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White House unveils broad plan to fight domestic radicalism
LA Times ^ | 8/4/11 | Brian Bennett

Posted on 08/03/2011 8:20:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

The White House announced a strategy to help police, schools and other local organizations counter the threat of domestic radicalism, a broad plan involving federal departments not usually associated with national security.

The effort is modeled on anti-gang initiatives developed in the 1990s and programs intended to prevent school shootings like the tragedy at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999.

Although short on details, the eight-page outline for the first time called on all parts of the U.S. government, including the departments of Education and Health and Human Services, to devise ways to help communities identify extremist agendas that could lead to violence.

Wednesday's announcement came a week after the arrest of U.S. soldier Naser Jason Abdo in Killeen, Texas. Abdo was charged with possessing an unregistered destructive device after a gun store clerk tipped police that he had behaved oddly while buying gunpowder. Abdo planned to blow up a restaurant frequented by soldiers stationed at nearby Ft. Hood, authorities said.

At his arraignment, Abdo yelled out the name of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist who is accused of killing 13 people and wounding 32 during a 2009 shooting rampage at Ft. Hood.

Congressional investigations into the Ft. Hood shootings revealed warning signs that could have tipped off authorities.

Intelligence reports indicate that Al Qaeda has tried to recruit Americans to launch attacks on U.S. soil.

Thirty-one American citizens or permanent residents were arrested between May 2009 and July 2011 in connection with homegrown terrorism plots, according to the Congressional Research Service. Those arrests within a two-year period contrast with 21 such arrests in the previous seven years.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2evil4words; abdo; alqaeda; cwiiping; domestic; domesticterrorism; homelandsecurity; jihadinamerica; radicalism; stockpilesong; unveils; whitehouse; wot
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To: NormsRevenge

Wonder if, in the “braod plan,” the phrase “FEMA Camps” is somewhere in the fine print, toward the end...?


61 posted on 08/03/2011 9:59:38 PM PDT by patriot preacher
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To: annieokie

yes, that IS how it will happen, with interrogations of school children, probably by Van Jones, and all the data will be tabulated and will flow into your Homeland Security permanent file as a parent, and you will be computed and a Profile developed just for you personally, which will be refered to every time you contact the government or every time the cops run your plates. If you promote the State you get a gold star in your file and are allowed to continue on when the obama cops stop you. If you are bucking the State and are agitating against Obama being made a permanent dictator of America, then you get a Black Star in your file and are detained and interrogated if you step out of your door at night for a breath of air and to take the trash out. I wonder if we will see a rise of the various state Militias who will have to set up on the state borders watching for Obama Brownshirts to come a marchin’ on their people...


62 posted on 08/03/2011 10:06:06 PM PDT by WashStateGirl
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To: Rembrandt

We’re screwed regardless.... This man is an absolute destroyer of our civil society. He parties like he’s a 1980’s teenager, pudgy wife too, while our society and economy disintegrate.

This man will live in infamy.


63 posted on 08/03/2011 10:06:16 PM PDT by Bshaw (A nefarious deceit is upon us all!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Big Brother is now watching YOU.


64 posted on 08/03/2011 10:08:48 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: SkyDancer

That’s right. Freepers, Tea Partiers, gun owners, certain Christian sects, and of course the big winner...white males.


65 posted on 08/03/2011 10:14:39 PM PDT by Graneros ("It is no exaggeration to say that the undecided could go one way or another.")
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To: NormsRevenge

I think the SEIU is a domestic threat for beatingup Kenneth Gladney.

The “authorities” already acquitted the men who beat him, though.

Now what do I do, King Barry the MORON?


66 posted on 08/03/2011 10:30:35 PM PDT by Carling (At some point, those surrounding Obama have to realize that they are working for a psychopath)
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To: NormsRevenge

Found this quote from a David Heath who is a German citizen commenting on the little girl getting busted for saving that Woodpecker. I find it chilling but somewhat true:

“Thank God I live in Germany, a country that knows all too well the dangers inherit in a state where the police overstep their mandate to trample on the well-being and livelihood of the common man. The state looks after its people whilst all...owing them to live as they see fit without undue interference.”

“The US seems more and more to be following a fascist route; as its influence diminishes around the world, it seeks to enforce its dominance upon its own people. There doesn’t appear to be any hope given the general decline in its education system and completely ignorant, unqualified people who run for office and are given headlines due to notoriety rather than experience and ability. What a dystopia the US has become, and we in Europe, grateful for the US of three generations ago, can only shake our heads and bemoan the loss of a former model and friend.”


67 posted on 08/03/2011 10:42:25 PM PDT by lone star annie
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To: SkyDancer

SkY I hope you are right. Being that I hope our military would remember their oath to the Constitution and not to the President. And I hope they would take the side of patriots and not follow ORDERS! Like a certain Military in history did. I have faith in our guys, but the way things have been going with this bunch in the White Hut, how every one is coddling and our side is to afraid to criticize Obama I don’t know what to think any more. We fought this bunch for 50+ years during the cold war and now they are on Main Street USA. Sad part is most Americans have no clue who they are. Or what they stand for. Scary.


68 posted on 08/03/2011 10:57:47 PM PDT by crazydad
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To: NormsRevenge

69 posted on 08/03/2011 11:09:34 PM PDT by tomkat (Sarah '12)
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To: SkyDancer
“Meaning they’re coming after the Tea Party .... .”

Bingo!! And I say Bring It!!! That would be the stupidest thing that those arrogant jackasses could do. They still think that they are in the “nudge” phase while we are in the “Shove” phase. I started with the census.

70 posted on 08/03/2011 11:11:52 PM PDT by Anti-Christ is Hillary (If Moreen Dowd can call herself a journalist then so can I.)
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To: Nervous Tick

lol


71 posted on 08/03/2011 11:21:23 PM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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To: NormsRevenge

...and when we have Demagogue Senators and the VP of the country discussing Tea Party patriots as “terrorists” (sic) it is clear that nothing the current admin. does can be trusted!!

Their definition of “domestic radicals” is far more likely to focus upon their law-abiding conservative opposition than upon Islamo-fascist scumbags.


72 posted on 08/03/2011 11:25:53 PM PDT by Enchante (Are there any honest politicians in Washington, DC??)
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To: NormsRevenge

Somehow I don’t think “homegrown” Islamist “radicals” are what they have in mind.


73 posted on 08/03/2011 11:29:18 PM PDT by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: NormsRevenge

The left has turned on itself before.

Recall the 1940 Smith Act.

The Stalinists targeted Trotskyites, then NAZI’s.


74 posted on 08/03/2011 11:47:11 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

“I would feel a lot better if the White House would clearly define what they mean by domestic radicalism.”

You’d trust what the WH says? Get a grip, man!


75 posted on 08/03/2011 11:51:22 PM PDT by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: NormsRevenge

ACH TUNG!


76 posted on 08/03/2011 11:51:40 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (I AM ISRAEL)
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To: WashStateGirl
yes, that IS how it will happen, with interrogations of school children,...

Where else? Look at how many posts there have been here about the need to get a solid university education in the hard sciences or mathematics. Where else but the school system would they put on the squeeze?

77 posted on 08/03/2011 11:52:54 PM PDT by danielmryan
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To: Aria

78 posted on 08/03/2011 11:54:49 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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To: Nervous Tick

79 posted on 08/03/2011 11:55:26 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (I AM ISRAEL)
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To: NormsRevenge

The consequences are intended and they are to suppress anyone that disagrees with or tries to disrupt the Obama regimes agenda. This is the leading edge of tyranny.


80 posted on 08/04/2011 12:07:09 AM PDT by Bayan
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