Posted on 06/16/2009 9:25:43 PM PDT by Libloather
DoD Training Manual: Protests are "Low-Level Terrorism"
JUNE 14, 2009 7:35PM
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?
WTF. Just WTF.
What would they consider a mid-level terrorist? Someone who owns a handgun...?
Someone who writes Letters to the Editor....
More than you might think.
I wonder which slime ball beltway bandit wrote this course? (Recall that I am a slimeball contractor myself, although I'm also a veteran most are not) And which never served civil servant hired them and approved it? I also wonder if anyone wearing the uniform has even seen it yet. I also wonder if "protests" was really the "correct" answer, rather than "Hate crimes against racial groups" The link doesn't really show that, although it claims it. It's also a fax from the ACLU, which lowers its credibility a whole bunch. You'd need the courseware to know for certain.
A**holes, I doubt most of the rank-and-file consider us “terrorist (the idea is laughable to any thinking logical person)”, and I believe MOST of them take their Constitutional Oath’s seriously, howeve the current leadership ;(
As long as they didn’t sign up under Bambi.
The antics of this clown and his sidekicks and supportes are no longer amusing.
Unless we can press the birth issue of Obama and his fitness for the Presidency and use it as a lever to get him out of office, America and our freedom are over.
“the unprecedented pre-emptive arrests of protestors at the 2008 Republican National Convention with those protesters being charged as “domestic terrorists,”
Does anyone know what this was about?
So........the Iranian protests are high-level terrorism?
Apparently, Barry was talking out his arse when he said that the Iranian protests were a “robust debate.”
=.=
Yeah but the dept of defense?
This doesn’t feel right...
For your list, this falls under the exec branch...
—note the comments about protests
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
***
The "correct" answer is Protests.
This is NOT satire...
Ping...
Thank you for adding your ping list, I think every freeper should read this.
Newer definition of LOW LEVEL TERRORISM...
So now a christian, who happens to be a veteran..and supports the constitution, the second amendment is not only a right wing extremist but they’re also a low level terrorist as deemed by the DOD!
-—if they participate in protests they are low level terrorists. I left that little factoid off by accident.
Can this be moved to breaking news?
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BATF Phantom.
This and the Dept. of Homeland Sec. report leave nothing but to conclude that this administration has fascist designs and it is time the GOP and all opposition openly call them what they are. THERE IS NO CIVILITY WITH THESE SCUMBAGS. To watch what they are doing is to such extremes to be what a true Civil War would be called for.
Apparently the DoD considers protesting for the Constitution and against those who do not abide by the Constitution a terrorist act.
The people, because most in the military are CONSERVATIVE.
Dontcha know that Mr. Ayers is now a hero of the “mainstream”?
IMHO
So now a Christian, who happens to be a veteran..and supports the constitution, the second amendment is not only a right wing extremist but they’re also a low level terrorist as deemed by the DOD!
Can you imagine how many low level terrorists are presently serving in the ranks of our Military?
scary isn't it(/sarcoff)
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Obama, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, "intellectuals"...
"Dig It. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders
Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:
Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference
[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]
April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott
This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.
I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)
We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.
Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy
III. Lunch and Public Encounters
Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.
IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.
William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)
The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm
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"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:
Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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'Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country,' he [Ayers] said."
August 2001, Chicago Magazine (article: No Regrets)
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/August-2001/No-Regrets/
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"So, would Mr. Ayers do it all again, he is asked? 'I don’t want to discount the possibility',he said."
New York Times, September 11, 2001:
"No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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REVOLUTION: Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA [Maoist]
Revolution #63, October 1, 2006
Interview with Bill Ayers:
"On Progressive Education, Critical Thinking and the Cowardice of Some in Dangerous Times"
http://rwor.org/a/063/ayers-en.html
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From the Chicago Sun Times, November 13, 2008:
Ayers: Obama was 'family friend'
New afterword to 2001 book, Ayers describes Barack Obama as 'family friend'
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1278532,bill-ayers-barack-obama-book-111308.article#
Yep...
Yep...
Of course many people fail to focus on the goal of reversing this Presidential mistake and thus erasing any connection of peaceful protesting to “terrorism” a term coined by Obama and his supporters.
There is still a weakness disease running through America, people are more and more accepting fate and now just trying to ride this out until 2012 hoping that somebody will take over other than Obama.
My self I have seen ZERO success stories of anything Obama has enacted, he is more so on a daily basis concerned about nullifying opposition than he is protecting our national interests, of course many of us already know that and I would be preaching to the choir, and then again I am insulated pretty well from Obama oppression by living in rural Alaska, the LAST place on earth apparently that is a holdout against him.
We take pride locally here of denying any stimulus offerings from the Obama organization, not that some parts don’t invade us but its minimal compared to the lower 48.
Probably the sign
“We came unarmed... this time”
would be considered “lower-middle terrorism”.
Make no mistake folks. The left ALWAYS uses the power of the state to punish/kill their ideological opponents.
They’re just looking for justification.
When they achieve enough power, they don’t need no stinkin’ “justificiation”.
Now my Government has re-branded me as one...
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Hundreds of New Yorkers were at the state Capitol Tuesday, rallying for freedom and a change toward politicians who believe in less government."There's just too many ways that I have to pay," said Wendy Tascione of Rochester. It doesn't leave anything for our family to ever feel like we're not living on the edge." Source
The new "terrorists".
In the late 1990s, an organization surveyed military officers on their political beliefs. The poll found that 90% of officers identified themselves as either Republican or conservative.
The survey scared the socks off the Washington DC bed-wetting liberals. Communist columnists were horrified and called for government action to balance out the officer corps with more leftists. The seditionists in Washington are scared that if the military is called out for domestic disturbances, that the military will turn their guns on the leftists.
This survey is one reason you see military ballots trashed by democrats.
When the FBI crosses the line into suppressing legitimate political activities they're walking into Nuernberg Trials areas.
And yes, political power does change hands.
I would hope the FBI would have the wit to get the bad guys without crossing over to "getting the political opponents" of the current group in office. If it's gotten to that, one of the FBI people needs to go to a member of the press able to get the word out - a liberal for credibility but one with a stellar reputation. A Jim Lehre or Mark Shields - old school journalists types (liberal but honest).
Because this type of action against people with opposing political opinion is illegal in a free country. It's "Iran, North Korea and the former USSR rolled into one.
Thanks for the ping!
Google 'Kent State'.
I have no reference, but IIRC I saw a poll taken among military personnel and the question of firing upon fellow citizens was "OK" by fourty five percent of those responding.
Whoever added this to front page news, thank you!!!!
I was there, I would say the crowd was around 1,000 people. But a lot of people came and went on their lunch hour, like I did. So I bet few hundred more then that actually showed up.
THIS IS TERRORISM? They don’t even leave litter behind!!!
OMG PING!!
More proof that Obama and his marxist minions are FASCISTS!!
ping
Democrats plotted to firebomb the RNC convention in 2008 (and were CONVICTED before election day) as well as plotted to kidnap delegates.
The media covers up Left Wing hate group extremism and calls them “protesters” embracing America’s “greatest legacy, Free Speech” (except it isn’t ‘speech’ and it stifles the RIGHTS of Republicans to peacefully assemble and nominate a candidate).
We need to find out which Obama appointee in the Defense Department wrote this crap!
This is getting more surreal by the moment.
They’ll claim it was a mistake.....again.
This is coming from Salon? Wow. You know the Obamites are over-reaching when they even offend the sensibilities of the Left. Read the first few comments there and most of them sounded downright sensible. Have we entered the Twilight Zone?
Dissent isn’t patriotic any more?
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