We should never accept that there are those that wish harm to us, our families, and the very structure of our country.  These individuals use violence and/or force to destroy Americans and their property in direct violation of the United States criminal laws.  Terrorist use these actions to cause intimidation, coercion or sometimes ransom.   Many times use these threats to cause fear among the public, trying to convince people that their government has no way to prevent terrorism – and what’s worse is they get immediate publicity for their causes.  In my opinion, if we stopped giving them the “limelight” they would not get the thrill and self-importance and at least curtail their activity.

Terrorist usually strike high-risk targets.  These targets include military and government facilities, international airports, largely population cities and high-profile landmarks.  To make life more difficult for the average citizens, terrorist may also target large public events, water and food supplies, utilities, and corporate centers.  The biggest ammunition terrorist have is there ability to spread fear.

If you find yourself in a terrorist situation or threat, you will need to rely on police, fire and other officials for instructions.    I don’t know about you, but I am a little leery of how our police and other officials to be on my side.  Let’s face it, they are following orders that may or not be in the public’s best interest.  The best thing you can do is prepare for terrorist attacks in basically the same way you would prepare for any other crisis events.

Even though I question the true attentions of FEMA, they do have some of the most researched and thorough information on how you can prepare for an emergency situation.  Below are the six steps FEMA recommends that you take to prepare for terrorism.

1. Wherever you are, be aware of your surroundings.  The very nature of terrorism suggests there may be little or no warning.
2. Take precautions when traveling.  Be aware of precautions when traveling.  Be aware of conspicuous or behavior.  Do not accept packages from strangers.  Do not leave luggage unattended.  Unusual behavior, suspicious packages and strange devices should be promptly reported to the police or security personnel.

3. Do not be afraid to move or leave if you feel uncomfortable or if something does not seem right.
4. Learn where emergency exits are located in the buildings you frequent.  Notice where exits are when you enter unfamiliar buildings.  Plan how to get out of a building, subway or congested public area or traffic.  Note where staircases are located.  Notice heavy or breakable objects that could move, fall or break in an explosion.
5. Assemble a disaster supply kit at home and learn first aid.  Separate the supplies you would take if you had to evacuate quickly, and put them in a backpack or container, ready to go.
6. Be familiar with different types of fire extinguishers and how to locate them.  Know the location and availability of hard hats in buildings in which you spend a lot of time.

 It appears that terrorist are not going away anytime soon, so the best thing we can do is be prepared – for anything!

]]> http://yoursurvivalsource.com/how-to-survive-terrorism/feed/ 0 http://yoursurvivalsource.com/feds-label-bulk-buying-of-food-a-potential-terrorist-activity/ http://yoursurvivalsource.com/feds-label-bulk-buying-of-food-a-potential-terrorist-activity/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:44:27 +0000 admin http://yoursurvivalsource.com/?p=1218 Feds Label Bulk Buying of Food a Potential Terrorist Activity despite the fact that FEMA itself spent $1 billion dollars on storable food last year alone.

As part of its effort to encourage business owners to spy on their customers, the FBI has labeled the bulk purchase of food as a potential indication of terrorist activity, despite the fact that FEMA itself last year purchased $1 billion dollars worth of storable food.A flyer aimed at Military Surplus stores produced under the auspices of the FBI’s Communities Against Terrorism project, encourages owners to report people who “make bulk purchases of items to include….meals ready to eat”.

According to the flyer, the FBI advises store owners to demand ID’s from all new customers, as well as asking them questions about their purchase and being aware of “suspicious statements”.

The flyer also characterizes paying with cash or “demanding identity privacy” as an indication of terrorism.

To read the entire article click here.

This article was published by Prison Planet.com.  Written by Paul Joseph Watson  Wednesday, February 8, 2012.

Prison Planet.com has always provided cutting edge stories that inform Americans how their civil liberties are being taken away – one law at a time.

A 6-year-old boy was attacked by a mountain lion while walking near the lodge at Chisos Basin in Big Bend National Park with his family Sunday night.

