[Infowarrior] - DOD: Protests are "low-level" terrorism

[Richard Forno]

http://open.salon.com/blog/dennis_loo/2009/06/14/dod_training_manual_protests_are_low-level_terrorism

DoD Training Manual: Protests are "Low-Level Terrorism"

The Department of Defense is training all of its personnel in its  
current Antiterrorism and Force Protection Annual Refresher Training  
Course that political protest is "low-level terrorism."

The Training introduction reads as follows:

"Anti-terrorism (AT) and Force Protection (FP) are two facets of the  
Department of Defense (DoD) Mission Assurance Program. It is DoD  
policy, as found in DoDI 2000.16, that the DoD Components and the DoD  
elements and personnel shall be protected from terrorist acts through  
a high pirority, comprehensive, AT program. The DoD's AT program shall  
be all encompassing using an integrated systems approach."

The first question of the Terrorism Threat Factors, "Knowledge Check  
1" section reads as follows:

Which of the following is an example of low-level terrorism activity?

Select the correct answer and then click Check Your Answer.

O   Attacking the Pentagon

O   IEDs

O   Hate crimes against racial groups

O   Protests

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The "correct" answer is Protests.

A copy of this can be found on the last two pages of this pdf.     
(more under the cut)

http://open.salon.com/blog/dennis_loo/2009/06/14/dod_training_manual_protests_are_low-level_terrorism