I think at this point it is fair to say that the name “Barack Obama” has become irrevocably synonymous with the phrase “Brownshirts”, and with very good reason. Riding the euphoric wave of a Prozac addled collectivist saturated puppy-love election season, the teleprompter dependent basketball playing android immediately launched several programs designed to centralize community organization using federal oversight. One of these initiatives, ‘The Universal Voluntary Public Service Program’, stood out as one of the most unabashedly fascist concepts to come out of any presidential administration since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s forced internment of innocent Japanese American’s. The idea of requiring citizens to “volunteer” for quasi-military or federal service and subsequent statist indoctrination didn’t play too well with the majority of the public, and has, for now, been abandoned.
The problem with governments with aspirations of totalitarianism, however, is that they never actually fully give up on any reach for power. Instead, they shelve one tactic and try out another, until the citizenry starts to nibble the bait.
To be fair, this behavior was going on long before Obama, and his particularly unhinged presidency is only an amalgamation of all those corrupt puppet politicians that came before him. Much of the police state apparatus we see being slowly inserted into our daily lives was constructed in stages. George W. Bush’s implementation of the Patriot Acts, the DHS, and the FISA Bill, for instance, gave Obama an easy framework of tyranny to build on. Whoever globalists deem suitable to replace Obama in 2012 or 2016 (if we even have the option of rigged elections by then), will certainly carry on where he left off (perhaps Rick Perry can have an insincere prayer circle with his Fusion Center hit squads before heading out to attend another Bilderberg conference).
That said, Obama and the DHS under his administration have had a particularly busy couple of years. While our attentions have been understandably captivated by concerns over the economic collapse which is unfolding right before our very eyes, a new push for the induction of community groups into the fold of the Homeland Security apparatus is taking place. The key to any successful tyranny, of course, is the inclusion of average and ignorant citizens who become the eyes and ears of the offending bureaucracy. With the unveiling of the White House’s “Counter Extremism Plan” this past month, the process of recruiting citizen spies has been put on the fast track.
Countering “Extremism”?
With a minimum of fanfare, the White House in the first week of August released an eight page white paper entitled ‘Empowering Local Partners To Prevent Violent Extremism In The United States’:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/empowering_local_partners.pdf
The content is decidedly bland, and typically uninformative, spotted with broad statements and empty proclamations of “patriotism and freedom” (which I found disingenuous and rather offensive). In fact, the whole document could have easily been summarized down to two paragraphs without losing anything of importance. The real issues inherent in the paper do not concern what is said, but what is NOT said…
To begin with, not once does the White House or the DHS ever actually define what they mean specifically by “extremism”. What is extremism? What signs exactly are communities supposed to be watching their neighbors for? The White House release, as well as the very similar DOJ project, ‘Guidance For Building Communities Of Trust’ (BCOT), never outline what they believe extremism is, or how they plan to identify and thwart it. The assertion made in these public releases is apparently that you and I should simply KNOW already what an extremist is, how he is supposed to behave, and how he stands out in comparison to “non-extremists”.
An analytic NPR piece covering the Local Partners paper attempts to flesh out greater details on the program which is slated to move forward over the course of the next 6 to 12 months:
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/04/138955790/white-house-unveils-counter-extremism-plan
The article falls pretty flat (you can’t expect much depth from NPR), but, certain passages are revealing. On the whole, we are seeing an acceleration of the rhetoric surrounding the now infamous idea of “white Al-Qaeda”. That is to say, we are being asked to believe that an organization of Middle Eastern CIA assets trained and utilized for terrorist applications is apparently looking to recruit troubled American teens and lonely guys in basement apartments to do their super evil bidding. I know…..it’s diabolical.
The government has gone to great lengths to perpetuate the absurd notion of a widespread Al-Qaeda network infecting every region of the country and comprised of people from all walks of life, of all religions, and of all ethnic persuasions. To their credit, Al-Qaeda is arguably the most inclusive fake terrorist organization in history.
While the above government papers and shill articles refrain from laying out specific attributes of the dreaded extremists they seek to oppose, they have already made these signals quite clear in other documents which were not meant to be so public. Who can forget the leaked MIAC Report, or the Virginia Fusion Center Report, which categorized Ron Paul supporters, Constitutionalists, Libertarians, anyone who talks about economic collapse, and anyone who owns a Gadsden Flag, as possible extremists or terrorists. The government later stated that the MIAC Report was an “embarrassing mistake”, and that such slip ups would be corrected in the future. The DHS, though, was obviously not embarrassed by the content of the reports. Otherwise, they never would have shoved them into the hands of state police where they would be quickly applied. Rather, the DHS was embarrassed that such reports were openly exposed.
