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Ter·ror·ist (Noun): Anyone Who Disagrees with the Government
I noted in 2009:
The Department of Homeland Security and police forces label anyone who they disagree with – or who disagrees with government policies – as “terrorists”.
Don’t believe me?
Well, according to a law school professor, pursuant to the Military Commissions Act, “Anyone who … speaks out against the government’s policies could be declared an ‘unlawful enemy combatant’ and imprisoned indefinitely. That includes American citizens.”
And according to an FBI memo, peace protesters are being labeled as “terrorists”.
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Anyone who disagrees with the “acceptable” way of looking at things is a terrorist.
How is this different from Stalin or Mao’s use of labels such as “enemy of the state”?
This may have seemed over-the-top to some, but events have proven it true.
For example, the following is considered terrorism or suspected terrorism in modern America:
- Questioning war (even though war reduces our national security; and see this)
- Criticizing the government’s targeting of innocent civilians with drones (although killing innocent civilians with drones is one of the main things which increases terrorism. And see this)
In fact – since 9/11 – virtually all dissent has been equated with terrorism.
As Paul Joseph Watson notes:
Of course, the vast majority of people who visit Internet Cafes use cash to pay their bill. Who uses a credit card to buy a $2 dollar cup of coffee? A lot of smaller establishments don’t even accept credit cards for amounts less than $10 dollars.
Other examples of suspicious behavior include using a “residential based Internet provider” such as AOL or Comcast, the use of “anonymizers, portals, or other means to shield IP address” (these are routinely used by mobile web users to bypass public Internet filters), “Suspicious communications using VOIP,” and “Preoccupation with press coverage of terrorist attack” (this would apply to the vast majority of people who work in the news or political blogging industry).
Searching for information about “police” or “government” is also listed as a potential indication of terrorism, as is using a computer to “obtain photos, maps or diagrams of transportation, sporting venues, or populated locations,” which would apply to virtually anyone who uses Google Maps or Google Earth.
People who may wish to keep private the contents of a personal email or an online credit card purchase by attempting to”shield the screen from view of others” are also characterized as potential terrorists.
Business owners who spot patrons engaging in these types of activities are encouraged to call the FBI’s Joint Regional Intelligence Center (JRIC), after first gathering information on license plates, names, ethnicity, and languages spoken.
In total, there are 25 different CAT flyers aimed at businesses from across the spectrum – everything from hobby shops to tattoo parlors.
As we have documented on numerous occasions, the federal government routinely characterizes mundane behavior as extremist activity or a potential indicator of terrorist intent. As part of its ‘See Something, Say Something’ campaign, the Department of Homeland Security educates the public that generic activities performed by millions of people every day, including using a video camera, talking to police officers, wearing hoodies, driving vans, writing on a piece of paper, and using a cell phone recording application,” are potential signs of terrorist activity.
The CAT program again underscores how federal authorities are empowering poorly trained citizens to become terrorist hunters, stoking fears that America is sinking deeper into a Stasi-style informant society.
In modern America, curling up in a ball to avoid police violence may also be considered “active resistance” … justifying the use of more force, including baton strikes.
And even pointing out tyrannical trends may be grounds for harassment.
Note: Some also claim that copyright infringers are terrorists, and swat teams have been deployed against them. See this, this, this and this. I’m not condoning copyright infringement, but merely citing to the all-pervasiveness of the “terror” label. And given that even grandmas and children might innocently and unwittingly download copyrighted content, any tendency to use the terror label is troubling.
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GW,
You may not be a terorist but you sure are a terrorist sympathizer. And the fact you too much of a coward to spew your thoughts with a real name proves it even more. You lie and get a bunch of wackos to agree with you. Fact is you approved of the 9/11 attacks and if you could take down the government you would.
Eat a horse cock bubba,and get off your knees ,Boy...
We have been ignoring the Mexican BORDER situation for years.
