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Headlines : Intelligence1-800-CALL-SPY: Military Intelligence Database Short on Threats, Long on Stupid
Welcome to Rumsfeld and Cheney’s world of “actionable intelligence” where no scrap of information is too trivial, where the “dots” must be connected to find the next hijack conspiracy, where the seemingly innocent in bars and strip joints and mosques and college campuses and Quaker meeting houses could be the next Jose Padilla or Mohamed Atta.
There are at least two ways this can end. One is with a military police state. Another is with a civilian police state, supported by the military. I’d like what’s behind door number 3, please.
[Posted By ShiftShapers]Republished from the US Department of Homeland Stupidity
Unfortunately, I missed the NBC Nightly News broadcast yesterday where it was revealed that over 1,500 incidents had been reported to the Department of Defense, most of which turned out to be utterly stupid.
But out of those threats, gathered by the Counterintelligence Field Activity, very few have much of anything to do with actual threats to the nation.
Instead, the database, which contains reports such as those called in to the DOD’s 1-800-CALL-SPY hotline, contains almost 50 anti-war meetings or protests, such as an anti-war meeting held by Quakers last year.
And the danger?
One “incident” included in the database is a large anti-war protest at Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles last March that included effigies of President Bush and anti-war protest banners. Another incident mentions a planned protest against military recruiters last December in Boston and a planned protest last April at McDonald’s National Salute to America’s Heroes — a military air and sea show in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
The Fort Lauderdale protest was deemed not to be a credible threat and a column in the database concludes: “US group exercising constitutional rights.” Two-hundred and forty-three other incidents in the database were discounted because they had no connection to the…
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This is scary as hell. Nice dig SS.
that’s it, i’m calling you in
“...this can End”? Is not a police state one that already keeps files on innocent citizens? It looks like we already are behind door #1. It looks like Europe went for door #2.
and behind door number 3 we have castro and chavez waiting to punch you in the gut for taking so fing long to realize that we live in a fascist state.
P.S. People should start calling in things like
a) i just saw a guy wearing a anti american che guevara t-shirt at 3rd and 9th streets, he looked suspicious.
b) i was at this halal house and this guy ordered a schwarma with extra onions, onions are good for the kidneys, so i think it was osama bin laden. He’s in our country!!!
c) some guy at the interstate rest stop ordered french fries and not freedom fries, get the traitor!
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