"The TAPS Act has all the earmarks of a paranoid police state that considers everyone a potential threat. It will create a “Joint Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management Task Force to identify individuals that exhibit patterns of dangerous behavior that MAY precede an act of targeted violence.”"
Think what they will say of you the members of Agnostics.com!
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.That sounds amazingly dangerous. They could get you for practically anything with that.
CeliaVL
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June 4, 2019
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That is the beauty of weasel words, they seem specific but are open to infinite interpretation
"patterns of dangerous behavior that MAY precede an act of targeted violence"
Define patterns and what constitutes one
Define dangerous in terms of to whom, what constitutes dangerous and how it is to be recognised as such
Define what constitutes behaviour, actions? words, deeds, thoughts?
and most dangerous of all
"That MAY precede an act "
Does May here mean, permitted, could, potentially, possibly, can, will, be sanctioned?
As @CeliaVL points out this wording can be applied to everything from going to the toilet regularly to plotting a revolution and will make them all potentially as illegal as one another.
It is a Gestapo manifesto
@LenHazell53 Deliberate ambiguity built in...standard practice!
@Marionville It's like the job descriptions that list all the things you were hired to do then end with, 'and anything else we ask you to do'.
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