And what about the post trial statements of the DOJ’s Anne Tompkins, who after railroading Liberty Dollar founder Bernard von NotHaus, stated that even those who create alternative currencies and decoupled markets, though not violent, are still akin to “domestic terrorists”. This along with other attacks on non-conformist groups from raw food producers to bloggers shows that the government is less concerned with “violent” extremists as it is concerned with anyone who seeks to walk away from the controlled mainstream system.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) continues to this day to pigeonhole all traditional conservatives (as opposed to globalist Neo Conservatives) using arbitrary labels and unsupported documentation in a shameless frenzy of false association. I don’t think I have ever heard Mark Potok say the words “Patriot”, or “Constitutionalist”, without using the words “Extremist” or “Racist” in the same sentence. This is the same organization that feeds “intelligence” on so called extremist groups to fusion centers and local law enforcement. They tell the cops who to profile. They work with the DHS to create the training models which are then utilized by police. You want to know who the White House considers an extremist? If you are reading this article now, then you probably fit their list.
Community Or Collective?
Why is it so important for the DHS and the White House to condition the public to associate “extremist behaviors” (often normal behaviors) of regular Americans with the Al-Qaeda brand name? The excerpts from the NPR article disclose the motivation below:
“When al-Qaida was sending operatives into the U.S., it made sense to rely on federal agencies to catch them at the border or arrest them as plots were discovered. But as terrorists groups have turned to American operatives who are already here, it makes sense to take the fight to the grass-roots level…”
“The White House envisions bringing together a roster of agencies and departments — from the Department of Education to the Labor Department and Energy Department — to provide local officials the tools they need to counter radicalization…”
“The law enforcement trust initiatives will hold round tables that allow community leaders to help cops distinguish, for example, between an innocent cultural behavior and possible criminal activity…”
And there you have it! Using the Counter Extremism program as a catalyst, the White House and the DHS plan to link together and centralize organizations as unrelated as the Department of Education and the Department of Energy, in tandem with community contacts, around a national witch hunt for anyone the government happens to deem undesirable. This process will be achieved through the NSI (Nationwide SAR Initiative), an effort to create a standardized information hub used for gathering, documenting, processing, analyzing, storing, and sharing terrorism related suspicious activity reports.
We have already seen the beginnings of this monstrosity in the construction of numerous Fusion Centers, which meld together elements of the FBI, CIA, and DOD and effectively militarize local law enforcement. It has also reared its ugly head in the form of the “See Something Say Something” initiative, which calls on citizens to become amateur informants, keeping their eyes open for dastardly warning signals of extremism, like white guys in hoodies, driving cargo vans, and taking pictures with cell phones while writing in notebooks:
The paranoia that the DHS is trying to illicit goes far beyond the absurd, but this is what happens in all countries that devolve into tyranny. The absurd becomes rational, and reason becomes criminal. Some skeptics may deny that these programs will ever be implemented at the community level on a scale that makes them threatening to civil liberties. I disagree. The danger is already taking shape. Oath Keepers recently came into possession of an FBI Denver Joint Terrorism Task Force handout given to Military Surplus Stores, directing owners to take note of specific purchases like:
Weatherproofed Ammunition Or Match Containers
Meals Ready To Eat
Night Vision Devices; Night Flashlights; Gas Masks
High Capacity Magazines
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/wp-content/uploads/ColoradoFBISurplusStore.pdf
These are very common purchases, not for terrorists, but for Preppers and Survivalists, who are obviously the targets of the FBI profile, not secret Al-Qaeda agents. The handout goes on to list behaviors such as “making anti-U.S. or radical theological comments (?)” or “insisting on paying in cash”, as signs of terrorism. It even instructs store owners to subtly interrogate their customers in order to draw a fuller profile. THIS IS CALLED CITIZEN SPYING. Period.
The FBI Denver Handout is a perfect example of the oligarchic quest not for community participation, but for hardcore collectivism. That is to say, corrupt leaderships are not interested in community safety, or the elevation of individuals which make up a neighborhood, town, or city, but the manipulation of these people into mere extensions of the state itself. A procedure by which individuals are subdued and conscripted as mouthpieces and listening devices; weapons to be used, not to safeguard their community, but to enslave it.
