Framing ‘Anti-Government’ Right-Wing Groups for Terror Attack

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72 Types Of Americans Considered “Potential Terrorists” In Official Gov’t Documents….

Posted on January 23, 2014 by ror1774

January 19, 2014 by 1stminstrel
Are you a conservative, a libertarian, a Christian or a gun owner? Are you opposed to abortion, globalism, Communism, illegal immigration, the United Nations or the New World Order? Do you believe in conspiracy theories, do you believe that we are living in the “end times” or do you ever visit alternative news websites (such as this one)? If you answered yes to any of those questions, you are a “potential terrorist” according to official U.S. government documents. At one time, the term “terrorist” was used very narrowly. The government applied that label to people like Osama bin Laden and other Islamic jihadists.
But now the Obama administration is removing all references to Islam from terror training materials, and instead the term “terrorist” is being applied to large groups of American citizens. And if you are a “terrorist”, that means that you have no rights and the government can treat you just like it treats the terrorists that are being held at Guantanamo Bay. So if you belong to a group of people that is now being referred to as “potential terrorists”, please don’t take it as a joke. The first step to persecuting any group of people is to demonize them. And right now large groups of peaceful, law-abiding citizens are being ruthlessly demonized.
Below is a list of 72 types of Americans that are considered to be “extremists” and “potential terrorists” in official U.S. government documents. As you can see, this list covers most of the country…
1. Those that talk about “individual liberties”
2. Those that advocate for states’ rights
3. Those that want “to make the world a better place”
4. “The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule”
5. Those that are interested in “defeating the Communists”
6. Those that believe “that the interests of one’s own nation areseparate from the interests of other nations or the common interest of all nations”
7. Anyone that holds a “political ideology that considers the state to be unnecessary, harmful,or undesirable”
8. Anyone that possesses an “intolerance toward other religions”
9. Those that “take action to fight against the exploitation of theenvironment and/or animals”
10. “Anti-Gay”
11. “Anti-Immigrant”
12. “Anti-Muslim”
13. “The Patriot Movement”
14. “Opposition to equal rights for gays and lesbians”
15. Members of the Family Research Council
16. Members of the American Family Association
17. Those that believe that Mexico, Canada and the United States “are secretly planning to merge into a European Union-like entity that will be known as the ‘North American Union’”
18. Members of the American Border Patrol/American Patrol
19. Members of the Federation for American Immigration Reform
20. Members of the Tennessee Freedom Coalition
21. Members of the Christian Action Network
22. Anyone that is “opposed to the New World Order”
23. Anyone that is engaged in “conspiracy theorizing”
24. Anyone that is opposed to Agenda 21
25. Anyone that is concerned about FEMA camps
26. Anyone that “fears impending gun control or weapons confiscations”
27. The militia movement
28. The sovereign citizen movement
29. Those that “don’t think they should have to pay taxes”
30. Anyone that “complains about bias”
31. Anyone that “believes in government conspiracies to the point of paranoia”
32. Anyone that “is frustrated with mainstream ideologies”
33. Anyone that “visits extremist websites/blogs”
34. Anyone that “establishes website/blog to display extremist views”
35. Anyone that “attends rallies for extremist causes”
36. Anyone that “exhibits extreme religious intolerance”
37. Anyone that “is personally connected with a grievance”
38. Anyone that “suddenly acquires weapons”
39. Anyone that “organizes protests inspired by extremist ideology”
40. “Militia or unorganized militia”
41. “General right-wing extremist”
42. Citizens that have “bumper stickers” that are patriotic or anti-U.N.
43. Those that refer to an “Army of God”
44. Those that are “fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)”
45. Those that are “anti-global”
46. Those that are “suspicious of centralized federal authority”
47. Those that are “reverent of individual liberty”
48. Those that “believe in conspiracy theories”
49. Those that have “a belief that one’s personal and/or national ‘way of life’ is under attack”
50. Those that possess “a belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism”
51. Those that would “impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)”
52. Those that would “insert religion into the political sphere”
53. Anyone that would “seek to politicize religion”
54. Those that have “supported political movements for autonomy”
55. Anyone that is “anti-abortion”
56. Anyone that is “anti-Catholic”
57. Anyone that is “anti-nuclear”
58. “Rightwing extremists”
59. “Returning veterans”
60. Those concerned about “illegal immigration”
61. Those that “believe in the right to bear arms”
62. Anyone that is engaged in “ammunition stockpiling”
63. Anyone that exhibits “fear of Communist regimes”
64. “Anti-abortion activists”
65. Those that are against illegal immigration
66. Those that talk about “the New World Order” in a “derogatory” manner
67. Those that have a negative view of the United Nations
68. Those that are opposed “to the collection of federal income taxes”
69. Those that supported former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr
70. Those that display the Gadsden Flag (“Don’t Tread On Me”)
71. Those that believe in “end times” prophecies
72. Evangelical Christians
The groups of people in the list above are considered “problems” that need to be dealt with. In some of the documents referenced above, members of the military are specifically warned not to have anything to do with such groups.
We are moving into a very dangerous time in American history. You can now be considered a “potential terrorist” just because of your religious or political beliefs. Free speech is becoming a thing of the past, and we are rapidly becoming an Orwellian society that is the exact opposite of what our founding fathers intended.
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[American Patriot]

