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Obama Declares War On "Extremism" – Are You An "Extremist"?

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Submitted by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

Do you know what an “extremist” is?  In the wake of the horrible terror attacks on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in France, Barack Obama is speaking very boldly about the need to win the war against “extremists”, and he has announced plans to host a major global summit on “extremism” next month.  And on the surface that sounds great.  But precisely how are we supposed to determine whether someone is an “extremist” or not?  What criteria should we use?

As you will see below, your definition of an “extremist” may be far, far different from the definition that Barack Obama is using.  When you do a Google search, you will find that an “extremist” is defined as “a person who holds extreme or fanatical political or religious views, especially one who resorts to or advocates extreme action.”  According to Wikipedia, “extremism” is “an ideology (particularly in politics or religion), considered to be far outside the mainstream attitudes of a society or to violate common moral standards.  Extremism can take many forms, including political, religious and economic.”  Please notice that neither of those definitions uses the word violence.  In this day and age, you can be considered an “extremist” simply based on what you believe, and as you will see later in this article there are now tens of millions of Americans that are considered to be “extremists” and “potential terrorists” according to official U.S. government documents.

When you use the word “extremist”, you may have in your mind a picture of ISIS fighters or the terrorists from the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

But for elitists such as Barack Obama, the word “extremist” has a much broader meaning.  In recent years, it has become a code word for those that do not have an “enlightened” view of the world.  If your views on politics, religion or social issues are extremely different from the liberal, progressive views of “the mainstream” (as defined by the mainstream media and by “mainstream” politicians such as Barack Obama), then they consider you to be an extremist.

Early in the presidency of George W. Bush, we were told that Islamic terrorists were the enemy.  And so most of the country got behind the idea of the War on Terrorism.  But over the years that has morphed into a War on Extremism.  In fact, the Obama administration has gone so far as to remove almost all references to Islam from government terror training materials

Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole confirmed on Wednesday that the Obama administration was pulling back all training materials used for the law enforcement and national security communities, in order to eliminate all references to Islam that some Muslim groups have claimed are offensive.

 

“I recently directed all components of the Department of Justice to re-evaluate their training efforts in a range of areas, from community outreach to national security,” Cole told a panel at the George Washington University law school.

Now, much of the focus in law enforcement training materials is on “domestic extremists”.  We are being told that “domestic extremism” is just as great a threat to our national security as terror groups overseas are.

But exactly who are these “domestic extremists”?

Well, the truth is that you may be one of them.

I want to share with you a list that I have shared in a couple of previous articles.  It is a list of 72 types of Americans that are considered to be “extremists” or “potential terrorists” in official U.S. government documents.  This list will really give you a good idea of what Barack Obama means when he uses the word “extremist”.  Each of these 72 items is linked, so if you would like to go see the original source document for yourself, just click on the link.  As you can see, this list potentially includes most of the country…

1. Those that talk about “individual liberties”

2. Those that advocate for states’ rights

3. Those that want “to make the world a better place”

4. “The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule”

5. Those that are interested in “defeating the Communists”

6. Those that believe “that the interests of one’s own nation are separate from the interests of other nations or the common interest of all nations”

7. Anyone that holds a “political ideology that considers the state to be unnecessary, harmful,or undesirable”

8. Anyone that possesses an “intolerance toward other religions”

9. Those that “take action to fight against the exploitation of the environment and/or animals”

10. “Anti-Gay”

11. “Anti-Immigrant”

12. “Anti-Muslim”

13. “The Patriot Movement”

14. “Opposition to equal rights for gays and lesbians”

15. Members of the Family Research Council

16. Members of the American Family Association

17. Those that believe that Mexico, Canada and the United States “are secretly planning to merge into a European Union-like entity that will be known as the ‘North American Union’”

18. Members of the American Border Patrol/American Patrol

19. Members of the Federation for American Immigration Reform

20. Members of the Tennessee Freedom Coalition

21. Members of the Christian Action Network

22. Anyone that is “opposed to the New World Order”

23. Anyone that is engaged in “conspiracy theorizing”

24. Anyone that is opposed to Agenda 21

25. Anyone that is concerned about FEMA camps

26. Anyone that “fears impending gun control or weapons confiscations”

27. The militia movement

28. The sovereign citizen movement

29. Those that “don’t think they should have to pay taxes”

30. Anyone that “complains about bias”

31. Anyone that “believes in government conspiracies to the point of paranoia”

32. Anyone that “is frustrated with mainstream ideologies”

33. Anyone that “visits extremist websites/blogs”

34. Anyone that “establishes website/blog to display extremist views”

35. Anyone that “attends rallies for extremist causes”

36. Anyone that “exhibits extreme religious intolerance”

37. Anyone that “is personally connected with a grievance”

38. Anyone that “suddenly acquires weapons”

39. Anyone that “organizes protests inspired by extremist ideology”

40. “Militia or unorganized militia”

41. “General right-wing extremist”

