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FBI Seeks To Restrict University Student Freedoms
amigoro writes with a link to the Press Escape blog, which is discussing new guidelines suggest by the FBI for university administrations. The Federal Bureau, worried about the possibility of international espionage via our centers of learning, now sees the need to restrict the freedoms of university students for national security. "FBI is offering to brief faculty, students and staff on what it calls 'espionage indicators' aimed at identifying foreign agents. Unexplained affluence, failing to report overseas travel, showing unusual interest in information outside the job scope, keeping unusual work hours, unreported contacts with foreign nationals, unreported contact with foreign government, military, or intelligence officials, attempting to gain new accesses without the need to know, and unexplained absences are all considered potential espionage indicators."
This is socialist anti-American misinformational FUD, pure and simple. The blog article even admits as much by linking to the World Socialist Web Site.
Just remember, folks: the bullshit flows freely from both sides, not just from the Bush Administration.
Has anyone else ever noticed that slashdot (which is mostly american) invariably notices and complains when the US authorities are out of line? Why aren't there any stupid yanks on slashdot? Maybe only /.ers should get a vote, it would solve a lot of problems :P
Don't actually pay attention to the point I made. Get distracted by irrelevant stuff.
So your opinion of what's suspicious and your cartoon-version interpretation of the FBI's opinion differ. Good for you. How does that make this article correct? What freedom is taken away by the FBI asking people to watch out for certain behaviors?
There's a few hundred nuts out there that are willing to kill themselves for a cause. Not a real surprise, nor is it different than any other time in history. The idea that they're organized, well financed, and wish to destroy the US is purely imaginary. The reason we haven't had an attack in the past 6 years isn't because we've stopped them all, its because the enemy doesn't exist. Do you really think that an organized, well financed enemy wouldn't be able to pull off any attack in 6 years? Not even bombing a school or some hit and run shootings? You think a group so incompetent they can't even do that would be able to pull off 9/11? No, there is no mystical Alqueda organization out there wanting to kill us all, thats a myth used by the government to keep us afraid and consolidate their power.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Instead of turning the US into a police state looking for terrorists lets stop making more of them.
So, uh... what made all the 19 terrorists in 2001? What made those that blew up the Cole? What made those that blew up our embassies in Africa? What made those that blew up Marine Barracks in Lebanon? What made the Turks invade Europe? Did Jordan arrest and torture all those guys? Islamic fundamentalists made terrorists long before Zarqawi.
The pictures of Abu Ghraib have entirely erased the images of 9/11 in the eyes of most of the world. They are the biggest recruiting sargeant for Al Qaeda, the Sunni insurgents in Iraq, the Shi'ia insurgents, and all the other groups in the region who mostly spend their time fighting each other but thanks to the incompetent in chief are fighting US forces instead.
So you mean that all these people that are blowing shit up all over Iraq and Afghanistan are doing so because of the pictures from Abu Ghraib? Geeze, WTF were they doing when the pictures were released from the previous Iraqi government cutting off hands, cutting tongues out, and the usual beaten with whatever the guards brought in that day!
No, I'm afraid that these guys were hating us long before Bush was in office. Abu Ghraib is just a way for people like you to blame Bush for it all. It makes you feel all warm and fuzzy to think that people who kill school teachers in front of the class are doing so for a logical reason and panties-on-head is the best you can come up with. They'll ignore Habib's daughters getting raped while his hands get hacked off, but the naked pyramid forces them to plant bombs under a school building while it is under construction.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
It's real easy for people like you to attack people when you're hiding behind a keyboard. Yes you, who has never done a fucking thing worthwhile is his miserable loser life.
No one cares about your opinion until you do something with it, and no, that doesn't mean share it.
As to the blood on people's hands, I don't see your hypocritical ass flying over to the middle east throwing yourself in front of the warring forces. Why not put your fucking money where your mouth is? Attempting to belittle people on a web board is not action. You're doing nothing, and pretending that's noble, because nothing is the sum total of your best efforts.
I'm posting as a coward, but you're living it every day.