I'm sure most of us can check off 9 or 10 of these, don't you think?

[Malsua]

That list covers everyone in the US except the most left wing liberal dickbags that infest NYC and similar communist enclaves.

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Blimplike surveillance craft set to deploy over Maryland heighten privacy concerns

They will look like two giant white blimps floating high above I-95 in Maryland, perhaps en route to a football game somewhere along the bustling Eastern Seaboard. But their mission will have nothing to do with sports and everything to do with war.


The aerostats — that is the term for lighter-than-air craft that are tethered to the ground — are to be set aloft on Army-owned land about 45 miles northeast of Washington, near Aberdeen Proving Ground, for a three-year test slated to start in October. From a vantage of 10,000 feet, they will cast a vast radar net from Raleigh, N.C., to Boston and out to Lake Erie, with the goal of detecting cruise missiles or enemy aircraft so they could be intercepted before reaching the capital.


Aerostats deployed by the military at U.S. bases in Iraq and Afghanistan typically carried powerful surveillance cameras as well, to track the movements of suspected insurgents and even U.S. soldiers. When Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales murdered 16 civilians in Kandahar in March 2012, an aerostat above his base captured video of him returning from the slaughter in the early-morning darkness with a rifle in his hand and a shawl over his shoulders.


Defense contractor Raytheon last year touted an exercise in which it outfitted the aerostats planned for deployment in suburban Baltimore with one of the company’s most powerful high-altitude surveillance systems, capable of spotting individual people and vehicles from a distance of many miles.


The Army said it has “no current plans” to mount such cameras or infrared sensors on the aerostats or to share information with federal, state or local law enforcement, but it declined to rule out either possibility. The radar system that is planned for the aerostats will be capable of monitoring the movement of trains, boats and cars, the Army said.


The prospect of military-grade tracking technology floating above suburban Baltimore — along one of the East Coast’s busiest travel corridors — has sparked privacy concerns at a time of rising worry about the growth of government eavesdropping in the dozen years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.


“That’s the kind of massive persistent surveillance we’ve always been concerned about with drones,” said Jay Stanley, a privacy expert for the American Civil Liberties Union. “It’s part of this trend we’ve seen since 9/11, which is the turning inward of all of these surveillance technologies.”


The Army played down such concerns in written responses to questions posed by The Washington Post, saying its goal is to test the ability of the aerostats to bolster the region’s missile-defense capability, especially against low-flying cruise missiles that can be hard for ground-based systems to detect in time to intercept them.


The Army determined it did not need to conduct a Privacy Impact Assessment, required for some government programs, because it was not going to collect any personally identifiable information, officials said in their written responses to The Post.


