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February 2010
Terror reviews avoid word 'Islamist': "The 108-page Quadrennial Homeland Security Review... uses the term 'terrorist' a total of 66 times, 'al Qaeda' five times and 'violent extremism' or 'extremist' 14 times. It calls on the U.S. government to 'actively engage communities across the United States' to 'stop the spread of violent extremism.'...Yet in describing terrorist threats against the United States and the ideology that motivates terrorists, the review - like its sister document from the Pentagon, the Quadrennial Defense Review - does not use the words 'Islam,' 'Islamic' or 'Islamist' a single time....
"'To understand a threat and counter it, we must know our enemy,' said Ms. Collins, the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee. 'While there are other threats to our national security from other types of violent extremism, the gravest threat comes from Islamist extremists.'...
"Patrick Poole, a counterterrorism consultant to government and law enforcement agencies, said the documents reveal a 'culture of willful blindness...' within senior levels of government.'" See Homeland Security and the transformation of America
Cuts in Border Security in Proposed Budget: "While telling the American people that national security is a priority for the administration, the White House submitted a 2011 budget proposal that includes cuts to U.S. border security. The proposed budget cuts include a reduction in Border Patrol agents and a cut in the amount of money allocated for the so-called "virtual fence" on the U.S.-Mexico border....
"In the midst of a firestorm over Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano's failure to appear before a Congressional committee hearing, officials from her office confirmed the proposed cuts on Monday...
"'New York City has a police department that numbers well over 40,000 officers and another 10,000 civilian employees, yet the U.S. Border Patrol agents, who are responsible for thousands and thousands of miles of border, number only 20,000. And Obama wants to cut that number.'...
"The proposed budget cut also would eliminate $226 million that had been allocated for an electronic 'virtual fence' system along the border." See Homeland Security and the transformation of America
January 2010
Illegal Haitian Immigrants Can Start Applying Thursday to Stay in U.S.: "Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas said Haitians will be able to start filing their applications for the Temporary Protected Status on Thursday.... Julie Bermane, 19, of Miami, said she has lived in the U.S. since she was 3 but because she was here illegally has been unable to go to college or get a job. 'There's a lot of things in my life that I want to do, but this stuff has been holding me back,' she said. If her application is granted, she said, 'I can go out and see the world.' The agency, part of the Department of Homeland Security, is expecting about 100,000 to 200,000 applications."Video: Christian Identity Oriented Terrorists: Here Obama's TSA nominee shares some of his concerns. They sound like the warnings issued by Homeland Security last year. Keep in mind, "Christian Identity" is not Biblical Christianity, but this reference is likely to vilify faithful Christian believers as well. Could that be intentional? After all, those who take God's Word seriously cannot conform to the planned global solidarity.
And why this focus on "domestic terrorists" among the millions of peaceful Americans who resist killing unborn babies when our government refuses to put a stop to Islamic military training camps from coast to coast?
Video: Preventing Terrorism Within Our Military Forces: Retired Army three-star Gen. Jerry Boykin says: "Nobody wanted to deal with the fact that this guy was a terrorist.... His behavior and his rhetoric were both indications that he was subscribing to a Jihadist ideology.... He was a terrorist. That was a terrorist act.' Boykin said the Fort Hood massacre was the worst act of terrorism on U.S. soil since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. "The mere fact that this guy was counseling and dealing with our soldiers who have been through the war in Iraq and Afghanistan is atrocious... Gen. Boykin spoke from personal experience after spending 36 years in the military. He was one of the original members of the Army's elite Delta Force..."
DHS plans to catch only one in four travelers committing ‘major’ criminal violations while entering U.S. on international flights in 2010: "In fiscal 2008... the department caught only 25 percent of those committing 'major violations' while entering the U.S. on international flights. It also planned to catch only 25% in fiscal 2009.... The 'major violations' that DHS believes 74 percent of perpetrators will get away with [in 2010]... involve 'serious criminal activity, including possession of narcotics, smuggling of prohibited products, human smuggling, weapons possession, fraudulent U.S. documents, and other offenses serious enough to result in arrest.'” Homeland Security Investigation: Illegal Workers On Elmendorf AFB in Alaska: "A contractor hired for a major construction project on Elmendorf Air Force Base broke both state and federal law.... 'I do not have a clue how a contractor was able to take these individuals onto a military base, constructing a building for one of our most sophisticated fighter planes.'... 'It's extremely disturbing that a contractor is able to, day after day for months on end, take undocumented workers and get them through security,' says Lewis..... When a contractor is allowed through fraudulent business practices, to come into Alaska and take jobs from Alaskans, its very detrimental to us....." See Homeland Security and the Transformation of AmericaReport of 2nd man cuffed from Flight 253 confirmed U.S. Customs and Border official apologizes, reverses himself: "After several days of denying eyewitness reports of a second man from Northwest Flight 253 being arrested following the attempted Christmas Day bombing of the plane by a Nigerian passenger linked to al-Qaida, the chief U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer in the Detroit area has admitted another passenger was taken into custody."
