DHS Use Police Depts to Gather Intel on Citizens & Label Them Extremist Threats
February 17, 2013 http://www.pakalertpress.com/2013/02/17/dhs-use-police-depts-to-gather-intel-on-citizens-label-them-extremist-threats/
Susanne Posel
According to the White House Blog website, the Obama administration
is working to “counter online radicalization” by “violent extremist
groups” such as “al-Qaeda and its affiliates and adherents, violent
supremacist groups, and violent ‘sovereign citizens’.”
The White House claims that “these
groups use the Internet to disseminate propaganda, identify and groom
potential recruits, and supplement their real-world recruitment” with
“resources to propagate messages of violence and division.” Through the
exploitation of “popular media, music videos
and online video games”, allegedly there are “countless opportunities
“to draw targets into private exchanges” and provide “violent extremists
with access to new audiences and instruments for radicalization.”
The US government stated they will
combat these extremist groups by “raising awareness about the threat and
providing communities with practical information and tools for staying
safe online.” They are solidifying their relationships with private
sector corporations involved in technology to implement “policies,
technologies, and tools that can help counter violent extremism online.”
The 2011 document
entitled “Empowering Local Partners to Prevent Violent Extremism in the
United States” outlines how a “comprehensive strategy” to counter the
influence of al-Qaeda is being championed by the Department of Homeland Security
(DHS) with digital information sharing and coordinating intelligence
with local law enforcement to thwart terrorist plots and “save many
American lives”.
Using propaganda, under the guise of “local partners in their grassroots efforts to prevent violent extremism” the federal government is building a network with local law enforcement against the threat of radicalization online and in the real-world.
The document names plots devised by neo-Nazis, anti-Semitic hate groups, racial supremacists, international and domestic terrorists inspired by al-Qaeda as a threat to the US. The federal government is utilizing local police departments to build a “local level . . . resilience against violent extremism.”
DHS trains local police officers at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. The Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) provides funding to local police departments to send their
officers to FLETC to receive militarized education in tactical
operations.
FLETC has locations in Georgia, New Mexico, South Carolina, and Washington DC. This federal militarization of local police extends to international
policing agencies which “develops, coordinates, manages, and delivers
international training and technical assistance that promotes the rule
of law and supports U.S. foreign policy.”
Another report the White House is using
to justify the demonization of US citizens as radical extremists is
entitled “Strategic Implementation Plan for Empowering Local Partners to
Prevent Violent Extremism in the United States”. This report,
published in December of 2011, further reinforces the role of local
police departments to ‘address community needs and concerns, including
protecting rights and public safety.”
The federal government acquires
platforms to infiltrate communities they have identified as potentially
under threat of violent extremist groups. Across the nation, senior
officials are deployed with the assistance of fake grassroots propaganda
to partner with “Governor-appointed Homeland Security Advisors, Major
Cities Chiefs, Mayors’ Offices, and local partners.”
Training of local police department
officers to paramilitarize and integrate them into military tactical
operations is the key to combating localized extremism.
Over the last few years the DHS have been indoctrinating local police departments into “non-Federal law enforcement agencies” as outlined in the DHS directive from the Office for State and Local Law Enforcement (SLLE).
Over the last few years the DHS have been indoctrinating local police departments into “non-Federal law enforcement agencies” as outlined in the DHS directive from the Office for State and Local Law Enforcement (SLLE).
DHS is successful in their relationship with local police departments all across the nation because they are contracted private security firms
(or hired armed guards) that are placed in a city or town to secure the
population and generate revenue for the local government.
In early 2012, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a report
entitled “Homeland Security and Intelligence: Next Steps in Evolving
the Mission” which outlined in part on how to redirect efforts of the
federal government from international terrorism
toward home-grown terrorists and build a DHS-controlled police force
agency that would control all cities and towns through the use of local
police departments.
DHS maintains that “the threat grows
more localized” which necessitates the militarization of local police in
major cities in the US and the training of staff from local agencies to
make sure that oversight is restricted to the federal government.
Countering online extremism is a task
allocated to the DHS who have identified “behaviors, tactics, and other
indicators that could point to potential terrorist
activity.” DHS will host conferences for local police departments and
federal partners to attend that will provide education on countering
extremism.
Other “training initiatives” include
“hundreds of thousands of front line officers” who are the ground-force
infantry needed by DHS to “prevent” extremist activities.
The “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign
is specifically designed to target local communities to turn ordinary
citizens into a Stasi for the federal government with the local police
department allocated as their first line of intelligence gathering.
Intelligence on citizens who are supposed to be extremists is gathered from multiple avenues such as:
• Local government
• Local law enforcement
• Parent/Teacher Associations
• School district officials
• Influential members of local communities
• Religious leaders
• Local law enforcement
• Parent/Teacher Associations
• School district officials
• Influential members of local communities
• Religious leaders
These collaborations provide “critical information” and real-time “ assessments of [any] threat” to local communities and incorporate this information into training programs and federal initiatives.
Susanne Posel’s Website is Occupy Corporatism.
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