FBI Announces that Americans Are Now a Threat to America

RLC ^ | February 7, 2012 | Dave Nalle

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Following the pattern of other provocative statements about potential domestic terrorist threats from the Obama Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued a statement exposing the threat of “hundreds of thousands” of “sovereign citizens” who can turn violent “at the drop of a hat” during encounters with the police.

Citing three specific cases in three years and a trend of an increase in arrests of believers in individual sovereignty from 10 to 18 cases per year, mostly for non-violent crimes, the FBI declared law enforcement to be “inundated” with threats.

This may be the most exaggerated and offensive example of specious fearmongering to come out of an administration which has been promoting irrational fear of generally harmless groups of citizens for three years.

The FBI is taking aim at a huge body of citizens who are increasingly angry about government abuse of power and irresponsibility and attempting to turn them into a movement of dangerous potential terrorists.

These dangerous “extremists” hold such horrific views as “outrage at tax collection,” defying environmental regulations and believing that “the United States went bankrupt by going off the gold standard.” The FBI is identifying them as “sovereign citizens” and is defining them as a members of a movement... a characteristic shared by about half the nation’s population.

...The kinds of concerns which the FBI is using to identify these potentially dangerous citizens are not the hallmarks of dangerous extremism. They are mostly reasonable concerns over the current state of our government held by tens of millions of fairly ordinary citizens who have legitimate reasons to be dissatisfied with government.

.. They are targeting Americans for the crime of being American and for holding to values of independence and self-reliance on which our nation was built.

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more from article:

...The one genuine, unifying characteristic of all of these “extremists” is that they are not happy with a government which is spending beyond its means, taxing beyond our ability to pay and which encroaches more and more on our constitutionally guaranteed rights every day. In their statement the FBI is not actually identifying a real threat to public safety or to citizens, they are putting us on notice that public expression of justifiable anger at the government can get you labelled a dangerous criminal or even a terrorist.

This is a tactic intended purely and simply to intimidate and silence the public. They are sending the message that protest is a crime and speaking out against government will not be tolerated. The implications of this statement from the FBI are particularly ominous in the wake of efforts in the National Defense Appropriation Act, the PATRIOT Act and the pending Enemy Expatriation Act to empower the government to take away the most fundamental rights of citizens. As they did under Hoover, the FBI is categorizing people and making lists and if you don’t watch your step they’ll put you in a database and take away your rights.

The goal may be to intimidate critics of government, but they are also showing us why we so desperately need to take our government back before these threats of abuse of power turn into full-fledged tyranny.

Full article at link

[Jack Hydrazine]

Refuse to be a slave to the District of Criminals? You are an extremist terrorist!!!

And those Muslims you label as such are not. They are very peaceful and are our friends whom we love more than you.

[FreeAtlanta]

unifying characteristic of all of these “extremists” is that they are not happy with a government which is spending beyond its means, taxing beyond our ability to pay and which encroaches more and more on our constitutionally guaranteed rights every day.

It sounds like the real problem is Congress, the Judicial Branch and the President, and the solution is to cut spending to less than what is taken in, pay off debt and do not borrow any more, and have the President, Congress and the Judicial Branch follow the constitution. What is so hard about that?

[ExCTCitizen]

The FBI is a threat to all Americans — and King Barry is a THREAT to the USA and especially to CONSERVATIVES!!!

[Lucky9teen]

And in other news, The National Institute of Health has said that it is a danger to women’s health and safety of their families, that for 30 years to be exposed to the prospects of pregnancy.

[FreeAtlanta]

I bet there are a lot of FBI agents, Secret Service Agents and other Government employees who also are not happy with;

government which is spending beyond its means, taxing beyond our ability to pay and which encroaches more and more on our constitutionally guaranteed rights every day. There are a lot of patriots who are employed by the Federal Government.

[X-spurt]

Prez purplelips is going to bite off a whole lot more than he, holder or any bunch of sideways pistol shootin brownshirts can handle!

[Jack Hydrazine]

“They are also the same kinds of extreme views which were held by our founding fathers.”

Christians and our Founding Fathers have been called terrorists by the Feds via this FEMA guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oP1Ke70Mi8

IIRC, the Brits back in the day called our Founding Fathers the same thing.

