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After the FBI \u201cuncovered\u201d another one of its self-orchestrated \u201cterrorist plots,\u201d leading to the arrest of two women, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) demanded on-line censorship of the \u201cextremist\u201d literature the FBI provided to the suspects.<\/p>\n
Feinstein called for on-line suppression of the popular counterculture publication the Anarchist Cookbook as well as an al-Qaeda publication, which critics characterized as a slippery slope leading to Chinese-style Internet censorship.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am particularly struck that the alleged bombers made use of online bomb making guides like The Anarchist Cookbook and Inspire Magazine,\u201d Feinstein said, despite a FBI undercover agent admitting he provided the material to the suspects. \u201cThese documents are not, in my view, protected by the First Amendment and should be removed from the Internet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Critics were quick to label Feinstein\u2019s statement as an attack on the First Amendment.
\n\u201cFor what it\u2019s worth, Dianne Feinstein\u2019s \u2018view\u2019 is wrong,\u201d Mike Masnick with TechDirt wrote. \u201cThe Anarchist Cookbook is very much protected by the First Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile the book is banned in other countries, who don\u2019t have the equivalent of the First Amendment, it\u2019s perfectly legal in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lucy Dalglish, the Dean of Journalism at the University of Maryland, called it \u201ca blatant violation of the First Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the price we pay for a free society,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
The FBI\u2019s undercover agent met the women, Noelle Velentzas and Asia Siddiqui, to encourage them to build bombs by introducing them to The Anarchist Cookbook and other materials.<\/p>\n
According to the FBI\u2019s criminal complaint:<\/p>\n
On or about Novermber 2, 2014, the UC [Undercover] met with VELNTZAS and SIDDIQUI. When VELENTZAS was reading a book called \u201cChemistry: The Central Science,\u201d the UC asked how this book was going to benefit them. VELENTZAS stated that they could practice at her house, but could not leave any residue. The UC stated that practicing at the house was not a good idea because the people living in the apartment below VELENTZAS might hear loud noises, referring to noises from explosions. VELENTZAS said she could always tell her neighbors that she dropped some bookshelves. The UC and VELENTZAS then discussed the fact that the UC had downloaded The Anarchist Cookbook.
\nThe case follows a well-established pattern by the FBI: instead of disrupting terrorist plots, the agency creates them out of thin air using patsies, then publicly praises itself for stopping its own plots.<\/p>\n
Earlier this year, for example, the alleged ISIS-inspired \u201cplot\u201d to bomb the U.S. Capitol involving 20-year-old Christopher Lee Cornell was in fact almost wholly contrived by the FBI.<\/p>\n
Cornell, who still called his mother \u201cmommy\u201d and had a cat for a best friend, attracted the FBI\u2019s attention when he started tweeting out support for ISIS.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile it seems almost certain that the 20-year-old was just a loner making idiotic comments on the Internet, federal authorities saw an opportunity and set up a meeting with an FBI informant in Cincinnati over two days in October,\u201d Paul Joseph Watson wrote.<\/p>\n
Cornell was later accused of buying over $2000 in guns and ammunition to carry out the \u201cplot,\u201d but his father said there was no way he could have afforded it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere did that money come from? Well, it came from the FBI,\u201d John Cornell Sr. said. \u201cThey set him up.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were taking him somewhere, and they were filling his head with a lot of this garbage,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
The FBI also famously provided a wanna-be terrorist with dummy explosives loaded in a van personally chauffeured by an FBI agent to the intended blast site.<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout the FBI, would the culprits commit violence on their own?\u201d David K. Shipler with the New York Times asked.<\/p>\n
Feinstein\u2019s call for Internet censorship in response to the FBI\u2019s latest bomb \u201cplot\u201d follows a centuries-old government strategy called \u201cproblem \u2013 reaction \u2013 solution\u201d in which government officials manufacture a situation or take advantage of an existing one to scare the public into demanding predetermined \u201csolutions,\u201d in this case more Internet restrictions and more public support and funding for the FBI.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of us unwittingly fall victim to it all too often and sadly if we don\u2019t stop, we will continue to lose our free will and liberties,\u201d journalist General Maddox wrote. \u201cIt has been widely used by our governments and corporations around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could say that in terms of controlling the masses, and society in general, its deployment has been an effective tool in keeping humanity in check.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FEINSTEIN DEMANDS INTERNET CENSORSHIP AFTER FBI \u201cUNCOVERS\u201d ITS OWN BOMB PLOT Senator wants to ban “extremist” material FBI introduced to suspects by KIT DANIELS INFOWARS.COM After the FBI \u201cuncovered\u201d another one of its self-orchestrated \u201cterrorist plots,\u201d leading to the arrest … Continue reading