The boy suffered non-life-threatening injuries — scrapes and puncture wounds to his face, according to park officials.

His father was able to fight off the cat by stabbing it with a pocket knife.

The boy was transferred to a hospital in Alpine and later released.

A West Texas television station reported the victim was Rivers Hobbs. The family is from Leander, near Austin, according to the park service.

By 8 a.m. Monday, several trails were closed and dog teams were brought in to search for the cat but couldn’t pick up the scent.

“From the description, it’s small and haggard-looking,” park spokesman David Elkowitz said. “It would appear to be a young lion.”

The attack on a sidewalk between the lodge and a restaurant is believed to be the second reported sighting of the lion that night.

Shortly before the attack, a cat with a similar description approached a family in a campground and was chased off with a backpack that the cat then took into the brush. The pack has been recovered.

Rangers are patrolling the basin area, including the Window Trail. Nearby backcountry campsites remain closed.

The park advised visitors that children should not hike in the Chisos Mountains and that trail closures could change.

The cat would be killed if it is found, and live traps have been set.

The last such attack in Big Bend, by an old female cat with missing teeth, occurred in 2003 and caused non-life-threatening injuries.

Dad fends off mountain lion with a pocket knife when it attacked a 6 year old boy.

One of the most frightening things that could happen to Americans would be the total loss of civil liberties and freedom.  This scenario would be no better played out than before, during and after a nuclear war.  It would not only change the way we live, but it would affect the very core of our existence. 

A world nuclear war is one that involves most or all nuclear powers releasing a large proportion of their nuclear weapons at targets in nuclear, and perhaps non-nuclear, states.  Such a war could be initiated accidentally, aggressively or pre-emptively and could continue and spread through these means or by retaliation by a party attacked by nuclear weapons.  While some speak of “limited nuclear war,” it is likely that any nuclear war will quickly escalate and spiral out of control because of the “use them or loose them” strategy.  If you don’t use all your nuclear weapons you are likely to have them destroyed by the enemy’s nuclear weapons.

Such a war could start through a reaction to terrorist attacks, or through the need to protect against overwhelming military opposition, or through the use of small battle field tactical nuclear weapons meant to destroy hardened targets. It might quickly move on to the use of strategic nuclear weapons delivered by short-range or inter-continental missile or long-range bomber.  These could deliver high altitude bursts whose electromagnetic pulse knocks out electrical circuits for hundreds of square miles.  Or they could deliver nuclear bombs to destroy nuclear and/or non-nuclear military facilities, nuclear power plants, important industrial sites and cities.  Or it could skip all those steps and start through the accidental or reckless use of strategic weapons.

Below are seven scenarios by which world nuclear war could come about. While these are some of the major scenarios and combination of attacks and retaliations, they are hardly exhaustive.  U.S., Russian and other nuclear nations’ weapons strategizers deal with these scenarios every day but rarely let mere citizens in on their grizzly thinking.  Citizens must end their denial and become aware of such scenarios.

GENERAL SCENARIOS

Accidental:  Since the United States and Russia have “launch on warning” systems that send off rockets before it is confirmed a nuclear attack is underway, any tensions between them can lead to massive nuclear war within thirty minutes of a warning — no matter how false the warning may be.

Aggressive:  One or more nations decides to use weapons against nuclear or non-nuclear nations in order to promote an economic, political or military goal, as part of an ongoing war or as a first strike nuclear attack. (The state, of course, may claim it is a pre-emptive, retaliatory or even accidental attack.)

Pre-emptive:  One or more nations believes (correctly or incorrectly) or claims to believe that another nuclear nation is about to use nuclear weapons against its nuclear, military, industrial or civilian targets and pre-emptively attacks that nation.  May result from political or military “brinkmanship.”

Retaliatory: Use of nuclear weapons in response to a nuclear attack — or even a conventional, chemical or biological attack by a non-nuclear nation.