42. Citizens that have “bumper stickers” that are patriotic or anti-U.N.

43. Those that refer to an “Army of God”

44. Those that are “fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)”

45. Those that are “anti-global”

46. Those that are “suspicious of centralized federal authority”

47. Those that are “reverent of individual liberty”

48. Those that “believe in conspiracy theories”

49. Those that have “a belief that one’s personal and/or national ‘way of life’ is under attack”

50. Those that possess “a belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism”

51. Those that would “impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)”

52. Those that would “insert religion into the political sphere”

53. Anyone that would “seek to politicize religion”

54. Those that have “supported political movements for autonomy”

55. Anyone that is “anti-abortion”

56. Anyone that is “anti-Catholic”

57. Anyone that is “anti-nuclear”

58. “Rightwing extremists”

59. “Returning veterans”

60. Those concerned about “illegal immigration”

61. Those that “believe in the right to bear arms”

62. Anyone that is engaged in “ammunition stockpiling”

63. Anyone that exhibits “fear of Communist regimes”

64. “Anti-abortion activists”

65. Those that are against illegal immigration

66. Those that talk about “the New World Order” in a “derogatory” manner

67. Those that have a negative view of the United Nations

68. Those that are opposed “to the collection of federal income taxes”

69. Those that supported former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr

70. Those that display the Gadsden Flag (“Don’t Tread On Me”)

71. Those that believe in “end times” prophecies

72. Evangelical Christians

Do you fit into any of those categories?

Personally, I fit into a couple dozen of them.

That is why alarm bells should go off whenever Barack Obama speaks of the need to crack down on “extremism”.

If Barack Obama wants to denounce Islamic terror, he should do so.  But because of his extreme political correctness, he goes out of his way to avoid any connection between Islam and terror.  Instead, he speaks of the need to recognize “Islam’s role in advancing justice, progress, tolerance, and the dignity of all human beings” and he insists that “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”

Meanwhile, our liberties and freedoms are being eroded a little bit more with each passing day.  In the name of fighting “terrorism” or “extremism”, our government is constructing a Big Brother police state control grid all around us.  I like the way that Ron Paul described what is happening to us just the other day

If Americans were honest with themselves they would acknowledge that the Republic is no more. We now live in a police state. If we do not recognize and resist this development, freedom and prosperity for all Americans will continue to deteriorate. All liberties in America today are under siege.

 

It didn’t happen overnight. It took many years of neglect for our liberties to be given away so casually for a promise of security from the politicians. The tragic part is that the more security was promised — physical and economic — the less liberty was protected.

 

With cradle-to-grave welfare protecting all citizens from any mistakes and a perpetual global war on terrorism, which a majority of Americans were convinced was absolutely necessary for our survival, our security and prosperity has been sacrificed.

 

It was all based on lies and ignorance. Many came to believe that their best interests were served by giving up a little freedom now and then to gain a better life.

 

The trap was set. At the beginning of a cycle that systematically undermines liberty with delusions of easy prosperity, the change may actually seem to be beneficial to a few. But to me that’s like excusing embezzlement as a road to leisure and wealth — eventually payment and punishment always come due. One cannot escape the fact that a society’s wealth cannot be sustained or increased without work and productive effort. Yes, some criminal elements can benefit for a while, but reality always sets in.

 

Reality is now setting in for America and for that matter for most of the world. The piper will get his due even if “the children” have to suffer. The deception of promising “success” has lasted for quite a while. It was accomplished by ever-increasing taxes, deficits, borrowing, and printing press money. In the meantime the policing powers of the federal government were systematically and significantly expanded. No one cared much, as there seemed to be enough “gravy” for the rich, the poor, the politicians, and the bureaucrats.

The country that our forefathers founded is dying.

Now, individuals and organizations that attempt to restore the values that our founders once believed in so strongly are regarded as dangerous “extremists” that need to be watched carefully.

Sadly, most Americans don’t even realize what is happening to this nation.  As long as they are fed a constant diet of mindless entertainment, most Americans are perfectly content to let “the experts” do their thinking for them.

We are steamrolling toward oblivion, and most of the country is dead asleep.

So is there any hope for us?

 

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Tue, 01/13/2015 - 21:51 | 5658180 Grouchy Marx
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It's easier to identify non-extremists.

You are a non - extremist if you meet all these criteria:

1. You are state-dependent for most or all of your livelihood.

2. You are glad that you are.

3. You believe the state should be giving you even more. 

4. You resent people who have worked hard and become successful. 

5. You've never read the Constitution, but believe it protects your right to get free stuff. 

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:56 | 5658193 EscapingProgress
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Presently, to not be an extremist is to be a fool. Perhaps war should be declared on fools.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:00 | 5658216 TheInfoman
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Compared to me, Obama is an extremist.  

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 21:59 | 5658218 stormsailor
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Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter  Isaiah 5:20

 

it just seems to fit somehow

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:23 | 5658302 dexter_morgan
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Isaiah was Orwellian......before there was an Orwell.............

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:03 | 5658240 Polymarkos
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Obama is a Marxist. Marxists are ALWAYS extremists.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:05 | 5658245 optimator
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"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.

And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue."

(From Barry Goldwater's 1964 Republican convention nomination speech.)

