Are we fighting thought crime now?
Because if something illegal is going on shouldn't the law enforcement be the right "organization" to handle it?
"Local Police includes municipal, county, tribal, and regional police that derive authority from the local governing body that created it."
http://discoverpolicing.org/whats_like/?fa=types_jobs
Deriving authority from the local governing body that created it. Meaning, no different from Spanish Club, except more people contribute to and recognize local Police as an authority. Still a random organization.
"It is not wise to judge others based on your own preconceptions or by their appearances."
I don't really know anything about this organization and they might be doing good work, but boy does this ever look like what a straight-up grift. This reminds me of fake ex-terrorist Kamal Saleem.Former white supremacist Chuck Leek, who has since become a volunteer with Life After Hate - one of the organisations that was due to receive government funding - said the white supremacy movement was becoming more active.
I'm not at all convinced that white supremacy groups are a big enough problem to specifically allocate $10 million/year over top of whatever the standard criminal investigation spending is.
This is about as neat of a definition of "thought crime" as one could get. This application would look a lot like sluggish schizophrenia in the Soviet Union. How do we know they're mentally ill and need treatment? Well, look at them, they're so fucking crazy that they reject the formal state orthodoxy! You'd have to be crazy to do that.
That sounds uncomfortably like reeducation camps in countries like North Korea and the former Soviet Union. The point of funding anti-extremist groups is to allow the anti-extremists' message to reach the public in a more efficient manner than that of the extremists--for example, groups like Stormfront are often restricted to paper flyers and in-person promotion, while a group opposing them like Life After Hate could have used the funding to reach more eyes and ears through TV and internet ads.
There's also groups like the Aryan Nation, where many members joined out of a need for security and safety in numbers in prison, where they're radicalized once they've got their foot in the door, so-to-speak. Once they're out, groups like Life After Hate could use that funding to more efficiently reach them and give them an out, deradicalize them through patience and understanding from similar, reformed ex-supremacists who saw the error in their thinking. Just throwing them into reeducation camps is a gross human rights violation, and simply letting them run amok is how terrorists like Dylan Roof get groomed.
Be seeing you guys on Bloodsail Buccaneers NA!
Nope. We're more successful at deradicalizing people in singapore than countries like Australia. One big reason for that is because we take preemptive action(detainment, deradicilization programs, support to their families) where as in Australia they need to be about to commit a crime for them to intervene.
I rather like Singapore, but nation's that have a heavy cultural emphasis on freedom would not generally enjoy the heavy-handed measures employed there. Anything similar to what you're describing being implemented in the United States would be grossly unconstitutional and trigger immediate backlash.
Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life.
Just, be kind.
all i hear is you don't live in a free country and your country has one of the highest execution rates per ca-pita of any country in the world, its easy to hold the peace when you just murder anyone who disagree's with you ask Stalin, and Chairman Mao.
Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life.
Just, be kind.
Seriously though, how effective have these organizations proven to be?
I'm all for them if they are doing a deal of good. But if they're just being given money so politicians can point and say "Look how great we are" then the funding should be cut.
World needs more Goblin Warriors https://i.imgur.com/WKs8aJA.jpg
More the case that the image has little to do with the original article meaning that the OP put it in because it's what he'd like to seen done to gays. Given his posting history and all the things I pointed out its pretty obvious he's a Neo-Nazi himself. I got him to take a forum holiday though so at least it'll be a few weeks till he's back here posting more of his pro-Nazi propaganda.