Many Islamic radical pamphlets, and reading materials have been found at the REST stops,over the past several years.
The Tali-ban is now here(been here)and has been teaming up with the Mexican Cartels.While we have been overseas fighting them, they have come into our backyards.
Iran has sent several thousand troops to Syria to HELP them.( todays news).
Get ready for the SHTF, and in my GUT it will happen before we can have the '12 election.
The reason the border is still open is so the govt can continue to run drugs in and launder through BoA, Citi, Wacho, etc.
They MUST fund their black ops somehow, don't ya know?
bubba1231 = troll or sheeple?
All of us are now dumber for having read your idiotic ramblings.
Nowhere in your incoherent babbling did you even come close to constructing anything that could even be considered a rational thought.
The fact that more people like you exist should send shivers down all of our spines.
How could he have approved? He didn't have the inside knowledge about this false flag attack unlike the Bushes & Co. 9/11 is probably the biggest lie and the most heinous crime by a government on its own people in the history of mankind.
You got it wrong, mate.
"And the fact you too much of a coward to spew your thoughts with a real name" says "Bubba1231"
That bubba is a good boy, just not too bright.
You owe me a soda that I just spit out...
judging by your handle, you are clearly trolling.
A) tROLL
B) sHILL
c) aGENT
old idea of freedom is a terrorist threat- freedom is submission per FBI..obey submit good citizen.
call me terrorist for I am a freeman.
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It will be interesting when protest fire back up this spring in the US if some of the participants start disappearing........forever.
DON'T FLY, DON'T COMPLY!
http://www.youtube.com/user/JanRichardus?feature=mhee#p/f/0/TbNIU2KEz4g
FRYING DUTCHMAN humanERROR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Q5p283KZGa8
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Muddy Waters
Long Distance Call
Ash Grove (Los Angeles, CA) Jul 29, 1971
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/muddy-waters/video/long-distance-call_1000...
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we're all palestinians now.
Thought there were lawz against inciting hatred in the USSA?
Guess it does not apply to US guvament ... right?
Last night I saw an interview with Sen. Rand Paul who spent some time going down the list of citizens who are now serving lengthy sentences in prison for various non-crimes such as 8 years for shipping foreign-caught seafood in plastic containers in violation of a foreign regulation that specifies using cardboard containers. Then there is the raid on Gibson Guitars for their non-violation of a foreign law that regulates the wood they use.
By any measure, if there is any terrorism here, it is being conducted by the US Government against common sense and our unalienable rights.
as a closet guitarist that Gibson thing really got to me.
Goldman vs. Gibson. Who would you rather string up?
DaveyJones
The Gibson thing was the 2nd time they had been hit.
Correction: Inalienable. Fixed.
Had enough yet?
HEY Party?????
Mama, we're all crazy (terrorists) now.
I had a kid ask me in my Calculus 2 class, "Why can we do that?" And I just had to go off this one time. I told her that we mathematicians believe in freedom and that she is free to do whatever she wants in the class. It may or may not be useful, but she is free to try anything she wants. (I don't think the class got the larger point, but I'll see all of you at the FEMA camp when I get reported for that. I'll be one of the people with the big yellow hats.)
"'Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?' said Dr. Ferris. 'We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against - then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We're after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it.
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.'"Ayn Rand
('Atlas Shrugged' 1957) "The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction [that] you give it." Ayn Rand ('John Galt Speech' 1957)'Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?' said Dr. Ferris. 'We want them broken...
I still get amused over "laws against bullying". And the standard is.......? And the punishment is......?
