Posted on 08/03/2011 8:20:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
The White House announced a strategy to help police, schools and other local organizations counter the threat of domestic radicalism, a broad plan involving federal departments not usually associated with national security.
The effort is modeled on anti-gang initiatives developed in the 1990s and programs intended to prevent school shootings like the tragedy at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999.
Although short on details, the eight-page outline for the first time called on all parts of the U.S. government, including the departments of Education and Health and Human Services, to devise ways to help communities identify extremist agendas that could lead to violence.
Wednesday's announcement came a week after the arrest of U.S. soldier Naser Jason Abdo in Killeen, Texas. Abdo was charged with possessing an unregistered destructive device after a gun store clerk tipped police that he had behaved oddly while buying gunpowder. Abdo planned to blow up a restaurant frequented by soldiers stationed at nearby Ft. Hood, authorities said.
At his arraignment, Abdo yelled out the name of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who is accused of killing 13 people and wounding 32 during a 2009 shooting rampage at Ft. Hood.
Congressional investigations into the Ft. Hood shootings revealed warning signs that could have tipped off authorities.
Intelligence reports indicate that Al Qaeda has tried to recruit Americans to launch attacks on U.S. soil.
Thirty-one American citizens or permanent residents were arrested between May 2009 and July 2011 in connection with homegrown terrorism plots, according to the Congressional Research Service. Those arrests within a two-year period contrast with 21 such arrests in the previous seven years.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Just what we need.. a good shake-up.
Meaning they’re coming after the Tea Party for one.
This is the left showing that it is totalitarian.
We got all these Tea Party terrorists in this country, so I guess they had to do something.
Although short on details, the eight-page outline for the first time called on all parts of the U.S. government, including the departments of Education and Health and Human Services, to devise ways to help communities identify extremist agendas that could lead to violence.
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potential for unintended consequences and results, anyone?
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against An Army?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/2312894/posts
Well they're terrorists so they had it coming right?
/s must I?
Now we know why they were all in a coordinated attack calling us terrorists.
The set-up.
Nothing unintended about it. They know damn well what they are doing. The trick is to get they sheeple to think otherwise.
bttt4later
“programs intended to prevent school shootings like the tragedy at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999”
I wonder how many millions of dollars and Harvard degrees it’d take to come up with “Keep a few guns lying around.”
Oh God, is this the basis for Obama’s National Police Force? If he gets that, we’re totally screwed!
Agreed!
Is your co-worker, or neighbor, or possibly even a family member, a dangerous domestic terrorist?
Look for these warning signs:
* Purchasing ammunition
* Attending a Christian worship service
* Holding a steady job
* Going to Tea Party meetings
* Bumper stickers for conservative candidates on vehicle
* Married to a member of the opposite sex
* Visiting Free Republic or other conservative websites
* Itemizing income tax deductions
* Driving a pickup truck or SUV
* Bible reading
If you see these warning signs, contact Homeland Security right away!
I’m sure ‘ole Jan the Man will be going after Earth First!
sarc/
After all, Earth First! has burned car dealerships, houses under construction, spiked trees causing serious injuries to mill workers, etc.
It is the intended consequences that I don’t like. We will go from this to things like pre-emptive detention and advanced methods of getting “confession” soon enough.
why do I have this funny feeling that Abdo isn’t exactly the type of “extremist” they’ll be lookin’ for?
All of the “radical” old men and old ladies in the Tea Party have scared the bejeezus out of the “peaceful” Islamofascist terrorists living in this country. Barry and Janet have got to do something to protect them.
“potential for unintended consequences and results, anyone?”
Actually, I would call it “potential for intended consequences.”
Folks, this is scary stuff. These radical policy wonks and ivy league do-gooders are 10% or less of the populace; yet, they mouth these memes "for the good of the children, for our safety--all these things they say are for our own good, and enough brain dead people take them to heart that they remain in power. --and that is what it is all about--THEIR power. They see all other citizens as challenges to their power.
If we do not wake up enough people and vote them out, we are GONE!
vaudine
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