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Showing Original Post only (View all)DoD Training Manual: Protests are "Low-Level Terrorism" [View all]
...yeah, but I'm not worried about the NDAA...DoD Training Manual: Protests are "Low-Level Terrorism"
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
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The "correct" answer is Protests.
The rest: http://open.salon.com/blog/dennis_loo/2009/06/14/dod_training_manual_protests_are_low-level_terrorism
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Yes, but I am not feeling any safer because it is becoming transparent. In fact I feel more
jwirr
Dec 2011
#42
See Kent State for how that "force protection" from "terrorists" works.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2011
#3
"Low level terrorism?" Who thought that term up? Is it like being sort of pregnant?
BeHereNow
Dec 2011
#6
All your verbal gymnastics demonstrate is that one person's terrorist is
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2011
#22
Back in the 1790s the Federalists called Democratic-Republican activists "Terrorists".
Odin2005
Dec 2011
#47
Wow, I had no idea. Thanks. Actually, a thorough etymology of the word and its
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2011
#49
Exactly! Meant to scare people into complying, conforming, and not uttering a peep.
Sarah Ibarruri
Dec 2011
#17
You're either with us or a'gin' us: any one having the temerity to question any policy or
indepat
Dec 2011
#18
As we have seen, there is low-level terrorism....perpetrated by the police. n/t
AntiFascist
Dec 2011
#32
Xe and the like will do as they are paid to as will the vast majority of law enforcement
TheKentuckian
Dec 2011
#38