Come and Take It!, Molon Labe!, From My Cold Dead Hands! We have all heard the phrases and likely repeated many of them at one time or another, in or out of context to the Second Amendment and our rights. After a friend received a call the other day from the FBI due to a Facebook post, my interest was piqued and the search began. Quickly, it became apparent just how easy it is (or was) to get yourself put on a watchlist.
The details are rather scary and closely tied to the Obama administration. However, the links below all go to official U.S. Government sites and documents. It seems the Obama administration cast a fairly wide net when it came to labeling someone as a terrorist or ‘potential terrorist.’ How wide is that net today? Unfortunately, I do not know, but I’d bet many of you do.
Back in the days before the 44th President, the term ‘terrorist’ brought with it a rather narrow definition that was applied to the worst of the worst. Terrorist was reserved for people such as Osama bin Laden and Islamic jihadists bent of committing mass murder to support their political/religious agenda. However, our country (at least at the Executive level) went through a transformation. Many of us heard about it, but may or may not have fully understood the implications. Instead of simple political correctness by removing all references to Islam from government training materials, the term ‘terrorist’ or at least ‘potential terrorist’ started being applied to large groups of people—and by people I mean American citizens.
I do not want to run around screaming that the sky is falling or claim we all need to suddenly go dark or jump off the grid. However, could reading a firearm related blog such as this earn you a spot as a ‘potential terrorist’ under the government’s definition? How about posting your support for the Second Amendment and the right of self-defense to social media? What if you said nothing at all, but someone else included you in a photo or facial recognition software identified (or misidentified) you? The answers to these and many more questions are in the following links, but you’ll have to do some research and decide for yourself—however, even as the editor and senior writer for this blog, I have passed many, many backgrounds for permits, TSA precheck, Form 4473… So, my recommendation would be to read the following carefully, but not to read to much into the documents.
The documents predate August 2015, so take that into account. We have a new President and administration. I am not sure how up-to-date or applicable to today’s administration some of these linked documents or sites may be, but they will make you think and with the midterm elections around the corner. For example, today I received a form letter from one of my state senators, Tammy Duckworth, about how she supported common sense gun control and opposed national concealed carry reciprocity, blah, blah, blah. Our votes count; use them wisely.
Here is the list of 72 types of Americans that are considered to be ‘potential terrorists’ in official U.S. government documents as of August 2015.
Each listing below is an active link to the original source documentation indicating when and where the listed ‘subversives’ were originally considered a threat:
1. Those that talk about “individual liberties”
2. Those that advocate for states’ rights
3. Those that want “to make the world a better place”
4. “The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule”
5. Those that are interested in “defeating the Communists”
8. Anyone that possesses an “intolerance toward other religions”
9. Those that “take action to fight against the exploitation of the environment and/or animals”
10. “Anti-Gay”
11. “Anti-Immigrant”
12. “Anti-Muslim”
14. “Opposition to equal rights for gays and lesbians”
15. Members of the Family Research Council
16. Members of the American Family Association
18. Members of the American Border Patrol/American Patrol
19. Members of the Federation for American Immigration Reform
20. Members of the Tennessee Freedom Coalition
21. Members of the Christian Action Network
22. Anyone that is “opposed to the New World Order”
23. Anyone that is engaged in “conspiracy theorizing”
24. Anyone that is opposed to Agenda 21
25. Anyone that is concerned about FEMA camps
26. Anyone that “fears impending gun control or weapons confiscations”
28. The sovereign citizen movement
29. Those that “don’t think they should have to pay taxes”
30. Anyone that “complains about bias”
31. Anyone that “believes in government conspiracies to the point of paranoia”
32. Anyone that “is frustrated with mainstream ideologies”
33. Anyone that “visits extremist websites/blogs”
34. Anyone that “establishes website/blog to display extremist views”
35. Anyone that “attends rallies for extremist causes”
36. Anyone that “exhibits extreme religious intolerance”
37. Anyone that “is personally connected with a grievance”
38. Anyone that “suddenly acquires weapons”
39. Anyone that “organizes protests inspired by extremist ideology”
40. “Militia or unorganized militia”
41. “General right-wing extremist”
