{"id":1428574,"date":"2023-09-21T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1428574"},"modified":"2023-09-21T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T07:00:00","slug":"a-nation-of-snitches-dhs-is-grooming-americans-to-report-on-each-other","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/a-nation-of-snitches-dhs-is-grooming-americans-to-report-on-each-other\/1428574\/","title":{"rendered":"A Nation Of Snitches: DHS Is Grooming Americans To Report On Each Other"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Nation Of Snitches: DHS Is Grooming Americans To Report On Each Other<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThere were relatively few secret police, and most were just processing the information coming in. I had found a shocking fact. It wasn\u2019t the secret police who were doing this wide-scale surveillance and hiding on every street corner. It was the ordinary German people who were informing on their neighbors.\u201d<\/p>\n

– Professor Robert Gellately, author of\u00a0Backing Hitler<\/em><\/p>\n

Are you among the\u00a041% of Americans who regularly attend church<\/a>\u00a0or some other religious service?<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you believe the\u00a0economy is about to collapse<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0government will soon declare martial law<\/a>?<\/em><\/p>\n

Do you display an unusual number of\u00a0political and\/or ideological bumper stickers<\/a>\u00a0on your car?<\/em><\/p>\n

Are you among the\u00a044% of Americans who live in a household with a gun<\/a>? If so, are you concerned that the\u00a0government may be plotting to confiscate your firearms<\/a>?<\/em><\/p>\n

If you answered yes to any of the above questions, you may be an anti-government extremist (a.k.a.\u00a0domestic terrorist<\/a>) in the eyes of the government and flagged for heightened surveillance and preemptive intervention.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Let that sink in a moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you believe in and exercise your rights under the Constitution (namely, your right to speak freely, worship freely, associate with like-minded individuals who share your political views, criticize the government, own a weapon, demand a warrant before being questioned or searched, or any other activity viewed as potentially anti-government, racist, bigoted, anarchic or sovereign), you have just been\u00a0promoted to the top of the government\u2019s terrorism watch list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I assure you I\u2019m not making this stuff up.<\/p>\n

So what is the government doing about these so-called American \u201cextremists\u201d?<\/p>\n

The government is grooming the American people to spy on each other as part of its Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, or CP3 program.<\/p>\n

According to journalist Leo Hohmann, the government is handing out\u00a0$20 million in grants to police, mental health networks, universities, churches and school districts<\/a>\u00a0to enlist their help in identifying Americans who might be political dissidents or potential \u201cextremists.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Hohmann explains, \u201cWhether it\u2019s COVID and vaccines, the war in Ukraine, immigration, the Second Amendment, LGBTQ ideology and child-gender confusion, the integrity of our elections, or the issue of protecting life in the womb,\u00a0you are no longer allowed to hold dissenting opinions and voice them publicly in America<\/a>. If you do, your own government will take note and consider you a potential \u2018violent extremist\u2019 and terrorist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cue the dawning of the Snitch State.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This new era of snitch surveillance is the lovechild of the government\u2019s post-9\/11 \u201cSee Something, Say Something\u201d programs combined with the self-righteousness of a politically correct, hyper-vigilant,\u00a0technologically-wired age.<\/p>\n

For more than two decades, the Department of Homeland Security has plastered its\u00a0\u201cSee Something, Say Something\u201d campaign<\/a>\u00a0on the walls of metro stations, on billboards, on coffee cup sleeves, at the Super Bowl, even on television monitors in the Statue of Liberty. Colleges, universities and even football teams and sporting arenas have lined up for grants to participate in the program.<\/p>\n

The government has even designated\u00a0September 25 as National \u201cIf You See Something, Say Something\u201d Awareness Day<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you see something suspicious, says the DHS, say something about it to the police, call it in to a government hotline, or report it using a convenient app on your smart phone.<\/p>\n

This DHS slogan is nothing more than the government\u2019s way of indoctrinating \u201cwe the people\u201d into the mindset that we\u2019re an extension of the government and, as such, have a patriotic duty to be suspicious of, spy on, and turn in our fellow citizens.<\/p>\n

