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| DHS Viddy Portrays White Americans as Most Likely Terrorists |
| 2011-07-21 |
| The video is part of Homeland Security’s $10 million dollar “See Something, Say Something” program that encourages Americans to inform on each other to the government when they seem them engaged in “suspicious activity”. In the course of the 10 minute clip, a myriad of different behaviors are characterized as potential terrorism, including opposing surveillance, using a video camera, talking to police officers, wearing hoodies, driving vans, writing on a piece of paper, and using a cell phone recording application. Despite encouraging viewers not to pay attention to a person’s race in determining whether or not they may be a terrorist, almost all of the scenarios in the clip proceed to portray white people as the most likely terrorists. Bizarrely, nearly every single one of the “patriotic” Americans who reports on their fellow citizen is either black, Oriental or Arab. This oddity, which on the surface appears to be surreal political correctness, has as its basis a far darker undertone -- that the DHS’ own internal documents list predominantly white conservative groups as the most likely terrorists, including Ron Paul supporters, gun owners, gold bullion enthusiasts, and a myriad of other comparatively banal political interests. Paranoid conspiracy-theory extremism seems to have taken over a significant part of the US government. This is just the most recent addition. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets. All well and good if done by private individuals, not so good under the color of authority. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #16 Food will spoil. No stores will be open. No gas for transportation, and no fast foods. Think Katrina for the major metro areas that consume energy, food, clean water, etc but who NIMBY those key elements of civilization. Hard to barter trade when you really don't produce anything but paper profits and stuffed ballot boxes. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-07-21 20:40 |
| #15 Background; The U.S. Army War College warned in 2008 November warned in a monograph [click on Policypointers’ pdf link to see the report] titled “Known Unknowns: Unconventional ‘Strategic Shocks’ in Defense Strategy Development” of crash-induced unrest: The military must be prepared, the document warned, for a “violent, strategic dislocation inside the United States,” which could be provoked by “unforeseen economic collapse,” “purposeful domestic resistance,” “pervasive public health emergencies” or “loss of functioning political and legal order.” The “widespread civil violence,” the document said, “would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security.” The riots are everywhere and may soon be here. Too many youth unemployed. Too many unemployed. 85% of college graduates are moving back home. No work. Those loans aren't going to be paid. If the power goes then so goes air conditioning. Then you will see people in the streets in this country. Food will spoil. No stores will be open. No gas for transportation, and no fast foods. What a mess. Things would go downhill very fast. May as well have had a massive emp solar blast from the sun. Those that have anything will be a target even if others think you have anything(race doesn't matter). So the DHS viddy is an ignorant farce. |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-07-21 20:01 |
| #14 I only watched a part, but I think I figured it out - all the bad guys wear black! |
| Posted by: Bobby 2011-07-21 18:46 |
| #13 Hiya SPOD! |
| Posted by: S 2011-07-21 18:42 |
| #12 It's a good insight into the psychology and fears of those who now run America. |
| Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 2011-07-21 17:35 |
| #11 Did ya notice people who like gold were included in their watch guidelines. That guy in the video at the start looked more like a real terrorist! The potato head gives it away and the blank stare! |
| Posted by: Clavith Grosh4355 2011-07-21 16:07 |
| #10 This is one of the biggest reasons I have been keeping quiet. I knew what the result of the establishment of this organization would lead too. They are watching and noting every word you utter on the internet and communicate in every medium. We are headed towards a fascist state and rapidly getting there. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2011-07-21 15:54 |
| #9 ...that's why its referred to as Liberal Fascism. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-07-21 15:44 |
| #8 This sounds like something that the 1930s Germany would put out. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2011-07-21 15:36 |
| #7 I hope it doesn't come to that, but with O'Bumble, anything's possible. Would you like some regime change with that hope? I used to think that way, now I am certain that it is going to take exactly that. |
| Posted by: Clinerong Scourge of the Veps1156 2011-07-21 14:25 |
| #6 #5: one might think they'd like this to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. Posted by: Large Henbane5354|| If the DHS, the DOJ, and a dozen other alphabet soup agencies keep pushing, pushing, pushing, they may be their wish. I do think, though, that 80 million gun-toting, freedom-loving Americans descending on Washington, DC, might give them a bit of a wake-up. I hope it doesn't come to that, but with O'Bumble, anything's possible. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2011-07-21 13:52 |
| #5 one might think they'd like this to be a self-fulfilling prophecy |
| Posted by: Large Henbane5354 2011-07-21 12:50 |
| #4 Divide and conquer. |
| Posted by: Water Modem 2011-07-21 11:15 |
| #3 Amerika. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-07-21 10:25 |
| #2 Socialist redistributionist apparatchiks FIFY ..of course such creatures do think to portray white people as the most likely terrorists and threats to their power and positions. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-07-21 10:24 |
| #1 There's a waste of $10 million. I didn't see bicyle riding, going through TSA, white guys water-skiing, white guys walking the dogs, Washington's unlimited spending, white guys talking to their kids, white guys mowing the lawn, loss of freedoms, e.g. 4th Amendment rights, having lying politicians on TV, attempts to neuter the 2nd amendment, wholescale theft in D.C., etc. as terrorist activities. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-07-21 10:19 |