Things Are Getting Scary: Global Police, Precrime and the War on Domestic ‘Extremists’

Guest Post by John W. Whitehead

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you may be an anti-government extremist (a.k.a. domestic terrorist) in the eyes of the police.

As such, you are now viewed as a greater threat to America than ISIS or al Qaeda.

Let that sink in a moment.

If you believe in and exercise your rights under the Constitution (namely, your right to speak freely, worship freely, associate with like-minded individuals who share your political views, criticize the government, own a weapon, demand a warrant before being questioned or searched, or any other activity viewed as potentially anti-government, racist, bigoted, anarchic or sovereign), you have just been promoted to the top of the government’s terrorism watch list.

I assure you I’m not making this stuff up.

Police agencies now believe the “main terrorist threat in the United States is not from violent Muslim extremists, but from right-wing extremists.”

A New York Times editorial backs up these findings:

Law enforcement agencies around the country are training their officers to recognize signs of anti-government extremism and to exercise caution during routine traffic stops, criminal investigations and other interactions with potential extremists. “The threat is real,” says the handout from one training program sponsored by the Department of Justice. Since 2000, the handout notes, 25 law enforcement officers have been killed by right-wing extremists, who share a “fear that government will confiscate firearms” and a “belief in the approaching collapse of government and the economy.”

So what is the government doing about these so-called terrorists?

The government is going to war.

Again.

Only this time, it has declared war against so-called American “extremists.”

After decades spent waging costly, deadly and ineffective military campaigns overseas in pursuit of elusive ISIS and al Qaeda operatives and terror cells (including the recent “accidental” bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan that left 22 patients and medical staff dead), the Obama administration has announced a campaign to focus its terror-fighting forces inwards.

Under the guise of fighting violent extremism “in all of its forms and manifestations” in cities and communities across the world, the Obama administration has agreed to partner with the United Nations to take part in its Strong Cities Network program. Funded by the State Department through 2016, after which “charities are expected to take over funding,” the cities included in the global network include New York City, Atlanta, Denver, Minneapolis, Paris, London, Montreal, Beirut and Oslo.

Working with the UN, the federal government will train local police agencies across America in how to identify, fight and prevent extremism, as well as address intolerance within their communities, using all of the resources at their disposal.

What this program is really all about, however, is community policing on a global scale.

Community policing, which relies on a “broken windows” theory of policing, calls for police to engage with the community in order to prevent local crime by interrupting or preventing minor offenses before they could snowball into bigger, more serious and perhaps violent crime. The problem with the broken windows approach is that it has led to zero tolerance policing and stop-and-frisk practices among other harsh police tactics.

When applied to the Strong Cities Network program, the objective is ostensibly to prevent violent extremism by targeting its source: racism, bigotry, hatred, intolerance, etc.

In other words, police—acting ostensibly as extensions of the United Nations—will identify, monitor and deter individuals who exhibit, express or engage in anything that could be construed as extremist.

Consider how Attorney General Loretta Lynch describes the initiative:

As residents and experts in their communities, local leaders are often best positioned to pinpoint sources of unrest and discord; best equipped to identify signs of potential danger; and best able to recognize and accommodate community cultures, traditions, sensitivities, and customs.  By creating a series of partnerships that draws on the knowledge and expertise of our local officials, we can create a more effective response to this virulent threat.

Translation: U.S. police agencies are embarking on an effort to identify and manage potential extremist “threats,” violent or otherwise, before they can become actual threats. (If you want a foretaste of how “extreme” things could get in the U.S.: new anti-terrorism measures in the U.K. require that extremists be treated like pedophiles and banned from working with youngsters and vulnerable people.)

The government’s war on extremists, of which the Strong Cities program is a part, is being sold to Americans in much the same way that the USA Patriot Act was sold to Americans: as a means of combatting terrorists who seek to destroy America.

For instance, making the case for the government’s war on domestic extremism, the Obama administration has suggested that it may require greater legal powers to combat violent attacks by lone wolves (such as “people motivated by racial and religious hatred and anti-government views” who “communicate their hatred over the Internet and through social media”).

Enter the government’s newest employee: a domestic terrorism czar.

However, as we now know, the USA Patriot Act was used as a front to advance the surveillance state, allowing the government to establish a far-reaching domestic spying program that has turned every American citizen into a criminal suspect.

Similarly, the concern with the government’s anti-extremism program is that it will, in many cases, be utilized to render otherwise lawful, nonviolent activities as potentially extremist.

