All the Assymetric Warfare Group (AWG) has done is try to create an orderly method/tool for commanders to use as a guide as they try to sort potential radical members out of the military. The flow charts themselves don't tag anyone or any group in particular as "radical" though they do characterize those groups that advocate "illegal" violence as radical.
The article mixes snippets from many different studies and implies they are all part of some single woven tapestry. They are all part of security agencies worried about domestic terrorism - so in that sense they are linked. However, their conclusions are not mutually agreed upon, nor do the studies inform each other, rather they appear to have been done in various stovepipes.
Try looking at it this way - when there was a great deal of concern about left-wing radicalism, membership in certain unions was a "flag" - it didn't mean you were a radical but since there was known radical activity within certain unions it was natural to scrutinize members of that union.
I will also acknowledge that there will certainly be abuses of any "profiling" system, which is what this really is, and that is why we need to have independent courts, legislative, and executive powers to provide additional checks and balances on such misuse of power. That is just part of the never-ending vigilance required to preserve liberty against external and internal threats.
The article mixes snippets from many different studies and implies they are all part of some single woven tapestry. They are all part of security agencies worried about domestic terrorism - so in that sense they are linked. However, their conclusions are not mutually agreed upon, nor do the studies inform each other, rather they appear to have been done in various stovepipes.
Try looking at it this way - when there was a great deal of concern about left-wing radicalism, membership in certain unions was a "flag" - it didn't mean you were a radical but since there was known radical activity within certain unions it was natural to scrutinize members of that union.
I will also acknowledge that there will certainly be abuses of any "profiling" system, which is what this really is, and that is why we need to have independent courts, legislative, and executive powers to provide additional checks and balances on such misuse of power. That is just part of the never-ending vigilance required to preserve liberty against external and internal threats.