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:06 | 5658249 MEFOBILLS
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"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."-- George Washington, in a speech of January 7, 1790

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the great struggle for independence. -- Attributed to Charles Austin Beard (1874-1948)

The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.-- Alexis de Tocqueville

The American Republic will endure until Banking Corporations realize they can bribe government with the people’s credit….MEFOBILLS

 

(When you hypothecate a new loan, it is your credit, your signature authority upon which the loan proceeds.  Banker Credit pops into being from nothing and returns to ledger, disappearing into nothing.)

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:08 | 5658256 SmittyinLA
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"Extremist" is anybody that opposes Obama or Zionism.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:07 | 5658258 disgruntled hou...
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Jonathon Turley is one of our nation's top Constitutional and military law experts. He is the second most cited law professor in the country. He had the following to say...

"It is distressing to see both England and the United States slipping into such authoritarian constructs... They have created a type of legal shape shifting charge where they could claim either espionage or terrorism- effectively admitting that such classifications are now entirely arbitrary."

I continue to be dumbfounded that people are not concerned about the direction where we are headed. It is one thing for regular schmucks like us to be outraged but the words of Jonathon Turley are truly a warning that the general populace will regret not heeding.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:08 | 5658259 Falconsixone
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"So is there any hope for us?"

Is there any hope for those who come and try to take my right to be an extremist?

Bring it on extremists. You'll be mist but not missed or missed.

 

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:12 | 5658268 fatlibertarian
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i'm an extremist

 

but I also like to build computers @ www.neweggalternative.com 

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:19 | 5658289 dexter_morgan
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Sounds like there is only hope for the New Bolsheviks

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:19 | 5658293 Callz d Ballz
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We made extremists out of folks.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:22 | 5658294 Callz d Ballz
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Isn't this the pot calling the kettle....oh wait

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:20 | 5658295 EastCoast90
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Back in 2012 at the age of 21 when I first took the red pill and started to figure things out I always said that when the SHTF the first people that will be detained by the G-men as enemies of the state would be the right wing anti government constitutional 2nd amendment types.   

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:21 | 5658489 samsara
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Congrats man. 

Keep reading far and wide, correlate, validate, and discount as your logic says.  Watch out for things you take for granted,  and revalidate them often.

When ever you say "Nah they wouldn't do that"  really question yourself.

Oh and as my father said, "Watch a guy that gives you answers to questions you didn't ask yet".

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:35 | 5658524 EastCoast90
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I appreciate it and thanks for the tips.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:22 | 5658301 fibonacci's claus
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that headline is funny.

 

that's like calling the kettle black.

 

i think the american public has shown GREAT restraint in the past few years.

 

the federal govt should stop trying to pick a fight with the american public.

 

i'm sure i speak for all of us when i say that we have had it 'up to here" with all the trampling of the constitution and spying, all the goerbles style media tactics, the war against men, the war against american christians, the war against the american family. 

 

is obama so bored in the white house he isn't satisfied and needs to start trouble inside the country?

 

i just talked to a friend of mine how is in the healthcare field and he along with 200 other doctors just got his BC/BS contract janked.  that is extremism.  and it is sanctioned by .gov how is in bed with the insurance companies.  that is extremism.  it is also a complete conflict of interest. 

 

the pot calling the kettle black.  more like psychological projection.  it is the american govt that has become extremist with its mass spying and surveillence of the american public.

 

RESTRAINT OF TRADE!  that is what the federal reserve, the u.s government and the health insurance companies are guilty of ........................................................................extremist restraint of trade, extremist restraint of the free spirit of the american people.

 

 

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:26 | 5658320 p00k1e
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'american public has shown GREAT restraint'

 

Bleat?

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:54 | 5658420 bunnyswanson
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America has the largest standing army on the planet and during the OWS demonstrations right up to I cannot Breathe, not a shot fired.  I think that is noteworthy.

Communism is a stepping stone to drain the wealth from the middle class, fascism/totalitarianism/corporatism/oligarchy are what we are fighting.  And this is a fight for ours and our children's very lives. 

http://www.libertyzone.com/Communist-Manifesto-Planks.html

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:33 | 5658520 p00k1e
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I think Kent State invalidates whatever link you produce... along with Ed and Elaine Brown…. Rick Perry's executive order mandating HPV vaccine… Get real already, would ya. 

The last of the Americans you are trying to identify with stood in 1791 during the Whiskey Rebellion.

No offense.  Sam Adam's is a beer brand now.  And it's not even that good. 

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 00:08 | 5658618 rejected
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Agreed.

And that same President signed the first US Central bank, The First Bank of the United States. Said he thought it might be unconstitional but signed it anyway.

And, interestingly enough, Both the Bank and the rebellion was in the same year. Only four years after the ratification of the Constitution.

Should have stuck with the Articles....

 

 

 

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:27 | 5658322 williambanzai7
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They used to call them radicals. Then they switched to terrorists. Now its extremists. They key is to keep it as vague as possible. Congratulations, you qualify...we have your resume already.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:34 | 5658342 Callz d Ballz
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Yeah, this thread is a great qualifier.  You've made the "list".

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:39 | 5658351 p00k1e
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The intent is to get everyone on ‘the list’.  It’s a process. 