The Counter Extremism Program falsely paints an image of community cooperation with federal agencies as balanced and mutual. It attempts to deflect fears of Orwellian oversight by suggesting the introduction of “Community Advisory Boards”, which would ostensibly wield the power to demand transparency in federal activities. In fact, such advisory boards are the perfect petri dish in which to condition local leaders into furthering the goals of centralization. As in despotic societies of the past, they go in thinking they are in charge, and come out as brainscrubbed servants of a dishonest regime. In this way, communities are pacified and wielded for state purposes, until those left who refuse to conform become utterly surrounded and fearful, never knowing who is and who is not watching their every move. As explained plainly in the BCOT:
“In addition to engaging communities on a wide range of issues, the Federal Government is using its convening power to help build a network of individuals, groups, civil society organizations, and private sector actors to support community-based efforts to counter violent extremism. Myriad groups with tools and capabilities to counter radicalization to violence often operate in separate spheres of activity and therefore do not know one another. The Federal Government, with its connections to diverse networks across the country, has a unique ability to draw together the constellation of previously unconnected efforts and programs to form a more cohesive enterprise against violent extremism…”
The Sad Life Of The Citizen Spy
Projects for “community policing” like those being introduced by the White House and the myriad sewage swells of alphabet agencies in this country attract a very particular kind of person. Citizen spies tend to be rather uninteresting and unaccomplished people stricken with feelings of repressed inferiority and a complete lack of individual awareness. Their frantic need for outside acknowledgment, regardless of how superficial, is insatiable. Being unable to achieve anything truly meaningful in their spurious lives and generally shunned by anyone with an iota of self respect, the desire to feel important or accepted leads them to participate in the most vile government sanctioned crimes, if only to belong to the “winning team” or the “greater good”.
Ultimately, citizen spies sacrifice much more than they expect while vying for their fifteen minutes of fame or a firm pat on the head from Big Brother. While naively believing themselves to be superheroes, or pillars of the community for their relentless subversion of free speech and civil dissent, they soon discover that their lifestyle leads to alienation. No one trusts an informant, not even other informants. In the event that the leadership they serve is overthrown, citizen spies are relegated to the very worst levels of reprisal and hatred. People remember well the transgressions of lying governments, but reserve a special brand of fury for lying neighbors. It is truly the citizen spy that makes totalitarianism possible. Without them, there can be no censorship, there can be no stifling of protest, there can be no disruption of organized resistance, there can be no full spectrum dominance. In order to maintain control, despots require citizens to police each other. This is the sole purpose of the Counter Extremism Plan. To make us fear, suspect, and subjugate each other, so that elites can sit back, relax, and enjoy the fruits of our self imposed dystopia.
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written by Hognutz , August 11, 2011
They are the most vile of despots henchmen. The East Germans relied heavily on the snitches, but I have a feeling America's wanna be do-gooders will put them to shame..........
written by efruge508 , August 11, 2011
Well judging from the latest surge of propaganda coming from our very own "intelligence department" I can tell you first hand this is very true. After reading the filthy dishonest lies I learned that the "intell" was provided by our very beloved SPLC....the sad thing most cops will take this garbage seriously
written by saluki , August 12, 2011
The Brownshirts were a ultra rightwing movement,and why would obama need to spy on the right he has lost his base. DHS and the Patriot act are cancerous tumors created to erode constitutional protection but don't get caught up in Obama bashing, People on the left and right loose if we don't do something about a corporate run goverment. corporations are not as Romney stated people too. Buy local ,do not shop Wal-mart china's salesman to the wrold
written by Brandon Smith , August 12, 2011
@Jason
You've missed the point entirely. We're not focusing on Obama alone. Obama just happens to be the puppet in office that has been handed the marching orders to roll out these programs. The next stooge in office will pick up where he leaves off. However, he has been instrumental in launching these citizen spy projects, so he deserves a considerable share of ridicule.
written by Murin Ar Panterac , August 12, 2011
http://www.thecastleofthedarko...let01.html
3rd Maxim: Know those who are free, and honor their freedom.
13th Aphorism
Who can make war who is not free? Who has worth who would not keep His freedom?