“The primary mission . . . is to track airborne objects,” the Army said. “Its secondary mission is to track surface moving objects such as vehicles or boats. The capability to track surface objects does not extend to individual people.”


Even the most powerful overhead surveillance systems, experts say, struggle to make out individual faces or other identifying features such as license plates because of the extreme angles when viewing an area from above.


But privacy advocates say location information can easily lead to the identification of individuals if collected on a mass scale and analyzed over time.


Researchers have found that people vary their movements little day to day, typically traveling from home to work and back while also regularly visiting a small number of other locations, such as stores, gyms or the homes of friends.


Aerostats’ range


The aerostats planned for Maryland will have radar capable of detecting airborne objects from up to 340 miles away and vehicles on the surface from up to 140 miles away — as far south as Richmond, as far west as Cumberland, Md., and as far north as Staten Island. The Army declined to say what size vehicles can be sensed from those distances.


“If it’s able to track vehicles, that is problematic,” said Jennifer Lynch of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group. “You could imagine a scenario in which the location information can reveal where you go to church, what doctor you’re going to, whether you’re cheating on your wife, all those types of details. . . . Once a surveillance technology is put up, it’s very tempting for law enforcement or the military to use it for reasons they did not originally disclose.”


Technologies developed for battlefields — weapons, vehicles, communications systems — long have flowed homeward as overseas conflicts have ended. The battles that followed the Sept. 11 attacks have produced major advances in surveillance equipment whose manufacturers increasingly are looking to expand their use within the United States.


Aerostats — basically big balloons on strings — grew popular in Iraq and Afghanistan and also are used by Israel to monitor the Gaza Strip and by the United States to eye movement along southern border areas. Even a rifle shot through an aerostat will not bring it down, because the pressure of the helium inside nearly matches the pressure of the air outside, preventing rapid deflation.


TCOM, a Columbia, Md.-based company that Raytheon hired to manufacture the aerostats planned for the upcoming deployment, said business is growing for smaller, tactical systems that can be used in sensitive border or harbor areas.


“When you need persistent surveillance in a particular area, there is no better solution than the aerostat because it’s there all the time,” said Ron Bendlin, TCOM’s president.
Read more at Washington Post

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Obama Will Use DOJ to Attempt Dismantling of Patriot Militias

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D.O.J. Embraces Its Role As ”Caesar’s Bodyguards”

The TRUTH about “prosecutorial discretion” & why it matters to ALL U.S. Patriots

President Obama’s 2014 State of the Union speech validates every concern Patriots have expressed in the last five years regarding a system of government that is now officially “broken.” Obama vowed to use the “power of the pen” and Executive Orders to rule by executive fiat, clearly stating his intention to “sidestep Congress wherever and whenever possible” to accomplish his agenda.


He didn’t whisper this in secret to his closest advisers as part of an insidious conspiracy. Obama stated this openly (and proudly) to all 3 branches of government with 30 million American viewers as witnesses.


Obama’s disdain for the US Constitution is hardly a secret; he views the Congress as nothing more than an inconvenient impediment to the progressive changes he wishes to institute. He wears his disgust for capitalism and American exceptionalism on his sleeve, vowing to redistribute wealth in Socialist fashion while apologizing to America’s enemies for not having done it sooner.


We are now entering a period of US history in which Constitutional Rule of Law is an endangered species, and nowhere is this more apparent than Obama’s personal use of the Department of Justice to selectively enforce and ignore laws.


Obama’s approval and support of Eric Holder’s DOJ policy of selective enforcement – known as “prosecutorial discretion” in legal parlance – has been well-documented during the 5 years he’s been in office.


In November 2008, two members of the New Black Panther Party – Minister King Samir Shabazz & Jerry Jackson – stationed themselves in front of a voting location in Philadelphia, PA with the intention of harassing white voters.


