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A few sites are starting to get a story about how the "Domestic Terror Task Force" is being ressurected. '"But now, as the nature of the threat we face evolves to including the possibility of individual radicalization via the Internet, it is critical that we return our focus to potential extremists here at home," Holder said in the video broadcast.'
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Wednesday June 04 2014, @04:04PM
It's not like we haven't been here before. In the 1790's, it was the "Alien and Sedition Acts". In the 1890's, the police openly beat and killed trade unionists, socialists, anarchists, and anyone else deemed dangerous by the Powers That Be. Several decades ago, this was called the "Counter-Intelligence Program", or "COINTELPRO", and was directed at such dangerous people as Martin Luther King, John Lennon, and Abbie Hoffman.
The idea that the US is or has ever been a truly free society is simply a fairy tale told to people to make them shut up and accept what's happening without questioning it. There's a range of opinion that is deemed "acceptable", and anything outside of that range marks you as a dangerous kook of some kind. And you will be treated accordingly if you express that opinion in a way that can be traced back to you.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday June 04 2014, @05:20PM
And NSA provides that trace..
By pure coincidence.