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from the article:

The implications of this statement from the FBI are particularly ominous in the wake of efforts in the National Defense Appropriation Act,(NDAA) the PATRIOT Act and the pending Enemy Expatriation Act to empower the government to take away the most fundamental rights of citizens.

They pushed NDAA through on New years eve. It sounds like they are getting ready for an event that will create more chaos and unrest. (pattern in election years?)

[DaxtonBrown]

I wrote a book called “Surviving Civil War II: Preparing For Political, Social & Economic Collapse”. It predicts a lot of the stuff we are seeing now, like OWS and government crackdowns, based on the history of civil wars going back to the Romans. We are already in a modern civil war over debt slavery to the welfare state, no need to go start one on our own. The federal government only brings in 60% of what it spends, so we are on the fast track to becoming another Greece. At a certain point, the government has to start confiscating wealth and start sending the FBI after dissenters.

I’m no advocate of civil war, what I’m saying is the civil war is already here. The whole point of Obama being a community organizer is to foment unrest with the objective of turning us into a socialist state. I’m just trying to show what course we are on and to suggest people hunker down and protect what is yours as a matter of survival. That no doubt also makes me, along with many Americans, an FBI target. And no, I’m not a tax protester for any Fed reading this, I have just studied the budget numbers and believe we are headed towards an inevitable crash with the reality called unfunded liabilities.
http://www.futurnamics.com/civilwar.php

[FerociousRabbit]

Go to any Department or Agency of the federal government in Washington, DC and you will realize how few “patriots” are employed by the federal government.

The vast, vast majority are lazy, incompetent, over-paid clock-watchers.

Visit the Dept of Labor sometime (or any other Dept). Go ahead and treat yourself. It appears it is entirely staffed with the low-life social rejects and illiterates of a third world nation. Even the FBI, NSA and other “patriotic” agencies have their share of socialists, aka, Democrat Obama lovers.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Never mind the disturbing psychopathic outrage from the Occupy Wall Street crowd....right, Obama?

[FreeAtlanta]

I don’t disagree with you. 95% of the Federal government could be fired, and the only thing that would be noticed is that businesses are suddenly running better, the cost of goods and services drops, and more private sector jobs get created.

I still believe there are a lot of patriotic people working in federal jobs. They probably have to hide like the conservatives do in Hollywood. That is a shame and it should not be the situation. The very unpatriotic left should either not exist or be the ones hiding.

[The Mayor]

Disturbing........

[veracious]

The FBI and most of DC is quickly becoming enemy of the people and became an enemy of USA law quite some time ago. Plenty of supposed patriots have said duh while the law and structure decreed in USConstitution and Declaration of Indepedance were bypassed and ignored. USG is declaring itself free of the rightful law and the lawful people.

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FBI Warns that People Who Use AOL at Internet Cafés Could be Terrorists

America Online users beware: If you access your AOL account from a computer at an Internet café, your name may wind up on a terrorist-watch list.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), AOL users at public computer venues are just one possible type of suspicious person that business owners need to keep tabs on. The FBI has been distributing flyers to paintball centers, banks, dive shops and even tattoo shops to educate them on how to spot potential terrorist activities.

...The flyers do remind business owners and their employees that “It is important to remember that just because someone’s speech, actions, beliefs, appearance, or way of life is different; it does not mean that he or she is suspicious.”

[skeeter]

How did we get to the point where our leadership hates its own citizenry so much?

[opentalk]

They (imo) are pushing a globalist agenda. Our Constitution needs to be made ineffective, and powerless. Both parties have advanced it. The NDAA passed easily. It included providing more funding to put programs in place to monitor, screen us.

[Chipper]

Citing three specific cases in three years and a trend of an increase in arrests of believers in individual sovereignty from 10 to 18 cases per year, mostly for non-violent crimes, the FBI declared law enforcement to be “inundated” with threats.

Didn't OWS have this many incidents of violent crimes in their first month? Let alone since then.

[subterfuge]

Big government is purposely antagonizing the people as part of the plan to further intimidate us into silence.

I have stated here numerous times that I will not participate in obama’s gov unHealthcare farce. Who is with me?

That’s what I thought-nobody.

Its time to stand up for what is right people.