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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFBI Now Spying on HS Students, To ID and Weed-Out "Extremists & Anarchists" for Pre-crimes.
The Establishment Has Spoken to Our Youth: "Absorb and regurgitate establishment propaganda in
your Texas text books. We'll tell you how and what to think & to believe. STFU about passionate
progressivism, radical change, etc. or you will be labeled a "terrorist", stalked, investigated, and
ultimately criminalized.
The FBI Has a New Plan to Spy on High School Students Across the Country
By Sarah Lazare * Mar 4, 2016 * AlterNet via TruthDig
Under new guidelines, the FBI is instructing high schools across the country to report students who criticize government policies and western corruption as potential future terrorists, warning that anarchist extremists are in the same category as ISIS and young people who are poor, immigrants or travel to suspicious countries are more likely to commit horrific violence. ...
This overwhelming threat is then used to justify a massive surveillance apparatus, wherein educators and pupils function as extensions of the FBI by watching and informing on each other.
The FBIs justification for such surveillance is based on McCarthy-era theories of radicalization, in which authorities monitor thoughts and behaviors that they claim to lead to acts of violent subversion, even if those people being watched have not committed any wrongdoing. This model has been widely discredited as a violence prevention method, including by the U.S. government, but it is now being imported to schools nationwide as official federal policy.
Schools as "hotbeds of extremism"
The new guidelines depict high schools as hotbeds of extremism, where dangers lurk in every corner. 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 document warns, claiming that youth possess inherent risk factors. In light of this alleged threat, the FBI instructs teachers to incorporate a two-hour block of violent extremism awareness training into the core curriculum for all youth in grades 9 through 12.
According to the FBIs educational materials for teenagers, circulated as a visual aide to their new guidelines, the following offenses constitute signs that could mean that someone plans to commit violence and therefore should be reported: 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).
Under the category of domestic terrorists, the educational materials warn of the threat posed by anarchist extremists.
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_fbi_has_a_new_plan_to_spy_on_high_school_students_20160304
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)do you mean as in "tampering" with surveillance cameras and such?
I'm not sure I know what you're getting at.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Hydra
(14,459 posts)We are firmly into the realm of "systematic abuse" on our way to complete abuse of the system.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)Hydra
(14,459 posts)"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)for the idiots!!!!!!!!and there are many!
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
www.aclu.org
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)And she said she would go with him if he smoked a joint with her, so the kid - honor student, had never been in trouble- found some weed and as he was about to get high with her the SWAT team showed up.
I think the judge was lenient with the mandatory minumum so he only got something like 5 years in prison.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)It's a shame.
Without clear cold war enemies, whose practices we can reject based on a label, we quickly become what they were.
Shandris
(3,447 posts)...the preening satisfaction of a few 'Likes' and a list of 'friends' to show for it and the ability to 'prove' how good they are by getting people they don't like fired.
Yes, this is exactly what the people wanted. Well...now they get it. I hope it's as fun for them going forward as it was for their victims in the past. My sympathy level is exactly zero.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)he's a radical pushing revolution, his ideas are those of the cold war enemy we spend into death.
Scary.
StandingInLeftField
(972 posts)Minority Report
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Make me wonder if Bernie's massive mobilization of our youth has "raised concerns"
that the PTB are determined to "nip in the bud", quite literally.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)I am constantly struck by how damned "handy" the "terrorist scare" is to
repressive forces, to use like the Red Scare, to sweep any and all radical
dissent into the same receptical, to be singled-out & labeled as "dangerous"
simply for being different, for dissenting from the establishment's approved
way of thinking and being.
Bottom line, I think this ^ constitutes Bernie's underlying challenge and
why he is being so vehemently & adamantly resisted at all costs by the PTB.
So if he loses this primary election, we ALL lose. It's GAME OVER for our
democracy and civil liberties.