Monday, April 30, 2012

FBI categorizes actions performed by millions of americans as 'suspicious'

Despite the fact that they have been the subject of online ridicule for months, the FBI put out flyers as part of the "Communities Against Terrorism" which points out behavior including using cash to pay for a cup of coffee as a suspicious activity, has been characterized as reasonable by the mainstream media, even the New York Times will admit that most of the recent terror plots in the United States has originated from the FBI. In a strange headlined story entitled Are You a Terrorist?, CBS 12 lends the flyers credence by completely failing to mention that they include a list of mundane behaviors that have nothing to do with terrorism or anything relating to "suspicious activity" at all. Earlier this year one of the flyers sent out to Internet cafes instructs businesses to report people who regularly pay with cash for their coffee as potential terrorists. Other examples of suspicious behavior that was outlined was anyone expressing concern about privacy while surfing online in public, which is far from being a 'suspicious activity' is pretty much a prerequisite for using the internet these days. In a flyer distributed to Military Surplus stores, the purchase of any storable food supplies in large quantities, a increasingly common trend amongst "preppers," is also defined as an indication of terrorism. Despite the fact that since they place activities performed by millions of Americans in the context of 'suspicious behavior' they are virtually worthless when it comes to identifying real terrorist threats. So Do you think the mainstream media should be accepting these flyers as a credible source of information? or should they be questioning them just like a majority of those who use the web regularly? Leave your comments below

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  1. Silly government, when will you ever learn

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