Posted on 05/18/2016 1:08:18 AM PDT by detective
“A U.S. Army training instructor listed Evangelical Christianity and Catholicism as examples of religious extremism along with Al Qaeda and Hamas during a briefing with an Army Reserve unit based in Pennsylvania,” wrote Fox News’ Todd Starnes in 2013. It was reminiscent of how the British government banned radio host Michael Savage from entering the UK, placing him on a list with terrorists and criminals. It just seems as if Western statists must have had trouble with those primary school categorization questions and now, even as adults, could think that “bomb, cannon, mortar, rifle, pistol, and pen” all belong together.
Speaking of pens, there may be another man who is on a government watch list just for wielding one: anti-jihadism crusader Robert Spencer. “I’ve been informed that someone certainly is keeping tabs on me,” wrote Spencer last week at PJ Media. It’s a reality that prompted him to ask, “Is the U.S. Government Now TRACKING ‘Right-Wing Extremists’?”
Some might chalk Spencer’s claim up to paranoia, except that he, like Savage, has also been banned from Britain. His sin? He’s the proprietor of Islam-awareness website Jihad Watch and frequently gives speeches and makes television appearances warning of the dangers posed by Islam. And this, apparently, has now also captured the attention of our government.
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George Orwell didn’t write ‘1984’ for his own amusement.
People are surprised by Obama’s liberal fascism?
Read this, you will be glad you did:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
The Nazis also hated Catholics, and persecuted them sort of like Obama is doing today. But we’re not supposed to learn lessons as a result of the Nazis, are we? It’s unfair or something.
I think he would be surprised at how much he underestimated how evil the government would become and how much farther they would carry the torch beyond the surveillance tech he envisioned.
Now?
It isn’t as if the government has to hire someone to be assigned to you or another individual person. With the help of Obama’s dear pals at Google, computers can scan EVERYONE’S internet usage and determine any single person’s political (or any other) preference.
So I think it works like this: Freedom Fred is ignored until he writes a scathing editorial critical of Obama comes to the attention of Bureaucratic Bob. Bob does his job and passes this info on to the Obama’s administration people who ask the computer to give up info of Fred. Fred reads Drudge, Free Republic and a few other sites that get himself labelled a potential terrorist.
If Fred is a politician, right or left wing, and has visited a porn site or a pro-gay site, or another site that might embarrass him, this info is shared and used defeat him at election time or to influence him when it is crunch time on a vote where he needs to be ‘on-board’.
The next step would be to INSERT in his browsing history a non-existent habit of visit kiddie porn sites that can be used to black mail Freedom Fred, or Turtle-eyed Mitch, into dancing any little jig that is desired.
The Bolsheviks and Marxist Communists hated Eastern Orthodox Christians and murdered somewhere around 30,000,000 of them, making Hitler’s holocaust appear mild by comparison. And then as you noted, we are not to learn lessons resulting from real-life applications of murderous hate. First of the Christian God declared dead by Nietzsche, then of the Body of His Church.
Person of Interest is not tsr off.
Person of Interest is not far off.
I guess being a member of FREE REPUBLIC qualifies as being
in a hate group.......
An unindicted co-conspirator at the very least.
Nah.
They are not “monitoring” conservatives and conservative groups. Once they find either, they send the info straight to the DOJ and FBI and IRS.
Then they keep looking for the next American.
As opposed to the left wing never Trump conservatives?
How do I know you are a real person?
An A.I. political troll, using persuasion, misinformation, and secret knowledge of all involved, would be a invaluable tool.
I worry that many good posts here and elsewhere are now wasted responding to some clever automated program.
Of course it is. Bammy and the democrats are only too happy to use the full intrusive and coercive power of the federal government against their enemies.
Catholicism? Right-wing extremism??
I WISH!!!!
True. It would be hard to tell if the troll was automated on the basis of one post.
Find Bob; he's the lynchpin of the system. He needs to have an "accident" or just disappear, and his replacement after him.
“Find Bob; he’s the lynchpin of the system.”
Bob is hidden deep in the bowels of a nondescript building, or worse, operating out of his hut in India, working for $1 an hour and happy to have the job. Will probably be booted out of his income by AI soon, if it hasn’t happened already.
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