Nietzsche's ninny -the full nincompoop- yet they here have y'all now hurrying to search, showoff and knowingly quote their own alissa rosenbaum . . .
the financial intelligentsia
as if enough aynrands were kruggerands shown in public, enriching what sychophants as are likewise here scavenging maybe some of their dropped hints for some of their dropped nickels'n'dimes
all the while and in their own meantime bitchez so completely self-satisfied with what's otherwise unheard of
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/articles/MacDonald-Solzhenitsyn-200-Years-Together-18.html
For a country to have a great writer is like having another government. That’s why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
as if the further parroting of a plagiarist, on an article about being searched. stripped. Imprisonment . . . yeh. might make, like cramer, for another allaround renascent HautKultist, where outright rape'n'robbery is only completely satisfying when you can as well spit-back upon your victim. the raped. the robbed. quoting You
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=BOW20120206&articleId=29109
A is not A," Hagbard explained with that tiresome patience of his, "Once you accept A is A, you're hooked. Literally hooked, addicted to the System."
I caught the references to Aristotle, the old man of the tribe with his unfortunate epistemological paresis, and also to that feisty lady I always imagine is really lost Anastasia, but I still didn't grok. "What do you mean?" I asked, grabbing a wet handkerchief as some of the teargas started to drift to our end of the park. "Chairman Mao didn't say half of it," Hagbard replied holding a handkerchief to his own face. His words came through muffled; "It isn't only political power that grows out of the barrel of a gun. So does the whole definition of reality. A set. And the action that has to happen on that particular set and on none other." "Don't be so bloody patronizing," I objected, looking around a corner in time and realizing that night I would be Maced. "That's just Marx: the ideology of the ruling class becomes the ideology of the whole society." "Not the ideology. The Reality." He lowered his handkerchief. "This was a public park until they changed the definition. Now, the guns have changed the Reality. It isn't a public park. There's more than one kind of magic." "Just like Enclosure Acts," I said hollowly. "One day the land belongs to the people. The next day it belongs to the landlords." "And like the Narcotic Acts," he added. "A hundred thousands harmless junkies became criminals overnight, by Act of Congress, in 1927. Ten years later, in '37, all the pot-heads in the country became criminals overnight, by Act of Congress. And they were criminals, when the papers were signed. The guns prove it. Walk away from those guns, waving a joint, and refuse to halt when they tell you. Their Imagination will become your Reality in a second." And I had my answer to Dad, finally, just as a cop jumped out of the darkness screaming something about freaking motherfucking fag commies and Maced me, as was certain to happen (I knew it as I crumbled in pain) on that set.
The Illuminatus! is a novel trilogy written by Robert Shea and Robert Wilson, published in 1975.
The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignored, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statisticians, psychologists, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned to it. The theologians call it a sinner and tries to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. The psychotherapist calls it neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.
STOP PAYING WITH DEBIT OR CREDIT CARDS.
PAY WITH CASH ONLY!
I've paid cash for coffee three times in the last two days! Yikes!
and barter
Dont be a fool.
keep your cash to buy gold and silver
pay with credit and default
buy ammo, too.....308 while you can still get it...
Hey stop that terrorist talk! How am I gonna buy anything? Cash, I don't need no stinking cash!
I saw Naomi Wolf's movie The End of America recently on netflix. She identifies 10 steps governments universally take in transforming free liberal societies into "closed" societies. One of these was Surveillance of Ordinary Citizens. She noted as a particular example Soviet East Germany, where virtually the entire population assumed that the Stasi had files on them . . . yet, once records were examined after the collapse, it turned out that only ten percent actually did have "files." The widely accepted belief that surveillance was universal, however, was sufficient to lock down free speech even in private settings.
Create a convincing fear and people will largely police themselves.
A short movie (2008) with little really new info, but put together in a way that brings things into disturbing focus . . . worth a viewing, imo.
http://www.endofamericamovie.com/about-film/10-steps-that-close-an-open-...
Fuck the fascists and their tools.
The Naomi twins, Wolf and Klein, both have interesting things to say...
I think one needs more that 10 steps:
11) Create laws that are difficult to understand, contradicts other laws and are open to interpretation; Thus *everybody* is guilty of something and can be arrested should the occasion merit.
