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Grumpy Cat
02-09-2012, 01:58 AM
Purchasing a cup of coffee using cash instead of a credit or debit card, using Google Maps to view photos of sporting event stadiums and large cities, and installing software to protect your internet privacy on your mobile phone — these and many other mundane activities are now considered to be potential terrorist activities by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). And the agency is now distributing a new series of flyers as part of its new “Communities Against Terrorism” (CAT) program that urges shop owners and others to report such “suspicious” activity to authorities.”The Communities Against Terrorism program is funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance through the SLATT Program to provide law enforcement agencies with a tool to engage members of the local community in the fight against terrorism,” writes SLATT.org, the program of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance that is promoting the program, on its website. “To assist law enforcement in the outreach effort, templates of flyers containing potential indicators have been created for distribution to specific industries” (https://www.slatt.org/CAT).

The SLATT program offers both on-site and online training (indoctrination) for coffee shop owners, financial institution employees, tattoo shop artists, and many others into how to spot potential terrorist activities. Included among the many propaganda flyers the FBI is distributing as part of the campaign are ones for how to spot terrorists at local hobby shops and beauty supply stores, for instance, as well as flyers for owners of farm supply and home improvement stores (http://publicintelligence.net/).

This little gem warns internet cafe owners to watch out for and report customers that always pay for their coffee with cash, as they could be terrorists (http://info.publicintelligence.net/). Another ridiculous flyer intended for owners of boat shops warns them to be on the lookout for people interested in becoming certified scuba divers, as they could be terrorists (http://info.publicintelligence.net/).

Be sure to check out the entire set of flyers here:
http://publicintelligence.net/

To view the FBI documents, click on a threat area in the menu to the left and the PDF will appear on the right side of the page. You can also download the complete collection of files (ZIP Archive, 6.27 MB).
source: http://info.publicintelligence.net/FBI-SuspiciousActivity.zip


A few years ago, this type of outlandish fear-mongering and Stasi-style spying on citizens would have been considered a crazy conspiracy theory by many. But today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with its “See Something, Say Something” campaign, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) “First Observer” citizen spying program, and the TSA’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response” (VIPR) internal checkpoint force, together with the new FBI spying program, are making this police state nightmare in America a tangible reality

TSA ‘Trains’ Hot Dog Vendors In Anti-Terrorism At Super Bowl
source: http://newstalk870.am/tsa-trains-hot-dog-vendors-in-anti-terrorism-at-super-bowl/

Derek-source: http://publicintelligence.net/fbi-suspicious-activity-reporting-flyers/

rashka
02-09-2012, 02:01 AM
Acadian, you like coffee, I see. :)
How do you pay for your coffee?

Grumpy Cat
02-09-2012, 02:03 AM
How do you pay for your coffee?

With cash.

Peasant
02-15-2012, 07:40 PM
With cash.

Psst, we have the Qassam missiles ready for smuggling.

Grumpy Cat
02-15-2012, 07:59 PM
Psst, we have the Qassam missiles ready for smuggling.

But I actually paid with Interac this morning. :coffee:

Curtis24
02-16-2012, 07:02 PM
So what? If terrorists are more likely to pay with cash, then that should absolutely be a screening behavior.

Baron Samedi
02-16-2012, 09:33 PM
So what? If terrorists are more likely to pay with cash, then that should absolutely be a screening behavior.

You do realize how retarded that statement is, right?

The Lawspeaker
02-16-2012, 09:44 PM
I am speechless...

Kazimiera
04-10-2012, 10:37 PM
Who comes up with these criteria? I mean who sits there and literally decides that paying cash for coffee could be suspicious??

What is the world coming to?

Anarch
04-14-2012, 03:01 PM
Purchasing a cup of coffee using cash instead of a credit or debit card... [is] now considered to be potential terrorist activities by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

It seems legal tender is not quite legal tender. Governments have been overthrown for less.

There is only one politically neutral definition of terrorism I have ever encountered: "Terrorism is an act of politically motivated violence conducted in breach of the laws of armed conflict." Of course, this definition exposes governments as well as non-state groups/individuals to charges of terrorism, and therefore will be soundly rejected in all 'respectable' circles. It also completely destroys this tyrannical rubbish about buying coffee with cash.