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Cheese Sandwich

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6. I really don't like the idea of turning teachers into thought police.

Reply to noretreatnosurrender (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 5, 2016, 01:28 PM

Mar 2016

Sometimes people can have "extreme" ideas without having violent ideas about how to achieve it.

Programs like this will have a chilling effect on students who want to learn about anarchism and communism. Which is horrible because we need more education like that, not less. It will deter activism and organizing around environmental causes because people don't want to do anything that might land them on a watch list.

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The FBI's New Plan to Spy on High School Students: Targets include Muslims, anarchists, activists [View all] Cheese Sandwich Mar 2016 OP

Creepy as hell noretreatnosurrender Mar 2016 #1

I really don't like the idea of turning teachers into thought police. Cheese Sandwich Mar 2016 #6

Once you're on the list, you're going to do something wrong, one way or another. JoeyT Mar 2016 #2

This office will need a certain number of investigations and arrests to justify their own jobs. Cheese Sandwich Mar 2016 #4

And it's not going to stop with schools - TBF Mar 2016 #3

Yeah. Completely agree. Cheese Sandwich Mar 2016 #5

The term I like is "libertarian communism" TBF Mar 2016 #7

That's true. Cheese Sandwich Mar 2016 #8

Movements TBF Mar 2016 #9