42. Citizens that have “bumper stickers” that are patriotic or anti-U.N.
43. Those that refer to an “Army of God”
44. Those that are “fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation)”
45. Those that are “anti-global”
46. Those that are “suspicious of centralized federal authority”
47. Those that are “reverent of individual liberty”
48. Those that “believe in conspiracy theories”
49. Those that have “a belief that one’s personal and/or national ‘way of life’ is under attack”
51. Those that would “impose strict religious tenets or laws on society (fundamentalists)”
52. Those that would “insert religion into the political sphere”
53. Anyone that would “seek to politicize religion”
54. Those that have “supported political movements for autonomy”
55. Anyone that is “anti-abortion”
56. Anyone that is “anti-Catholic”
57. Anyone that is “anti-nuclear”
60. Those concerned about “illegal immigration”
61. Those that “believe in the right to bear arms”
62. Anyone that is engaged in “ammunition stockpiling”
63. Anyone that exhibits “fear of Communist regimes”
65. Those that are against illegal immigration
66. Those that talk about “the New World Order” in a “derogatory” manner
67. Those that have a negative view of the United Nations
68. Those that are opposed “to the collection of federal income taxes”
69. Those that supported former presidential candidates Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin and Bob Barr
70. Those that display the Gadsden Flag (“Don’t Tread On Me”)
71. Those that believe in “end times” prophecies
FORMER MILITARY HAVE SOME OF THE BEST TRAINING IN THE WORLD AND OF COURSE, ARE SUSPECT. ONE DAY YOU ARE ACTIVE DUTY AND ABLE TO BE TRSUTED WITH DEVASTATING FIREPOWER IN YOUR IMMEDIATE POSSESSION WHILE ON A MILITARY RESERVATION. THE NEXT DAY YOU RETIRE AND YOU CAN NO LONGER BE TRUSTED WITH A FIREARM ON ANY FEDERAL MILITARY INSTALLATION. VERY INSULTING, INDEED.
If you’re not on a government watch list by now – someone’s not doing their job!!
52 and proud of it. If I knew about some of the others like agenda 21 I could have added a few more. Seriously, if they want to fill the fema camps with people on this list they will need a heck of a lot more camps. Everyone I know would be on the list a few more than myself and they would also be proud to be on those list.
In case it hasn’t been mentioned, ordering ammo online will get you on a list. The UPS guy handing box to me knew exactly what was in the package. Ammo sounds like shaking bullets in a box and classified as ORMD. The neighborhood watch guy casually asked me if I knew how to order ammo online. I never tell anyone about guns or shooting cause its not politically correct I figured that since they know I order ammo online there’s no sense in stopping now. Yes, we are on the list.
Two comments. First, don’t let your biases cause you to overlook the fact that this type of classification took off long before the 44th president. Can you say “Patriot Act?” Secondly, this article looks suspiciously like one that I read by by Michael Snyder, published on August 26th, 2013. It came from http://thetruthwins.com/archives/72-types-of-americans-that-are-considered-potential-terrorists-in-official-government-documents. He, too, wrongly attributed the original criminalization of patriotic American to Obama.
I commend the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) after the passage of the Patriot Act to your reading. Obama just took it to a ridiculous level of civil rights restriction.
If some bureaucratic jerk wanted to push it a bit they could nail me for about 45 of them LOL !
Pretty much includes everyone I know.
I know that over half of these would apply to me. And I guess since I run a Concealed Carry Facebook page will probably have them knocking on my door at some point.
Looks like I’m on several lists somewhere! LOL. Nothing new there since I got a social security card, drivers license and registered for selective service. My only solution would be to drop off the grid and stay out of sight. I like my home and my neighbors are OK, so I guess I have to live with it.
19/72. But then, I /know/ I’ve been on a watch list since Clinton (since I was working on the tarmac at San Jose Airport on a day when AF1 was flying in, and USSS “escorted me off the site in the interest of Presidential security…”)
Domestic terrorist? Kids, I used to /hunt/ terrorists! Don’t paint me with that brush…
I scored a 33 out of that list.
