Huff reports: "Purchasing a cup of coffee using cash instead of a credit or debit card, using Google Maps to view photos of sporting event stadiums and large cities, and installing software to protect your internet privacy on your mobile phone - these and many other mundane activities are now considered to be potential terrorist activities by the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
An FBI advisory aimed at internet cafe owners deems mundane behaviors as 'suspicious activity.' (photo: tulsachange.com)
FBI Warning: Cash-Paying Customers May Be Terrorists
08 February 12
Meanwhile, it appears that the much-hyped threat from 'homegrown terrorists' operating within the US has not materialized. According to a story in The New York Times, a new study found "that 20 Muslim Americans were charged in violent plots or attacks in 2011, down from 26 in 2010 and a spike of 47 in 2009." -- JPS/RSN
urchasing a cup of coffee using cash instead of a credit or debit card, using Google Maps to view photos of sporting event stadiums and large cities, and installing software to protect your internet privacy on your mobile phone - these and many other mundane activities are now considered to be potential terrorist activities by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). And the agency is now distributing a new series of flyers as part of its new "Communities Against Terrorism" (CAT) program that urges shop owners and others to report such "suspicious" activity to authorities.
"The Communities Against Terrorism program is funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance through the SLATT Program to provide law enforcement agencies with a tool to engage members of the local community in the fight against terrorism," writes SLATT.org, the program of the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance that is promoting the program, on its website. "To assist law enforcement in the outreach effort, templates of flyers containing potential indicators have been created for distribution to specific industries" (https://www.slatt.org/CAT).
The SLATT program offers both on-site and online training (indoctrination) for coffee shop owners, financial institution employees, tattoo shop artists, and many others into how to spot potential terrorist activities. Included among the many propaganda flyers the FBI is distributing as part of the campaign are ones for how to spot terrorists at local hobby shops and beauty supply stores, for instance, as well as flyers for owners of farm supply and home improvement stores (http://publicintelligence.net).
This little gem warns internet cafe owners to watch out for and report customers that always pay for their coffee with cash, as they could be terrorists (http://info.publicintelligence.net). Another ridiculous flyer intended for owners of boat shops warns them to be on the lookout for people interested in becoming certified scuba divers, as they could be terrorists (http://info.publicintelligence.net).
Be sure to check out the entire set of flyers here: http://publicintelligence.net
A few years ago, this type of outlandish fear-mongering and Stasi-style spying on citizens would have been considered a crazy conspiracy theory by many. But today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with its "See Something, Say Something" campaign, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) "First Observer" citizen spying program, and the TSA's Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response" (VIPR) internal checkpoint force, together with the new FBI spying program, are making this police state nightmare in America a tangible reality (http://www.naturalnews.com/034867_TSA_Super_Bowl_surveillance.html).
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Okay, two things: 1--We collect loose change, and use it to pay for coffee/croissants/muffins/etc on occasion. (Ooops, I just gave myself away...;) and 2--After ninelvn, there were flyers everywhere, it seemed, to learn how to scuba dive. And my partner who does and has equipment, and I thought I could learn, and showed interest then. (Oooops, I gave myself away again...Drats!)
Nope,WE have not lost our minds; but our government has become certifiably insane!
I like cash...who knew?
Yes they want us to use credit or debit cards that can be tracked so they know where we are and what we buy... Does anyone still believe the police state is not here already. NDAA was only the beginning, Chapter two begins right after the next election.
This eff bee eye flail, now eleven years in the making is not only psychotic in the vein of a hypochondriac seeing germs and dis-ease around every corner and under every fingernail, but such a press into human activity that one can only envision these cretins as part of the cast in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.
AND THEY GOT THE KEYS TO THE MAZERATTI...
If "all terrorists eat", does it mean that all people eating are terrorists?!?
"People exercising their constitutional rights may be considered terrorists."
"Attitude Indicators [of sleepers]:
[...]
Excusing violence against Americans on the grounds that American actions provoked the problem
Fury at the West for reasons ranging from personal problems to global policies of the U.S.
Conspiracy theories about Westerners (e.g. the CIA arranged for 9/11 to legitimize the invasion of foreign lands)
Accusing the West of trying to destroy Islam"
Commenting on the accuracy of these might be dangerous...
And now I am worried that there may have been a lot of terrorists at my garage sale... Because EVERYONE paid cash there... A dollar here, two bucks there... JUST OVER TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS IN TOTAL..!!!
Man oh man I am really worried now... the number of terrorists in America must be like--- MILLIONS and MILLIONS..!
Well the FBI doesn't have to worry about me. After I read this article, I went ahead tore up all my cash.
No way I'm taking anymore chances at the checkout counters. I'm doing all I can to support not supporting TERROR-CASH...!
When the legitimate role of government - to protect person and property - is replace to the role of protecting the government - the sky is the limit on this insanity.
Try to pay for your drivers license (at least in PA) it is against the law.. why is it that government agencies won't take government monopoly money?
Now we know one of the ways by which we can identify these terrorists. [Sure hope we don't elect another Nixon (paranoid) or Reagan (Alzheimer's victim)]. Of course, checking all these cash transactions could require more (bigger) "gummint" workers - but then, it'll only cost about three times as much to outsource the job to Bilgewater or Halliburger and keep support for free enterprise at the core of our protection of FREEDOM ... and protect the concept of "smaller" government.
I know several people who have no bank accounts whatsoever (and I'm tempted to join them) and pay their bills with either cash or cashier's check -this is handy if you are in Ch7 too.
-And COSTCO has a great line of home safes -are they on a list too?
Screw 'em! It's just more fear-mongering.
Hope they don't look for that bomb I've got stashed in my change jar.
So who supports making it difficult, dangerous or illegal to pay with cash? Pretty obvious.
Is the Treasury supporting terrorist because they print and mint cash.
This is pass stupid. And these are the folk that we are suppose to trust to enforce the laws of the land?
The animals are running the Zoo.
And neither, thank God, are those who run small businesses and chain eateries in this mighty city of New York. Most of them depend on cash-paying customers. Who whips out plastic for a cup of coffee at a diner, anyway?
And what about people who don't buy refreshments at Internet cafés?
Every since credit cards began being swiped, the FBI has monitored and stored in its West Virginia databases every credit card purchase made in the US and all over the world. They use this data to create profiles of all humans on earth and, they think, to spot potential terrorists and criminals.
Cash is untraceable. Pretty soon, cash will be eliminated. There will only be debit and credit cards.
Clearly terrorism is not the problem here. There is no terrorist threat in the US or world. The real threat to human beings is the imperialism of the US/Israeli regimes. For now, they just want to scare us into accepting more wars all over the world. But soon, the war will go internal and the suppression by force of the domestic population will ratchet up. It has been in full operation against African American men for 3 decades with the phoney drug wars.
"Some of the activities, taken individually, could be innocent and must be examined by law enforcement professionals in a larger context to determine whether there is a basis
to investigate. The activities outlined on this handout are by no means all-inclusive but have been compiled from a review of terrorist events over several years."
This sort of thinking is pure fascism. Gee some of what I might do may be innocent but I need to check with law enforcement professionals to be sure. The FBI is the real criminal organization. It was started in order to destroy labor unions. It has always worked on the side or organized crime and corporations to destroy the desires of people for freedom and self-determination.
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