Love Liberty? You might be a terrorist...

[steyr_m]

Wonder how many "terrorists" we have here at GSUS?

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Are you suspicious of federal authority? How about really into individual liberty? Well according to a new study funded by the US Department of Homeland Security, you very well might be a terrorist.

A report published earlier this year by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland has surfaced, and in their DHS-funded findings, Americans “reverent of individual liberty” and others adamant about protecting their personal freedoms are categorized as extreme right-wing terrorists.

In the paper, Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States, 1970-2008, researchers used definitions from another START study, 2011’s Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism, to characterize what traits should be considered when describing right-wing terrorists. Both papers were funded with grants from the US Department of Homeland Security provided to START.

Although the authors of the paper note that the study’s findings do not necessarily represent the opinions of START of the DHS, the website PrisonPlanet.com notes that the organization was started with the aid of $12 million of Homeland Security funds. The latest report is described by its authors as the latest part in a series of studies sponsored by the Human Factors/Behavioral Sciences Division, Science and Technology Directorate and the US Department of Homeland Security in support of the Counter-IED Prevent/Deter program.

“The goal of this program is to sponsor research that will aid the intelligence and law enforcement communities in identifying potential terrorist threats,” write the authors, which is done “using state-of-the-art theories, methods and data from the social and behavioral sciences to improve understanding of the origins, dynamics and social and psychological impacts of terrorism.”

Apparently, loving America is precisely one of those factors found out through the latest space-age understanding of the human mind.

In explaining how START’s earlier study categorized terrorists in groups such as religious, ethno-nationalist and extreme left-wing, researchers recall that the organization considers right-wing extremists terrorists as “groups that believe that one’s personal and/or national ‘way of life’ is under attack and is either already lost or that the threat is imminent (for some the threat is from a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group) and believe in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism.”

“Groups may also be fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation), anti-global, suspicious of centralized federal authority, reverent of individual liberty and believe in conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty,” the report adds.

http://rt.com/usa/news/liberty-terrorist-study-security-335/

[Twisted Titan]

Those who make peaceful discourse impossible............make violent confrontation unavoidible

[Gaillo]

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.
-Barry Goldwater

[sirgonzo420]

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.
-Barry Goldwater

and "Moderation in the protection of liberty is no virtue"!

[collector]

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[gunDriller]

A report published earlier this year by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland has surfaced, and in their DHS-funded findings, Americans “reverent of individual liberty” and others adamant about protecting their personal freedoms are categorized as extreme right-wing terrorists.

so says them -

Staff
Director

Gary LaFree
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Executive Director

Bill Braniff
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Jessica Rivinius
301-405-6632
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Associate Director for Education

Katherine Worboys Izsak
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Sarah Fishering
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Eamon Diab
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Researcher/Project Manager

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Dominic Lisanti
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Robeya Reynolds
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Jaime Shoemaker
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Earlene Smith
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John Sawyer
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Amy Pate
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Jonathan Kennedy
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Lauren Pinson
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Erin Miller
301-405-6952
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http://www.start.umd.edu/start/about/headquarters/staff/

[palani]

Liberty is what sailors are granted when in port.

[OutDorsMan]

A recent homeland security think tank report has been circulating.
http://www.start.umd.edu/start/


The report:

http://start.umd.edu/start/publications/research_briefs/LaFree_Bersani_HotSpotsOfUSTerrorism.pdf

Excerpt:


Terrorism
The definition of terrorism used by the GTD is: the threatened or actual use of illegal force by non-state actors, in order to attain a political, economic, religious or social goal, through fear, coercion or intimidation.3 It is important to note that the classification of an event as terrorism depends as much on threats as the actual use of violence. For example, instances in which individuals seize an aircraft and threaten to blow it up unless their demands are met are defined as terrorist events. Note also that by specifying the threatened or actual use of force the definition of terrorism used by the GTD excludes hoaxes. The requirement that these events be limited to the actions of “non-state actors” means that considerable violence and terrorism that is directly attributable to states or their militaries is also excluded. And the requirement that the act have a direct political, economic, religious or social goal means that ordinary criminal violence is excluded. Thus, the GTD excludes state terrorism and many types of crime and genocide, topics that are important and complex enough to warrant their own separate analysis.

