Goverment sliding down slippery slope

Here’s an urgent alert for my fellow U.S. citizens in the Mat-Su Valley and elsewhere who believe that intellectual liberty is being rationally defended by uncensored information on the Internet, and that Americans are more than just brainless weaklings to be protected by government.

The Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives and now is in the U.S. Senate as S1959. This bill will recreate a government vehicle for citizen abuse not seen since the communist witch hunts by the congressional Committee on Un-American Activities under McCarthy.

This act calls for a national commission to study and recommend measures against the threat of homegrown terrorism and radical ideologies that support it — and how to preempt or prevent the motivations, instruments and propaganda that make them possible. The act asserts that the potential of homegrown terrorism and radical ideology is rampant in America because of broad Internet dissemination of seditious/anti-government propaganda; however, the act doesn’t point to verifiable evidence or public experience of widespread homegrown terrorist movements. Instead, the act’s proponents generalize the Oklahoma City Bombing to “prove” how lots of Americans are puppets of terrorist propaganda and demonize the Internet by exaggerating the danger of naturally occurring whacko Internet posts.

Congress proposes to use “qualified” experts and hearings to invent new or adopt foreign solutions to homegrown terrorism and “violent radicals.” Yet, an average public education in religion, government, philosophy and science already provides tested methods to manage these problems and naturally occurring human irrationality. Understanding the scientific method disciplines any mind to dismiss propaganda and embrace verifiable information. Injustice and oppression are understood as the historically verified motivation for supporting violent insurrection — Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment supported by founder elaborations.

Ask U.S. Senators Stevens and Murkowski to vote down S1959.

Stuart Thompson

Wasilla