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
***
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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