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 01:43 | 5658827 Rock On Roger
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newspeak

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:47 | 5658350 Barnaby
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"No I'm sorry sir, but Danites are a bit too specific." ~ Mockingbird Casting Director

Extremists are everywhere, they just don't get as big as Koresh without MEDIA Awesome POWER.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:45 | 5658381 gwar5
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Obama is a muslim sympathizing anti-free speech bookburning extremist traitor.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:47 | 5658391 p00k1e
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Merkel is pegging Germany!

'Merkel joins Muslim rally for tolerance'

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:47 | 5658386 Joebloinvestor
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Isn't the EPA "extremist" for mandating the use of stuff that doesn't exist?

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:49 | 5658392 Who was that ma...
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Gee.  A war on extremism seems a little extreme.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 22:52 | 5658412 Manipuflation
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Who me?

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 00:02 | 5658416 22winmag
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Someday the assholes at the SPLC will be handing over lists of extremists to DHS and the FEMA camps.

 

That's if they aren't already.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:03 | 5658445 pankowboy
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Funny, no one from the MSM ever asks him if he plans on subjecting his goils to FGM.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:06 | 5658456 homiegot
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I work extremly too much. Yes.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:09 | 5658462 messystateofaffairs
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If I consider Obama an extemely idiotic idiot does that mean I'm an extremist?

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:27 | 5658508 samsara
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Ah,  yes,  Yes it does.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:21 | 5658499 Sanity Bear
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I've never been more extreme than the mainstream.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:27 | 5658505 samsara
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"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!"

BG

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:29 | 5658511 Herdee
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The U.S. it seems has created this tiny little problem,it's facing all of its foreign policy decisions and their ramifications.Should have cleaned house Obama over at The State Department when you got in.Too late now,the dimwit neocons(including Victoria Nuland)have made foreign policy a joke and made Obama a fool.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:38 | 5658515 mademesmile
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.

 

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:31 | 5658516 mademesmile
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You know those Jesus fish bumper stickers that someone thought would be clever to stick legs on and put DARWIN in the middle?

I have a similar urge to take a COEXIST sticker and make it look like a turd going down a flushing toilet.

 

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:33 | 5658521 steelrules
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So in other words 530 million N. Americans are considered potential terrorists. So how many of you realize laws like this existed in Nazi Germany and the USSR around the time they started "Black Bagging" people.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:40 | 5658545 WP45
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They can call it whatever they want, I am sticking with what it is, Islamic Terrorism.

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:46 | 5658560 TulsaTime
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Compared to what?  Lists like that would make it a world of extremists, so what will the 'moderate' few do to escape the extremeist masses?? (the moderate people, the moderate people.....sounds like marilyn)

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 23:11 | 5658565 Free Wary
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[extremist comment retracted]

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 23:11 | 5658573 Free Wary
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[I retract my extremist comment]

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:51 | 5658575 rejected
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My definition differs a little. Extremism is any government that holds extreme or fanatical political or religious views, especially one that resorts to or advocates extreme action against non compliant individuals that believe in the ideals presented in the U.S Declaration of Independence and natural law.

 

 

Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:56 | 5658585 bunnyswanson
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“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years……It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years.

But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.”

? David Rockefeller

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 00:43 | 5658717 bunnyswanson
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBjQ9tuuTJQ

The Pretender (Foo Fighters0

112,115,119 views (100 million views in under 6 months)


MrBronydash

3 months ago   This song makes me want to start a revolution. 429 upvotes I'll die for your country Americans.  Your country has been good to me.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 00:03 | 5658593 are we there yet
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King George II is starting to look more American every day, even though he was not born in the US.
Really guys, all political party primaries have extremist candidates before they form a coalition candidate, not to mention US third party candidates. To me Hillary Clinton has extremist agenda. The voting booth, not politicians should decide what is extreme. But you may be an extrimist if you think the electronic voting booth is rigged.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 00:02 | 5658604 theyjustcantstop
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this is the plan, this is the end game.

Americas citizens are the fed.'s assets, they need sheep to work, and do what their told.

some sheep need little to no actions to control, others need a fence, and then there's those that need special treatment.

an unruly flock = undependable, and possibly worthless assets.

 

 

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 00:03 | 5658610 Seychelles
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The transformed globalized judicial system will be one of situational extremism.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 00:14 | 5658643 MedPro
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73. Those who read Zero Hedge

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 00:16 | 5658648 MedPro
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We have no ''freedoms '. Never did . It was all an illusion .

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 00:18 | 5658652 Shitgum Suicide
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You want to talk extreme? Has anyone noticed lately that has stations, liquor store, and most other low end stores are not accepting EBT anymore? Most of the places where I live including jack n the box have all stopped taking them.
What happens in 3-6 months when this situation deteriorates into more welfare and/or people going on "disability".
California is being flooded with every immigrant from Bolivia to Ethiopia to fuck if I know. It's what the liberals want and it's what they get. Nobody talks to each other because they can't communicate so they stay separate.

The free money is coming to and end for everybody and it's gonna get ugly quick. So glad I'm flushing the toilet and leaving it behind me.