I guess that I would have been on this list, as I scored over fifty. Reading some of the documentation tempered that score a little, but it is still frightening to consider how involved our government is in our personal lives.
I only scored 59 , but I believe I get a bonus point for liking this post and leaving a comment.
I read a couple and they sounds like something Hitler would have written about the Jews, gypsy, scholiast or communist. We all know if a government fears it’s citizens, the citizens should fear that government.
3-4/72. Alot of this is pretty vague with broad blanket definitions. If you’re worried about being watched the government has this wonderful thing called FOIA where you can learn about yourself by submitting the right papers and a small fee to whatever agency you like.
I’m rather surprised the author neglected that the dhs and fbi had a joint list of books and articles( all of which are available at the local library) that were labeled as red flag materials way back during the bush administration.Though upon typing this comment and considering who actually belongs on this list( and seeing some of those people here) it occurs to me that they probably have no idea what a library is.
GUESS I’LL BE JUDGED AS HALF A TERRORIST. ONLY REALLY FIT ABOUT HALF. WONDER IF I’LL BE PICKED FOR THIS COMMENT. THINK “THEY” MIGHT BE WATCHING THE SHOOTERS BLOG?
So, the upsurge in gun purchases during the Obama administration was a phishing expedition to get information on who has guns, etc?? It did seem the leniency over gun laws was out of sync with the liberal protocol. They seem to spend a lot more planning and purposeful brainstorming to accomplish their agenda than conservatives do. We’re all too busy living and enjoying the freedoms we have.
I agree that we have to watch our government like a hawk, because the balance between security and personal freedom is very tricky business and definitely subject to abuse. For most Americans, actually reading and understanding the Constitution would be a great place to start (especially the tenth amendment!). However, listing these “groups” out without any context is pretty misleading. Most people won’t go to the trouble of actually looking at the documents to understand that (i.e., all evangelical Christians are not considered terrorists).
Whoot I got 62/72!!! oh wait… that might not be a good thing…
Oh look, guys with guns just broke down my front door, shot my dog, and are now pointing the guns at me…
I was obviously wrong… I get a 0/72 now…These views are all only held by evil people who should be banned from society… o_O
Trump needs to eliminate this democrat nonsense!
Naturally, I maxed this. My comment, however, is in response to the comment about the ÔÇ£fat, orange, orangutanÔÇØ in the White House. That is an ignorant comment as this President is NOT the enemy of gun owners, but nearly the entire Congress is and I would recommend education. The President is doing all he can, but cannot mend it all overnight. We have a swamp that has been active for a LONG time.
Perfect 100 for me.
I am off the chart and proud of it and that is why i use my real name not that the government needs that to watch everything you do. Most of those items the founding fathers stood for so they are good enough for me.
In post-Soviet Russia the term “extremist” is used to watch, punish, or warn anyone that the government doesn’t like. It is so broad as to be nearly meaningless, and thus very useful for oppression. The same type of people use it that way here.
WOW, I’m on that list several times and don’t care! From the scam the FBI is running on Trump, they are the true enemy of this country, I’m on it again !!!!
Cheers! I scored in the 30’s. My Dad is an old vet, 101 airborne, ranger and taught at ft Benning for a while in the early 70s. Lets just say hes pretty sharp. He won’t have a cell phone because he’s afraid “they” will track him. I tell him, “Dad, if they want to find you, they already have. ” The trick is to realize that and prepare accordingly. I try not to worry too much. I’m at the age and station where I have to get up and go to work every day. My wife can’t or won’t see it, but I’m not ashamed of the things I have and stock on hand. Deep down I think she understands and it just scares her. The world moves pretty fast these days and just like all the $$ I spend on car, home and life insurance…you better believe I have other insurance. Although, i am seriously thinking now that maybe the stickers should come off the truck!
Add number 73 please, any human that breathes oxygen, eats fresh fruit and whom can FART. OK. There we have it. A complete list. The U.S. Goobers in Goobermint hate any and ALL Americans and they want all of us 6 feet under, or better yet, they want all of us roasted on a BBQ spit. Fact. BTW…if Voting actually worked, we would not be allowed to participate in the pointless activity.
