Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Dissent is terrorism, according to the DOD.

See, if you simply disagree with the powers-that-be, and exercise your constitutionally guaranteed right to protest, that's TERRORISM.  Obvious, in hindsight.

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"Defense Department quiz for new employees describes political protests as low-level terrorism."

Defense Department sees protests as terrorism - ContraCostaTimes.com:
 "Among the multiple-choice questions included in its Level 1 Antiterrorism Awareness training course — an annual training requirement for all DOD personnel that is fulfilled through Web-based instruction — the department asks the following: 'Which of the following is an example of low-level terrorist activity?' To answer correctly, the examinee must select 'protests.' The ACLU wants that changed immediately, and it wants corrective information sent to all Department of Defense employees who received the training.

The ACLU letter notes that this is particularly disturbing in light of the long-term pattern of government treating lawful dissent as terrorism. In the Bay Area, my colleagues and I reported exactly this in 2003, as the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center fed local police agencies information on protests, with catastrophic results. Two years after that, it was the California National Guard."

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