Actually I should take a dump in the tank and leave it the way they want it. Fuck this state.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 00:25 | 5658674 Uncle Remus
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You don't think JPM walked away from that corp. welfare without a good reason do you?

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 01:06 | 5658761 bunnyswanson
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Costco has stopped selling cigarettes - Bad sign (nicotine addicts without money will be searching for tobacco)

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 04:22 | 5659034 zebrasquid
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What part of town did you live in??

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 00:22 | 5658662 vegan
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Seriously, I'm surprised that the govt still tolerates celebrating the 4th of July. Shouldn't be long before anyone who launches a bottle-rocket or lights a BBQ-grill will be on "the list" for honouring the great men and women who established a once-great country, in defiance of the king.

 

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 00:45 | 5658718 Barnaby
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You're obviously not an American.

Blow shit up and every family with a dog is traumatized, every infant with an unclosed shade is perturbed and every writer with an open eyeball sees the conditioning of every explosion. Every young boy is amazed.

 

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 02:32 | 5658914 One of We
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I'm an American and I am consciencious towards my neighbors.  Having trouble explaing to my 6 year old that neighbors may not want to hear fireworks at 7am on a school day.  I explained to him that when we have a property where we can pee and shoot a gun off our back deck he can launch the fireworks whenever he wants.....For now he has to wait for the weekends......

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 04:09 | 5659025 August
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Ich stand am Wagenfenster und schaute auf den Stadt hinaus, wo shon Laternen und rote Fenster leuchteten....

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 00:38 | 5658709 SystemOfaDrown
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List pretty much covers everyone working in Washington DC.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 01:20 | 5658766 zebrasquid
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Anyone here still hold the view that voting in the Presidential Election in 2012 didn't matter because one was no better than the other?

Romney would not be doing this shiit!

Hey Obama, FUCK YOU!
You are the extremist, you Jug-eared, tin-horn dictator wannabe.

Good news for the country, you are irrelevant, you're a punchline.

When the actual extremist moozlims start blowing shit up here in the U.S. again, Americans of all stripes will not turn to you for help, they will turn ON you and politically kick you and your upside-down ideas out on the curb.
Actually 60% already have...have you noticed?

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 01:52 | 5658843 Dre4dwolf
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Obama was pre-selected to win . . . 

It doesn't matter who votes for who.

The only people that matter are the ones counting the votes.

 

They hedge the election a few ways...

1) Make sure all the people counting votes are biased.

2) Make sure all the voting machines are calibrated to change votes against the voters will until the voter gives up and just votes whatever the machine makes them.

3) Even if they somehow don't win with the guy that they wanted , they owned the other guy also...

Its like they own two clowns, one clown is more funny than the other, but in the end you still get your clown in there.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 02:23 | 5658901 Government need...
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When you start with 47% of the electorate, it's a lot easier to get to 50.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 04:33 | 5659039 U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D
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Obama beat the guy who's horse danced in the olympics.  What else is there to say?

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 01:17 | 5658777 Atomizer
Wed, 01/14/2015 - 01:21 | 5658786 Atomizer
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Cannot wait for Obama to roll out a Government controlled Internet. ACA failure will be the least of his worries.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 01:43 | 5658805 Dre4dwolf
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Lets just put it this way, If you  have ever posted/talked about in public/texted or are recorded saying anything against the following:

-The bailouts

-High Taxes

-Foreign policy and illegal wars

-Obamacare making your life harder

-Obamas birth certificate (even though its obviously fake along with his 10 fake social security numbers)

-The fact that his wife resembles a man if you squint (sorta)

-or anything else anti-muslim extremist, anti-abortion, anti-open borders, anti-gun grabs, anti-indefinite detention without trial, anti....eeeh

-or listing ways that govt funds terrorist groups like ISIS.

-or anything like the above about anyone in the following organizations , CFR, Federal Reserve, CIA, Bohemian Grove, Bilderburglers, U.N., World Bank, or any other communist organizations the corrupt officials have ties to.

If you posted anything about those people/topics/issues/crimes, you are probably an extremist in their eyes.... to a lesser degree and you are on some watch-list where they just wait for you to say something or type something that they can use out of context to make your life a living hell.

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The only reason to create these wars on "extremism" is to squelch freedom of speech right before a take-over to control descent about crimes against the people.

Shutting people up will not stop Islamic terrorists, you can be sure of that.

So you have to wonder who the U.S. Govt is treating as the real enemy. . .  the terrorist cells like ISIS and Alciaeda (which for all intents the U.S. created, funded, and fueled, and armed)

or

Americans who are paying attention and scratching their heads trying to figure out just... what the (*$$( is going on around here?

 

They pretty much just want us all to shut-up and pretend everything is ok.

Which for the most part the average American doesn't even need to do because they are clueless anyway/too busy trying to keep themselves from going bankrupt under this fraudulent system the govt and banks created to imprison us with debt, to be able to have time to actually look at the issues and determine which prospective representatives they have a choice of voting for are probably an enemy plant sent there to be voted into office (by promising shit they cant give you) so that they can take over and perform a complete quiet coo de tat by defrauding voters who have no opportunity to get informed.

