Is your child a terrorist? U.S. Govt Questionnaire Rates Children, Families and Communities

[cursichella1]

A U.S. Govt questionnaire “Countering Violent Extremism: A Guide for Practitioners and Analysts,” wants police, social workers and educators to rate children and families for indicators of possible terroristic traits:

Is Your Child a Terrorist? U.S. Government Questionnaire Rates Families at Risk for Extremism

By Murtaza Hussain, Cora Currier, and Jana Winter
From The Intercept Monday Feb 9, 2015

Are you, your family or your community at risk of turning to violent extremism? That’s the premise behind a rating system devised by the National Counterterrorism Center, according to a document marked For Official Use Only and obtained by The Intercept.

The document–and the rating system–is part of a wider strategy for Countering Violent Extremism, which calls for local community and religious leaders to work together with law enforcement and other government agencies. The White House has made this approach a centerpiece of its response to terrorist attacks around the world and in the wake of the Paris attacks, announced plans to host an international summit on Countering Violent Extremism on February 18th.

The rating system, part of a 36-page document dated May 2014 and titled “Countering Violent Extremism: A Guide for Practitioners and Analysts,” suggests that police, social workers and educators rate individuals on a scale of one to five in categories such as: “Expressions of Hopelessness, Futility,” “Talk of Harming Self or Others,” and “Connection to Group Identity (Race, Nationality, Religion, Ethnicity).” The ranking system is supposed to alert government officials to individuals at risk of turning to radical violence, and to families or communities at risk of incubating extremist ideologies.

Families are judged on factors such as “Aware[ness] of Each Other’s Activities,” as well as levels of “Parent-Child Bonding,” and communities are rated by access to health care and social services, in addition to “presence of ideologues or recruiters” as potential risk factors.

A low score in any of these categories would indicate a high risk of “susceptibility to engage in violent extremism,” according to the document. It encourages users of the guide to plot the scores on a graph to determine what “interventions” could halt the process of radicalization before it happens.

“The idea that the federal government would encourage local police, teachers, medical and social service employees to rate the communities, individuals and families they serve for their potential to become terrorists is abhorrent on its face,” said Mike German, a former FBI agent who is now with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. German called the criteria used for the ratings “subjective and specious.”

[PurpleLama]

https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...cve-guide.html

[Lifebringer]

Couple visits to homes with the"tread on me" and a few bullying tactics or verbal abuse reports, and 1984 will come online. Wow. Just observing the supposed leaders of the free world that are fighting tooth and nail not to leave their thrones. While putting more and more of our nation's healthy citizens in military theater to keep the BMOC crown, only it's of the world. Guess that would be BMOTFW title, eh? Shriveled cajones maniacs of maladjustment.

BMOC= Big Man On Campus mentality/ego
BMOTFW=Big Man Of The Free World powers that were.

They're whole problem is, they are selling, what this generation ain't buying. LOL

Here's to dustbins of history. Cheers!

[Flash]

Any suicidal teenager or any teenager with Learning difficulties could score low on these.

Any sociopathic social worker or any social worker / policeman having to get Brown points for detecting abnormalities would make children score low on these.

Nobody will trust the social work system nor their doctors anylonger. This is the target it seems, and it is not worst than what was going on in the USSR. There, your neighbour was rating you.

Can you imagine the life of nightmare a child will have once rated like this?

[LivioRazlo]

I'll just leave everyone with a few quotes which resonate in my life everyday: "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter" and "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

[Carmody]

"Facesso Diem!"

(latin, to eagerly, create the moment/day, with emphasis on the accusative)

Then comes what we see now, the:

"carpe diem"

(which is the 'reach out and grab, pluck...and the day, again spoken in the accusative)

[Tesla_WTC_Solution]

What's sad is that all people have a lot of potential for good and bad, and lots of these programs seem focused more on eliminating potential (competition) than eliminating risk!

Thanks for sharing though. eek