Predicting the future at home?

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Anarchists: the FBI thinks you are paranoid

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Graeber, O’Brien and others on occupy and democracy

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David Graeber: "there's nothing that terrifies the American government so much as the threat of democracy breaking out in America."

Are you a “domestic terror threat”?

“Americans attacking Americans based on U.S.-based extremist ideologies.”

That's the Department of Justice's shorthand definition of "domestic terrorism," says a new Congressional Research Service report.

While the FBI and DOJ do not possess lists of official "domestic terrorist" organizations, as the government does with foreign designated terrorist organizations, Justice does define a number of particular "threats."

Do they sound familiar?

Who says we need charges and trials? This is America!

How often do Tea Party Republicans take a stand with liberal Democrats for the civil liberties protections guaranteed by the US Constitution?  It should be a winning combination – right?

In RNC redux, NATO three charged with terrorism

At about two in the morning on Saturday, May 19, 2012, Chicago police announced that three of the remaining activists in their custody from a warrantless arrest on early Thursday morning would be charged with possession of explosives or incendiary devices, material support for terrorism, and conspiracy. 

FBI special agent: “no credible threats” to NATO summit, Chicago

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CPD head on activists held without charge: “We are not talking about it.”

View video of the press conference here.

Scroll down a bit for relevant portions of the transcript.

Advocacy groups to the Senate: SECURE IT not viable, threatens privacy, civil liberties

“Pray for peace; train for war.”

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"The notion that the United States, with a tiny minority of the world's population, has the right to dominate other countries is profoundly authoritarian and profoundly anti-democratic." -- Andy Thayer, Chicago anti-war activist.