The video is part of Homeland Security’s $10 million dollar “See Something, Say Something” program that encourages Americans to inform on each other to the government when they seem them engaged in “suspicious activity”.
In the course of the 10 minute clip, a myriad of different behaviors are characterized as potential terrorism, including opposing surveillance, using a video camera, talking to police officers, wearing hoodies, driving vans, writing on a piece of paper, and using a cell phone recording application.
Despite encouraging viewers not to pay attention to a person’s race in determining whether or not they may be a terrorist, almost all of the scenarios in the clip proceed to portray white people as the most likely terrorists. Bizarrely, nearly every single one of the “patriotic” Americans who reports on their fellow citizen is either black, Oriental or Arab.
This oddity, which on the surface appears to be surreal political correctness, has as its basis a far darker undertone -- that the DHSÂ’ own internal documents list predominantly white conservative groups as the most likely terrorists, including Ron Paul supporters, gun owners, gold bullion enthusiasts, and a myriad of other comparatively banal political interests.
Paranoid conspiracy-theory extremism seems to have taken over a significant part of the US government. This is just the most recent addition. The deeper you go, the weirder it gets. All well and good if done by private individuals, not so good under the color of authority. |