A No Social Media List For Extremists And Potential Terrorists?Michael Snyder The stated goal of these proposals is to crack down on terrorism, but in the process the civil liberties of the British people are going to be flushed down the toilet. And the American people need to pay close attention to what is going on in the UK, because whatever police state measures are implemented over there usually also get implemented over here eventually. For those that believe that we need to do whatever it takes to fight terrorism, there is a very important question that you need to ask yourself. What if the government decides that you are an extremist because of what you believe? What will you do then? When I saw a report in the Telegraph today entitled Extremists to have Facebook and Twitter vetted by anti-terror police, I could hardly believe it. Do the British people actually want a no social media list that will essentially ban people from using Facebook and Twitter even though they havent actually been convicted of doing anything wrong? The following is a brief excerptfrom that article Extremists will have to get posts on Facebook and Twitter approved in advance by the police under sweeping rules planned by the Conservatives. They will also be barred from speaking at public events if they represent a threat to the functioning of democracy, under the new Extremist Disruption Orders. Theresa May, the Home Secretary, will lay out plans to allow judges to ban people from broadcasting or protesting in certain places, as well as associating with specific people. The plans to be brought in if the Conservatives win the election in May are part of a wide-ranging set of rules to strengthen the Governments counter-terrorism strategy. This sounds like an Orwellian nightmare for the British people. And who is an extremist anyway? We are being told that those that belong to ISIS are extremists, and nobody would argue that. But the article in the Telegraph makes it sound like any group that spreads or promotes hatred would be considered extremist. And under these new proposals, even belonging to such a group could get you thrown into prisonfor up to 10 years The Home Secretary will also introduce banning orders for extremist groups, which would make it a criminal offence to be a member of or raise funds for a group that spreads or promotes hatred. The maximum sentence could be up to 10 years in prison. So what does all of that exactly mean? Would anti-abortion groups be considered extremist? Would groups promoting traditional values be considered extremist? Would groups protesting against the abuses of the British government be considered extremist? Would Christian churches ultimately be considered extremist because they dont agree with the radical liberal agenda of the central government? Essentially what the Tories propose to do is to tightly regulate all speech. And there is no way to do that without turning the entire United Kingdom into a totalitarian hellhole. Meanwhile, the United States continues to march down a similar road. For example, we now live in an environment where a 16-year-old kid can be suspended from school and arrested by the police for writing a storyabout using a gun to shoot a dinosaur In another case of school officials adhering to ridiculous zero tolerance policies, a student from South Carolina was suspended and arrested by police recently after writing an imaginative story about using a gun to shoot a dinosaur. The offender, 16-year-old Alex Stone of Summerville High School in a suburb of Charleston was in the course of completing an assignment where students were asked to write something brief about themselves, much like Facebook status updates. This is utter insanity, and it is getting worse with each passing day. And it is not just kids that have to deal with this kind of thing. A Big Brother police state control grid is being slowly constructed all around us. And authorities are preparing for the day when they will have to use lethal force to keep the population in line. Just check out the following excerpt from a recent Infowars report A document released by the U.S. Army details preparations for full scale riots within the United States during which troops may be forced to engage in a lethal response to deal with unruly crowds of demonstrators. The 132-page document, titled U.S. Army Techniques Publication 3-39.33: Civil Disturbances (PDF), was written in April 2014 and recently obtained by Public Intelligence. So precisely who is the government so concerned about anyway? If ISIS and other Islamic terror groups are the problem, why train to fight against Americans? Sadly, the truth is that much of the focus in the war on terror has been turned inward during the Obama administration. Many officials in the federal government now insist that homegrown terror is the greatest threat that we face. And you may be quite surprised to learn who the government considers potential terrorists to be. The following is an extended excerpt from my previous article entitled 72 Types Of Americans That Are Considered Potential Terrorists In Official Government Documents Below is a list of 72 types of Americans that are considered to be extremists and potential terrorists in official U.S. government documents. To see the original source document for each point, just click on the link. As you can see, this list covers most of the country 1.Those that talk about individual liberties Are you starting to understand? When government officials speak of the need to crack down on extremists and potential terrorists, that is a very dangerous thing. The truth is that they could be talking about you. Related selfnews Post Video: This article first appeared here at the American Dream. Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here. 