 

Go ask anyone who voted for someone, what the person they voted for stands for . . .  and most of them will not even know.... most will just select "Democrat because FREE SHIT WAS THE MSG".

 

The best thing republicans can do is just quit the party and run as undercover democrats, the democrats doit all the time, just get up there and promise free cake to everyone and the retard masses will vote for you.... then you can get in and make real change for the better... sometimes you have to lie to people to help them.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 01:34 | 5658807 Government need...
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Looks like Preezy's gearing up for a war on the freedom of speech.  He's doing it wrong, though.  You have to take away all the guns first.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 01:47 | 5658836 Dre4dwolf
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Its impossible to disarm all of the the Americans, they know this, there are fucking guns under the floor boards in half this country, and with about 2000$ worth of hardware anyone born after 1975 can probably produce functioning weapons out of their garage.

 

The communists have only one viable strategy.

1) Shut up everyone

2) Shout your own propaganda until it drones into everyones head, brain wash them.

3) Turn neighbor against neighbor till everyone is snitching on everyone over spilled milk.

Congratulations, you have just performed a communist take-over of a country.

 

Why do you think they keep trying pass cispa and all that shit (same fucking bill they just change the cover page every week and try to pass it over and over)... they will only stop trying to pass the internet kill switch freedom of speech destroyer bill when they run out of misleading acronyms. . .  in the end they will probably give up and just slap the 10,000 pages of cispa into some other unrelated bill regulating cow farts or something and pass it without reading it.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 02:06 | 5658873 Government need...
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On a number of dimensions, it would appear the New World Order gambit is failing.  The massive effort to create inflation is now blowing back in the form of deflation.  The massive effort to cumbaya the world into a single government appears to be heading instead into a bi-polar Sino-Russia coalition and an Amerikan Kabuki-troupe that finds itself marching on to war.  Islam's 1000+ year crusade to convert the world and kill the rest is also an active theme for 2015, which really throws a wrench in the 'diversity/multiculturalism is good' meme.  And those pesky American rednecks continue to horde guns and ammunition, making the 'Final Solution' much more costly.  No, Satan's little Screwtape is a bit frustrated in the early days of 2015. . .  Keep the faith, and make sure your hammers are cocked tonight.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 02:16 | 5658888 Sandmann
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Keep safe......don't drive a Mercedes

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 02:16 | 5658892 Sandmann
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You really think Americans will ever use those weapons against Imperial Stormtroopers sent out by Washington ? I don't.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 02:24 | 5658902 Atomizer
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We can even 3D print guns. Winks.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 04:30 | 5659036 U-P-G-R-A-Y-E-D-D
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I really wish you would stop referring to Obama, the elite, banksters, and NWO as "communists".  They're not communists - they may be statists who think state control of everything is the best approach (for control) and just because some other assclowns who were statists coopted struggles for workers' rights (communism) doesn't mean that these current assholes have anything to do with communism.  A real statist control-freak communist would swing his fist to destroy the banksters and other elites.  I truly believe that the "communist" word is still some sort of divide-conquer technique by these control freaks to divide anti-state anti-elite forces on the right and left.  You should consider that world-wide, many people identify with communism simply because it's the most sober and strong force against the ruling elite.  

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 01:52 | 5658845 Fuku Ben
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Seeing as how Mr Thank You satan says everything he really means in reverse and means the opposite of what he says speaking FORWARD then that makes an awful lot of people fit his category. The only outliers I see in the world are Outright liars. Sound like anyone you know?

And just like: The tools in the tool kit of globalist police state tyranny, the ever changing definition of extremism, terrorism and matching coincidental modification of the associated conundrum of lists that track them, you are now All in the Family just by posting here. Of course aside from the paid agents, trolls, shills and subjugated puppets that pervade ZHech

And here you thought the white man Archie Bunker was a role model for bigotry. When it comes to being a qualifying picture saying 1000 words or in this case just 1 word I will quote your infamous globalist Nob-el peace prize winner extraordinaire on bigotry "You ain't seen nothin' yet"

Funny how Archie used to use that same vernacular when he spoke to those he looked down upon. Maybe the Dear Prez is a caricature imitating real life. And maybe all the world is a stage?

Peace & Love Bitches! - You ain't gonna here that from nobody lookin' to call you an extremist, subjugate your ass or in any Shakespeare play. Only on ZH

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 02:04 | 5658863 Atomizer
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One correction.

Noob-el peace prize winner extraordinaire

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 05:14 | 5659077 CHX
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Or the Noodle Please Price ?

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 01:59 | 5658856 man of Wool
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Evangelical Christians - Cool

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 02:13 | 5658883 Atomizer
Wed, 01/14/2015 - 02:14 | 5658885 Sandmann
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The other Barry ie Goldwater stated:

"Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it "must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 02:14 | 5658886 Government need...
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Oh, missed that last part.  Fuck Muhummud, may he bathe eternally in pig's blood.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 02:37 | 5658898 One of We
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Not scared of extremists, not scared of radicals, not scared of terror, not scared of republicans, not scared of democrats, not scard of grizzlies, not scared of bull moose.  Occasionally scared by the bogey man in my closet until I remember its just the kevlar Guy Fawkes mask hanging by a nail...........

edit: I guess I stepped into another honey pot.....can I get on that list more than once or am I working my way up?

