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i don't know if this item qualifies as "too political" "humor" or "hoax", maybe it's a combination of more than one of those categories. i saw this earlier today (maybe it was posted to Fark, i can't recall now) and at first i thought it was just some stab at satire. now i'm not too sure. can anyone shed light on this?
You are the homegrown terrorist threat
now, if this is actually real (the posted piece make reference to and allegedly shows some police training materials) i'm going to assume it's being taken somewhat out of context. more than likely this is just some Fed department's attempt at training police to recognize domestic terrorists during routine traffic stops, but i'm disheartened because the percentage of false positives that such criteria would create is massive, in my mind.
there aren't really all that many home-grown terrorists and extremists in this nation of over 300 million people. there are, however, a significant number of civil libertarians and constitution huggers. policies such as "be cautious and suspicious of folks who believe in jury nullification and property rights" are far more likely, they way i see it, to be part of a paradigm shift that continues to criminalize free thought and dissent. they are not policies which are all that likely to bag the next timothy mcveigh. (hell, one could almost make the case that this sort of nonsense is what helps to create guys like that who go off the deep end.)
You are the homegrown terrorist threat
If you’re an American reading this, then under expansive definitions being used by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and several states in their counter terrorism training, you just might be a domestic terrorist. ...
Some of the things for which you should be reported as a suspected terrorist include the usual things, like weapons of mass destruction, and hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis, but also includes people who “Make numerous references to US Constitution,” “Claim driving is a right, not a privilege” and “Attempt to ‘police the police.’”
Some of the things for which you should be reported as a suspected terrorist include the usual things, like weapons of mass destruction, and hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis, but also includes people who “Make numerous references to US Constitution,” “Claim driving is a right, not a privilege” and “Attempt to ‘police the police.’”
there aren't really all that many home-grown terrorists and extremists in this nation of over 300 million people. there are, however, a significant number of civil libertarians and constitution huggers. policies such as "be cautious and suspicious of folks who believe in jury nullification and property rights" are far more likely, they way i see it, to be part of a paradigm shift that continues to criminalize free thought and dissent. they are not policies which are all that likely to bag the next timothy mcveigh. (hell, one could almost make the case that this sort of nonsense is what helps to create guys like that who go off the deep end.)
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