The frequency of terrorist acts is recorded for each U.S. county for each year from 1970 through 2008. Counties with no recorded terrorist attacks are coded “zero.” The vast majority of U.S. counties have not experienced any terrorist attacks since 1970. Terrorist acts are also categorized by the ideological motivation of the act and coded as “extreme right-wing”; extreme left-wing; religious; ethno-nationalist/separatist; or single issue. The dominant ideology variable captures the group’s central ideological motivation (e.g., while the Aryan Nations maintained a strong religious conviction to the Christian Identity movement, their raison d’être was to promote a racially homogenous white society).
Detailed information on each category of ideological motivation can be found in the Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism-United States report compiled by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (Miller, Smarick, and Simone, 2011). Briefly, the report describes each category as follows:


Extreme Right-Wing: groups that believe that one’s personal and/or national “way of life” is under attack and is either already lost or that the threat is imminent (for some the threat is from a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group), and believe in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism. Groups may also be fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation), anti-global, suspicious of centralized federal authority, reverent of individual liberty, and believe in conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty.

Extreme Left-Wing: groups that want to bring about change through violent revolution rather than through established political processes. This category also includes secular left-wing groups that rely heavily on terrorism to overthrow the capitalist system and either establish “a dictatorship of the proletariat” (Marxist-Leninists) or, much more rarely, a decentralized, non-hierarchical political system (anarchists).

Religious: groups that seek to smite the purported enemies of God and other evildoers, impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists), forcibly insert religion into the political sphere (e.g., those who seek to politicize religion, such as Christian Reconstructionists and Islamists), and/or bring about Armageddon (apocalyptic millenarian cults; 2010: 17). For example, Jewish Direct Action, Mormon extremist, Jamaat-al-Fuqra, and Covenant, Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA) are included in this category.

Ethno-Nationalist/Separatist: regionally concentrated groups with a history of organized political autonomy with their own state, traditional ruler, or regional government, who are committed to gaining or regaining political independence through any means and who have supported political movements for autonomy at some time since 1945.

Single Issue: groups or individuals that obsessively focus on very specific or narrowly-defined causes (e.g., anti-abortion, anti-Catholic, anti-nuclear, anti-Castro). This category includes groups from all sides of the political spectrum.

[jimswift]

A recent homeland security think tank report has been circulating.
http://www.start.umd.edu/start/


The report:

http://start.umd.edu/start/publications/research_briefs/LaFree_Bersani_HotSpotsOfUSTerrorism.pdf

Excerpt:

Extreme Right-Wing: groups that believe that one’s personal and/or national “way of life” is under attack and is either already lost or that the threat is imminent (for some the threat is from a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group), and believe in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism. Groups may also be fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation), anti-global, suspicious of centralized federal authority, reverent of individual liberty, and believe in conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty.

Extreme Left-Wing: groups that want to bring about change through violent revolution rather than through established political processes. This category also includes secular left-wing groups that rely heavily on terrorism to overthrow the capitalist system and either establish “a dictatorship of the proletariat” (Marxist-Leninists) or, much more rarely, a decentralized, non-hierarchical political system (anarchists).

Religious: groups that seek to smite the purported enemies of God and other evildoers, impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists), forcibly insert religion into the political sphere (e.g., those who seek to politicize religion, such as Christian Reconstructionists and Islamists), and/or bring about Armageddon (apocalyptic millenarian cults; 2010: 17). For example, Jewish Direct Action, Mormon extremist, Jamaat-al-Fuqra, and Covenant, Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA) are included in this category.

Ethno-Nationalist/Separatist: regionally concentrated groups with a history of organized political autonomy with their own state, traditional ruler, or regional government, who are committed to gaining or regaining political independence through any means and who have supported political movements for autonomy at some time since 1945.

Single Issue: groups or individuals that obsessively focus on very specific or narrowly-defined causes (e.g., anti-abortion, anti-Catholic, anti-nuclear, anti-Castro). This category includes groups from all sides of the political spectrum.



geesh, sounds like everybody but this guy....

3121

[midnight rambler]

'Studies' such as this one are only released when the Communists feel like they've consolidated enough power that they can crawl out from under the rock from where they came. Fifty years ago these people would have immediately been outed as the Commies they are - now they consider themselves 'mainstream' enough to proceed with their mop-up operations.

[Hatha Sunahara]

Here's what DHS is doing:

First you create a think tank who will tell you what you want to hear. Then you tell them what you want to hear. Then you hear it from them. The group you hire is tasked to do 'research'. What we are seeing is their 'research'. Amazing that they came up with this! We always suspected this was the problem. But now we're sure. Best $12 million we ever spent.

And what do they want to hear?

These people are our enemies. So we are going to call them names and marginalize them. And then we are going to harrass them. Soon we'll have a standoff with lots of publicity to warn the rest of the country who their enemies are.

And why?

Because these people (our enemies) are devoted to the truth, not to the government. They are so dangerous because they might get others to see the truth, and that will be the end of our scam. Can't have anyone leading the sheep astray. So, they are our enemies. And we will destroy them before they destroy us.