Both men shouted phrases at white voters such as “white Devil” and “you’re gonna be ruled by a black man, cracker,” all of which was captured on video and distributed on YouTube. Obama’s DOJ refused to prosecute the men for civil rights violations. Two DOJ officials – J. Christian Adams and Christopher Coates – resigned in protest, alleging Obama & Holder had been motivated solely by race.


The same Obama and Holder, by the way, that sought charges against George Zimmerman for the Trayvon Martin shooting.


In March 2010, nine members of the Hutaree Christian Patriot Militia were arrested in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio by Obama’s DOJ and charged with “terrorism.” After their initial arrest prosecutors continued to add additional charges, fought vigorously against allowing bail and tried the case openly in the court of public opinion. Despite the DOJ’s persistence, 7 Hutaree members were acquitted by a Federal judge in March 2012, and two plead guilty to lesser firearm charges and were released with “time served.”


Why is this important to Patriot Militias in the United States? ANSWER: while the unconstitutional use of prosecutorial discretion makes the mainstream media news when laws aren’t enforced – such as illegal immigration and smoking marijuana – very few people are considering what will happen when DOJ begins enforcing laws that are currently being ignored.


I am referring to “anti-Paramilitary training” and “anti-Militia” laws. In the US, 41 states have laws making paramilitary training illegal and 17 states have laws that make citizen militias illegal. Of those, 7 states make both illegal. The fact that DOJ has ignored those laws up until now has been beneficial to Patriots, but Obama’s record of selective enforcement – and Holder’s use of prosecutorial discretion – guarantee Patriot Militias will soon become a target for the DOJ.


I know what you’re thinking. “Michael, they can’t do that. Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, Right to Bear Arms … DOJ has no legal right to enforce that type of action.” Actually, they believe they do. Their belief stems from a landmark case (Plesser v. Illinois, 116 U.S. 252) that determined States, not individual citizens, have the right to form militias.


When vague federal laws are combined with archaic state laws not currently enforced – and put into the hands of a corrupt DOJ that pursues the unconstitutional selective enforcement of laws – Houston, we have a problem. The same DOJ, by the way, that has repeatedly sued states for exercising their 10th Amendment Rights.


In a typical battle scenario, the enemy’s “command & control” systems are dismantled before any ground assault takes place. If you believe we can no longer rely on an elected body that no longer represents us, then Patriots become the last true guardians of the US Constitution.


When Patriot Militias are forcefully dismantled under the guise of “enforcement & national security,” the rest is easy. Given the 5-year track record of the Obama Administration – and his openly stated Socialist agenda – don’t think for a second that this scenario couldn’t play out. Not only can it happen, in many instances it will … and have the blessing and support of the state itself.


What are we – the Patriots who took an oath to protect the United States against “enemies foreign and domestic” – supposed to do? The same thing we have always done: train and prepare. The purpose of this article is to make people aware, and in so doing make them better prepared for any eventuality. More importantly, rational Patriots need to shed the illusion that such an action could never be executed against law-abiding citizens of the United States.


When reflecting upon the theme and tone of Obama’s 2014 State of the Union speech, you’ll realize that it’s already in progress. ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ!


Michael Kaplan is an executive protection specialist, Emergency Medical Technician, instructor and author living in Savannah, GA. He writes regularly at his blog, MichaelIKaplan.com.

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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney calls freedom a 'buzzword'

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Reacting to a report that says Obamacare will lower work hours because it lowers the hourly threshold an American must work in order to obtain health care, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney called "freedom" a "buzzword" on Tuesday.


"It’s not anything but an added choice that they have that allows them more freedom, to use a certain buzzword, more choice," he said.


"This actually explains a lot," the Independent Journal Review said. "THIS is why the Obama Administration is so willy-nilly with our freedoms as Americans! They think it’s just a buzzword! They don’t realize it’s an actual thing!"


The comment also sparked a firestorm on Twitter, Twitchy said.


"Freedom, oh, freedom, well that's just some people talkin'," one person sarcastically said.


