DHS Document Lists "Alternative Media" As Potential Terrorists

“Domestic Extremism Lexicon” memo says “patriot movement” primarily comprises of “violent” groups
Paul Joseph Watson
PrisonPlanet
May. 05, 2009

Analyzing the propaganda:

First off, that they would issue this then retract it shows they want people who are politically aware to recognize they are the new terrorists, they are new "enemies of the state" and they will be treated as such. This is done to strike fear into those who are in the know, it's an intimidation tactic to keep people from speaking out.

Secondly, to the semi-aware conservative who will see this report, he will feel even more fear because he will understand that he is the "new terrorist" and yet his reaction will be to deny it and feel it is something "liberals" are doing whom "his" conservative leaders need to fight against.

Third, the brainwashed liberal will interpret this the sickest, he will feel empowered by this report to feel the "liberal government" is fighting against "evil conservatives" who he has been brainwashed to feel are actually secretly "anti-government terrorists like Tim McVeigh", he will feel as any other plebe in history feels when "their" dictator gets in power, he will lust for the blood of "his enemies" not realizing he is nothing more than a "useful idiot" to be discarded the second his "usefulness" runs out.

It is sad to see how easily fooled some people are, but clearly the alternative media is felt to be the biggest threat to the powers that be. What is so great about the truth is once someone understands one truth it has a snowballing effect and before you know it they are highly aware and beginning to think for themselves. Lies on the other hand need to be constantly repeated and unflinchingly believed, and one lie which is fully exposed as such can bring the whole house of cards down. - Chris, ILA new Homeland Security document that received little attention during last week’s swine flu coverage shockingly lists the “alternative media” with other radical extremist groups and implies that people who disagree with the mass media’s version of events are potential domestic terrorists.

The “official use only” document is entitled “Domestic Extremism Lexicon” and was released on March 26, two weeks before the infamous “right-wing extremists” report that generated so much media attention throughout April.

According to World Net Daily, the DHS document was almost immediately rescinded, but the groups listed alongside Neo-Nazis, Aryan prison gangs and black power extremists again prove that the federal government is targeting American citizens who are merely knowledgeable about their rights and up on current issues as potential domestic terrorists to be treated as a “threat” to law enforcement.

Click here for the PDF file.

The preamble to the document reads as follows;

“(U//FOUO) Homeland Security Reference Aids"”prepared by the DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A)"”provide baseline information on a variety of homeland security issues. This product is one in a series of reference aids designed to provide operational and intelligence advice and assistance to other elements of DHS, as well as state, local, and regional fusions centers. DHS/I&A intends this background information to assist federal, state, local, and tribal homeland security and law enforcement officials in conducting analytic activities. This product provides definitions for key terms and phrases that often appear in DHS analysis that addresses the nature and scope of the threat that domestic, non-Islamic extremism poses to the United States. Definitions were derived from a variety of open source materials and unclassified information, then further developed during facilitated workshops with DHS intelligence analysts knowledgeable about domestic, non-Islamic extremism in the United States.”

In the same breath as radical Cuban Communists, the “decentralized terrorist movement,” “lone terrorists,” “racist skinheads” and the Mexican separatist movement, we find an entry for “alternative media,” alongside the blurb, “a term used to describe various information sources that provide a forum for interpretations of events and issues that differ radically from those presented in mass media products and outlets.”

That’s right folks - the federal government is training its enforcers that people who don’t believe everything they see on Fox News, CNN or read in the New York Times are to be treated as a “threat” and a potential violent domestic terrorist.

Apparently it’s not enough to treat Ron Paul supporters, people who fly U.S. flags or people who are able to accurately recite the Bill of Rights as potential mass killers, now anyone who merely questions what is reported by the corporate media is also a danger, according to the federal government.

The document also lists people who oppose abortion, people who oppose giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants and states that they “can be broadly divided into those who are primarily hate-oriented, and those who are mainly antigovernment and reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority. This term also may refer to rightwing extremist movements that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.”

The document also mentions the “patriot movement” and states that it “primarily comprises (of) violent antigovernment groups.”

As we have documented for years, we haven’t yet come across a violent member of the “patriot movement” who wasn’t also a federal provocateur or at least someone being radicalized by the feds - Timothy McVeigh being a prime example.

The conclusion at the foot of the document encourages recipients in law enforcement to “report information concerning suspicious or criminal activity to DHS and the FBI.” So now according to the feds, running a news website that isn’t owned by General Electric or Rupert Murdoch is suspicious and potentially criminal.

As we reported last month, another recent Department of Homeland Security intelligence assessment equates gun owners with violent terrorists and states that radical extremists are “stockpiling” weapons in fear of an Obama administration gun ban.

The document was just the latest in a long sordid line of training manuals in which the federal government characterizes millions of American citizens as potentially violent terrorists who are a threat to law enforcement.

As we have exhaustively documented with the MIAC report and a whole host of others, the federal government apparently has very little concern for any perceived terrorist threat to America coming from the Middle East or Al-Qaeda cells within the country, and indeed if any such threat existed we are only in more danger, because the feds have been busy training law enforcement that law-abiding American citizens who exercise their legal right to purchase firearms or who exercise their first amendment right to discuss politics or run websites, are potential terrorists who want to instigate a violent revolution.