The FBI Wants Teachers To Go Stasi On American Kids
by Lucy Steigerwald
AntiWar.com
March 18, 2016
While Apple and the federal government duke it out over the encrypted phone of a dead terrorist, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is keeping things old school by advocating that educators start paying close attention to any radical leanings among their students.
In January, the FBI’s Office of Partner Engagement – a liaison between the FBI, other feds, and local and school law enforcement – released an unclassified paper detailing a plan to keep an eye on any latent anti-American activity in high school youths.
As Alternet and a few other outlets have noted, the paper and the matching Countering Violent Extremism website – including a typical to government clueless one for teens, which involves inane “learning” games – carefully makes sure not to appear to be targeting merely Muslim young people, thereby avoiding accusations of racial, religious, or ethnic profiling. The overall picture then ends up being coy, yet terrifyingly broad in terms of what might be a sign of dangerous youth activity or thought.
Targeting profiling is bad enough. But the FBI here is also advocating sniffing even the most delicate stench of radicalism, as the Department of Homeland Security did in their much-reviled 2009 memo about the supposed Obama presidency-influenced influx of antigovernment terrorism. Therefore, animal rights activists, anarchists, and others are grouped together with white supremacists and actual international terrorist groups. Teen predators all. (Oh, and mental illness is also a danger sign. Because people dealing with that are not suffering, or disincentivized from getting help enough.)
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