According to the New York Post, the "extremist group ... has proposed a 'Halloween Revolt' that encourages supporters to cause a disturbance to attract police and then viciously attack them... The group has recommended that members wear typical Halloween masks and use weapons such as bricks, bottles, and firearms, according to the release. No details are offered to corroborate the alleged plot or even the existence of the group that is supposedly behind it. As it stands, the FBI's advisory merely provides police nation-wide with a ready-made "officer safety" rationale for treating "typical Halloween masks" as an indicator of "suspicious activity."
The FBI's tale of the "Halloween Revolt" is a seasonally-adapted version of the apparently deathless "war on police" myth, which is incessantly flogged by police unions and retailed by media outlets like the New York Post and Fox News. In his recent address to the International Association of Chiefs of Police, FBI Director James Comey peddled a related idea - namely, that violent crime is escalating because of police timidity induced by the "Ferguson Effect" (also known as the "YouTube Effect"). Expanding distrust of police has led to "a crisis of violent crime in some of our major cities in this country, and in those cities in some of our more vulnerable neighborhoods."
Comment: Distrust of police...gosh, what is their first clue here?
In fact, violent crime is waning. Over the past 25 years, the tide of crime and violence seemed to simply recede. Crime is about half of what it was at its peak in 1991. Violent crime plummeted 51 percent. Property crime fell 43 percent. Homicides are down 54 percent. In 1985, there were 1,384 murders in New York City. Last year there were 333. The country is an undeniably safer place and it has nothing to do with an increase in incarceration.
Comment: Halloween masks ruin that facial recognition thingy the PTB have going for them. (Is Santa Claus the next terrorist suspect?) Become a cop and be given an automatic license to kill, with immunity, under the mask of "law and order."
And, from the article, this line bears repeating: Whether in the early 1970s or today, the actions carried out in the name of "authority" are far scarier than any of the stories used to justify its exercise.