14th Aphorism
A Warrior accepts his fate readily, nor does he seek to live beyond his freedom and usefulness. He will not suffer the chains of degradation, lest he bring dishonor to his city and Home Stone. Should he do so, let his name be forgotten by those of his caste.
35th Aphorism
The gentlest of streams can halt an army. The tiniest of osts can fell a man. In the humblest of things there is worth, and the simplest of things may conquer.
43rd Aphorism
Watch. Observe. See. Know. Understand. Act.
written by team america , August 12, 2011
In america snitches get stitches. that's the way it is, and that's why this spy program will never work.
written by none of your beeswax!! , August 12, 2011
Janet Napolitiano is so fat that she has a satellite circle her ass looking for terrorists.
I think we should start by spying on the elected officials who are supposedly upholing the Constitution. If they pass the test, then we can look into spying on local government.
When we videotape cops terrorizing citizens we are beaten, so who do we call to report terrorist activities by our own police?
Absurd video; did you notice it mentions not to racially profile, yet every instance of something bad happening in the video appears to be a white male between 21-30 years old? Subtle programming.
written by unnamed in SC , August 12, 2011
First of all, I have over 5000 pages of documentation regarding already privatized Social Security. I found my account, a 401 A as in apple, at Fidelity Investments.
The government refuses to investigate any of this but I've got two paying SSA accounts, two Medicare Part D accounts, and hundreds of documents that lead all sane persons to the same conclusion.
SSA was privatized as far back as 1991.
I've been stalked, harassed, financially penalized and emotionally abused by " citizen spies". Currently a neighbor has become a snitch.
I call him a " want to be or wanna be". He wanted to be a cop but he's too dumb.
The neighbor has broken into my home. He hasn't taken anything but left a pair of eyeglasses!! ( The better to see you with.) He also installed what he believed to be a secret camera in the ceiling of my den.
A private investigator hired by me, located this device!!
So people, these spies are out there.
And stuff happens , right?
written by EWM , August 12, 2011
when you claim that someone is too dumb to be a cop. That's impossible.
written by Bill Derberg , August 14, 2011
Anyone ever see Mr. Belvedere? hehe. Well remember the middle-aged guy that lived down the street with his mother? He loved make unexpected visits to peoples houses and elaborate of what he saw to his mother who then spread the word around. Yup thats the type.
written by Emmanuel , August 14, 2011
Brandon, you are right. These things are coming. In fact, they are already there.
The funny part though is that although your article does not mention the Bible, it gives a surprisingly accurate (very very accurate) glimpse of things to come, and already described in detail in the Bible: a totally enslaved society, branded with the Mark of the Beast.
Obama is just the man of the moment, in charge of playing a script, written a very very long time ago by the NWO elite: total world enslavement and domination
Conspiracy theory? Hardly! Just reading the Bible and what you don't see in the news.
Get out of this mess before it is fully implemented. You know how...
written by TNOK1989 , August 15, 2011
You're correct that DHS does not have a definition of 'extremism', they have struggled with that and succumbed to political pressure repeatedly. And yes, the SPLC has their ears and they have become overtly biased in their passion at the SPLC. But, DHS did not release the MIAC and VFC reports nationwide, the centers did indepent of DHS. All the FCs are connected and run by their respective states, not the DHS. An argument can be made the FCs should not exist, the RISS project could've handled this with a slight restructuring. However, FCs do not have CIA and DoD personnel in them, the states only link to the FBI and DHS for classified information via database access and staffing. You need to do some better research on FCs ,you information is as skewed as the SPLC can be.
written by Brandon Smith , August 15, 2011
@TNOK
Yes, fusion centers are "technically" operated by the states, but all fusion center data is collated by the DHS before handouts like the MIAC report are ever created. Fusion centers do not create handouts without DHS input and approval. Please check YOUR information.
Don't fall into the foolish trap of believing that fusion centers somehow separate Federal from State. The whole purpose of fusion centers is to blur the line between federal and state while feeding local police with federally constructed guidelines for identifying potential "extremists". You missed the primary point of the article. I suggest you read it a couple more times until it sinks in.
written by NeverMind , August 15, 2011
I have always assumed that the purpose of the Fusion Centers was to up-link to the Feds, the huge amount of data collected by state and local departments. Whatever "intelligence" is shared, as it always has been, will flow to the Feds but not from the Feds.