ASSUMPTIONS OF THESE SCENARIOS
There is a whole body of knowledge and assumptions that is taken into account when putting together scenarios like the below.  My bottom line assumption is that any nuclear exchange has an excellent chance of resulting in a series of escalations that will spiral out of control, setting off a round of exchanges among various enemies under a “use it or lose it” philosophy, as well as among the treaty allies of the relevant nuclear powers and their allies.   This continues until most of the planets’ 20,000 odd nuclear weapons are exhausted.  In making “limited nuclear war” calculations all nations should assume “whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.”  Unfortunately, too many strategizers assume they can conduct limited strikes and keep them limited

Related assumptions include:

• Any nuclear attack on a primary Russian target like Moscow, St. Petersburg, or nuclear command headquarters, by any nation or group, known or unknown, could lead to a commander turning on “The Dead Hand” strategy and/or prompt one or more of Russia’s semi-autonomous military field commanders to retaliate against U.S. and European nuclear targets.  Attacks on secondary targets or nuclear detonations very close to Russian soil also might lead to some sort of nuclear escalation.
• Any nuclear attack on US and/or European sites by any nation or group, known or unknown, probably will result in massive US and/or European retaliation against the known or assumed perpetrators or their known or assumed allies.
• It is likely that the U.S., Russia, China, Israel, India and Pakistan will use some of their weapons to attack other nuclear and non-nuclear nations which might threaten them after they have been devastated by nuclear war.
• Any nuclear attack on Israel by terrorists, or Pakistan, Russia or China will result in Israel’s surviving land, air and submarine carried or based missiles being used against Arab and Muslim capitals.  A particularly devastating attack (including with chemical or biological weapons) might result in possibly in a full scale “Samson Option” attack on European and Russian targets.  The latter of course would result in Russian retaliation against the United States, perhaps its punishment for not having done enough to protect Israel.
• Any nation’s use of nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear nation will be only somewhat less inflammatory than using them against a nuclear nation, especially if that nation has many treaty allies. It will ratchet all nuclear nations’ alert systems and lead to unforeseeable consequences that could easily spiral to world nuclear war.

SCENARIO 1.                                                                                                                            

RUSSIA OR U.S. MISTAKENLY INTERPRETS GLITCH DURING TIME OF TENSION AS NUCLEAR ATTACK, LEADING TO WORLD NUCLEAR WAR

During time of minor or major political tension, especially active U.S. bombings of other nations or any use of nuclear weapons, Russian commanders’ faulty early warning system detects false evidence of a nuclear attack from the U.S.   Russia launches a large proportion of its weapons at the U.S. and pre-emptively at U.S. European and Israeli allies, as well as China, India and Pakistan to cripple their nuclear capability.   The U.S. and Europe retaliate at Russia and U.S. attacks China to destroy its nuclear stocks.  Israel retaliates against Russia and initiates aggressive attacks against Arab and Muslim capitols.  India and China may strike each other to destroy any remaining nuclear or other military capability. (While less likely the United States would experience such a glitch, if so, the U.S. would strike Russia and China, they would retaliate against the U.S. and Europe and probably attack other potentially hostile nuclear powers to knock out their capability.)

SCENARIO 2.
U.S. OR RUSSIA THREATEN OR ENGAGE IN MILITARY AGGRESSION AGAINST SMALLER NATION, STARTING ESCALATION TO WORLD NUCLEAR WAR

Russia and US engage in threats over further US aggression in the Middle East or Russia’s refusal to withdraw troops from former Soviet Republic Georgia.  Russia and/or the U.S. pre-emptively strike the others’ nuclear targets, leading to further rounds of retaliatory exchanges. Russia strikes pre-emptively at U.S. European and Israeli allies, as well as China, India and Pakistan to cripple their nuclear capability.  Europe retaliates at Russia and U.S. attacks China to destroy any remaining nuclear stocks.  Israel retaliates against Russia and initiates revenge attacks against Arab and Muslim capitols. India and China may strike each other to destroy any remaining nuclear or other military capability.

