ACLU says DoD Training Manual equates protests to "low-level terrorism"

[JohnyCanuck]

The Department of Defense is training all of its personnel in its current Antiterrorism and Force Protection Annual Refresher Training Course that political protest is "low-level terrorism."

The Training introduction reads as follows:

"Anti-terrorism (AT) and Force Protection (FP) are two facets of the Department of Defense (DoD) Mission Assurance Program. It is DoD policy, as found in DoDI 2000.16, that the DoD Components and the DoD elements and personnel shall be protected from terrorist acts through a high pirority, comprehensive, AT program. The DoD's AT program shall be all encompassing using an integrated systems approach."

The first question of the Terrorism Threat Factors, "Knowledge Check 1" section reads as follows:

Which of the following is an example of low-level terrorism activity?

Select the correct answer and then click Check Your Answer.

O Attacking the Pentagon

O IEDs

O Hate crimes against racial groups

O Protests

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The "correct" answer is Protests.

A copy of this can be found on the last two pages of this http://www.aclu.org/images/general/asset_upload_file89_39820.pdf">pdf.

http://open.salon.com/blog/dennis_loo/2009/06/14/dod_training_manual_protests_are_low-level_terrorism

[pleah]

1. K&R

[Festivito]

2. Boston Tea Party to Teabaggers, Americans are un-american--OR THEY ARE!

Whoever wrote that question and placed that answer deserves to be kicked out of this country.

[kath]

3. And yet killing Dr. Tiller is NOT terrorism, according to our govt. - interesting how this works.

:banghead: :banghead:

[MisterP]

4. under a national security state, any "threat" to the state--and the vested interests that comprise

it, in this case--is "terrorist" or "extremist," and always "dangerous"
that's what motivated the Salvadoran death squads and the American "Green Scare"--hell, the whole Cold War against "Communism" and its current stand-in, the wicked Islamists

[Rex]

5. Well what do you expect? No one likes democracy or the constitution

just look at the past 8 years, no more like 30.

[anigbrowl]

6. Or maybe it's a typo

the correct answer being #3, 'Hate crimes against racial groups', which would make vastly more sense.