Department of Defense Teaching Employees Dissent is Terrorism

WASHINGTON D.C. – In a letter sent to Gail McGinn, Acting Under-Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is formally requesting that the Department of Defense (DoD) immediately cease and desist with its current wording in the “DoD Level 1 AntiTerrorism Awareness Training” required for all DoD personnel¹. The specific multiple-choice exam question drawing scrutiny seeks to correlate dissent against the United States Government as the correct example of  low level terrorism.

The ACLU letter composed by staff attorney, Ann Brick and National Security Policy  Counsel, Michael German goes on to say:

“For the DoD to instruct its employees that lawful protest activities should be treated as “low-level terrorism” is deeply disturbing in and of itself. It is an even more egregious insult to constitutional values, however, when viewed in the context of a long-term pattern of domestic security initiatives that have attempted to equate lawful dissent with terrorism.”

DoD Level 1 AntiTerrorism Awareness Training Letter
ACLU

As the ACLU letter illustrates and as loyal readers of “SmArgus” are aware, this recent revelation that the U.S. government via the DoD, is seeking to commingle dissent and terrorism to their civilian employees is just the latest example of the government exhibiting hostility towards “We the People”. So far 2009 has seen the leaked fusion center M.I.A.C. report, as well as the litany of D.H.S. reports.

“National Planning Scenarios-2006″ by D.H.S. “The Modern Militia Movement” by M.I.A.C. “Rightwing Extremism” by D.H.S. “Leftwing Extremism” by D.H.S. “Militant Extremists in the U.S. by C.F.R. “The Modern Tyranny Movement by S.M.I.A.C.

Source(s): ¹American Civil Liberties Union Letter to Under-Secretary, Gail McGinn