Thread: Government Targets American Bloggers As Enemy Propagandists

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Government Targets American Bloggers As Enemy Propagandists
Military, Homeland Security, Bush White House strategy sharpen knives against anyone critical of the "war on terror"
Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | October 17 2006

Recent scientific polls that show around 84% don't believe the government's explanation behind 9/11 and others confirming the fact that support for the war in Iraq is at an all time low have led the Bush administration to sharpen their knives against the new breed of perceived "enemy propagandists," bloggers, journalists and online activists who dissent against the "war on terror."

As Raw Story reports, CENTCOM announced earlier this year that a team of employees would be "[engaging] bloggers who are posting inaccurate or untrue information, as well as bloggers who are posting incomplete information."

So when you're wasting your time arguing the finer points of the collapse of Building 7 or the quagmire in Iraq with someone who seems unable to grasp basic principles, your foe could well be sat behind a plush U.S. government desk in a uniform.

CENTCOM is infiltrating blogs and message boards to ensure people, "have the opportunity to read positive stories,"presumably about how Iraq is a wonderful liberated democracy and the war on terror really is about protecting Americans.

The CENTCOM website features a useful section, "What Extremists Are Saying," which provides a full catalogue and showcases the diatribes of US government agents Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi, Ayman al-Zawahiri and their sympathizers - rhetoric that CENTCOM hopes surfers will seek out in order for them to grasp a true understanding for the necessity of bombing the shit out of another broken backed defenseless country in the name of "freedom."

The jaw-dropping hypocrisy of a regime and its military attack arm that has engaged in the most gargantuan of deceit and propaganda purges against the American people then pointing the finger at inquisitive bloggers for "aiding the enemy," is alarming to behold.


President George W. Bush looks up as he signs the Military Commissions Act of 2006 in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The bill effectively nullifies nine of the first ten amendments to the U.S. constitution and ends the "great experiment" known as The United States of America.

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The White House has made it perfectly clear that it will target American citizens for propagating information harmful to the interests of the U.S. government and classify them as enemy combatants. This is codified in sub-section 27 of section 950v. of the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
Bush's own strategy document for "winning the war on terror" identifies "conspiracy theorists," meaning anyone who exposes government corruption and lies about major domestic and world events, as "terrorists recruiters," and vows to eliminate their influence in society.

In a speech given Monday, Homeland Security director Michael Chertoff identified the web as a "terror training camp," through which "disaffected people living in the United States" are developing "radical ideologies and potentially violent skills."

Chertoff has pledged to dispatch Homeland Security agents to local police departments in order to aid in the apprehension of domestic terrorists who use the Internet as a political tool.

How long before influential online writers, bloggers and journalists like Greg Palast, who was charged with aiding the terrorists when filming "critical U.S. infrastructure," are arbitrarily gunned down on the street like in Russia or the newly "free" Iraq?

The Bush administration's media mouthpieces have also been mobilized to stereotype any kind of critical thinking as "giving aid and comfort to the enemy," a recent case in point beingFox News' Bill O'Reilly calling for the FBI to investigate the 9/11 Scholars organization for possible ties to terrorist organizations.

Will we witness a "night of the long knives" to silence any and all dissent as the official dictatorship is announced or does the chilling effect of simply threatening to treat bloggers and journalists as terrorists go far enough to intimidate enough people to keep their mouths shut?

A combination of this chilling effect and moves to license websites, impose "hate speech" restrictions and kill off the old internet in favor of a government regulated, China-style "Internet 2" are the tools in the arsenal of the neo-fascists who wish to continue their domestic and imperial bloodletting under the mandated consensus of total obedience.

This is very disconcerting to me.

How long before organizations such as this and the minutemen, etc., who are in direct opposition to our governments open borders and pro- illegal immigration agenda, are seen as the 'enemy'...."vigilante" comes to mind?!
Will they start arresting patriots and protectors of our borders?

"Disaffected people living in the United States may develop radical ideologies and potentially violent skills over the Internet and that could present the next major U.S. security threat"

Yes, that is what this guy said according to Reuters.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/security_chertoff_dc

My question is.......where were we and what were we doing when our freedoms were forcibly taken away from us?
What happened to our freedom of speech that our country is so noted for?

Originally Posted by ruthiela

My question is.......where were we and what were we doing when our freedoms were forcibly taken away from us?
What happened to our freedom of speech that our country is so noted for?

Watching Oprah and American Idol, playing 'Keep up with the Joneses', sleeping, etc. Some have been fighting this for decades, we were just too 'busy' to listen to them. The 'talking heads' on TV told us that these patriots were kooks, crazies and 'conspiracy theorists', so we ignored them. Now that the curtain is actually coming down on our nation we are starting to realize that we've been sold a show who's price of admission is our freedom, our nation and our very minds.

This is very disconcerting to me.

How long before organizations such as this and the minutemen, etc., who are in direct opposition to our governments open borders and pro- illegal immigration agenda, are seen as the 'enemy'...."vigilante" comes to mind?!
Will they start arresting patriots and protectors of our borders?

I agree this is absolutely a step in the wrong direction! Can you say domestic terrorist? Or religious terrorist? Maybe political terrorist or racial terrorist or immigration terrorist or Internet terrorist...

Are we all becoming "persons of interest"?

Bill O'Reilly on bloggers he doesn't like:

"O’REILLY: I think - I have to say President Bush has a much healthier attitude toward this than I do. Because if I can get away with it, boy, I’d go in with a hand grenade."

I believe that this was from last Wednesday's show.

The article concerns me as well. Having said that, this country does have the enemy within. There are people who truly hate this (their) country, not just disagree with a particular administration's policy, and are out to undermine everything we do. Of course, they've been here for a long time, but with the new technology are able to reach more people. They use our freedoms against us. I don't know what the answer is.

This could be good news. I hope they are looking at la voz de Aztlan , Mexica movement and a few others. La voz de aztlan lauds their Palestinian brothers and has set up a tribute section to female martyrs that have blown themselves up. Mexica movement is full of hate speech and anarchist propoganda aimed at people that are not citizens of this country.