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<\/a><\/p>\nWait a second! These are regularly noted of survivalists:<\/p>\n
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- Cares about identity privacy<\/li>\n
- Prefers cash<\/li>\n
- Radical theology \/ cryptic warnings<\/li>\n
- Buy waterproof matches and\u00a0MREs<\/li>\n
- Buy weapons and night vision equipment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
I find this quite disturbing. Either the FBI genuinely believes that the worlds of survivalists and terrorists intersect, or they are slowly twisting things around so that targeting survivalists becomes acceptable to the public. If it is the latter, expect them to arrest a terrorist who is holed up in a mountain retreat sometime soon. If they do, you can guarantee the terror suspect was set up. This isn’t idle speculation. Of the hundreds of terror arrests in the USA since 9\/11, (according to Newsweek) only three did not involve either a sting operation or a paid informant. The FBI is creating the terror, and then making arrests.<\/p>\n
Officials with Oath Keepers.org noted the document was similar to one earlier given to gun store managers in Utah. Authorities in Denver confirmed to WND that related brochures are going to surplus stores, hotels and motels, farm supply companies that handle fertilizer and gun shops.<\/p>\n
“This new handout expands the absurdity by now also targeting customers of military surplus stores, and by specifically targeting the purchasing of very common, and very popular, preparedness items such as Meals Ready to Eat (MREs) as ‘potential indicators of terrorist activities,'” said a statement from Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.<\/p>\n
“Islamic terrorists are not known to hang out in local Army-Navy surplus stores, stocking up on MREs, high capacity magazines and bi-pods for their long range rifles,” the statement said. “As Brandon Smith, over at Alt-market.com notes, ‘These are very common purchases, not for terrorists, but for Preppers and Survivalists, who are obviously the targets of the FBI profile, not secret al-Qaida agents.’<\/p>\n
“Spot on,” Rhodes wrote. “Obviously, the current crop of FBI ‘leadership’ considers anyone who wants to be self-sufficient and prepared to be a ‘threat’ that should be relentlessly tracked and reported.”<\/p>\n
An FBI spokesman in Denver confirmed to WND that the flyer is genuine.<\/p>\n
“It has been disseminated throughout the United States by the FBI. The flyer and the information on it, stands on its own merit. It was created by FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., the Denver Division has placed our contact information on the flyer and distributed it to local businesses within the states of Colorado and Wyoming. More at WND.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The thing is, a survivalist preparing for a lawless world is very different to someone wanting to break the law in the current world. But without an understanding of commonsense preparation for the worst possible outcomes, authorities (and juries for that matter) might conclude that you are a terrorist. Sobering indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been\u00a0pretty confident that government and law enforcement agencies are not spying on me. After all, they are so busy with terrorists, why would they bother looking at doomsday theorists? Sure, if I was running a suicide cult I might catch their attention, but otherwise I should be immune. Luckily I’m not living in the USA:<\/p>\n
Wait a second! These are regularly noted of survivalists:<\/p>\n
Cares about identity privacy
\nPrefers cash
\nRadical theology \/ cryptic warnings
\nBuy waterproof matches and\u00a0MREs
\nBuy weapons and night vision equipment<\/p>\nI find this quite disturbing. Either the FBI genuinely believes that the worlds of survivalists and terrorists intersect, or they are slowly twisting things around so that targeting survivalists becomes acceptable to the public. If it is the latter, expect them to arrest a terrorist who is holed up in a mountain retreat sometime soon. If they do, you can guarantee the terror suspect was set up. This isn’t idle speculation. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survivalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1954,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/1954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}