Elected and appointed officials run the Government. You may be disappointed for electing them to office and you start criticizing them, but you do not threatened to kill them.

     You may call the Government dictatorial, intolerant, tyrant, and oppressor of your rights for reasons of your own. That is your freedom of speech. However, using unprintable words to express your anger and arming yourself with assault weapons as a self-proclaimed “Militia” ready to shoot anyone at your gun sight, you declared a “war” against the Government. That is not liberty and freedom enshrined in the Constitution. That’s your distorted interpretation of liberty and freedom to kill and destroy as you please.

    In all instances I have just cited as examples, you are by law a TERRORIST.

    That’s how you get into the FBI Watch List.

    During the first week of February this year, the FBI issued a warning on the growing threat of anti-Government extremists. The warning zeroed in on a group of local “terrorists” who called themselves “sovereign citizens”. The group consists of an estimated 100,000 individual membership residing in certain blacklisted States.

     According to the FBI, this assemblage of State people believes “they can live outside any type of government authority” and therefore they owe no allegiance to the Federal Government. They do not consider themselves as citizens of the United States, but citizens of the State where they live. That again is a twisted interpretation of U.S. citizenship as an excuse to declare a private war against the Government. That’s another way of getting into the FBI Watch List.

      When these people criticized the Government as having no authority over them to enforce the law, they then believed they could defy the law at will. And shooting law enforcement officers to death, is a violent demonstration of how they defy the law.

That’s how their names appeared in the FBI Watch List with a Red Flag, which in intelligence parlance, means “extremely dangerous”.

      At this point, it is clear that those agents of terror did not get the attention of the FBI merely because they spitefully criticized the Government. Getting into the FBI Watch List without a Red Flag is, however, the general rule rather than the exception. On record, this group of extremists “…may refuse to pay taxes, defy government environmental regulations and believe the United States went bankrupt by going off the gold standard …” [quote from the FBI report].

      Consequently, record shows that they are as preoccupied with their “private war” with the Federal Government as the Red Flag extremists are. Even disobeying traffic rules is a defiance of law and order that demonstrates they could be as extremely dangerous as the Red Flag law violators.  In May 2010 a “sovereign citizen” shot and killed two police officers in West Memphis, Arkansas under the slightest provocation of being called to pull over in the traffic. That’s how a simple “sovereign citizen” can be as vicious at will as any hardened terrorist can be described to be any time of the day.

       FBI: “Convictions of extremists, mostly for white-collar crimes such as fraud, have increased from 10 in 2009 to 18 each in 2010 and 2011.” The FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center [TSC] processes and evaluates “up to 1200 pieces of information” every day.       

   “Conviction” of extremists is rather slow. That means in this intelligence gathering process, nothing is left to be desired.  It has to be meticulous, careful and thorough.  On border line, no one gets into the list unless the suspect “meets a standard of ‘reasonable suspicion’ after review by the TSC and several other government agencies.” This proved to be a difficult task.

     Even though how thorough is the screening process applied, the likelihood of committing an error is never discounted. An innocent name could be inadvertently included. Even though there is a STANDARD of reasonable suspicion, still it is a SUSPCION. However, the accusation of innocent name being included on the list ON PURPOSE, may not be absolutely zero [no one is perfect], but EXTREMELY nil. For example, the purpose of a vengeful FBI agent to get an innocent man’s name included, can be hardly the unanimous purpose of ALL the other agents in the TSC in all DIFFERENT GOVERNMENT AGENCIES that do the screening.

     Still, even though this is almost impossible, the Government does not deprive an innocent man the opportunity to request that his name should be pulled out from the list. The Government created a website called Traveler Redress Inquiry Program that reviews this request. If upon a thorough investigation an error is established, the name is readily taken out of the list.

     The damage done under this “error” could be the weakness of the remedy provided. But for that error to occur is very unlikely.  I suspect that having cleared of the stigma of being included in the FBI Watch List by ERROR [which is unlikely] is more than a reward. Chad Kolton, spokesman of TSC recently disclosed to the public that most if not all of those who filed a request to clear their name, are actually NOT in the list. Because of what they are doing [criticizing the Government] they thought their names are in the FBI Watch List.

      It is not only a shameful but also a regrettable mistake when you imagine that the Government is a headless monster [thoughtless and reckless] hiding under your bed ready to jump on you.  Just what I said … criticizing the Government is freedom of expression, so long as you don’t get out of bound or abuse that freedom of speech.

     On the contrary, the “request” is being used as a propaganda line. Prone to use this “request” as an anti-Government line of attack are those whose insuperable anger towards the Government is so intense it proved to be uncontrollable. The National Institute of Health identified this rage as a form of “mental illness”.

      Fortunately, psychotic minds using this aggression towards the Government are easy to deal with. They almost automatically go directly into the FBI Watch List. The FBI wastes no time in segregating them as some kind of dangerous “animals” in the Zoo.

      For example, a convicted tax felon is all over the Web selling his writings against law enforcement officers, the IRS and the Government. You probably already knew his name and had come across his writings, as well as I do. His name is Larken Rose. He is exactly what the FBI described him to be – a dangerous “sovereign citizen”.  He has this notion that a “cop killer” is the “good guy”, and the “dead cop” is the “bad guy”.

      “I said, more bluntly than many ‘gun rights’ folks do, that I want you, the public, to have the ability to kill government agents, both military and police.”  Larken Rose at http://stopthelie.com/larkens_latest.html.

       I cite this example merely to show where the difficult task of the FBI to include the names of suspected and potential terrorists in the list is 100% easier than what it is perceived to be. This proves beyond reasonable that when you criticize the Government in the manner I have just described, your place in the FBI Watch List is more than just assured.

      Most likely, you earned a red star-mark to boot. #

 (Note: With PAR reference and the Author’s permission to print.)