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Agency created to protect against terror attacks now policing free speech
The DHS appears to have finally found a use for all those bullets it’s been buying. At a Tea Party protest outside an IRS building in St. Louis yesterday there were no regular police – only armed Homeland Security guards.
The DHS was supposedly founded to protect against and respond to terrorist attacks, man-made accidents, and natural disasters. It was not created to protect the IRS from peaceful protesters, but in the decade since its inception, Big Sis has morphed into an entity that polices and monitors political free speech as one of its primary functions. Homeland Security has routinely been caught spying on protesters from both ends of the political spectrum via its nationwide network of “threat fusion centers”. Government documents unearthed in April revealed that the DHS, “conducts daily monitoring of peaceful, lawful protests as a matter of policy” and functions as a “secret political police force against people participating in lawful, peaceful free speech activity,” such as ‘Occupy’ demonstrations.
In its promotional material for the ‘See Something, Say Something’ snitch program, the DHS has routinely portrayed white, middle class Americans as the most likely terrorists. Mock news reports and security drills run by the DHS have also depicted gun owners and homeschoolers as violent terrorists.
It’s no surprise that the DHS is now deploying its agents to defend the IRS against the ire of the American people given that both federal agencies have gone to extreme lengths to target law-abiding, conservative, or God forbid “anti-government” Americans as domestic extremists and even terrorists.
Originally posted by dragonridr
reply to post by guohua
Well you know how those peaceful demonstrations go one minute everythings fine then the next people are spontaniosly pulling out AK 47s rocket launchers and morters. At least there was no video or man somebody might have gotten hurt.
Originally posted by MichaelPMaccabee
You can only threaten violent revolution so many times before people begin to take actions to protect from that kind of behavior.
Originally posted by burntheships
Originally posted by MichaelPMaccabee
You can only threaten violent revolution so many times before people begin to take actions to protect from that kind of behavior.
Unless, that is your a radical Islamist group threatening to burn America,
complete with terrorist training camps here on U.S. soil.....
then you will get all of the understanding and special priveledge treatment,
government will go out of its way to accomodate you and make you feel at home.edit on 22-5-2013 by burntheships because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by MichaelPMaccabee
Jihadists. Westborough Baptists. Tea Party. Eco-Terror. Whatever. It doesn't matter. Extremists are extremists. If you advertise yourselves as violently opposing the government, expect to be targets.
Originally posted by MichaelPMaccabee
Anyone that doesn't understand that the "Tea Party" is just the newest label for a lot of previously existing right-wing extremists hasn't been to their websites. You can only threaten violent revolution so many times before people begin to take actions to protect from that kind of behavior.