallas Police Department, stated “he wanted to kill 7 white people, especially white officers.”; 8 “(G) In October 14, 2016, a Republican Party 9 office in Hillsborough, North Carolina was 10 firebombed and rendered a “total loss” while graffiti 11 on an adjacent building described Republicans as 12 “Nazis.” 13 “(H) In November 2016, a female high 14 school student in San Mateo County, California was 15 attacked by a group of students because she 16 expressed support for Presidential candidate Donald 17 Trump; 18 “(I) On November 6, 2016, the President of 19 Cornell University’s College Republicans was 20 physically assaulted on election night and her 21 attacker’s comments made clear the attack was 22 politically motivated; 23 “(J) On November 7, 2016, a Central Florida 24 student at Bayside High was holding a Trump sign 25 when he was viciously assaulted by another student 26 and punched in the face; the attacker made clear that 4 1 the attack was motivated by politics and race – the 2 victim was white; 3 “(K) On January 20, 2017, the day President 4 Trump was inaugurated, at least 217 violent left- 5 wing protestors were arrested on a variety of 6 charges including vandalism and assault; 7 “(L) In January 2017, four Chicago teens 8 engaged in a hate crime, assaulting a disabled high 9 school student while making derogatory comments 10 about President Trump; 11 “(M) On January 30, 2017, a mob of left- 12 wing Trump protestors attacked a man at the 13 Portland International Airport, striking him in the 14 head three times with a metal object and rendering 15 him unconscious and then cheering as some in the 16 crowd stomped on the man; 17 “(N) In February 2017, left-wing protestors 18 attacked a 71-year-old Congressional staff in 19 California, striking her unconscious; 20 “(O) In March 2017, the youngest son of 21 Virginia United States Senator Tim Kaine, the Vice- 22 Presidential running mate of Hillary Clinton in 23 2016, was part of a leftist group that threw a smoke 24 bomb to disrupt a pro-Trump event. Kaine 25 eventually pled guilty to criminal conduct; 26 “(P) In April 2017, three conservative 27 political events, two in California and one in 5 1 Oregon, had to be cancelled as a result of terrorist 2 threats of violence directed at the events’ speakers. 3 “(Q) In May 2017, the Federal Bureau of 4 Investigation (FBI) arrested an individual who had 5 made repeated threats that he was going to shoot a 6 Republican Congresswoman from Arizona because 7 of her support for President Trump; 8 “(R) On May 11, 2017, Weakley County 9 Sheriff’s Office in Tennessee arrested a thirty-three- 10 year-old woman for an incident that occurred on 11 May 8, 2017. The woman followed the car of a 12 Republican lawmaker, running it off the road, and 13 then pounded her fist on the car and attempting to 14 reach into it. She was later charged with felony 15 reckless endangerment; 16 “(S) On May 11, 2017, police were forced to 17 escort an angry man from a town hall of then- 18 Representative Kevin Cramer after the man became 19 physical with Cramer. On the day prior, The 20 Huffington Post called on the “Resistance” of the 21 political left to harass Republican elected officials 22 in public and in their homes.; 23 “(T) On June 14, 2017, James Hodgkinson – 24 a volunteer on Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential 25 campaign who raged against Republicans and who 26 used social media and websites to post anti-Trump 27 sentiments – shot Republican Whip Steve Scalise, a 6 1 Republican Congressional staff member, and U.S. 2 Capitol Police Officer Crystal Griner at a practice 3 session for the Congressional baseball game; 4 “(U) On June 15, 2017, the FBI investigated 5 a suspicious package containing a white powdery 6 substance and a threatening note that was sent to 7 Karen Handel, a Republican candidate for Congress 8 from Georgia, and several similar packages sent to 9 her neighbors.; 10 “(V) In August 2017, the media reported that 11 the home of Secretary of Housing and Urban 12 Development (HUD) had been vandalized by left 13 wing advocates who damaged the property with 14 “hateful rhetoric about President Trump”; 15 “(W) On August 17, 2017, a Democratic 16 Missouri state senator, Maria Chappelle-Nadal, 17 used social media to post, “I hope Trump is 18 assassinated.” When called on to resign for her 19 hateful rhetoric, Chappelle-Nadal stated, “There is 20 no way in hell that I’m resigning”; 21 “(X) At an August 2017 conservative 22 gathering in Laguna Beach, California, African 23 American conservative activist R.C. Maxwell was 24 assaulted for his political views by a 20-year-old 25 who was part of an “aggressive group” of 26 protestors. The perpetrator of the attack later used 27 Twitter to boast about his attack on Maxwell; 7 1 “(Y) In December 2017, the Lincoln office of 2 United States Senator from Nebraska, Deb Fischer, 3 was vandalized; 4 “(Z) On December 25, 2017, the family of 5 Representative Jeff Fortenberry found a series of 6 threatening and derogatory signs in their yard; 7 “(AA) On February 12, 2018, a 8 Massachusetts man sent a hoax threat letter to the 9 home of Donald Trump, Jr. – the letter contained a 10 white powder that read in part, “you are getting 11 what you deserve” and a similar letter had been sent 12 to Eric Trump’s home in 2016; 13 “(BB) In March 2018, a student was 14 assaulted at his high school in Minnesota because 15 he was carrying a flag that contained the word 16 “Trump”; 17 “(CC) On March 18, 2018, a man yelling 18 “anti-Trump” rhetoric entered the Trump National 19 Doral Golf Club outside of Miami and fired a gun – 20 at the roof and chandeliers and, when police arrived, 21 he fired his gun at the police; 22 “(DD) On May 3, 2018, the media reported 23 that Bexar County, Texas Democratic 24 Commissioner, Tommy Calvert, disclosed a 25 conversation he had with a Democratic United 26 States Senator, Robert Menendez of New Jersey, in 27 which Menendez suggested that if the 2020 8 1 Republican National Convention was held in San 2 Antonio that food served to Republican delegates 3 would be poisoned; 4 “(EE) On May 20, 2018, a conservative 5 media personality associated with FoxNews was 6 verbally and physically assaulted at a restaurant in 7 Minneapolis, Minnesota because of her political 8 views; 9 “(FF) On May 24, 2018, the media reported 10 that the Justice Department announced legal action 11 in response to three instances where Republican 12 lawmakers, including the former chairman of the 13 House Committee on the Judiciary Representative 14 Bob Goodlatte, were threatened with harm and even 15 death”; 16 “(GG) On June 16, 2018, a Jewish supporter 17 of President Trump was attacked in San Francisco 18 while standing next to a Trump flag.