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Catherine Bleish: Understanding the Mechanics of the Police State
“People don’t know what fusion centers are,” says Catherine Bleish, who was the opening speaker at the 2010 New Hampshire Liberty Forum on March 19.
Fusion centers were created after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as a way for local and state law enforcement agencies to share terrorism related information with the federal government, and vice versa. The idea quickly ran into problems, first among them the fact that there simply isn’t enough terrorist activity to justify the concept. Instead of shutting down as pointless, fusion centers gradually began expanding into sharing information about all crimes. Fusion center activity over the years has also raised concerns about government surveillance of legally protected political activity.
Bleish, who was led into becoming an activist by the 2008 Ron Paul presidential campaign, said she was informed of a report published by the Missouri Information Analysis Center, leaked in March 2009, which stated among other things that people with Gadsden flag and Ron Paul bumper stickers could be militia members or potential terrorists. Bleish, who is the executive director of the Liberty Restoration Project, spearheaded further investigation and activism, eventually leading to MIAC retracting the report.
Make sure you take the time to watch the following video from beginning to end. You'll be glad you did!
With fusion centers, privacy is a serious — and touchy — subject
When time-sensitive data moves or mingles, privacy becomes a concern.
A recent report by the American Civil Liberties Union argued: “In a democracy, the collection and sharing of intelligence information — especially information about American citizens and other residents — need to be carried out with the utmost care.” That’s because, increasingly, the amount of information available on people is enough to assemble a very detailed portrait of their lives — and because security agencies are moving toward using such portraits to profile how suspicious someone might be.
The report went on to warn that “new institutions like fusion centers must be planned in a public, open manner, and their implications for privacy and other key values carefully thought out and debated. And like any powerful institution in a democracy, they must be constructed in a carefully bounded and limited manner with sufficient checks and balances to prevent abuse.”
And Robert Riegle, director of the Homeland Security Department’s State and Local Program Office, said it’s not just a concern for civil liberties groups.
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OPERATION: DE-FUSE "Getting to know Big Brother"
We have a week or two of the Administration huffing and puffing about right wing extremism and inciting violence, as a means to distract the public from the fact they just voted us all into indentured servitude to Red China and trying to shut up the critics.
Then, miracle of miracles, a group they’ve been monitoring with informants for over two years reaches the oh so convenient point of needing a highly publicized raid and subsequent arrests on charges of “domestic terrorism”. As if that supports and justifies all their posturing and righteous indignation.
If anyone believes there wasn’t something suspicious about the timing of all this, have I got a deal for you. Cash only.
I suspect there are dozens of such groups always being monitored, ready to be trotted out for convenient show-raids, as a means of keeping the rest of us non-Leftists off balance and responding to their charges, instead of pressing ahead and holding the government accountable for all their un-Constitutional shenanigans. This is pure Alinksy theatrics. If this group didn’t exist, Obama would have created it.
As far as I'm concerned, sporting an Obama bumpersticker on your car is the same as saying you support domestic economic terrorism.
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