They would not tell you if your hair was on fire.
written by Brandon Smith , August 15, 2011
@Nevermind
Never assume anything. The info goes BOTH ways. Local law enforcement collects data on specific targets and sends it to the feds. The feds in tandem with the SPLC create the propaganda that is then disseminated to local law enforcement. Local fusion centers do not come up with the information that is applied to items like the MIAC report. That information comes purely from the DHS and the SPLC.
written by Noah Nes , August 18, 2011
To be honest after reading a lot of this I'm flabbergast. I am very conservative and support about 80% of what the Tea Party supports. The other 20% of things is relatively minor since the desired end goal is the same. The reason why I'm flabbergast is because I work in intelligence with people who left DHS (due to the extreme incompetence of the organization) and have worked in several FUSION centers; none of which do the things all of you are talking about. Sure I know the disbelief that must be on your mind after reading this but honestly, do you think I'm going to let any government do what you're talking about to my friends or family? Of course not. I'm just as pissed off about the B.S. going on at capital hill as everyone else, I see our nation being driven into the gutter by politicians, and am doing what I reasonably can to improve the situation. This "citizen spies for action" is a propaganda piece written to agitate people and feed their fears so as to influence their behavior. The only organization I know of that was recently (in my lifetime) involved in anything remotely close to this was CIFA (Counter-intelligence field agency) and when the rest of us found out about it, we stomped the shit out of them. They no longer exist, those involved in their illegal activities are gone. Do a google search on DoD policy 5240.1R, its our religion in the intelligence community. We know it and enforce it vigorously because we will not tolerate the kinds of activities this blog has been talking about. In short, while politicians may be running this country into the ground economically, we are not willing to allow it to be turned into a police state.
written by Brandon Smith , August 19, 2011
@Noah
I'm flabbergasted that after outlining all of the activities described in the article and supporting each assertion with tangible evidence, as well as DHS and Whitehouse papers openly describing citizen spy programs (they call it counter extremism), you are still naive enough to believe that none of this is happening.
If you have any physical evidence that contradicts the reports and white papers linked in the article, I would love to see it.
Honestly, any stooge can come onto a web forum and claim they are a professional so-and-so. I really couldn't care less whether you actually work in intelligence or not, or if you are even a real conservative. All I know is, this is what is ADMITTED, by the DHS, as well as fusion centers. Everything else (including your personal assertions) are just opinion (i.e. not worth much).
written by Ian Macleod , September 03, 2011
I've not heard a word about almost since it was first formed under Bush - or at least on his watch. Just as this article is, Infragard was a wannabe's wet dream of being "let inside" and given Secret Power. last I heard they were told in a briefing that "When, not if, martial law is declared, you have authorization to shoot to kill." Of course, those who are actually in Infragard insist it's mostly just great insider business tips in exchange for "a little information." There's a monthly meeting, a secret phone number that gets them directly to the FBI that even lawmakers don't have and so on.
This one looks like the same thing, but it's less exclusive. No doubt frequent tattlers will get greater rewards. what with all the Intel agencies now, it's starting to look like the only criterion they'll need is not belonging to any of them!
There have always been people relegated to the background who wanted "in," and of course there's always the neighbor lady who lives with her nose against the glass of a window and the phone in one hand with 911 or city police on speed dial (I have one of those; when my wife was dying, she called the City Manager's office and the police ten to twenty times a day because I'd left "trash all over they yard." I got a notice waiting in the CCU at the hospital that we had ten days to pick up all that trash or they would do it and fine us $75 a day. The "trash" was my tools, sawhorses, etc; I'd been replacing and rebuilding our bathroom due to a flood and hadn't had time put the tools and my materials away).
A dictatorship cannot maintain power without the help of citizen informers and uniformed thugs who desperately want power over their fellow citizens. It appears that America has more than enough of both.
Ian
written by dttvinfo , January 08, 2012
For over 20 years an organization in ohio has been researching and using an imaging and tracking radar system that can send and recieve sound. the operators of this system can talk to someone without other people hearing and they can hear any response. it can tell each person apart and remembers them. it was being used before haarp or gwen were finished. This technology has been kept secret from the public, only a small group of people, including police and doctors knew about it. it has grown. as of 2012 nearly all police, firefighters and medical professionals in columbus, ohio are aware of it. most cops in the rest of the state along with indiana are also aware. maybe some doctors and nurses are in fear for their own safety and that of their families while the police and mental health professionals seem to have been advanced to their position because of their willingness to work with this organization. read dttv.info