SCENARIO 3.
ISRAEL ATTACKS IRAN’S NUCLEAR FACILITIES AND/OR SYRIA AND LEBANON WHICH RETALIATE WITH MASSIVE CONVENTIONAL OR WMD ROCKET ATTACKS, ISRAEL RETALIATES WITH NUCLEAR WEAPONS, ESCALATING TO WORLD NUCLEAR WAR

Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear facilities and/or Syria and Lebanon.  These countries respond with massive rocket attacks using conventional bombs and even some chemical, biological or radiological weapons.   Israel responds with nuclear strikes against these nations and Pakistan.  Outraged Pakistan retaliates against Israel and pre-emptively attacks Israel’s ally/Pakistan’s enemy India, which retaliates.  Israel initiates “Samson option” and attacks Arab and Muslim capitols, as well as “antisemitic” Europe and Russia.  Russian regional commanders retaliate against Israel, its ally the U.S., and U.S. European allies and China, to destroy its nuclear capability.  The U.S. retaliates against Russia and hits China’s nuclear capability.  China uses any remaining nuclear weapons against Russia, the U.S. and India. India retaliates against China.

SCENARIO 4.

INDIA-PAKISTAN NUCLEAR EXCHANGE ESCALATES TO WORLD NUCLEAR WAR

Hindu and Muslim rioting or conflicts in Kashmir escalate into preemptive nuclear exchanges between India and Pakistan. A rogue Indian general strikes China which massively retaliates.   Russian communications knocked out by electromagnetic pulses hit Europe and China with limited number of missiles. U.S. retaliates against Russia and attacks China to destroy its nuclear stocks. Russia retaliates against the U.S. and hits U.S. ally Israel. Israel initiates revenge attacks against Arab and Muslim capitols.

SCENARIO 5. 

CHINA INVADES TAIWAN, STARTING ESCALATION TO WORLD NUCLEAR WAR

Taiwan declares independence. China begins Taiwan invasion, threatening to use nuclear weapons against  U.S. cities.  U.S. gives China an ultimatum to pull out which it ignores and U.S. uses nuclear weapons to destroy China’s weapons. China retaliates against U.S. and nukes Taiwan.  A few nervous or chauvinistic Russian regional missile commanders make a first strike against U.S., European and Israeli nuclear weapons sites.   The U.S., Israel and Europe retaliate.  Israel initiates revenge attacks against Arab and Muslim capitols.  Pakistan, India and China exchange pre-emptive nuclear strikes.

SCENARIO 6.
UNKNOWN PARTIES USE NUCLEAR WEAPONS ON ISRAEL, RUSSIA OR THE
U.S. STARTING ESCALATION TO WORLD NUCLEAR WAR

Terrorists or some unknown nation explodes one or two nuclear weapons in Russia, Israel, or U.S., possibly delivered via surreptitious means.  Russia and the U.S. blame each other escalating to mutual “retaliatory” attacks, including on Europe. If Russia attacks Israel, Israel immediately initiates revenge attacks against Arab and Muslim capitols, and possibly “anti-semitic” Europe and Russia.   Russia and U.S. preemptively attack China, and India and Pakistan pre-emptively attack each other, to destroy nuclear and military capabilities.

This article first appeared on http://www.carolmoore.net/nuclearwar/alternatescenarios.html.

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It goes without saying that everyone, especially families, should have some kind of solar emergency preparedness plan in the event NASA is right and we in fact get, “A Once In A Lifetime Super Solar Storm Event”.  The trouble is… this super solar storm warning is uncharted water for modern civilization, so most of us have little to no idea what such a plan would involve because NASA is not offering any guidelines. Only that NASA is warning the public to prepare themselves. But how???

There are two stages to a good plan for the coming solar storm that NASA assures us that is coming soon. The first part requires advanced preparation. Just like the captain of an ocean liner who already has his life rafts ready to go, we must do the same as well. This is the second part of a two part solar storm preparedness plan, with the first part requires getting something’s ready days, if not weeks in advance.

The second part is what do you do, once you get the word that a super solar burst is about to hit the earth? Keep in mind that since we are in uncharted waters, we truly do not know how bad it’s going to get down here on earth until after the sun storm hits the earth, which could go on for months. Because of there are more questions then there are answers, we need to prepared for the worse.

