Saturday, September 22, 2012

Top 41 Ways To Get Labeled as a “Suspected Terrorist”

The following 41 actions may get an American citizen living on U.S. soil labeled as a “suspected terrorist” today:

    Speaking out against government policies

    Protesting anything

    Questioning war (even though war reduces our national security; and see this)

    Criticizing the government’s targeting of innocent civilians with drones

    Asking questions about pollution (even at a public Congressional hearing?)

    Paying cash at an Internet cafe

    Asking questions about Wall Street shenanigans

    Holding gold

    Creating alternative currencies

    Stocking up on more than 7 days of food

    Having bumper stickers saying things like “Know Your Rights Or Lose Them”

    Investigating factory farming

    Infringing a copyright

    Taking pictures or videos

    Talking to police officers

    Wearing a hoodie

    Driving a van

    Writing on a piece of paper

    (Not having a Facebook account may soon be added)

    Valuing online privacy

    Supporting Ron Paul or being a libertarian

    Liking the Founding Fathers

    Being a Christian or Orthodox Jew (assumed to be Israeli spy)

    Being anti-tax, anti-regulation or for the gold standard

    Being reverent of individual liberty

    Being anti-nuclear

    Believe in conspiracy theories

    A belief that one’s personal and/or national “way of life” is under attack

    “Impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)”

    Insert religion into the political sphere

    Those who seek to politicize religion

    Supported political movements for autonomy

    Being “anti-abortion”

    Being “anti-Catholic”

    Being “anti-global”

    Suspicious of centralized federal authority

    Fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)

    A belief in the need to be prepared for an attack either by participating in … survivalism

    Opposing genetically engineered food

    Opposing surveillance

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