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Well the DOI (Dept. of Interior) has a training slide that
shows a blonde-haired white male wrapped in the US flag as a terrorist. I'm not sure if I can release the screen shot or not...
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Steven Otero <steve.otero@gmail.com> wrote:
The Department
of Defense is training all of its personnel in its current Antiterrorism and Force Protection Annual Refresher Training Course
that political protest is “low-level terrorism.”
The Training introduction reads as follows:
“Anti-terrorism (AT) and Force Protection (FP) are two facets of the Department of Defense (DoD) Mission
Assurance Program. It is DoD policy, as found in DoDI 2000.16, that the DoD
Components and the DoD elements and personnel
shall be protected from terrorist acts through a high pirority, comprehensive, AT program. The DoD’s AT program
shall be all encompassing using an integrated systems approach.”
The first question of the Terrorism
Threat Factors, “Knowledge Check 1” section reads as follows:
Which of the following is an
example of low-level terrorism activity?
Select the correct answer and then click Check Your Answer.
O
Attacking the Pentagon
O IEDs
O Hate crimes against racial groups
O Protests
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The
“correct” answer is Protests.
A copy of this can be found on the last two pages of this pdf.
The
ACLU learned of this training and on June 10, 2009 sent a letter to the Gail McGinn, Acting Under-Secretary of Defense for
Personnel and Readiness, objecting to their training all DoD personnel that the exercise of First Amendment rights constitutes
“low-level terrorism.”
For those who have worried about a trend – evident, for example,
in the USA PATRIOT Act, the universal and ongoing government surveillance of all of Americans’ electronic communications
that began in February of 2001 (seven months before 9/11), the global war on a tactic (terrorism), therefore making this war
unending, the unprecedented pre-emptive arrests of protestors at the 2008 Republican National Convention with those protesters
being charged as “domestic terrorists,” the justifications for torture, pre-emptive wars of aggression,
ongoing occupations, American gulags such as Bagram, suspension of habeas corpus, and “prolonged detention”
for acts someone might commit, not what they have done, FBI et al infiltration of protest groups and the government’s
acknowledged use of undercover agents (agents provocateurs) in said infiltration, thus giving the government under the rubric
of fighting domestic terrorism unrestrained and unsupervisable power to suppress legitimate political activities, the unleashing
and justifications for Christian fascists to murder those they do not like (such as the assassination of Dr. George Tiller
and the killing at the Holocaust Museum a few days ago) – this news adds further fuel to the fire.
These
are not items from some famously vilified, non-US dictatorial regime. These are items from the good ole USA, land of the free
and home of the brave.
Just how brave are we now? How free are we still? Are we brave enough to be “winter
soldiers” and stand up against these fascist moves? Or will we go down in history in infamy, the way the “Good
Germans” of the 1930s and 1940s did?
Satellite photo of one of the detention camps built by Halliburton’s
subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root. This one’s in Wyoming.
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"The philosophy of gun control: Teenagers are roaring through town at 90 MPH, where the speed limit is 25. Your solution
is to lower the speed limit to 20." - Sam Cohen, inventor of the Neutron Bomb
"We maintain [privately-owned] arms
largely because we seek to prevent violence. Those that wish to disarm us do so that they may perpetrate it with impunity."
- R. Murray
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"The philosophy of gun
control: Teenagers are roaring through town at 90 MPH, where the speed limit is 25. Your solution is to lower the speed limit
to 20." - Sam Cohen, inventor of the Neutron Bomb
"We maintain [privately-owned] arms largely because we seek to prevent
violence. Those that wish to disarm us do so that they may perpetrate it with impunity." - R. Murray
"Men cannot be
governed and remain men. Domesticate the wolf and he changes both physically and mentally. His muzzle shrinks, his teeth diminish,
he loses size, speed, and strength, He grows spots. His ears flop. His brain withers. He becomes a dog. Men are on the verge
of becoming dogs -- the changes are underway already -- unless we do something to stop it."
The Ceo Lia Wheeler, Phoebus
Krumm, forthcoming
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what
he means."
George Bernard Shaw
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