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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