FBI Now Spying on HS Students, To ID and Weed-Out "Extremists & Anarchists" for Pre-crimes.

[99th_Monkey]

The Establishment Has Spoken to Our Youth: "Absorb and regurgitate establishment propaganda in
your Texas text books. We'll tell you how and what to think & to believe. STFU about passionate
progressivism, radical change, etc. or you will be labeled a "terrorist", stalked, investigated, and
ultimately criminalized.

The FBI Has a New Plan to Spy on High School Students Across the Country
By Sarah Lazare * Mar 4, 2016 * AlterNet via TruthDig

Under new guidelines, the FBI is instructing high schools across the country to report students who criticize government policies and “western corruption” as potential future terrorists, warning that “anarchist extremists” are in the same category as ISIS and young people who are poor, immigrants or travel to “suspicious” countries are more likely to commit horrific violence. ...

This overwhelming threat is then used to justify a massive surveillance apparatus, wherein educators and pupils function as extensions of the FBI by watching and informing on each other.

The FBI’s justification for such surveillance is based on McCarthy-era theories of radicalization, in which authorities monitor thoughts and behaviors that they claim to lead to acts of violent subversion, even if those people being watched have not committed any wrongdoing. This model has been widely discredited as a violence prevention method, including by the U.S. government, but it is now being imported to schools nationwide as official federal policy.

Schools as "hotbeds of extremism"
The new guidelines depict high schools as hotbeds of extremism, where dangers lurk in every corner. “High school students are ideal targets for recruitment by violent extremists seeking support for their radical ideologies, foreign fighter networks, or conducting acts of violence within our borders,” the document warns, claiming that youth “possess inherent risk factors.” In light of this alleged threat, the FBI instructs teachers to “incorporate a two-hour block of violent extremism awareness training” into the core curriculum for all youth in grades 9 through 12.

According to the FBI’s educational materials for teenagers, circulated as a visual aide to their new guidelines, the following offenses constitute signs that “could mean that someone plans to commit violence” and therefore should be reported: “Talking about traveling to places that sound suspicious”; “Using code words or unusual language”; “Using several different cell phones and private messaging apps”; and “Studying or taking pictures of potential targets (like a government building).”

Under the category of domestic terrorists, the educational materials warn of the threat posed by “anarchist extremists.”

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_fbi_has_a_new_plan_to_spy_on_high_school_students_20160304

[orpupilofnature57]

1. How about " Pre-abuse " of the apparatus of surveillance .

[99th_Monkey]

2. Hadn't heard the term "pre-abuse" before

do you mean as in "tampering" with surveillance cameras and such?

I'm not sure I know what you're getting at.

[orpupilofnature57]

6. That the whole concept of " pre-Crime " is a presumption of guilt, which is abuse .

[99th_Monkey]

12. Yes, and child abuse at that. Great example our Guv-mint is setting .. nt

[Hydra]

10. Sorry, we crossed that bridge many decades ago

We are firmly into the realm of "systematic abuse" on our way to complete abuse of the system.

[orpupilofnature57]

11. And they call Edward Snowden a traitor .

[Hydra]

18. Perfect example

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell

[juxtaposed]

3. it's about time we go after them. What we need next is DNA proof that they may be evil soon.

for the idiots!!!!!!!!and there are many!

[grasswire]

4. Today is a good day to donate to the ACLU

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

www.aclu.org

[Warren DeMontague]

5. I liked that time they had the drug agent who pretended to like this kid, until he asked her to prom

And she said she would go with him if he smoked a joint with her, so the kid - honor student, had never been in trouble- found some weed and as he was about to get high with her the SWAT team showed up.

I think the judge was lenient with the mandatory minumum so he only got something like 5 years in prison.

[HereSince1628]

7. Just like East Germany...we are being asked to monitor the lives of others.

It's a shame.

Without clear cold war enemies, whose practices we can reject based on a label, we quickly become what they were.

[Shandris]

13. ...well, yes, and most everyone went along with it happily, all for...

...the preening satisfaction of a few 'Likes' and a list of 'friends' to show for it and the ability to 'prove' how good they are by getting people they don't like fired.

Yes, this is exactly what the people wanted. Well...now they get it. I hope it's as fun for them going forward as it was for their victims in the past. My sympathy level is exactly zero.

[HereSince1628]

16. My empathy is HIGH, I can almost hear the FBI saying to media...don't cover Sanders

he's a radical pushing revolution, his ideas are those of the cold war enemy we spend into death.

Scary.

[StandingInLeftField]

8. Fiction often becomes fact

Minority Report

[TreasonousBastard]

9. Jeez, what assholes-- they haven't changed since the Hoover days.

[hobbit709]

14. Just like in my SDS days.

[99th_Monkey]

19. I too remember those daze.

Make me wonder if Bernie's massive mobilization of our youth has "raised concerns"
that the PTB are determined to "nip in the bud", quite literally.

[Octafish]

15. ''It makes our job a lot easier.'' -- J Edgar Hoover

"Whatever you do, don't teach 'em to think."

[friendly_iconoclast]

17. K&R, and here's a link to the actual FBI handout (*.pdf file):

https://info.publicintelligence.net/FBI-PreventingExtremismSchools.pdf

[99th_Monkey]

20. Thank you. Bookmarked.

I am constantly struck by how damned "handy" the "terrorist scare" is to
repressive forces, to use like the Red Scare, to sweep any and all radical
dissent into the same receptical, to be singled-out & labeled as "dangerous"
simply for being different, for dissenting from the establishment's approved
way of thinking and being.

Bottom line, I think this ^ constitutes Bernie's underlying challenge and
why he is being so vehemently & adamantly resisted at all costs by the PTB.
So if he loses this primary election, we ALL lose. It's GAME OVER for our
democracy and civil liberties.