• Immediately run to your predestinated safe room/home that you have prepared in advance for a solar storm. (This first stage of preparation is found in your Emergency Solar Storm Survival Guide.)  Since scientist have no exact idea of the exact rate of speed the electromagnetic blast from the sun will be traveling at, they have no exact idea how long it will be before it hits the earth. Some scientist say that they can get the time of impact down to a 12 hour window. But I would not count on that information. So every minute counts once you learn that you need to get your butt home fast! Not to mention that while you’re on your way home, your car could suddenly stop working resulting from a super high jolt of electromagnetic energy from the sun, and then you will have to walk the rest of the way back! So drop everything you are doing when you get the final warning and get back to your predestinated safe room/home while you still can. If you have to pick up other family members along the way, make sure they understand to wait near the road where they can get in quickly once you arrive. Do NOT stop at any stores on your way home.  Go straight home!!

• If you have a small bike you can do without for a while, you might want to carefully place it in your car’s trunk or backseat, this way, should your car suddenly stop working, you will at least have a bike you can use to get the rest of the way home. You’ll be kicking yourself in the ass should you find yourself wishing you had followed this simple advice. Can’t say you were not warned.

• Park your car at the end of the driveway or in the street or at least fifty feet away from your home. Then follow the instructions found in you Solar Storm Survivor’s Manual for your car right away to make sure that your car and your car battery will still work long after the solar storm is all over. Note: You should leave a copy of the instructions on how to protect your car, with the car, just in case you forget what you must do to make sure that your car will work after the solar storm is long over.  Once you get home, (or use your cell phone on the way home while it still works) …make sure that everyone on your Emergency Solar Storm Warning System knows to come home right away. Make sure that they also protect their cars from high jolts of electromagnetic energy. Remember that most cars today use electronic ignition and may become damaged if the car’s electronics are not properly protected from super high jolts of electromagnetic energy. The proper material and tools required to protect your car(s) is found in your Solar Storm Survival Guide.

•   If you own or operate a private plane, the electronics on your plane may start to fail while in flight from hi jolts of electromagnetic radiation from the sun. Thus once you receive a Emergency Solar Storm Alert, you need to get your plane back down on the ground right away or risk losing proper control of your plane. Once down on the ground, be sure to follow the instructions found in your Solar Storm Survival Guide to help make sure that your plane will still work long after the solar storm is over. Make sure you leave a copy of the instructions in your plane as a reminder of what you need to do to help insure that your plane most likely will still work properly long after the solar storm is over.

Remember that mankind has never experienced a super solar storm since the modern age of electronics. There by we are entering into uncharted waters when it comes to both protecting our electronics from sudden jolts of high level electromagnetic energy. If you chose not to protect your electronic devices, then you run the risk of it being damaged during a powerful solar storm. Keep in mind that if you do lose your electronics to the solar storm, then so will billions of others, who in turn, will be looking to repair or replace their electronic devices too. Good luck with that, as there will be an extreme supply and demand problem with getting your electronic devices fixed or replaced. It will take manufactures upwards of ten years to fill all orders. So if I were you, I would give some real thought to protecting all of your electronic based devices despite that others might be telling you that your electronic devices will be just fine. (Do we really want to take that chance???) Computers, TV’s, Washer and Dryer, Audio/Video Players, Game Machines, anything that uses electronics to operate need to be properly protected. Simply follow the instructions found in your Solar Storm Survival Guide to help make sure that your electronic devices will still work long after the solar storm is over. And whatever you do, do not try to use any of your electronic devices outside of your safe room, and only while on battery.

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“In my four decades of tracking weather, I have never seen extreme weather like we had in 2011,” said Jack Hayes, NOAA’s assistant administrator for weather services and the National Weather Service director.

Although no two years are alike, Hayes said, it’s important for Americans to be prepared for the worst.

“The U.S. population has almost doubled since 1954, and trends such as urban sprawl and conversion of rural land to suburban landscapes increase the likelihood a tornado will impact densely populated areas,” he said. “We have also become more vulnerable to coastal storms and hurricanes as more people are living in coastal areas.”

