Oppose taxes, cherish individual liberty? DHS & FBI say you’re a terrorist threat

From Creeping Sharia:

Oppose taxes, cherish individual liberty? DHS & FBI say you’re a terrorist threat

Posted on February 8, 2012 by creeping

The first step was to sanitize the language of terrorism removing terms like jihad, mujahideen, Islamic terrorists, etc. Now the seeds are being sown so that any criticism of Islam will be a crime. So who are the new terrorist threats? New reports from the FBI and Department of Homeland Security point to Americans who cherish their Constitutional rights as the new terrorists.

First, this report The Blaze titled Report Finds Terrorism ‘Hot Spots’ and Historical Trends in Terror Types.

To start, the researchers from the University of Maryland and University of Massachusetts-Boston mapped all events considered terrorism since 1970 to 2008 in the United States (below).

Hundreds of terrorist attacks in the U.S. since 1970 with at least six areas of the U.S. experiencing more than 100 acts of terrorism each.

We’ll leave out the labels and list the descriptions of who DHS believes are terrorist threats:

• fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)
• anti-global, suspicious of centralized federal authority
• reverent of individual liberty (especially their right to own guns, be free of taxes)
• believe in conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty and a belief that one’s personal and/or national “way of life” is under attack and is either already lost or that the threat is imminent (sometimes such beliefs are amorphous and vague, but for some the threat is from a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group), and
• a belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in paramilitary preparations and training or survivalism

The 36-page report report by the “National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism,” a Department of Homeland Security center of excellence does not contain the words jihad, jihadist, Islam, nor Muslim. Not even al Qaeda. The closest the report comes to naming those who have made terrorism a decade-long scourge is on page ten:

• groups that seek to smite the purported enemies of God and other evildoers
• impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)
• forcibly insert religion into the political sphere (e.g., those who seek to politicize religion, such as Christian Reconstructionists and Islamists), and/or
• bring about Armageddon (apocalyptic millenarian cults; 2010: 17) For example, Jewish Direct Action, Mormon extremist, Jamaat-al-Fuqra, and Covenant, Sword and the Arm of the Lord (CSA) are included in this category (2011: 18)

Each of these points describe Islam – Allah, sharia, Muslim Brotherhood, Shiites – even if DHS refuses to print the words and chooses instead to mask them as Christian, Jewish and Mormon threats.

The FBI is following suit as well, via Reuters: FBI warns of threat from anti-government extremists

Anti-government extremists opposed to taxes and regulations pose a growing threat to local law enforcement officers in the United States, the FBI warned on Monday.

These extremists, sometimes known as “sovereign citizens,” believe they can live outside any type of government authority, FBI agents said at a news conference.

The extremists may refuse to pay taxes, defy government environmental regulations and believe the United States went bankrupt by going off the gold standard.

Routine encounters with police can turn violent “at the drop of a hat,” said Stuart McArthur, deputy assistant director in the FBI’s counterterrorism division.

“We thought it was important to increase the visibility of the threat with state and local law enforcement,” he said.

Legal convictions of such extremists, mostly for white-collar crimes such as fraud, have increased from 10 in 2009 to 18 each in 2010 and 2011, FBI agents said.

“We are being inundated right now with requests for training from state and local law enforcement on sovereign-related matters,” said Casey Carty, an FBI supervisory special agent.

FBI agents said they do not have a tally of people who consider themselves “sovereign citizens.”

J.J. MacNab, a former tax and insurance expert who is an analyst covering the sovereign movement, has estimated that it has about 100,000 members.

Sovereign members often express particular outrage at tax collection, putting Internal Revenue Service employees at risk.

Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? They can detain you indefinitely without charge – it’s just a matter of time.

More of the impending police state courtesy of 9/11 and the Islam Tax:

• FBI “Communities Against Terrorism” Suspicious Activity Reporting Flyers
• DHS Monitoring Journalist Activity Online