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Dissent is now equal to terror...
http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/army-training-manual-terrorist-logos/7289/
A U.S. Army training manual that instructs troops how to recognize terrorist organizations includes environmental groups like Earth First!, and lists the Animal Liberation Front alongside al-Qaeda.
The declassified manual was created by the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, which says This handbook is designed to specifically provide trainers, leaders and soldiers a hip pocket reference to identify all the known logos used by insurgents, terrorists, paramilitary and other militant groups worldwide.
Among the listings are a page on Environmental Terrorists, with images of Earth First! t-shirts and patches, and animal liberation t-shirts that have been sold by national non-profits since the 1990s.
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Whats especially troubling about a guide like this is that it is created to assist units in identifying groups by their logos found in videos, magazines, newspapers, graffiti and other types of media. In other words, its meant to be a cipher for decoding First Amendment activity that might be created by terrorists.
The declassified manual was created by the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, which says This handbook is designed to specifically provide trainers, leaders and soldiers a hip pocket reference to identify all the known logos used by insurgents, terrorists, paramilitary and other militant groups worldwide.
Among the listings are a page on Environmental Terrorists, with images of Earth First! t-shirts and patches, and animal liberation t-shirts that have been sold by national non-profits since the 1990s.
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Whats especially troubling about a guide like this is that it is created to assist units in identifying groups by their logos found in videos, magazines, newspapers, graffiti and other types of media. In other words, its meant to be a cipher for decoding First Amendment activity that might be created by terrorists.
How they missed The Raging Grannies I'll never know.
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US Army Terrorist List: Al Qaeda, Earth First .... (Original Post)
Scuba
Oct 2013
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Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)1. Thank goodness the NSA is here to keep us safe!
Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)2. Have they added
the various tea party organizations to the list?
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)3. It says something when the Left's most
ultra "radical", "extremist" groups, irrespective of some of their methods, want to protect the environment and animals.
Those are our "extremist" goals on the Left: making sure the planet is in live in condition and puppies don't get beat to death.