Molon Labe and Fuck You Bernanke!

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 03:59 | 5658907 zebrasquid
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This Imposter really thinks he is Caesar.
Can you believe that in the Land of Jefferson we would be hearing this anti-American blasphemy from The White House, from a PRESIDENT?

This is beyond unbelievable!
Our forefathers are spinning, and no doubt dying to crawl out of their graves to take care of this insurrection.

Je Suis Extremists! (If the definition of extremist is being the opposite of the mulatto Mullah that is mouthing it).

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 02:33 | 5658912 Victory_Garden
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Moar distractions, or the route to moar war?

http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/01/13/392958/NATO-plans-to-increase-Ba...

 

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 02:35 | 5658916 shadowboxer
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...you might be a Sub-Saharan Mulatto Usurper if you think an Extremist is:

 

1. Those that talk about “individual liberties”

2. Those that advocate for states’ rights

3. Those that want “to make the world a better place”

4. “The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule”

5. Those that are interested in “defeating the Communists”

6. Those that believe “that the interests of one’s own nation are separate from the interests of other nations or the common interest of all nations”

7. Anyone that holds a “political ideology that considers the state to be unnecessary, harmful,or undesirable”

8. Anyone that possesses an “intolerance toward other religions”

9. Those that “take action to fight against the exploitation of the environment and/or animals”

10. “Anti-Gay”

11. “Anti-Immigrant”

12. “Anti-Muslim”

13. “The Patriot Movement”

14. “Opposition to equal rights for gays and lesbians”

15. Members of the Family Research Council

16. Members of the American Family Association

17. Those that believe that Mexico, Canada and the United States “are secretly planning to merge into a European Union-like entity that will be known as the ‘North American Union’”

18. Members of the American Border Patrol/American Patrol

19. Members of the Federation for American Immigration Reform

20. Members of the Tennessee Freedom Coalition

21. Members of the Christian Action Network

22. Anyone that is “opposed to the New World Order”

23. Anyone that is engaged in “conspiracy theorizing”

24. Anyone that is opposed to Agenda 21

25. Anyone that is concerned about FEMA camps

26. Anyone that “fears impending gun control or weapons confiscations”

27. The militia movement

28. The sovereign citizen movement

29. Those that “don’t think they should have to pay taxes”

30. Anyone that “complains about bias”

31. Anyone that “believes in government conspiracies to the point of paranoia”

32. Anyone that “is frustrated with mainstream ideologies”

33. Anyone that “visits extremist websites/blogs”

34. Anyone that “establishes website/blog to display extremist views”

35. Anyone that “attends rallies for extremist causes”

36. Anyone that “exhibits extreme religious intolerance”

37. Anyone that “is personally connected with a grievance”

38. Anyone that “suddenly acquires weapons”

39. Anyone that “organizes protests inspired by extremist ideology”

40. “Militia or unorganized militia”

41. “General right-wing extremist”

42. Citizens that have “bumper stickers” that are patriotic or anti-U.N.

43. Those that refer to an “Army of God”

44. Those that are “fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)”

45. Those that are “anti-global”

46. Those that are “suspicious of centralized federal authority”

47. Those that are “reverent of individual liberty”

48. Those that “believe in conspiracy theories”

49. Those that have “a belief that one’s personal and/or national ‘way of life’ is under attack”

50. Those that possess “a belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism”

51. Those that would “impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)”

52. Those that would “insert religion into the political sphere”

53. Anyone that would “seek to politicize religion”

54. Those that have “supported political movements for autonomy”

55. Anyone that is “anti-abortion”

56. Anyone that is “anti-Catholic”

57. Anyone that is “anti-nuclear”

58. “Rightwing extremists”

59. “Returning veterans”

60. Those concerned about “illegal immigration”

61. Those that “believe in the right to bear arms”

62. Anyone that is engaged in “ammunition stockpiling”

63. Anyone that exhibits “fear of Communist regimes”

64. “Anti-abortion activists”

65. Those that are against illegal immigration

66. Those that talk about “the New World Order” in a “derogatory” manner

67. Those that have a negative view of the United Nations

68. Those that are opposed “to the collection of federal income taxes”

69. Those that supported former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr

70. Those that display the Gadsden Flag (“Don’t Tread On Me”)

71. Those that believe in “end times” prophecies

72. Evangelical Christians

 

 

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 04:06 | 5659018 zebrasquid
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At least when Nixon had his Enemies List his included a relative handful of people and not more than half the Country.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 03:21 | 5658968 Atomizer
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Dictators always end up dead.

Aquino Assassination 1983

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 04:44 | 5659040 zebrasquid
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Back in the day Bill Ayers et al would have been on the list and not the ones drafting it.
Odd, because I thought those folks were against such lists and were for freedom of speech and dissension.
Now we see it's just that they wanted to be the ones in charge.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 05:03 | 5659069 Porous Horace
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I think that all extremists should be shot on sight.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 05:11 | 5659074 Sirius Wonderblast
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I think the implications of No.66 are clear.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 05:41 | 5659101 onceinalifetime
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Kill all the extremists!
Kill'em all!