12) Create several competing security forces and agencies with overlapping responsibilites. Many agencies are needed to keep each other in check while competing for ressources by finding "enemies".
Our Supreme Court will take months to decide whether to take up a case. They will then schedule the hearing and decide in due time.
The guy with the Badge and a Gun will take about 3 seconds to decide using a High School education and cop courses at the local Community College.
Shoot first; decide later.
Now that we have a new Counterterrorism agency, finding terrorists is going to be a priority! What else would an agency like that do to justify its existence and grow its budget after all?
As a US Citizen, I find the totalitarian binge this government has been on quite disturbing. While I'm no fan of Chomsky, he wrote something very prescient in Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda - acquiescence to the actions of our government is agreement. Those of us who have been blogging against these actions, voting against these totalitarians, protesting during the original non-establishment Tea Party protests, the Birchers, the Birthers, may well be on an enemy list because we disagree with the powers that be. Talking with average people at work, I find WE are actually the majority. The media is being used to engineer opinion - as it has been effectively used for decades. I haven't seen a journalist worth the moniker in 40 years. This government has SHIT on the Constitution for too long.
One noteworthy example of their propaganda tactics is the NatGeo program "Doomsday Preppers." The program has ordinary folks who are actively preparing for black swan events. The producers go out of their way to make the point that these people are kooks and their actions are extremist and the events they are seeking to be prepared for are low probability, unlikely scenarios. I know MANY people who are preparing for a financial collapse by stocking up - that's what prudent people do when they see the chances of high impact events growing and building with no end in sight. A friend of mine from Poland was in college during the Solidarity movement. He saw firsthand the stages of popular uprising and commented that he has the same sense that the mood is swinging here. "The people haven't found their voice yet," he said.
Mormons are the ultimate preppers (encouraged by the chruch), which means that all Mormons are terrorists, which means Mitt Romney is.................
do all mormons stack up off shore?
As a prepper, who's not preparing for the end of the world but just wants to be prepared, that show infuriates me. They definitely highlight the kooks, and everyone on the show is made to look like complete idiots. The goal apparently is to make people who do not need to depend on outside systems look like fools. I loved it when the "experts" said an economic collapse was "highly unlikely" too! Just keep depending on the gas station, grocery store, utility companies, and government folks. Everything is OK. We will take care of you!!!
Agreed. I knew what they were going to do with that show - make 'Preppers' look like kooks. I laughed when they'd wrap every segment with "Most economists agree..." "...highly unlikely...," etc.. NatGeo has been 'State Entertainment TV' for a long time.
Don't forget, using an internet proxy is now also considered an aggravating circumstance in federal criminal justice system.
Thing is there is nothing novel here.
Government is a mob usurping rights from the individual.
Isn't it strange. I ask nothing more than cash or goods from my customers after honest bargaining and price agreement.
The thugs that run around with badges and papers telling others what to do are "in charge".
2012 is a wonderful year for the Second American Revolution.
Go GW!
it wouldn't surprise me if being a small business owner/self employed would be classified as a terrorist
This is coming when they can't bankrupt enough of us through their economic policies. Too much independence. For wage slaves, they must comply in order to keep collecting their chits. I often find I am the only one speaking up about absurdities and injustices at "public" meetings, everyone else shuts up as they are controlled by the employers (the "employers" often being some sort of gov agency, for the others, usually a politically connected corp).
I remember one regulatory meeting I was at a couple of years ago. I was not spouting the "party line", one of the gov goons asked who my supervisor was. He was real upset when I told him "you are looking at her". They can't have people around who they are not able to control.
Right on, Kali! I often find myself speaking up when others choose to remain silent, and have often been surprised at how quickly the "authorities" will back down when challenged. It's the little acts of resistance that, added together, make a difference.
Yeah dude, I'm sorry about this, but you are in fact a terrorist in that case.
Don't worry, it happens to us all.
Just turn yourself in at the nearest police station and it will all go faster during interrogation.