Are You Living with a Terrorist? The US Government Can Help You Be Sure

Oh my aching back! Can grownup. reasonably bright adults be this silly?
Now let me quickly assure you that I do believe there are Terrorists
among us. Well, among us if you consider the gated, secluded estates
of the Ruling Class to be "among us".
The Jarvis Survey is much shorter and far more to the point, when
identifying Terrorists.
1. Are you exploiting the American Workers for your own personal profit?
2. Do you or your family profit from the weapons of war being sold abroad?
3. Do you support turning all public lands and government programs
such as Social Security, over to private corporations?
4. Do you believe our youth should pay for their entire education?
5. Do you believe that you should not have to pay taxes like the Riffraff?

Those five questions should be enough to determine if there are
Terrorists among the Ruling Class. Weeding them out will be harder
than identifying them.

Carl Jarvis

On 2/9/15, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
> Are You Living with a Terrorist? The US Government Can Help You Be Sure
> Published on
> Monday, February 09, 2015
> by
> Common Dreams
> Are You Living with a Terrorist? The US Government Can Help You Be Sure
> New document "obtained" by The Intercept reveals NCTC developed rating
> system to pre-identify those who might fall into extremism
> by
> Jon Queally, staff writer
>
> The cover of an internal National Counterterrorism Center report which
> includes a rating system designed to analyze the proclivity of individuals
> to become radical extremists. (Image: screenshot)
> A government document obtained by journalists at The Intercept reveals the
> National Counterterrorism Center developed a complex set of criteria to
> help
> determine if individuals in the U.S. may be more vulnerable than others to
> the allure of violent extremism and created a "rating system" that would
> help law enforcement agents rank such prospects.
> Posting the complete NCTC document (link/pdf)-which was marked
> "Unclassified" but also "For Official Use Only" (FOUO)-to their website on
> Monday, The Intercept reports:
> The rating system, part of a 36-page document dated May 2014 and titled
> "Countering Violent Extremism: A Guide for Practitioners and Analysts,"
> suggests that police, social workers and educators rate individuals on a
> scale of one to five in categories such as: "Expressions of Hopelessness,
> Futility," "Talk of Harming Self or Others," and "Connection to Group
> Identity (Race, Nationality, Religion, Ethnicity)." The ranking system is
> supposed to alert government officials to individuals at risk of turning to
> radical violence, and to families or communities at risk of incubating
> extremist ideologies.
> Families are judged on factors such as "Aware[ness] of Each Other's
> Activities," as well as levels of "Parent-Child Bonding," and communities
> are rated by access to health care and social services, in addition to
> "presence of ideologues or recruiters" as potential risk factors.
> A low score in any of these categories would indicate a high risk of
> "susceptibility to engage in violent extremism," according to the document.
> It encourages users of the guide to plot the scores on a graph to determine
> what "interventions" could halt the process of radicalization before it
> happens.
> Mike German, a former FBI agent who is now with the Brennan Center for
> Justice at New York University School of Law, told The Intercept he thought
> the criteria being used by the government to guage whether individuals
> might
> fall into extremism was both "subjective and specious."
> "The idea that the federal government would encourage local police,
> teachers, medical and social service employees to rate the communities,
> individuals and families they serve for their potential to become
> terrorists
> is abhorrent on its face," he said.
> Furthermore, and despite White House assurances that such programs are not
> directed towards specific demographic groups over others, Arun Kundnani, a
> professor at New York University said it's "obvious," given the details of
> the program, that such a program "would mostly only be applied to Muslim
> communities."
> Kundnani also scoffed at the science underlying the document's rating
> system, saying, "There's no evidence to support the idea that terrorism can
> be substantively correlated with such factors to do with family, identity,
> and emotional well-being."
> Asked by The Intercept for an explanation of the document, the National
> Counterterrorism Center declined to comment.
> Though the reporters of Monday's story do not mention the origin of the
> NCTC
> document, it has been largely verified that The Intercept has been
> receiving
> materials related to the U.S. national security system by a still
> unidentified "leaker" - someone with access to information who, like NSA
> whistleblower Edward Snowden, has been willing to pass potentially
> sensitive
> internal documents to journalists for public disclosure.
>
> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
> License
> Are You Living with a Terrorist? The US Government Can Help You Be Sure
> Published on
> Monday, February 09, 2015
> by
> Common Dreams
> Are You Living with a Terrorist? The US Government Can Help You Be Sure
> New document "obtained" by The Intercept reveals NCTC developed rating
> system to pre-identify those who might fall into extremism
> by
> Jon Queally, staff writer
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> The cover of an internal National Counterterrorism Center report which
> includes a rating system designed to analyze the proclivity of individuals
> to become radical extremists. (Image: screenshot)
> A government document obtained by journalists at The Intercept reveals the
> National Counterterrorism Center developed a complex set of criteria to
> help
> determine if individuals in the U.S. may be more vulnerable than others to
> the allure of violent extremism and created a "rating system" that would
> help law enforcement agents rank such prospects.
> Posting the complete NCTC document (link/pdf)-which was marked
> "Unclassified" but also "For Official Use Only" (FOUO)-to their website on
> Monday, The Intercept reports:
> The rating system, part of a 36-page document dated May 2014 and titled
> "Countering Violent Extremism: A Guide for Practitioners and Analysts,"
> suggests that police, social workers and educators rate individuals on a
> scale of one to five in categories such as: "Expressions of Hopelessness,
> Futility," "Talk of Harming Self or Others," and "Connection to Group
> Identity (Race, Nationality, Religion, Ethnicity)." The ranking system is
> supposed to alert government officials to individuals at risk of turning to
> radical violence, and to families or communities at risk of incubating
> extremist ideologies.
> Families are judged on factors such as "Aware[ness] of Each Other's
> Activities," as well as levels of "Parent-Child Bonding," and communities
> are rated by access to health care and social services, in addition to
> "presence of ideologues or recruiters" as potential risk factors.
> A low score in any of these categories would indicate a high risk of
> "susceptibility to engage in violent extremism," according to the document.
> It encourages users of the guide to plot the scores on a graph to determine
> what "interventions" could halt the process of radicalization before it
> happens.
> Mike German, a former FBI agent who is now with the Brennan Center for
> Justice at New York University School of Law, told The Intercept he thought
> the criteria being used by the government to guage whether individuals
> might
> fall into extremism was both "subjective and specious."
> "The idea that the federal government would encourage local police,
> teachers, medical and social service employees to rate the communities,
> individuals and families they serve for their potential to become
> terrorists
> is abhorrent on its face," he said.
> Furthermore, and despite White House assurances that such programs are not
> directed towards specific demographic groups over others, Arun Kundnani, a
> professor at New York University said it's "obvious," given the details of
> the program, that such a program "would mostly only be applied to Muslim
> communities."
> Kundnani also scoffed at the science underlying the document's rating
> system, saying, "There's no evidence to support the idea that terrorism can
> be substantively correlated with such factors to do with family, identity,
> and emotional well-being."
> Asked by The Intercept for an explanation of the document, the National
> Counterterrorism Center declined to comment.
> Though the reporters of Monday's story do not mention the origin of the
> NCTC
> document, it has been largely verified that The Intercept has been
> receiving
> materials related to the U.S. national security system by a still
> unidentified "leaker" - someone with access to information who, like NSA
> whistleblower Edward Snowden, has been willing to pass potentially
> sensitive
> internal documents to journalists for public disclosure.
> This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
> License
>
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