Protests are acts of terrorism, says DoD

[dummass]

"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
***
The "correct" answer is Protests.
A copy of this can be found on the last two pages of this pdf.

http://open.salon.com/blog/dennis_lo...ef=patrick.net

[FRED]

Re: Protests are acts of terrorism, says DoD

"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
***
The "correct" answer is Protests.
A copy of this can be found on the last two pages of this pdf.

http://open.salon.com/blog/dennis_lo...ef=patrick.net

Quiz for the DoD.

Q: What amendment to the US Constitution guarantees citizens the right to peacefully assemble?

A: The First Amendment

[Diarmuid]

Re: Protests are acts of terrorism, says DoD

Quiz for the DoD.

Q: What amendment to the US Constitution guarantees citizens the right to peacefully assemble?

A: The First Amendment

Fred

Did you not get the memo the constitution has been shreded in the shreder marked patriot Act II ?

Everything is FIAT these days including decrees aka executive signings

[audrey_girl]

Re: Protests are acts of terrorism, says DoD

Declaration of Independence:

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

- T Jefferson, Writer of the Declaration and third President of the United States

[snakela]

Re: Protests are acts of terrorism, says DoD

Q: What STILL guarantees whatever rights we have left from the proto-fascists

A: the Second Admendment

Q: What beats the 2nd Amendment?

A: MRAP


I love guns as much as the next guy....but at some point we have to acknowledge that anything legally owned by the citizenry is a pea shooter compared to real military hardware. We're fucked.

[audrey_girl]

Re: Protests are acts of terrorism, says DoD

Q: What beats the 2nd Amendment?

A: MRAP


I love guns as much as the next guy....but at some point we have to acknowledge that anything legally owned by the citizenry is a pea shooter compared to real military hardware. We're fucked.

someday there will be a statue to this man in Tinamien square honoring this man and hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world will visit it to honor him and what he did

systems built on lies, torture, and oppression eventually collapse of their own weight I have seen it happen several times already in my lifetime

[snakela]

Re: Protests are acts of terrorism, says DoD

Sorry, I don't follow. Didn't the massacre happen after tank guy?

[audrey_girl]

Re: Protests are acts of terrorism, says DoD

Sorry, I don't follow. Didn't the massacre happen after tank guy?

just saying that sometimes people just get pushed too far and don't take it anymore. it happened in India w/ the British, it happened more recently in the Philippenes with Marcos in the 1980s and with what happened in the former Soviet Union. In all of these cases, having a big army, secret police, tanks, etc. etc. didn't triumph in the end.

[snakela]

Re: Protests are acts of terrorism, says DoD

Thats what I'm getting at....they collapsed under their own putrid weight. Not from minutemen grabbing their rifles to go fight the feds. So we probably have a few more decades to go. Great.

Now back to my 6 pack and American Idol, its too late for me unless I want to be another crazy lone gunman.

[Diarmuid]

Re: Protests are acts of terrorism, says DoD

Declaration of Independence:

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

- T Jefferson, Writer of the Declaration and third President of the United States

Hi Audrey

Jeffersons' sentiments are indeed fine ones and certanly ring true for me, if only we (I) could find it in our own hearts and minds and to find the courage to live them.

I think in many respects I am a coward fighting behind a keyboard, maybe one day things will be dire enough, that I will have to act the way I believe I should, in total non compliance and without acquiecing.

[Master Shake]

Re: Protests are acts of terrorism, says DoD

"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
***
The "correct" answer is Protests.
A copy of this can be found on the last two pages of this pdf.

http://open.salon.com/blog/dennis_lo...ef=patrick.net

Not true apparently.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/20...rorist.-Really.

[Jim]

Re: Protests are acts of terrorism, says DoD

Sorry, I don't follow. Didn't the massacre happen after tank guy? No, the "Tank Guy" incident followed two days of massacres.

[wayiwalk]

Re: Protests are acts of terrorism, says DoD

No protecting DoD here, but isn't the subject in discussion related to overseas activities? The training they reference is required within 90 days before traveling overseas.

There's no doubt to me that the function of the training is to make possibly naive american soilders stationed, in say, afghanistan, aware that a public "protest" may be a pretext for other activities. Unlike in the USA, protesting crowds may lead to greater violence or terroism.

CONTEXT!!!!

This is more senseless noise from the left.

Now that report last winter about the potential necessity for using the military to counter INTERNAL civil unrest - that had me concerned. Again, though - that was a document from a military think tank - not the military itself.

[charliebrown]

Re: Protests are acts of terrorism, says DoD

Do not reproach yourself. We are all not "called" to stand in front of a column of tanks. Although if tank man still lives, I bet he would say that he did not wake up that morning and decide to stand in front of a line of tanks. He was in the moment and did the right thing.

In whatever you do, do the right thing, be it simple like not cheating the grocery clerk out of change due, or heroic like tank man. I find it helpful to rehearse in my mind what I would do in certain situations. I think most of us are surpised when we are thrust, into a life altering delema.

Be prepared to do the right thing.

I believe that even the most simple good things we do ripple through eternity like waves on a pond.

[*T*]

Re: Protests are acts of terrorism, says DoD

No protecting DoD here, but isn't the subject in discussion related to overseas activities? The training they reference is required within 90 days before traveling overseas.

There's no doubt to me that the function of the training is to make possibly naive american soilders stationed, in say, afghanistan, aware that a public "protest" may be a pretext for other activities. Unlike in the USA, protesting crowds may lead to greater violence or terroism.

CONTEXT!!!!

This is more senseless noise from the left.

Now that report last winter about the potential necessity for using the military to counter INTERNAL civil unrest - that had me concerned. Again, though - that was a document from a military think tank - not the military itself.

So it is OK to protest at home, but if citizens of another country occupied by US forces protest, it is not?

Who were you declaring independence from, again?