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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?
Oath Keepers...Guardians of the Republic (video)
D.C., you'll get problems if you get any funny ideas.
I agree. If we can control protesters at political conventions - and they are kept blocks away - it's the least we can do for the men and women who protect us.
This isn't saying people can't "protest" but they can't "protest" without some restrictions if they're near a DOD facility or American soldiers protecting us. This is starting to come across as OK. What do you think xzines?
The US military should not be used in internal to the US operations that are on the civil side.
They are a force that gets projected, therefore, any protests they are a part of are going to be in the nature of civil affairs operations in occupied countries or countries being traversed.
Soldiers overseas should always be wary of the potential for terrorism inherent in large crowds, especially in protests.
Don't bother. Kent State was Ohio National Guard sent in by the Ohio governor. I was a 19 year-old Marine when that happened and among active duty there was the general feeling that the guard was too ill-trained at that time to be doing riot control. Regular troops at that time would not have fired on that crowd under those conditions nor would their officers have given any orders to that effect. The guard of that day was far different from the force-integrated guard of today.
I wonder if anybody here read the actual pdf?
Hence the importance (to them) of linking the “terrorist watch list”, aka “no-fly list”, to NICS rejections. Call a standard political protest “low level terrorism”, drop the irrelevant “low level” modifier, put the participants on a terrorist watch list, add that to the no-fly list, and every “tea party” participant automatically loses their RKBA.
Even ABC News probably still agrees with this... ( and I do too!) Thanks for the claifications, xzins.
Remember, Obama also probably sees the military as a potential threat to his power.
Thanks for the research into the document and help in clarifying the purpose. It is unconstitutional for Obama to try and use the military inside the United States for ‘protests’ but it makes perfect sense for operations in ME countries that our troops are stationed in. You just never know with the Obama crowd though and we are right to question how they intend to use this ‘training’. After all..they are marxist fascists.
Because Obama KNOWS the military are for the most part CONSERVATIVE.
I guess that means you’ll get an all-expense-paid trip to Bermuda... complete with mansion to live in!
:-P
We could make it freeper headquarters!!!! :-D
It’s the citizens against the gov.
Been that way since time began.
The Iranian protests are romper room compared to what I think is coming to the USA.
I was discharged fromn the Marines a month b4 Kent state.
The last days of my inlistment were spent on riot control,going thru tear gas once a week, and quick response deployments.
We were all Viet Nam vets and were trianing for the poor peoples march in Washington DC.
I’m glad we were never called because there would have been blood in the streets.
Kent state was terrible but would have been dwarfed by our actions. just sayin’.
Semper Fi
Just imagine the outcry if this headline has appeared: “Rumsfeld: Peace Protesters=Terrorists.” We’d never have heard the end of it.
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