{"id":12764,"date":"2014-02-04T06:47:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T13:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=12764"},"modified":"2014-02-04T10:48:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T17:48:54","slug":"manufacturing-post-911-hysteria-targeting-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/manufacturing-post-911-hysteria-targeting-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturing Post 9\/11 Hysteria Targeting (A)ctivists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Targeting (A)ctivists as Terrorists w\/9-11 Hysteria<\/strong><\/h2>\n

It ain’t Amy Goodman, but despite being saturated with amateurish juvenile giggles, verbal pauses, and vacuous feigned incredulity, the audio contained in the article below is worth listening to, both for it’s salient points as well as an example of where many young activists are living inside their heads or how they fail to get their arms around the totality of the events they’re contemplating. Years of investigation reveals, in fact, many of the more violent self described (A)narchists openly profess\/advocate war on the state, society, even civilization, reject all laws or even rights, trivialize wanton destruction of private property & threaten\/injure\/intimidate\/bully\/stalk\/rob\/physically assault photojournalists or virtually anyone whom they do not consider politically correct or in their camp. They label journalists who report\/publish it as ‘snitches’. These same folks openly declare ACAB (“all cops are bastards”) deserving of hatred by the public without exception. Although they attempt to distinguish themselves from the police by virtue of their own political pretexts, it is a distinction without a difference in that the worst obvious common thread shared by the two adversarial groups is their penchant for gratuitous violence. Perhaps one relevant difference does exist: A number of irresponsible (A)narchists manipulate the mentally ill, the desperately homeless, the young, and the gullible into doing their dirty work. These often include senior well known denizens in the community holding cushy state salaried positions such as professors at state colleges\/universities, attorneys, and government employees. As always, ‘generals’ plan, young men die…or go to prison\/jail!<\/p>\n

During the interview, reference is made to one activist who made numerous PDA requests of local police agencies and sounds very much like Drew Hendricks, a self described anarchist who serves as a kind of ‘snitch hunter general’ obsessed with outing\/labeling virtually anyone photographing\/reporting on the public activities of the groups currently under scrutiny without their ‘permission’ as ‘snitches’ or government agents. Drew admittedly uses his PDA (public disclosure act) requests to ferret out suspected government agents or anyone else of interest to the (A)narchists with whom he has struck common cause or has an affinity for.<\/p>\n

\"Rania<\/a>

Rania Khalek<\/p><\/div>\n

by Rania Khalek (2-2-14)<\/em><\/p>\n

For the third episode of our new yet-to-be named podcast, FDL\u2019s\u00a0Kevin Gosztola and I speak with Kade\u00a0Crockford, director of the Technology for Liberty Project at the ACLU of Massachusetts, about how US authorities at all levels of government have used post-9\/11 hysteria to go after activists and militarize the hell out of local police departments. Kade walks us through history, explaining the origins of US government agencies spying on, infiltrating, torturing and killing political dissidents, much of which continues to take place today under the guise of fighting terrorism.<\/p>\n

Kade regularly blogs about this stuff at\u00a0Privacy SOS<\/a>, which you should definitely check out. You can\u00a0follow her on twitter at\u00a0@onekade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After having our minds blown by Kade\u2019s brilliant and terrifying analysis,\u00a0Kevin and I go on to discuss recent news items,\u00a0including Scarlett Johansson\u2019s\u00a0new gig<\/a>\u00a0as global brand ambassador for occupation-profiteer Sodastream, the New York State Senate passing an unconstitutional\u00a0bill<\/a>\u00a0to punish academic\u00a0organizations\u00a0that endorse boycotting Israel, a disturbing\u00a0series of lawsuits<\/a>\u00a0against police body cavity searches\u00a0that\u00a0amount to sexual assault, and more absurdity from the\u00a0NATO 3 trial<\/a>. You can listen here:<\/p>\n