The FBI Has a New Plan to Spy on High School Students Across the Country

[eridani]

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

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.” The FBI states, “Anarchist extremists believe that society should have no government, laws, or police, and they are loosely organized, with no central leadership… Violent anarchist extremists usually target symbols of capitalism they believe to be the cause of all problems in society—such as large corporations, government organizations, and police agencies.”

Similarly, “Animal Rights Extremists and Environmental Extremists” are placed alongside “white supremacy extremists”, ISIS and Al Qaeda as terrorists out to recruit high school students. The materials also instruct students to watch out for extremist propaganda messages that communicate criticisms of “corrupt western nations” and express “government mistrust.”

[AllyCat]

1. Oh jeez, that oughtta work just great.

McCarthyism for teenagers.

[GoneFishin]

2. Great place to get blanket coverage for Hoover blackmail files on the entire population before they

learn discretion and to edit themselves in public.

1984.

[MisterP]

10. the NKVD was actually quite inspired by Hoover's card system where he had the dirt on

everyone, ESPECIALLY the pols and overseers

[hobbit709]

3. FUCK the FBI!

“Studying or taking pictures of potential targets (like a government building).” -so if you're on a school trip to Dc and take a picture of the Lincoln Memorial you are now a potential terrorist.

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. and it's not like teenagers tend to use their own code to talk.....

As any parent who has survived their kids adolescence knows....

[7wo7rees]

4. Five years from now

We should get some really great punk rock music outta this.

[LiberalEsto]

5. Just imprison everyone. That should solve all our problems.

[Marr]

6. I think you've just solved it. We build one small room somewhere, with a door on it.

Everything on the inside of the room we call 'outside'. Everything on the outside of the room we call prison.

[Orrex]

8. Doors cost money.

[Orrex]

7. These dangerous kids are greasing their hair and wearing leather jackets

THEY MUST BE STOPPED!!!!

[eridani]

12. Why can't they be like we were, perfect in every way, oh what's the matter with kids today?

[HereSince1628]

9. What do you suppose the likelihood is they have long looked at political supporters?

who use code words and unusual language ("revolution", anyone?), that targets government institutions (like a corrupt Congress?) and complain about large corporations, government organizations (NSA, CIA, DARPA?) and police agencies (like themselves as well as local, state, Federal Marshalls)

Those who surrender liberty for security... etc.

[malthaussen]

11. Aye, the U.S. military holds recruiting drives in high schools all the time.

But let's be reasonable, it is the purpose of the FBI to be paranoid, in terms of its anti-terrorist division. It is the purpose of the government to rein in that paranoia.

-- Mal