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 05:46 | 5659107 escapeefromOZ
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But if you belong to the Cabal and you believe that members of the tribe can kill gentiles for sport , then you are not a terrorist ! 

If you are a member of tribe and think that Apartheid is just , you are not a terrorist  . 

What a crooked system !

 

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 07:10 | 5659187 JailBanksters
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Maybe these guys are all drunk sitting around a Table:

err I'm goona declare war on Innovation

I'm gonna declare war on Terror

declare war on poverty

noop, were gonna delcare war on extremism

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 08:49 | 5659252 falak pema
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Terrorist, extremist... all words bandied that are without a solid basis.

The events is Paris and the French position defending the right to free speech in our society makes the divide clear : its about value systems; not about individual knee-jerks that a police state mentality; aka Patriot act;  wants to repress based on totally "obscure" and anti-constitutional criteria.

The whole neo-con mantra based on "rogue states" being the enemy was a false mantra.

As in term's of the West's OWN VALUE systems the Wahhabist Sauds imposing Sharia Laws at home and the Zionist Israelien state; imposing ethnic and religious preference as STATE policy; were/are contrary to the founding principles of both the US and French constitution and their common allegiance to the 1948 Universal Rights of Man principle that were poured in stone in the UN Charter.

So US policy dictated by the neo-con mantra of "Clash of civilization" based on rogue terrorism, raging war in Afghan/Iraq/ Libya etc., has been implemented on the ground; aka in hard acts;  on the basis of a narrow and incoherent definition of what value systems successive US administrations have defended.

By showing its true face at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, by initiating Patriot Act, the Us admin has only made matters worse and according to its own value systems some of its actions abroad fall into the domain of crimes of war and worse. 

The new position adopted by the European leadership as witnessed in Paris is more in line with the UN principles: We stand united against Obscurantist fanaticism, but we respect the rights of minority groups to fair individual treatment based on presumption of innocence and burden of proof; which the "terror", "extermist" and Patriot Act cum NSA spook mindset negates by its every day acts.

Lets see how Europe now EXECUTES its distancing from the US administration's political actions when it comes to fighting the ONE (fanaticism) without compromising the OTHER (individual rights).

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 08:56 | 5659338 MikeKay
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War on drugs wasn't a success, War on terrorism same thing not a success. So what makes the architects think that war on extremism will result in a success?

 

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 09:22 | 5659380 bunnyswanson
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That list covers everyone.  Who ODontCare doesn't disappear will be rounded up with this declaration above.  We are commodities, produce.  If I think about what could be in store for us, I shudder to consider the possibilities.  Prison labor is slave labor.

I really thought this train would have been brought to a halt right now.  It's astounding.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 10:25 | 5659638 Mike Honcho
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Make your statement more concise: US war on anything is not a success.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 09:32 | 5659396 MickV
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Federalist 68 tells us that Obama is a Usurper, i.e not a natural born Citizen. His putative Presidency has voided the US Constitution. Cloward Picen strategy is now being used to destroy what is left of the United States, overseen by the Usurper at the behest of his NWO overlords at the IMF, the UN, and the CFR. Every aspect of American life is under direct attack. When there is no legal "executor of the laws" then there is no law, and the law is only what evil greedy men say it is.

Federalist 68 (Alexander Hamilton, 1788):

"Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue, and corruption. These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one quarter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils. How could they better gratify this, than by raising a creature of their own to the chief magistracy of the Union?"

Obama told us he was not eligible when he "wrote" Dreams From My Father, about the foreign influence he was infected with by his "IMPROPER ASCENDANT" father Barack Obama Sr.-- a Drunkard philandering Marxist Kenyan British subject.

"ASCENDANT" was used purposefully by Hamilton, since iit means both "INFLUENCE" and "ANCESTOR", as in the improper influence of a direct foreign ancestor. So how does one avoid that improper foreign influence? By "RAISING A CREATURE OF THEIR OWN to the chief magistry of the Union". Could "raising a creature of their own" possibly mean raising the child of a British subject Marxist to the Presidency? Of course not. If the purpose of the requirement of a natural born Citizen is prevention of foreign influence, could the son of a foreigner be eligible? Of course not. Obama was born BRITISH, and quite possinly still is, and Congress is doing everything they can to hide the treason they have all committed-- with the help of a compliant useful idiot media, and judiciary.

Only the Blood of Tyrants will restore the Republic.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 10:33 | 5659698 Mike Honcho
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Your captors declared war on it citizenry with the (non)Patriot Act.  All of this is the slow boil.  If this doesn't stir some frustrated angst in your gut then you don't get it.  A long time in the making and irreversible.

Think of Venezuelans, how dire the situation is but they are still drudging through the failed social contract that will only end with revolution.

Wed, 01/14/2015 - 12:38 | 5660313 numapepi
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Today I wrote a blog about the diabolical nature and real design of Obama's war on extremism.

http://incapp.org/blog/?p=2458

Do NOT follow this link or you will be banned from the site!