Former CIA Intelligence officer suggests using ‘counterterrorism’ strategies against ‘right-wing’ Americans
BY PGF
2 years, 1 month ago
Former Senior Intelligence Service officer at the CIA, Marc Polymeropoulos published a Sunday piece declaring that that techniques once used to fight radical Islam should be turned against the against the right-wing in America.
Polymeropoulos’ piece for NBC News Think warned that propagandists, whether Islamic terrorists or Republicans, should be subject to counterterrorism and counterradicalization techniques.
“I worked in counterterrorism operations for nearly my entire career at the CIA before retiring in 2019. The battle we engaged in with international terrorist groups like Al Qaeda wasn’t just with their legions of foot soldiers but with their highly effective propaganda arms as well,” he wrote. “The U.S. and our allies considered those propagandists fundamental cogs in a terror group’s machinery, and just as culpable as any other terrorist. So we held them accountable when innocent civilians were killed.”
Polymeropoulos suggested that the attack of Paul Pelosi was evidence that the American government needs to take a firmer approach to its own citizenry.
“Lone wolves are a thorn for domestic U.S. law enforcement as well, as we saw last week when a man not affiliated with any known group but immersed in right-wing propaganda attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,” he wrote. “While the authorities have taken appropriate action against him, there are few signs that the government is taking the big-picture approach needed to combat the violence-inducing propaganda behind his crime.”
He appeared to lament that the U.S. Constitution gives American citizens more rights than foreign enemies.
“The Constitution confers certain free-speech protections for extremist propaganda in the U.S. that prevent authorities from exactly replicating our foreign counterterrorism strategy here at home. But there are important lessons we can and should apply,” he said. “For one thing, we can exercise free speech to proclaim that the normalization of violence against politicians is dangerous and unacceptable. Some violent rhetoric might not be illegal, but it is all morally repugnant.”
Polymeropoulos also seemed to equivocate demonizing an opposing politician with calling for violence against them.
“To start with, we need to clearly identify what crosses the line into the realm of dangerous rhetoric. That means calling out those in the right-wing ecosphere who for years have demonized, and at times even promoted and encouraged, attacks on Pelosi,” he claimed.
There are more bizarre, rambling, semi-coherent, partially partisan political ravings at the source. He seems to have spent just a little too much time inside the intel machine. All a hammer sees, after all, are nails.
Via WoG.
On November 8, 2022 at 12:20 am, Dan said:
The criminal commie left has openly declared war on the rest of us. And the sooner we accept that fact and start acting accordingly the better. Because if we don’t eventually there will be nothing left of America worth salvaging.
On November 8, 2022 at 6:27 am, Joe Blow said:
This is exactly the problem that manifests every day, is never addressed, and has metastasized to the point we see it today – the world we are living in us no longer connected to reality.
It started innocently enough when we tried to ‘turn the other cheek’ and avoid a confrontation. Some little white lie was seen, but ignored as it was secondary to the main point:
“Mostly peaceful riots” language was ignored because we were fighting election fraud. So that lie stood and last week on a major news program a senator was told he’s crazy, there were no riots? ‘WTF you talking ’bout Teddy’.
This is classic Goebels! Tell a lie often enough it be omes the truth.
Jan 6th insurrection anyone? You and I know it is a lie, but kids are being taught, history books are being written!
What is happening here, right here in front of your very eyes:
“man not affiliated with any known group but immersed in right-wing propaganda attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi”
The faggot has become the victim, of some right-wing conspiracy nut. He isn’t a John hiring a gay meth head for a late night tryst that went sideways while his wife is out of town? Oh no…
The lie stands, is never refuted, and more lies are built on top. Now we have fucking communists running the country, because nobody confronted these snowflakes with their lies and bullshit when they were children. They bullied their peers and parents into accepting their delusions of grandeur and how the world works, because nobody wanted to fight then and there when it was just a simple verbal disagreement about actual verifiable facts, like only females can have babies.
Hows that working for y’all right about now? This is how they fuck you! They invert reality, and then make you kneel to it. We are all being played by adolescents in adult bodies.
On November 8, 2022 at 12:21 pm, scott s. said:
So he feels the “counterterrorism” approaches he and his kind have been following are successful? Other than armed drones killing some random guys, I don’t see that they have made the world any safer.
On November 8, 2022 at 1:37 pm, Randy Sanders said:
His statements are Alinsky 101. He seems to have forgotten that we have such people on our side as well.
On November 8, 2022 at 3:32 pm, Steady Steve said:
Proof that the CIA was successfully infiltrated by the KGB and it’s people ideologically turned into domestic enemies of the people and our Constitution. JFK had the right idea, break the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.