35 with a few on the fence.
So often I read strong declarations made by patriotic and passionate gun owners swearing to fight anyone attempting to take their guns, or how they will have to pry their guns from their cold, dead, hands. All of that sounds so noble and strong, but how many of those making such bold statements will do the one thing necessary to avoid such violent encounters? All we have to do is VOTE and get our relatives, friends, coworkers to do the same. So simple, yet so many fail to follow through and do this one simple thing to put the gun grabbers back in their closet.
I am a Targeted Individual harassed 24/7 by army of professional criminals. Go to Youtube/Facebook etc and type Gang Stalking and you will see my predicament. I am an honest, hard working, person my entire life do my best to live somewhat a normal life. We are fearful of contacting authorities as it does no good and we are 5150’ed once you mention Gang Stalking. The scenario is absolutely ridiculous and varies from person to person, no rational person wants to believe you. Note: I ordered ammo from CTD three times and some other sites. Not once did it arrive as stated on delivery websites, always appeared next morning on porch. Aside from this everything is vandalized, broken and loved ones always leave you. We can’t all be crazy, its happening in different countries and techniques always same. Said enough, CTD hope you release this msg
I quit engaging on social media almost a year ago. After several Facebook Jail punishments over various opinions and posts, I closed my account. Zuckerberg and his Brown Shirts can kiss my arse. I got along fine without Facebook for most of m life, and I’m getting along fine without it now.
Is this some type of social experiment or psych / IQ test? I think just by posting this comment I’ve made the list. I guess I’ll say I fail on all accounts, and hell my comment makes me sound paranoid, so I’ll just sit here in my easy chair reading the constitution, and wait for the jug heads in the black suits and sunglasses to show up.. I’m a caring guy, so I’ll have that copy of the constitution nice and softened up for them, so they won’t chafe their second point of contact when they wipe with it!
Opps, I thought it was for 72 virgins, so I got 144 – took the test twice.
If only the fat orange orangutan in the White House would change things I’d be impressed.
I’d be impressed if you showed some respect to your President. Even if you voted for Hillary he’s still your President.
Sorry your girl lost.
You have to be kidding, go back to your basement safe space and eat tide pods like every other snowflake.
Nearly everyone on the planet could be classified in one of these categories. I have to ask, how much taxpayer money was spent compiling these lists? And am I now on the terrorist watch list for visiting the sites?
According to this list we are all on the watch list ! Hey , that includes the entire Government also . So the answer is YES , you are on the list and you paid to ne there ! Hahahaha !
Oops! I failed. Seems to be pretty much anyone but Lefties. IÔÇÖll probably be rounded up next Dem president and re-educated or worse. Points out the fact that we arenÔÇÖt as free as we think we are, that freedom of speech doesnÔÇÖt really exist or exist without real world consequences and the ÔÇ£Thought PoliceÔÇØ have certain persons already in their sights and on their lists. Probably just saying what I just said has added another nail. Be safe and be aware.
I scored 78, and I’m proud of it.
I only scored 38, but then again, I can count.
You missed the bonus points.
Interesting that no matter what is type, the system’s response is:
Duplicate comment detected; it looks as though youÔÇÖve already said that!
Don’t worry about it TommyC. Go to bed….let mommy tuck you in.
Wow, 78 out of 72. Way to go. I havenÔÇÖt added mine up but I am probably somewhere near to you.
Wow!! 36. Hmmmm…….perhaps I should head to the trees a little sooner than I thought. LOL.
Well if I am on some watch list, oh well. I guess almost everyone I know is also. That list must be millions long.
Dont really care, been prepped n ready for years. A lil less spry than I used to be, but all my skills are sharp. All my equipment is maintained and ready.
So, molon labe, si vis pacem para bellum, we are everywhere.
As always
Carry on
Yes at some point there is a diminishing return. If everyone is on the list then the list is useless to them…
I lost count of my score… buy hey, I’ve always figured I was on the list anyway.