Posted on 03/10/2016 8:07:05 AM PST by Lazamataz
The FBI have launched a new program forcing high schools across America to report students that display “anti-government” or rebellious behavior to authorities.
The program is an attempt to prevent future terrorists from manifesting, in the governments ongoing “war on terror”.
The FBI are urging school teachers to report any “suspicious behavior” to authorities in their new guidelines entitled “Preventing Violent Extremism in Schools“.
Sputniknews.com reports:
“High school students are ideal targets for recruitment by violent extremists seeking support for their radical ideologies, foreign fighter networks, or conducting acts of violence within our borders,” the FBI guidelines read.
Labeled “Preventing Violent Extremism in Schools,” the guidelines instruct educators to look for loosely-defined indicators that a student could be a threat. “Talking about traveling to places that sound suspicious,” “using code words or unusual language,” “using several different cell phones and private messaging apps,” and “studying or taking pictures of potential targets (like a government building),” are all listed as potential warning signs.
Educators note that many of these so-called indicators are too broad to be effective, as they could be applied to almost any teenager. Other indicators seem specifically geared toward targeting Muslims.
“In practice, schools seeking to implement this document will end up monitoring Muslim students disproportionately,” Arun Kundnani, a professor at New York University, told AlterNet.
A similar program in the United Kingdom, known as “Preventing Violent Extremism,” relies on mass-surveillance of Muslim communities and mosques, and has been expanded into the country’s public schools. This program has been heavily criticized by rights groups.
“Our case studies show that children are being taken away from mandatory school hours to be questioned on matters misconstrued as markers of ‘extremism,” Ibrahim Mohamoud, communications officer with the Islamic advocacy group CAGE said in a statement.
“By alienating parents, turning teachers into informants, and antagonizing students, [UK program] PREVENT is a divisive policy that does an injustice to the education system.”
The expansion of these programs is especially troubling given that there is little scientific evidence to suggest that they are effective.
“Drawing on the junk science of radicalization models, the document dangerously blurs the distinction between legitimate ideological expression and violent criminal actions,” Kundani stated.
Such programs rely on antiquated social theory that has not been proven.
“The whole concept…is based on the conveyor belt theory – the idea that ‘extreme ideas’ lead to violence,” Michael German, a fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program, told AlterNet.
“These programs fall back on the older ‘stages of radicalization’ models, where the identified indicators are the expression of political grievances and religious practices.”
Exactly my thought when I saw the headline...
Exceptions made for clocks that look like bombs...of couse.
Electing a Muzzie Communist may have something to do with that. And having a complicit GOPe.
I wonder if this will also apply to BlackLiesMatter student anarchists.
Naw!
Parents has better wake up and either put the kids in a private or home school.
Of course, their parents will be implicated.
Dissent is being criminalized right before our eyes.
....guess if a kid wants the afternoon off, all he has to do is say “VOTE TRUMP”
I remember when I was in high school I brought a Dole/Kemp sign with me to school and walked around with it. I wasn’t old enough to vote, but I wanted my personal views to be known. I was the center of attention that day, most of it negative, and I pissed off a LOT of my teachers. If I did that same thing today, I’d spend the day in detention and probably have my parents brought in for a conference. Sick.
Obama loves the Chinese Communist Government ways of doing things
Like all muslims
It is breathtaking how quickly we became the Soviet Union
But, the teachers need only report white students - exempt are blacks, latinos and muslims.
tyrannical rulers always live in terror of the boiling seething resentment of the people
Except if you do report something about a Muslim student, you get all kinds of Ahmed the clock builder grief.
Teenagers displaying “rebellious behavior toward authorities”?
Report them all.
It’s down from months, to weeks.
Sure wish I had an escape pod.
Unbelievable.
(...or maybe not)
The hippy freaks of the 1960s are now in power. They were the most anti government generation ever. But now that THEY are in control of government, they no longer want anyone protesting them.
Total filthy hypocrites.
This is something Bernie Sanders and Ted Cruz could agree on. If the madness of the movements could be put aside for a bit people would discover that the Tea Party and OWS have areas of common interest. Maybe not enough to bridge their real conflict but enough to show each has a common enemy, the modern Fascist State.
...what could go wrong here?
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