Zerohedge: If You Believe "Conspiracy Theories", FBI Report Says You Could Be a Domestic Terrorist

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Do You Believe In "Conspiracy Theories?" An FBI Report Says You're A Potential Domestic Terrorist

So what do they consider conspiracy theories? A few of the theories and topics mentioned in the document are QAnon, Pizzagate, the New World Order, various child-sex trafficking ring theories, and racial extremists. Interestingly, there is no specific mention in this document of Antifa and their theories, despite the fact that they’re decidedly anti-government and confirmably violent.
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This is worrisome, as censorship of any alternative view is already at an all-time high, with a coordinated purge of alternative media websites from social media outlets and a major search engine. It seems as though this could potentially lead to even more censorship. Maybe that’s what it’s actually for – to give social media outlets even more justification for cracking down on free yet unpopular speech.
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The thing one might find particularly ironic is that the arrest of Jeffrey Epstein has brought out a massive amount of information about…well…child sex trafficking and global elite pedophiles.
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While some of the theories mentioned are pretty far-fetched, the First Amendment protects free speech – and that includes conspiracy theories. Most people who believe that there are pedophiles in our government or who question the official reports of heinous events will never become violent. But now, it appears they may become targets of suspicion based on their thought crimes.

And when this FBI report is combined with the recently introduced Threat Assessment, Prevention, and Safety Act of 2019, which focuses on developing “a national strategy to prevent targeted violence through behavioral threat assessment and management, and for other purposes,” it certainly could make critical thinkers a little bit nervous
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"Critical thinkers" might want to consider the purpose of the referenced FBI report:

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Imagine if kids held peaceful protests today like 50 years back. There would be no need to shoot them or beat them senseless with clubs as the violent activity back then was at the hands of the government.. The kids could simply be arrested as terrorists. My. How far you've come since the first Patriot act.
 
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First, I understand that the real problem of a terrorist is not conspiracy theories or people doing things the terrorist does not like. But the person's own evil nature makes the person capable of cruel activity. And this will come out, one way or another. So, even if you stop all conspiracy theories and religions, still that evil person's character will find ways to come out.

But . . . even so . . . I see a point, of how Internet spreading of ideas and recruiting can help to facilitate an evil person to find bad things to do. But if he or she is not able to get to the Net or a radical group, he or she can find and excuse ways to abuse at home and other things.

But the pizza shop thing is interesting! Someone was claiming a pizza shop was a center for trafficking kids. So, some guy from states away went there with a rifle, in order to rescue children there. Without the Net, perhaps this one would have found better ways of caring about children. But the character making him capable of being so fooled and depending on violence as a solution . . . the character was a problem and could have him fooled in some other way and depending on violence.

Ones would say there is a need to manage what can trigger people who can be fooled and depend on violence as a solution.

So, ones want control of gun triggers, and Internet triggers.
 
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Consider that the only remaining bastion of free journalistic speech is the internet and public walls. Total control over the masses requires those voices be stopped in order to maintain the 'official' beliefs. Look at what the Adversary did to Christianity in taking a rogue counter-culture alternative to the world of man and re-assimilating it with the world, rather than the Kingdom. This is the way of carnal man.
 
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How is that any different than from back in the Soviet era when the citizens were expected to follow the official party line without question. Believe the nonsense we tell you or else.

I mean if they are actually punishing people for that reason it's not.

If it's simply analysis that domestic terrorists are more likely to be conspiracy theorists then I don't care. They're supposed to do analysis like that.

We also know that exposure to conspiracy theories tend to make people more likely to engage in low level criminal activity.
Belief in Conspiracy Theories Makes People More Likely to Engage in Low-level Crime

And we also know that peoples likelihood of believing in conspiracy theories is predicted by self-uncertainty and "belongingness" (which I don't think is a real word but what the hey).
Self-uncertainty and belongingness predict belief in conspiracy theories
 
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Feel free to criticize it as you wish.
It's not a criticism but an obvious question. Would not the analysers of the analysts be seen as threats? Isn't that why the true fourth estate no longer exists in the US?
 
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It's not a criticism but an obvious question. Would not the analysers of the analysts be seen as threats?

Everyone does now. Before it was declassified, the government officials that had access to the report.

All the report is saying though is that there is some correlation between conspiracy theorists and domestic terrorists though, not that all conspiracy theorists are domestic terrorists.

I can't say it is even a counter-intuitive idea but I haven't picked through the data.

If the data says so what is the problem exactly? Studying domestic terrorism is exactly the FBI's job.
 
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All the report is saying though is that there is some correlation between conspiracy theorists and domestic terrorists
What is a domestic terrorist but someone who disagrees with the system. Today the flower children of the 60's would be seen as domestic terrorists. Jesus as an example was a domestic terrorist to the synagogue. The state church called their domestic terrorists, heretics. It's all a matter of controlling the masses so the minority who rule can maintain control over their 'democracy'.
 
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What is a domestic terrorist but someone who disagrees with the system. Today the flower children of the 60's would be seen as domestic terrorists. Jesus as an example was a domestic terrorist to the synagogue. The state church called their domestic terrorists, heretics. It's all a matter of controlling the masses so the minority who rule can maintain control over their 'democracy'.

I would expect that the FBI is more interested in actual terrorism.

Shooting people, and blowing stuff up.
 
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