Hayes said the 2011 Southern drought and floods across the northern U.S. represent the extreme temperature and precipitation swings that climate scientists project will become more common amid a warming climate.

As a result of these conditions, Hayes’ agency has redoubled its efforts to create a “Weather-Ready Nation.”

“We want the nation’s response to and the outcome from severe weather to be different in 2012 and in the future,” he noted.

The devastating effects of extreme events can be reduced through improved readiness. Hayes said a “weather-ready nation” is one made up of people empowered to make life-saving decisions that also prevent devastating economic losses.

This article first appeared on an article by Katherine Dorsett Bennett on CNN.com and has been briefly edited.  To read the entire article click here.

MYTH 1:  If stranded in the desert, you can get water from a cactus.

TRUTH:  Chances are you won’t be able to get more than a few drops of water from a cactus.  It will taste bitter and acrid, and it could lead to cramps and vomiting.  Morning dew, transpiration bags, and looking for signs of small springs, stream beds, and rock depressions with water will serve you better – but not as good as remembering to bring lots of water.

MYTH 2:  If attacked by a shark, punch it in the nose.

TRUTH:  You’re more likely to injure your hand than the shark if you hit it in the nose.  Instead, if an attack is otherwise unavoidable, strike the eyes and the gills as rapidly and hard as possible, ideally with a sharp object. Animals, like people, don’t want to get in fights they may lose.

MYTH 3:  In the event of an earthquake, the safest place to stand is a door-frame.

ALTERNATIVE MYTH:  In the event of an earthquake, create a “triangle of life” by curling up next to a bulky object that will compress tightly on impact, leaving a void next to it.

TRUTH:  The tip about standing in a doorway was true when homes were made of weak materials with wooden doorframes; however, in most modern buildings, the doorframe is the weakest point.  And the triangle of life is only really applicable to homes in third world countries, with flat ceilings that will pancake straight down.  Instead, drop, cover, and hold on under a sturdy object like a desk or table. MYTH 4:  If a bomb goes off, call 911.

TRUTH:  Avoid using your cell phone or radio within 400 feet of a possible terrorist attack, because it can trigger a possible secondary device.  Then call 911, as you make your way at least 3000 feet clear of the danger zone.

MYTH 5:  If bitten by a poisonous snake, suck out the venom.

TRUTH:  You will not be able to cut or suck fast enough to slow the spread of venom – and getting venom in your mouth will only create a new pathway for the venom, especially if you have cuts in your lips or gums.  Don’t apply ice or a tourniquet either.  Instead, call 911, cleanse the wound, keep the limb below the level of the heart, use constricting bands two inches below and two inches above the bite, splint it, and keep physical activity to a minimum while waiting for appropriate antivenin.

MYTH 6:  If stranded at sea with no water, you can drink your own urine to survive.

Truth:  Because your urine contains salt (in addition to potentially harmful waste), it will generally increase dehydration rather than mitigate it.  Legitimate sources of hydration in the ocean include rainwater, solar stills, turtle blood, and fluid from the spine and around the eyes of fish.

MYTH 7:  In the event of an electrical fire, unplug the appliance immediately.

TRUTH:  Unplugging an appliance, handling it, touching an outlet, or appliance is crackling, overheating, or fire, go to the circuit box and trip the specific breaker (or, in if in doubt, the main breaker)  before calling 911 or putting it out with a class-C extinguisher.

MYTH 8:  Store a gallon of water a day per person for three to seven days in your garage or basement.

TRUTH:  This is a fact.  But many people have garages and basements with concrete floors.  And if you store plastic bottles on concrete, the chemical reaction between the two materials over time will contaminated the water.

MYTH 9:  If stabbed or impaled by something pull out the knife or object.

TRUTH:  This may look cool in movies, but never pull out a knife or any other penetrating object from a wound.  Call 911, leave the object in place and pack a bulky dressing around it to keep it stabilized.  The only exceptions are if the object is blocking the airway or must be removed to perform CPR.