"They can take our lives, but they will never take our BUZZWORDS!" another person tweeted, invoking the famous line from "Braveheart."


"Next? The Constitution is just some guidelines," tweeted Twitter user Michael Cope.


Another person expressed a desire to "slap Carney across the face."


According to a report published Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office, Obama's signature legislation will push some two million workers out of the labor force by 2017 as they decide to either work fewer hours or drop out of the labor force altogether.


The White House called this "positive" because, the Washington Times said, "it means Americans will forgo jobs or extra work to stay home with their children or strike out on their own as entrepreneurs."


Republicans, on the other hand, see the report as an "I told you so" moment.


A post at the conservative blog Weasel Zippers observed that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., once crowed that Obamacare would create some four million jobs, with 400,000 jobs created "almost immediately."


But that hasn't happened.


In fact, the blog said, just the opposite has taken place. And the prospects for the future aren't looking very good in terms of the job market.


Jason Furman, Obama’s chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, told the press in the same session that American workers choosing to work less was a net positive, comparing them to 95-year-olds on Social Security.


"This is a choice on the part of workers, and I have no doubt that if, for example, we got rid of Social Security and Medicare, there are many 95-year-olds that would choose to work more to avoid potentially starving or to give themselves an opportunity to get healthcare," he said.


Related:

• Darrell Issa: White House press secretary Jay Carney a 'paid liar'
• Jay Carney to Joe Scarborough: IRS, Benghazi, NSA scandals 'phony'
• Sheila Jackson Lee: We'll give Obama 'a number of executive orders' to sign
• Jay Carney to Piers Morgan: Scandals involving IRS, Benghazi, AP 'don't exist'
• Jay Carney on threats to whistleblowers: 'Benghazi happened a long time ago'

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Politics: No, Jay Carney. 'Freedom' is not just a 'Certain Buzzword'


Image Credit: Carney Folk Published by: Robert Laurie on Wednesday February 5th, 2014

Jay Carney reveals himself, and it's utterly pathetic.


Freedom is the natural state of mankind.
Freedom is that to which all enslaved peoples aspire.
Freedom is the driving force behind the founding of our nation, and remains its highest ideal.
Freedom is a concept for which generations of Americans have fought and died.
Unless, of course, you're Jay Carney. If you're the spokesman for the most underwhelming administration in U.S. history, freedom is a "certain buzzword" which you laughingly use as a one-liner in support of your failed policies.
During a disastrous press conference Tuesday, Carney was defending ObamaCare from claims that it was lessening work hours. Carney was making the argument that Americans would be "empowered" to work less, since the President's signature law lowers the number of hours a person must work in order to receive coverage. According to Carney, the law isn't killing jobs; it's allowing Americans the freedom to opt out of working.

It’s not anything but an added choice that they have that allows them more freedom, to use a certain buzzword. More choice.

We'll set aside the tortured "less is more" logic and simply remind our smarmy press secretary that, no. Freedom is not just a "buzzword." It's the beating heart of a nation that has unfortunately chosen to damage itself by allowing Jay Carney to remain on its payroll.
That he would reduce such a concept to nothing more meaningful than a catchphrase or a marketing gimmick?
Pathetic.
Be sure to "like" Robert Laurie over on Facebook and follow him on Twitter. You'll be glad you did.
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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney calls freedom a 'buzzword'

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Reacting to a report that says Obamacare will lower work hours because it lowers the hourly threshold an American must work in order to obtain health care, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney called "freedom" a "buzzword" on Tuesday.


"It’s not anything but an added choice that they have that allows them more freedom, to use a certain buzzword, more choice," he said.


"This actually explains a lot," the Independent Journal Review said. "THIS is why the Obama Administration is so willy-nilly with our freedoms as Americans! They think it’s just a buzzword! They don’t realize it’s an actual thing!"


The comment also sparked a firestorm on Twitter, Twitchy said.


"Freedom, oh, freedom, well that's just some people talkin'," one person sarcastically said.