Keep in mind that the government agencies involved in ferreting out American “extremists” will carry out their objectives—to identify and deter potential extremists—in concert with fusion centers (of which there are 78 nationwide, with partners in the private sector and globally), data collection agencies, behavioral scientists, corporations, social media, and community organizers and by relying on cutting-edge technology for surveillance, facial recognition, predictive policing, biometrics, and behavioral epigenetics (in which life experiences alter one’s genetic makeup).

This is pre-crime on an ideological scale and it’s been a long time coming.

For example, in 2009, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released two reports, one on “Rightwing Extremism,” which broadly defines rightwing extremists as individuals and groups “that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely,” and one on “Leftwing Extremism,” which labeled environmental and animal rights activist groups as extremists.

Incredibly, both reports use the words terrorist and extremist interchangeably.

That same year, the DHS launched Operation Vigilant Eagle, which calls for surveillance of military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, characterizing them as extremists and potential domestic terrorist threats because they may be “disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war.”

These reports indicate that for the government, anyone seen as opposing the government—whether they’re Left, Right or somewhere in between—can be labeled an extremist.

Fast forward a few years, and you have the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which President Obama has continually re-upped, that allows the military to take you out of your home, lock you up with no access to friends, family or the courts if you’re seen as an extremist.

Now connect the dots, from the 2009 Extremism reports to the NDAA and the UN’s Strong Cities Network with its globalized police forces, the National Security Agency’s far-reaching surveillance networks, and fusion centers that collect and share surveillance data between local, state and federal police agencies.

Add in tens of thousands of armed, surveillance drones that will soon blanket American skies, facial recognition technology that will identify and track you wherever you go and whatever you do. And then to complete the circle, toss in the real-time crime centers being deployed in cities across the country, which will be attempting to “predict” crimes and identify criminals before they happen based on widespread surveillance, complex mathematical algorithms and prognostication programs.

Hopefully you’re getting the picture, which is how easy it is for the government to identify, label and target individuals as “extremist.”

We’re living in a scary world.

Unless we can put the brakes on this dramatic expansion and globalization of the government’s powers, we’re not going to recognize this country 20 years from now.

Frankly, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the landscape has already shifted dramatically from what it was like 10 or 20 years ago. It’s taken less than a generation for our freedoms to be eroded and the police state structure to be erected, expanded and entrenched.

Rest assured that the government will not save us from the chains of the police state. The UN’s Strong Cities Network program will not save us. The next occupant of the White House will not save us. For that matter, anarchy and violent revolution will not save us.

If there is to be any hope of freeing ourselves, it rests—as it always has—at the local level, with you and your fellow citizens taking part in grassroots activism, which takes a trickle-up approach to governmental reform by implementing change at the local level.

Attend local city council meetings, speak up at town hall meetings, organize protests and letter-writing campaigns, employ “militant nonviolent resistance” and civil disobedience, which Martin Luther King Jr. used to great effect through the use of sit-ins, boycotts and marches.

And then, while you’re at it, urge your local governments to nullify everything the federal government does that is illegitimate, egregious or blatantly unconstitutional.

If this sounds anti-government or extremist, perhaps it is, in much the same way that King himself was considered anti-government and extremist. Recognizing that “freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed,” King’s tactics—while nonviolent—were extreme by the standards of his day.

As King noted in his 1963 “Letter from Birmingham City Jail”:

[A]s I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a bit of satisfaction from being considered an extremist. Was not Jesus an extremist in love—“Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.” Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist—“This nation cannot survive half slave and half free.” Was not Thomas Jefferson an extremist—“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” So the question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be. Will we be extremists for hate or will we be extremists for love?

So how do you not only push back against the police state’s bureaucracy, corruption and cruelty but also launch a counterrevolution aimed at reclaiming control over the government using nonviolent means?

Take a cue from King.

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Hollow man
Hollow man

Sounds like the government is made up of a lot of democract socialist on both sides of the aisle. Who else claims to be a democratic socialist openly. Think his name is Bernie. At least he is honest and open about it.

ZombieDawg
ZombieDawg

The simple reality is that “the world is fucked”.
Doesn’t matter how you look at it – socially, politically, economically, environmentally, intellectually.
We, the dumb arse human species have made the whole damn mess we now live in and face.
As I’ve said before – go watch “Demolition Man” (Sylvester Stallone) and see YOUR future unfold.
Uncanny isn’t it…
EVERYTHING in reality is 100% predictable if you understand human nature and reality.
But, as per the movie, it takes the lone wolf to destroy the corruption and shallowness of the mindless masses. eg Snowden, Assange
So be it.
It’s “just a matter of time”
The truly sad reality is that we perceive ourselves to be the height of evolution on this world, as we destroy the same world in every respect.
Oh how he lesser species would/could bow their “heads” in shame at us.

kokoda
kokoda

“…local leaders are often best positioned to pinpoint sources of unrest and discord…”

Therefore, local leaders will obviously recognize the U.S. Government and the Gestapo Police as the major sources of unrest and discord.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Everything that has a beginning has an ending.