This is what is commonly referred to as community policing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet while community policing and federal programs such as \u201cSee Something, Say Something\u201d are sold to the public as patriotic attempts to be on guard against those who would harm us, they are little more than totalitarian tactics dressed up and repackaged for a more modern audience as well-intentioned appeals to law and order and security.<\/p>\n

The police state could not ask for a better citizenry than one that carries out its own policing.<\/p>\n

After all, the police can\u2019t be everywhere. So how do you police a nation when your population outnumbers your army of soldiers? How do you carry out surveillance on a nation when there aren\u2019t enough cameras, let alone viewers, to monitor every square inch of the country 24\/7? How do you not only track but analyze the transactions, interactions and movements of every person within the United States?<\/p>\n

The answer is simpler than it seems: You persuade the citizenry to be your eyes and ears. You hype them up on color-coded \u201cTerror alerts,\u201d keep them in the dark about the distinctions between actual threats and staged \u201ctraining\u201d drills so that all crises seem real, desensitize them to the sight of militarized police walking their streets, acclimatize them to being surveilled \u201cfor their own good,\u201d and then indoctrinate them into thinking that they are the only ones who can save the nation from another 9\/11.<\/p>\n

Consequently, we now live in a society in which a person can be accused of any number of crimes without knowing what exactly he has done. He might be apprehended in the middle of the night by a roving band of SWAT police. He might find himself on a no-fly list, unable to travel for reasons undisclosed. He might have his phones or internet tapped based upon a secret order handed down by a secret court, with no recourse to discover why he was targeted.<\/p>\n

This Kafkaesque nightmare has become America\u2019s reality.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is how you turn a people into extensions of the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent police state, and in the process turn a citizenry against each other.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a brilliant ploy, with the added bonus that while the citizenry remains focused on and distrustful of each other and shadowy forces from outside the country, they\u2019re incapable of focusing on more definable threats that fall closer to home\u2014namely, the government and its cabal of Constitution-destroying agencies and corporate partners.<\/p>\n

Community policing did not come about as a feel-good, empowering response to individuals trying to \u201ctake back\u201d their communities from crime syndicates and drug lords.<\/p>\n

Rather, \u201cCommunity-Oriented Policing\u201d or\u00a0COPS<\/a>\u00a0(short for Community Partnerships, Organizational Transformation, and Problem Solving) is a Department of Justice program designed to foster partnerships between police agencies and members of the community.<\/p>\n

To this end, the Justice Department identifies five distinct \u201cpartners\u201d in the community policing scheme: law enforcement and other government agencies, community members and groups, nonprofits, churches and service providers, private businesses and the media.<\/p>\n

Together, these groups are supposed to \u201cidentify\u201d community concerns, \u201cengage\u201d the community in achieving specific goals, serve as \u201cpowerful\u201d partners with the government, and add their \u201cconsiderable resources\u201d to the government\u2019s already massive arsenal of technology and intelligence. The mainstream media\u2019s role, long recognized as being a mouthpiece for the government, is formally recognized as \u201cpublicizing\u201d services from government or community agencies or new laws or codes that will be enforced, as well as shaping public perceptions of the police, crime problems, and fear of crime.<\/p>\n

Inevitably, this begs the question: if there\u2019s nothing wrong with community engagement, if the police can\u2019t be everywhere at once, if surveillance cameras do little to actually prevent crime, and if we need to \u201ctake back our communities\u201d from the crime syndicates and drug lords, then what\u2019s wrong with community policing and \u201cSee Something, Say Something\u201d?<\/p>\n

What\u2019s wrong is that\u00a0these programs are not, in fact, making America any safer<\/a>\u00a0while turning us into a legalistic, intolerant, squealing, bystander nation.<\/p>\n

We are now the unwitting victims of an interconnected, tightly woven, technologically evolving web of real-time, warrantless, wall-to-wall, widening mass surveillance dragnet comprised of fusion centers, red flag laws, behavioral threat assessments, terror watch lists, facial recognition, snitch tip lines, biometric scanners, pre-crime programs, DNA databases, data mining, precognitive technology and contact tracing apps, to name just a few.<\/p>\n