"They can take our lives, but they will never take our BUZZWORDS!" another person tweeted, invoking the famous line from "Braveheart."


"Next? The Constitution is just some guidelines," tweeted Twitter user Michael Cope.


Another person expressed a desire to "slap Carney across the face."


According to a report published Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office, Obama's signature legislation will push some two million workers out of the labor force by 2017 as they decide to either work fewer hours or drop out of the labor force altogether.


The White House called this "positive" because, the Washington Times said, "it means Americans will forgo jobs or extra work to stay home with their children or strike out on their own as entrepreneurs."


Republicans, on the other hand, see the report as an "I told you so" moment.


A post at the conservative blog Weasel Zippers observed that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., once crowed that Obamacare would create some four million jobs, with 400,000 jobs created "almost immediately."


But that hasn't happened.


In fact, the blog said, just the opposite has taken place. And the prospects for the future aren't looking very good in terms of the job market.


Jason Furman, Obama’s chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, told the press in the same session that American workers choosing to work less was a net positive, comparing them to 95-year-olds on Social Security.


"This is a choice on the part of workers, and I have no doubt that if, for example, we got rid of Social Security and Medicare, there are many 95-year-olds that would choose to work more to avoid potentially starving or to give themselves an opportunity to get healthcare," he said.


Related:

• Darrell Issa: White House press secretary Jay Carney a 'paid liar'
• Jay Carney to Joe Scarborough: IRS, Benghazi, NSA scandals 'phony'
• Sheila Jackson Lee: We'll give Obama 'a number of executive orders' to sign
• Jay Carney to Piers Morgan: Scandals involving IRS, Benghazi, AP 'don't exist'
• Jay Carney on threats to whistleblowers: 'Benghazi happened a long time ago'

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Next up... Drones....

“Homeland Security says `Flying Spy Drones’ inside the `US’ could be next step to Public Safety”

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#AceSecurityNews says `DHS Wants to use Spy Drones Domestically for ‘Public Safety‘

The United States already uses surveillance drones on its borders, but Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said during a hearing on Wednesday that flying unmanned aircraft inside the US could be the next step to ensuring “public safety.”
Sec. Napolitano weighed in on the topic of unmanned aerial vehicles during this week’s Committee on Homeland Security and suggested that implementing UAVs for domestic surveillance could the next step in the United States’ amazingly accelerating drone program.
The Federal Aviation Administration is currently considering ground rules that will outline how the FAA can govern domestic drone use, and by 2020 they expect to see 30,000 UAVs soaring through US airspace. Speaking before a House panel on Wednesday, though, Sec. Napolitano suggested that deploying UAVs proactively to put an extra set over locales nowhere near America’s border may in fact be the next move.

“With respect to Science and Technology, that directorate, we do have a funded project,” she said. “I think it’s in California, looking at drones that could be utilized to give us situational awareness in a large public safety [matter] or disaster, such as a forest fire, and how they could give us better information.”

In a transcript of the secretary’s testimony made available after her address, Napolitano admits that the US has expanded their use or surveillance drones on America’s border with Canada in recent years, now letting UAVs monitor 950 miles of Washington State’s boundary line.
Despite growing opposition from the American public of drones largely centred over privacy objections, the United States has continuously ramped up its drone program in recent years, both domestically and abroad. During the Hackers on Planet Earth conference in New York City earlier this month, activists with the Electronic Frontier Foundation said that US military now owns around 7,500 drones, which makes up around one-third of the Air Force’s entire arsenal.
“The FAA can give drone licenses to any agency that can prove that they can use them safely,” the EFF’s Trevor Timm told the crowd. Despite dozens of permits being handed out to law enforcement agencies and educational institutions in recent years, though, neither the security nor safety of these aircraft are believed to have been fully examined. In just the last few weeks, a Texas professor hacked a UAV in front of representatives from the DHS and, separately, a military drone crash-landed just outside of Washington, D.C.
Despite these incidents, the FAA and DHS are still spearheading an accelerated drone program.
Given Sec. Napolitano’s latest statements, though, the domestic use of drones for proactive surveillance could be coming sooner than previously though.

