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Pentagon training course says engaging in First Amendment is terrorist activity

The ACLU has written to the DoD regarding its Antiterrorism and Force Protection Annual Refresher Training Course, which advises personnel that political protest amounts to “low-level terrorism”.

The first question of the Terrorism Threat Factors, “Knowledge Check 1″ section reads:

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Which of the following is an example of low-level terrorism activity?

Select the correct answer and then click Check Your Answer.

1. Attacking the Pentagon
2. IEDs
3. Hate crimes against racial groups
4. Protests

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In order to proceed, users must give the “correct” answer as “Protests".

“It has come to our attention that the Department of Defense’s Annual Level I Antiterrorism (AT) Training for 2009 misinforms Department of Defense (DoD) personnel that certain First Amendment-protected activity may amount to “low level terrorism” The ACLU writes.

“We are writing to ask that you take immediate steps to remedy this situation.” the letter to acting Under-Secretary Gail McGinn states.

According to the document, all DoD personnel are required to complete the course on a yearly basis.

www.aclu.org/images/general/asset_upload_file89_39820.pdf

www.prisonplanet.com/dod-training-manual-describes-protest-as-low-leve
l-terrorism.html

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Foreign Internal Defense Tactics Techniques and Procedures for Special Forces (1994, 2004)

US Special Forces counterinsurgency manual FM 31-20-3

Destruction Notice: Destroy by any method that must prevent disclosure of contents or reconstruction of the document.

Special Intelligence-Gathering Operations

Alternative intelligence-gathering techniques and sources, such as doppelganger or pseudo operations, can be tried and used when it is hard to obtain information from the civilian populace. These pseudo units are usually made up of ex-guerrilla and/or security force personnel posing as insurgents. They circulate among the civilian populace and, in some cases, infiltrate guerrilla units to gather information on guerrilla movements and its support infrastructure.

Much time and effort must be used to persuade insurgents to switch allegiance and serve with the security forces. Prospective candidates must be properly screened and then given a choice of serving with the HN [Host Nation] security forces or facing prosecution under HN law for terrorist crimes.

In using a disguised team, the selected men should be trained, oriented, and disguised to look and act like authentic underground or guerrilla units. In addition to acquiring valuable information, the infiltrating units can demoralize the insurgents to the extent that they become overly suspicious and distrustful of their own units.

National police personnel will complete, if census data does not exist in the police files, a basic registration card and photograph all personnel over the age of 15. They print two copies of each photo- one is pasted to the registration card and the other to the village book (for possible use in later operations and to identify ralliers and informants).

Civilian Self-Defense Forces [Paramilitaries, or, especially in an El-Salvador or Colombian civil war context, right wing "death squads"]

When a village accepts the CSDF program, the insurgents cannot choose to ignore it. To let the village go unpunished will encourage other villages to accept the government’s CSDF program. The insurgents have no choice; they have to attack the CSDF village to provide a lesson to other villages considering CSDF. In a sense, the psychological effectiveness of the CSDF concept starts by reversing the insurgent strategy of making the government the repressor. It forces the insurgents to cross a critical threshold-that of attacking and killing the very class of people they are supposed to be liberating.

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/US_Special_Forces_counter-insurgency_manual_
FM_31-20-3

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"Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to MONITOR, TRACK DOWN and CAPTURE an American citizen."
-General Colin "Butcher of Bagdad" Powell, chairman US Joint Chiefs of Staff at Pentagon, US Secretary of State, Fox News, 06/17/01
www.rense.com/general77/colin.htm

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