MYTH 10:  If stranded in cold weather, you can eat snow or ice to survive.

TRUTH:  Eating handful of snow or ice will lower your body temperature will waste body energy, and may be contaminated.  When possible, melt the snow, boil the water, and then let it cool before drinking.  (Bonus myth:  drinking alcohol, even when strapped to the neck of a St. Bernard not only won’t keep you warm but will cause your body to lose even more heat – however, you can always cuddle up to the St. Bernard for warmth.)

Hopefully, the truths about the myths will help you survive in an emergency situation.  If there is no emergency, at least you can be a better self proclaimed expert in the art of survival.

You thought you weren’t doing anything wrong, so why should you care about who they call a terrorist? Well, you may not believe it, but you’re likely a terror suspect in America’s new paradigm of the Land of the Fear.

The government is casting a wide net over its citizens in its search for potential threats. Now, you don’t need to actually commit a crime to be hauled away to a detention center and held without charges while you are tortured; you just need to appear suspicious by sympathizing with anti-government views to be labeled a domestic terrorist.

First, it’s important to understand the official definition of domestic terrorism in the United States. The ACLU reports that a person is a domestic terrorist if they engage in any “act dangerous to human life” that “appears to be intended to (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination or kidnapping.”

Although recent White House action plans claim to be targeting “violent extremism in all its forms,” the government itself is clearly guilty of countless “acts dangerous to human life intended to coerce the civilian population, to influence the policy, and to affect the conduct of a government.”  But that’s for another article.

What’s more disturbing, is the government’s expansion of guilty parties to “terrorist sympathizers.”  This is where the net gets really large.  What exactly constitutes sympathizing with a terrorist? Is questioning the imperial foreign policy and the destruction of civil liberties, sympathizing with the enemy?  In the U.S., it seems that if you don’t agree with the violence and coercion America commits, then you’re an anti-American terrorist sympathizer, as evidenced by peace organizations being added to terror watch lists.

So, what makes you a terror suspect in America? Here are 10 ridiculous things that make you a terrorist according to “officials” running the U.S. government:

The political Left demonized peaceful Tea Party activists as right-wing extremists, leading to the second most powerful official in the U.S. government, VP Joe Biden, to liken them to terrorists.   Do you sympathize with those who are angry about bank bailouts on the backs of taxpayers? Well, you’re likely a terrorist in the eyes of the State.

Occupy Activists: Now, the “Occupy” movement, said to be made up of left-wing extremists, is enjoying the same treatment as the Tea Party’s right-wing extremists.  The United Kingdom has officially labeled “Occupy” demonstrators as domestic terrorists. The U.S. hasn’t gone quite that far, but the violent Police State did spy them in search of “domestic terrorists.” Watch out, you may be a terror suspect if you sympathize with the 99%.

7 Days of Food: The Department of Justice and FBI considers you a terrorist threat if you have more than 7 days of food stored, as explained by Rand Paul on the Senate floor:

Paul was referring to an official FBI/DOJ flyer given out to business owners to help them identify potential threats. And recently, Federal agents went to food storage facilities demanding customers lists, while citizens were harassed by the government with door-to-door “assessments” of their preparedness.

Paying Cash at Hotels: Watch out if you want to pay with cash for hotel rooms.  This DHS commercial indicates that you’re a terror suspect if you do:

The DHS has also launched their citizen spy program for hotels and has sent them hotel protection guidelines which lists suspicious activities like persons carrying observation equipment or standing around in the same area.

Texting Privately in a Public Place: According to this DHS commercial for their citizen spy program, if you’re texting while sitting in a public park, but trying to keep it concealed from people who pass by, you should be reported for suspicious terrorist activity:

Special thanks to Prison Planet for providing this article.

As a result of the oncoming storm, some flights traveling  across the poles are being rerouted. Other issues could also arise from the storm, though many experts cannot say for certain what they may be. As the sun continues to ramp up activity, concerns have begun to grow. Currently in Solar Cycle 24, today’s storm follows a pattern of intensified solar activity that began in 2008.

Article first appeared on NaturalSociety.com