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7 Ways That You (Yes, You) Could End Up On A Terrorist Watch List (Keep readin', oldie)
huffingtonpost.com ^ | 7/25/2014 | Nick Wing

Posted on 12/10/2015 10:06:26 AM PST by rktman

Earlier this week, The Intercept published a 166-page document outlining the government's guidelines for placing people on an expansive network of terror watch lists, including the no-fly list. In their report, Jeremy Scahill and Ryan Devereaux highlighted the extremely vague and loosely defined criteria developed by 19 federal agencies, supposedly to fight terrorism.

Using these criteria, government officials have secretly characterized an unknown number of individuals as threats or potential threats to national security. In 2013 alone, 468,749 watch-list nominations were submitted to the National Counterterrorism Center. It rejected only 1 percent of the recommendations.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: arbitrary; capricious; rightsviolation
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Rehash from huffpo but bears repeating. Of course they failed to mention participating on FReepublic as a possible reason to get an honorary assignment to the terror watch list. :>)
1 posted on 12/10/2015 10:06:26 AM PST by rktman
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To: rktman

Liberals love the idea of keeping guns out of the hands of people on a secret government list that any bureaucrat can add to for no reason and there is no legal recourse to get your name off it.


2 posted on 12/10/2015 10:10:06 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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To: rktman

1) Obama WANTS you on the list because you are a white Christian conservative.


3 posted on 12/10/2015 10:11:27 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I sent in my name way back when Obama has his “fishy” list and asked people to turn in anyone they thought didn’t fit the mold. Name, address, phone number and a statement in no uncertain terms that I agreed with nothing he stands for. I’m sure they still have it.


4 posted on 12/10/2015 10:15:28 AM PST by Aleya2Fairlie
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To: rktman

So the government created an enemies list and gave it a misleading name. Standard procedure.
“no recourse “ is the key.


5 posted on 12/10/2015 10:15:31 AM PST by I want the USA back ( Islam is a violent, world-domination political ideology cleverly disguised as a religion.)
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To: rktman

True for most of us since Janet ‘The Incinerator’ Reno.


6 posted on 12/10/2015 10:19:10 AM PST by Psalm 144 (The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
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So whole categories of individuals could be added. Obama could declare every member of GOA or the NRA is a potential threat, for instance. Tyrants would love this provision.


7 posted on 12/10/2015 10:19:13 AM PST by Truth29
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Yup and no notice sent to you that you’ve been “selected/nominated”.


8 posted on 12/10/2015 10:20:23 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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You can bet the house, boat, wife, children, family, dog, money and all other worldly goods that any FReeper who expresses Conservative views is on the list.


9 posted on 12/10/2015 10:20:37 AM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I?)
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My niece is on a watch list from when she was returning from a vacation in Cuba back around 2000 and was busted by customs at the Windsor/Detroit tunnel for smuggling a box of Cuban cigars........LOL!


10 posted on 12/10/2015 10:20:51 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Psalm 144

Terminator more like ....


11 posted on 12/10/2015 10:21:46 AM PST by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: rktman

Im on it for my fictional way to save money on gasoline by buying it in the winter to use in the summer


12 posted on 12/10/2015 10:23:32 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: rktman

other than the huge problem of too many of those in DC being corrupt, anti-American and purely evil, there are those tens of thousands underlings who serve those in DC by carrying out the establishment’s anti-Americanism by abandoning their oaths of loyalty and to serve and protect our Constitution and the American people. Without them, those in DC would be void. The patriotic people must never forget the human debris who have the gall to call themselves Americans who work in and under the federal government that have betrayed their oath and committed treason against their country and its people.


13 posted on 12/10/2015 10:24:48 AM PST by drypowder
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No judge. No jury. No due process. No Constitution. Just because they say so...and they have the nerve to call this the “land of the free”?


14 posted on 12/10/2015 10:25:19 AM PST by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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I found out last night I got the boot from the WaPo forums. I have no idea why, but I would imagine involved some perceived offense against some lefty. Which probably also means I’ve been reported to any number of alphabet soup agencies, and am on the watchlists now.

I feel so special!


15 posted on 12/10/2015 10:25:45 AM PST by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NOT for Jeb. Just so we're *perfectly* clear this time.)
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To: Aleya2Fairlie

You are a gutsy gal! God smiles down on you.


16 posted on 12/10/2015 10:26:51 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: rktman

Richard Nixon is owed a huge apology....................


17 posted on 12/10/2015 10:27:30 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Aleya2Fairlie

You are not alone. Fear not.


18 posted on 12/10/2015 10:28:03 AM PST by MarMema
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“threats or potential threats to national security”

Threats or potential threats to the Obama administration’s agenda.


19 posted on 12/10/2015 10:28:31 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

Not my dog. He’s a liberal. He slobbers all the time, wets himself and always wants a free handout,.......................


20 posted on 12/10/2015 10:29:05 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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