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The FBI are NOT categorising 9/11 truthers as "terrorists"

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PressTV, Infowars, and the usual tinfoilhatters are all indignant about a Digital Journal article that's been doing the rounds in their paranoid circle.

FBI calls half of populace with 9/11 doubts potential terrorists

A newly released national poll shows that 48 percent of Americans either have some doubts about the official account of 9/11, or do not believe it at all.
The FBI circular entitled "Potential Indicators of Terrorist Activities Related to Sleepers" says that people who should be 'considered suspicious' of possible involvement in "terrorist activity" include those who hold the "attitude" described as " Conspiracy theories about Westerners." The circular continues: "e.g. (sic) the CIA arranged for 9/11 to legitimize the invasion of foreign lands."
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This is their screenshot of the "FBI circular":


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Clicking on the article's screenshot of the "FBI circular" links to its source - the Columbus, Ohio Division of Police:

http://www.columbuspolice.org/Units/TEW Info/recognizing_sleepers_word2007trifold.pdf

There is no mention anywhere in the brief of the FBI.

Their screenshot cuts off all branding showing that the memo is from the Columbus Ohio Police.

The Columbus Ohio Police brief even has a disclaimer:

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Let's not even get into the fact that the ReThink911 poll was severely biased and that 50% of Americans aren't even truthers.

Or that the Columbus, Ohio police listed that CIA CT as only ONE of numerous indicators of terrorists.


Sorry, truthers, you're just not important enough to be considered threats by the FBI. You'll have to find your paranoia elsewhere. I'm sure you won't have any trouble with that.
 
Orphia Nay said:
...Sorry, truthers, you're just not important enough to be considered threats by the FBI. You'll have to find your paranoia elsewhere. I'm sure you won't have any trouble with that.
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Take care...there are a couple of potential downsides for some folks here.

The target is "truthers" but we have only one of those posting here who is demonstrably a "truther" on the basis that he believes and holds consistently to what he claims. Wrong - yes. Deluded - definitely BUT he believes it.

But what about the trolls? They would seem to be most exposed to prosecution in the criminal jurisdiction. However the Trolls have a simple defence - "I don't really believe the rubbish I post". Provided it is not an offence of strict liability - a slap on the wrist and promise to stop doing it.

The hidden risk is probably worn by the troll feeders because:
A) Whatever is wrong with trolling it only continues because they get "fed"; AND
B) The risk that some enterprising trolls start a class action in tort for damages based on health effects consequent of the overfeeding.

So something like a marriage break-up. The long standing mutual dependence of trolls and troll feeders falls apart as they take opposing sides and fight over money.

There a plot there for Grisham J - a potential sequel to "Runaway Jury" - which had a plot based on the same legal premise. :)



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Ah...yes! Columbus, where the recent "Newspaper" printed that John Elway threw 6 touch downs!:D
 
The sub-text here is one of the reasons why (in my opinion) "trutherism" has such a hold on people.

There is, and should be, genuine concern about the threat to civil liberties that the official response to 9/11 has generated, and I think this painting of parts of society as potential terrorist threats, or supporters of and sympathisers with terrorist threats, just because they are kooks is something that should be challenged.

I think the truth movement is dumb. I hate the misappropriation of the word 'truth' by people with no social or educational skills and who see spooks in every shadow and who wouldn't know truth if it battered them repeatedly with a science textbook. This does not entitle quasi-official bodies to characterise them as potential threats to liberty, justice and freedom for all. This approach is the precise opposite of those ideals, legitimises those like Alex Jones who want to profit from the truth movement and reinforces the view of those already suspicious of their government that they have something to hide.

I would have thought that anyone wishing to perpetrate an act of extreme violence and mass terror would not be wearing a t-shirt saying "Bush did it" and telling everyone they can find that the CIA are responsible. They'll be the one keeping quiet and not standing out in a crowd.
 
Well, as I have pointed out in the past, Truthers have killed more Americans in the last 10 years than Al Qaeda.
 
Orphia Nay said:
Sorry, truthers, you're just not important enough to be considered threats by the FBI. You'll have to find your paranoia elsewhere. I'm sure you won't have any trouble with that.
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I thought most of them had moved on to the NSA anyway :)
 
My middle name is SNR

Thanks, OP. I had forgotten google "ammonium nitrate" "pressure cookers" and "backpacks" today.

:D Done!
 
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