The United States had a beginning and it is now entering the time of its ending.

Our problems,the beginning of the end, started when we allowed the Courts to declare themselves the ultimate authority, even above the Constitution which created them, and establish law by decree taking that right away from the people in accord with Constitutional process and claiming it for themselves instead.

We’re beyond the point of turning back, Be ready for the coming years of demise of our nation, they won’t be at all pleasant.

overthecliff

We are now getting to the real point of the Patriot Act and NDAA. TBP and shit throwing monkeys saw this coming years ago. The only problem seems to be that there is no realistic way to stop it.

TE
TE

Things aren’t “getting” scary, they passed that point years ago.

Whatever. I’m slowly awakening to the fact that the Dark Ones cannot be stopped by using the tactics of old.

Learn to live within it, which is exactly how the survivors survived Hitler, Stalin, Mao and now the US Gov.

But, have no fear, there are unseen forces at work to combat this.

I refuse to slide further into fear and hopelessness. I can be the change I want to see in the world, so can all of you. If you choose to stop looking at things in the paradigm laid out by our (want to be) controllers and overlords.

Help those that need help, send love thoughts to those that need it the most – including our enemies in WDC and the UN, and do right by your soul, and your families, and in the end I now believe we will win. And prosper.

Good luck to you all.

nkit
nkit

@ZombieDawg..The simple reality is that “the world is fucked”.

Do ya think? From watching that video of the barbaric, Zulu, Asphalt Ape knocking a homeless old lady out, for no reason, to reading about a college professor that believes all gun owners are akin to slaveholders and should be shot, to this article which pretty much indicts everyone on this website of being a domestic terrorist, my blood pressure is off the charts today.

I shudder with rage to think what I would have done to that jabbering monkey that knocked out a defenseless old lady had I been present at the time. It further pisses me off that the mainstream media will not make a peep about the story so as to not enforce negative stereotypes at the expense of government propaganda. I know, only white people hate. Blacks are genetically impossible of hating, and are truly numinous people.

But, is my rage over the ape knocking out the old lady more over the cliff than the professor who believes that I should be shot for owning a weapon? Is he less of a domestic terrorist than I? The government should be more concerned about me because I disagree regularly with their economic and social agendas? They should worry more about me, a man that disagrees with them, yet is non-violent and threatens no one nor do I advocate, and call for, the massive shooting of groups that I disagree with. Who is the domestic terrorist, I ask you, who? Yeah, ZombieDawg, “the world is fucked.”

Maggie
Maggie
James the Wanderer

Hey Maggie!
The connection between Obama and Ayers is well-known and documented. The rest of the article is quite likely true as well. Why was it necessary to avoid “vetting” Obama before the 2008 election? Simply because his background would not stand a close examination, and in order to win the election most of his background had to be ignored. Anyone who knew details was silenced, by money or intimidation.
Right after his election, Obama’s school records (all the way back, as much as possible) were sealed to prevent unfortunate details from surfacing. Things like his time in Indonesia (where, to attend school, he would have had to become Muslim at that time) and whether or not he ever became a US Citizen upon his return to America. When he was in college, we know George H.W. Bush had a higher G.P.A. than John Kerry. What was Obama’s G.P.A.? No one knows.
The media was complicit in this fraud, as it even now downplays Hillary’s past (though that one’s a lot tougher; survivors of Hillary’s first reign are still walking among us, with personal experience stories to tell). It’s amazing that some folks who were in school at the same time & place as Obama don’t remember ever seeing / hearing of him; that as an editor of the Harvard Law Review he never wrote a story; and that he went from first-term senator from Illinois to President without any depth of experience beyond that one term.
We were sold a bill of goods, just one among many if totalled up; the thing now is to never vote for anyone whose background is shady (Hillary), socialist (Bernie) or hidden (Obama). The sewer that is modern Washington, D.C. is overdue for cleanout, and flushing out the career politicians is a needful civic duty. Don’t know if Trump is up to the job, but he’s about the only one we know about (bad and good), isn’t bought & paid for by the establishment (he’s independently wealthy) or a slave to a given ideology (nearly everyone else). Would he be a good President? No idea, but of a pack of lying thieves and swindlers he’s the least bad.
Vote for Cthulhu! (why vote for a lesser evil?)

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