That's the game being played. Pretty simple if you aren't baffled by the bullshit.

Hatha

[7th trump]

Liberty is what sailors are granted when in port.

Dont tell me...........the nutcase David Merrill told you this piece of intellect garbage?

Sailors huh?.........hahahaha!

Everyone I've encountered who runs with Merrill has over time turned into the same nutcase Merrill is.

Ohhhh never mind........ you are the guy who doesnt read the statutes and conveys how and what the law means.
Whatever!

[Xizang]

Then the Occupy Wall Street and New Black Panther people are terrorists.

Why does Bill Ayers get to walk around a free man today?

This terrorism definition thing was going around about 15 years ago, too. Janet Reno (then Attorney General under Bill Clinton) sent out a similar directive to law enforcement agencies all over the USA. Not many people paid any attention to that looney tune then. My guess is they won't pay any attention now.

[StreetsOfGold]

Dont tell me...........the nutcase David Merrill told you this piece of intellect garbage?

Sailors huh?.........hahahaha!

Yea sailors. Read your Bible and stop being so ignorant

Acts 27:3 And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.

[Santa]

Liberty is what sailors are granted when in port.

Ah yes, in the immortal words of Patrick Henry, "Give me hookers and rum, or give me death."

[palani]

Dont tell me...........the nutcase David Merrill told you this piece of intellect garbage?

I do seem to have the knack to press your button don't I?

It is a simple statement. Do you doubt the truth that liberty is granted to sailors while in port? If there is truth in the statement then do you have an objection to truth?

Words are symbols. They can mean what you believe they mean or they can mean something else. Liberty is granted while freedom is not.

[palani]

Yea sailors. Read your Bible and stop being so ignorant

Acts 27:3 And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.

Do you detect the evidence of a grant here? If Paul had freedom he would not need to have been granted the privilege of going unto his friends to refresh himself.

[7th trump]

I do seem to have the knack to press your button don't I?

It is a simple statement. Do you doubt the truth that liberty is granted to sailors while in port? If there is truth in the statement then do you have an objection to truth?

Words are symbols. They can mean what you believe they mean or they can mean something else. Liberty is granted while freedom is not.
So why not just post this instead of that sad attempt........"Liberty is granted while freedom is not"?
And while you are at it just get to the point and bring in the differences between "us citizens" who arent free and are granted liberty from the People who are free?
Or do you completely understand the differences between the two?
What really presses me about you is your politic'ing with phrases and words of law that most of the time you dont seem to understand.
We are not talking about sailors coming off of a ship here palani are we, so why bring in that silly pathetic sailor statement?
Its almost like you want to be showed in glory with this fake wisdom you portray yourself of having.....you always try to bedazzle everyone instead of getting down where the rubber hits the road.
Its obvious you dont know where the rubber hits the road, and hence the word art bedazzling fireworks.


So tell us OLE BEDAZZLING wise one........ just what do "sailors" have to do with DHS?

Let me bedazzle you with this riddle palani......the rubber meets the road starts with the govenors of each State..............why?
Until the answer of this riddle is known and understood nothing is going to change as far as the government being reduced to its rightful size and power.

[palani]

We are not talking about sailors coming off of a ship here palani are we, so why bring in that silly pathetic sailor statement?
Quite possibly you are sea and don't know why or how?

You see truth yet argue.

Maybe there is a clue there?

[7th trump]

Quite possibly you are sea and don't know why or how?

You see truth yet argue.

Maybe there is a clue there?
Really!!
Ole wise bedazzling one......please fill us not-worthy palani peasants in with your secret.

I know what law-forms the constitution recognizes (its easy to look up) and even the civil law-form it doesnt recognize. So why not get to your point if you have one besides bedazzling us with your firework display of webster intellect.....ok!

You remind of the vegas strip with your show stopper posts.............problem is when you stop to watch the show you never get to the point. Its just more of the same bedazzling empty words.

[palani]

please fill us not-worthy palani peasants in with your secret.

Just for you, since you asked so nicely

http://i50.tinypic.com/zllzn.jpg

[7th trump]

Just for you, since you asked so nicely

http://i50.tinypic.com/zllzn.jpg

Thats not what I asked ...this is more of YOUR bedazzling webster intellect that you yourself is demonstrating you cannot put into context.
So again please fill us palani-peasants in with your secret.

[Awoke]

Anyhow, this is just another PR piece of garbage. I can't figure out who these assholes are trying to fool: the public or themselves? LOL. What a crock.

If anything they use this shit to brainwash their NWO thug police force who are tasked with the beating and tazing and shooting of Libertarian minded Americans.

[palani]

Thats not what I asked

Could you be more specific?