This is how the government keeps us under control and in its crosshairs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

By the time you combine the DHS\u2019 \u201cSee Something, Say Something\u201d with CP3 and community policing, which has gone global in the guise of the\u00a0Strong Cities Network program<\/a>, you\u2019ve got a formula for enabling the government to not only flag distinct \u201canti-government\u201d segments of the population but locking down the entire nation.<\/p>\n

Under the guise of fighting violent extremism \u201cin all of its forms and manifestations<\/a>\u201d in cities and communities across the world, the\u00a0Strong Cities Network program<\/a>\u00a0works with the UN and the federal government to train local police agencies across America in how to identify, fight and prevent extremism, as well as\u00a0address intolerance<\/a>\u00a0within their communities, using all of the resources at their disposal.<\/p>\n

What this program is really all about, however, is community policing on a global scale with the objective being to prevent violent extremism by targeting its source: racism, bigotry, hatred, intolerance, etc. In other words, police will identify, monitor and deter individuals who could be construed as potential extremist \u201cthreats,\u201d violent or otherwise, before they can become actual threats.<\/p>\n

The government\u2019s war on extremists has been sold to Americans in much the same way that the USA Patriot Act was sold to Americans: as a means of combatting terrorists who seek to destroy America.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, as we now know, the USA Patriot Act was used as a front to advance the surveillance state, allowing the government to establish a far-reaching domestic spying program that has turned every American citizen into a criminal suspect.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the concern with the government\u2019s ongoing anti-extremism program is that it will, in many cases, be utilized to render otherwise lawful, nonviolent activities as potentially extremist.<\/p>\n

Keep in mind that the government agencies involved in ferreting out American \u201cextremists\u201d will carry out their objectives\u2014to identify and deter potential extremists\u2014in concert with\u00a0fusion centers<\/a>, data collection agencies, behavioral scientists, corporations, social media, and community organizers and by relying on cutting-edge technology for surveillance, facial recognition,\u00a0predictive policing<\/a>, biometrics, and behavioral\u00a0epigenetics<\/a>\u00a0(in which life experiences alter one\u2019s genetic makeup).<\/p>\n

This is pre-crime on an ideological scale and it\u2019s been a long time coming.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For example, in 2009, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released two reports, one on \u201cRightwing Extremism<\/a>,\u201d which broadly defines rightwing extremists as individuals and groups \u201cthat are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely,\u201d and one on \u201cLeftwing Extremism<\/a>,\u201d which labeled environmental and animal rights activist groups as extremists.<\/p>\n

These reports, which use the words terrorist and extremist interchangeably, indicate that for the government, anyone seen as opposing the government\u2014whether they\u2019re Left, Right or somewhere in between\u2014can be labeled an extremist.<\/p>\n

Fast forward a few years, and you have the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which each successive presidential administration has continually re-upped, that allows the military to take you out of your home, lock you up with no access to friends, family or the courts if you\u2019re seen as an extremist.<\/p>\n

Now connect the dots, from the 2009 Extremism reports to the NDAA and the far-reaching data crime fusion centers that collect and share surveillance data between local, state and federal police agencies.<\/p>\n

Add in tens of thousands of armed, surveillance drones that will soon blanket American skies, facial recognition technology that identifies and tracks you wherever you go and whatever you do. And then to complete the circle, toss in the real-time crime centers which are attempting to \u201cpredict\u201d crimes and identify criminals before they happen based on widespread surveillance, complex mathematical algorithms and prognostication programs.<\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t read the writing on the wall, you need to pay better attention.<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I point out in my book\u00a0Battlefield America: The War on the American People<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and in its fictional counterpart\u00a0The Erik Blair Diaries<\/em><\/a>, unless we can put the brakes on this dramatic expansion and globalization of the government\u2019s powers, we\u2019re not going to recognize this country five, ten\u2014even twenty\u2014years from now.<\/p>\n

As long as \u201cwe the people\u201d continue to allow the government to trample our rights in the so-called name of national security, things will get worse, not better.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s already worse.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 09\/20\/2023 – 23:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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