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National Guard Training To Confront Right-Wing Terrorism

By: Jesse Hathaway | February 10, 2014



Ohio National Guard 52nd Civil Support Team Documents from an Ohio National Guard (ONG) training drill conducted last January reveal the details of a mock disaster where Second Amendment supporters with “anti-government” opinions were portrayed as domestic terrorists.


The Ohio National Guard’s Civil Support Team practices in a May 2013 drill at Put-in-Bay

The ONG 52nd Civil Support Team training scenario involved a plot from local school district employees to use biological weapons in order to advance their beliefs about “protecting Gun Rights and Second Amendment rights.”

Portsmouth Fire Chief Bill Raison told NBC 3 WSAZ-TV in Huntington, West Virginia that the drill accurately represented “the reality of the world we live in,” adding that such training “helps us all be prepared.”

Internal ONG documents provided to Media Trackers after repeated delays provide further context to what WSAZ-TV reported last winter.

In the disaster-preparedness scenario, two Portsmouth Junior High School employees poisoned school lunches with mustard gas, acting on orders from white-nationalist leader William Pierce.

The ONG team discovered biological weapons being produced in the school, requiring activation of containment and decontamination procedures.

Participants in the disaster drill located documents expressing the school employees’ “anti-government” sentiments, as well as a note identifying Pierce as the fictional right-wing terrorists’ leader.

ONG’s 52nd Civil Support Unit participated in a similar drill involving left-wing terrorists with Athens County first responders last year; public officials apologized for that training the next day in response to complaints from local environmentalist groups.

No apology to Ohioans who support limited government and the Second Amendment appears to be forthcoming.

Scioto County Emergency Management Agency director Kim Carver refused to comment, telling Media Trackers she was “not going to get into an Ohio Army National Guard issue that you have with them.”

Ohio National Guard Communications Director James Sims II suggested Media Trackers was “inferring” from the ONG document’s contents as opposed to “what’s actually in the report.”

After excerpts of the report were read to him, Sims said it was “not relevant” to understand why conservatives may feel unduly targeted by ONG’s training scenario.

“Okay, I’m gonna stop ya there. I’m going to quit this conversation,” Sims concluded. “You have a good day.”

Buckeye Firearms Association spokesman Chad Baus told Media Trackers that “it is a scary day indeed when law enforcement are being trained that Second Amendment advocates are the enemy,”

“The revelation of this information is appalling to me, and to all citizens of Ohio who are true conservatives and patriots, who don’t have guns for any other reason than that the Second Amendment gives them that right,” Portage County TEA Party Executive Director Tom Zawistowski said in a separate Media Trackers interview.

Media Trackers reached out to Portsmouth-area state legislators Representative Terry Johnson and Senator Joe Uecker for comment about the drill, which took place within their respective districts. Neither replied to phone calls or emails in time for publication.

ONG’s January 2013 training exercise is one of many instances where government officials have identified those with limited-government or pro-Second Amendment opinions as potential terror threats.

In 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned law enforcement agencies that a predicted rise in“right-wing extremism” would be fueled by “proposed imposition of firearms restrictions and weapons bans” and “the election of the first African American president.”

Throughout modern history, groups and individuals associated with left-wing causes have proven far more likely to commit acts of domestic terror.

In 2012, members of the anarcho-socialist Occupy Cleveland movement were arrested and prosecuted for attempting to destroy the Brecksville-Northfield High Level Bridge with explosives, to commemorate International Workers’ Day.

Last year, leftist groups Earth First and the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) claimed responsibility for the sabotage and property destruction of businesses in Washington and Van Wert counties.

[Editor's note, 02/12/2014: Corrected Portsmouth Fire Chief Bill Raison's name and title in the third paragraph, both of which were incorrect in the WSAZ-TV story cited here.]