December 2009
Homegrown Insurgency: "We are seeing the horns of a Muslim insurgency in this country. We are being Europeanized.... 'We are seeing young Americans who are inspired by al-Qaida and radical ideology,' echoed DHS secretary Janet Napolitano, while still failing to name the source of that ideology. 'Home-based terrorism is here.”' See Homeland Security
Online Posting Reveals a "How To" for Terrorists to Get Through Airport Security: "In a massive security breach, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) inadvertently posted online its airport screening procedures manual, including some of the most closely guarded secrets regarding special rules for diplomats and CIA and law enforcement officers." In the midst of today's sophisticated technology, it's tempting to put our faith in man rather than God -- but it's not wise! See Trusting God
November 2009
Senate Panel Conducting Fort Hood Probe Warned of 'Homegrown' Threat: "The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee served up startling warnings of 'homegrown threats in a May 2008 report, describing scenarios eerily similar to the mass shooting at Fort Hood last week.... More than a year before the massacre at Fort Hood, a Senate panel... warned that 'radicalization' had spread beyond Afghanistan training camps to the United States... 'Radicalization is no longer confined to training camps in Afghanistan or other locations far from our shores; it is also occurring right here in the United States,' the report stated..... Officials say [Hasan] communicated 10 to 20 times with a radical cleric overseas who had used his own Web site to incite Muslim violence against U.S. troops." The fall and rise of human violence
October 2009
DHS Video: Owning gold or firearms, donating to charity, finding out information about things all constitute suspicious activity to be reported to the authorities. 'Huge threat to power grid': "...a Chinese researcher had detailed precisely how vulnerable the U.S. electric grid is to a cyber-terrorist attack. The disclosure reveals the government's familiarity with a report released more than six months ago, in which Jian-Wei Wang used publicly available data to explain exactly how the United States' West Coast grid was connected and how the computers that control the grid could be easily sabotaged." DHS helps local police buy military-style sonic devices: "With the help of Homeland Security grants, police departments nationwide looking to subdue unruly crowds and political protesters are purchasing a high-tech device originally used by the military to repel battlefield insurgents and Somali pirates with piercing noise capable of damaging hearing.... Police acknowledge that they deployed the so-called Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) as a safeguard at recent political conventions, protest-plagued international summit meetings and this summer's volatile town hall meetings on health care."
September 2009
Obama supports extending Patriot Act provisions: "...The lone wolf provision was created to conduct surveillance on suspects with no known link to foreign governments or terrorist groups.... The roving wiretaps provision was designed to allow investigators to quickly monitor the communications of a suspects who change their cell phone or communication device."
Coast Guard: 'Shots fired' on Potomac was just a training exercise: "Reports of the Coast Guard firing on a 'suspicious vessel' in the Potomac River panicked D.C.-area residents and officials today as President Obama made his way to a nearby Sept. 11 commemoration. CNN broke into its scheduled programming to report on radio traffic announcing that the Coast Guard fired 10 rounds at a vessel..... Turns out there were no shots fired and that it was all a training exercise." See Homeland Security and the Transformation of America
August 2009
The Pentagon Wants Authority to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in U.S.: "The Pentagon has approached Congress to grant the Secretary of Defense the authority to post almost 400,000 military personnel throughout the United States in times of emergency or a major disaster. ...it raises the prospect of U.S. military personnel patrolling the streets of the United States, in conflict with the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878.... NorthCom’s Congressional fact sheet refers not just to a 'major disaster' but also to 'emergencies.' And it says, 'Those terms are defined in section 5122 of title 42, U.S. Code.' That section gives the President the sole discretion to designate an event as an 'emergency' or a 'major disaster.' Both are 'in the determination of the President' alone." See The Transformation of America Holder: Homegrown Terror Threat Increasing: "Attorney General Eric Holder... is increasingly concerned about Americans becoming radicalized and turning to terrorism. ....'In some ways it's the most sobering part of the day,' Holder said of his morning intelligence briefing, in which he gets the latest report on the landscape of 'the organizations, the people who are bound and determined to do harm to our nation.'"July 2009Do you wonder whether he is referring to Muslim terrorists or "the right wing extremists" who criticize the abortion industry?
Obama Appoints 2 Devout Muslims to Homeland Security Posts: "Obama has appointed Arif Alikhan a devout Sunni Muslim to assistant secretary for the Office of Policy Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Alikhan was instrumental in taking down the LA Police Department's plan to monitor it's Muslim community. Alikhan is affiliated with MPAC, the 'Muslim Public Affairs Council'. Founded in 1988, ... MPAC's Senior Advisor, Maher Hathout, who has close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and espouses the radical brand of Islam known as Wahhabism, was invited to address the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles in 2000."
...earlier today at a ceremony held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in ADC National Executive Director Kareem Shora as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC)."
July 2009
Probe found weaknesses in federal security: "Federal investigators had no trouble smuggling bomb-making materials past ill-trained and poorly supervised guards at federal buildings, senators were told at a hearing Wednesday. 'This is the broadest indictment of a federal agency I have ever heard,' [said] Sen. Joseph Lieberman..."
As we mentioned before, this department seems more concerned about pro-life "right-wing extremists" than foreign terrorists." See Barbed Wire Camps for American Citizens
Attorney General to classify pro-life, pro-gun American as terrorists: "An amendment to [The Hastings Amendment to the National Defense Authorization] bill swiftly moving through the US Congress will allow the Obama Administration's Attorney General to classify Americans as domestic terrorists if they are pro-life, pro-gun and anti-big government.... In essence Attorney General Eric Holder... will have the discretion to label Americans terrorists. [Rep. Alcee] Hastings Hastings...also proposed the creation of 'emergency camps' that are nothing more than prisons.'...
"Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) made the following remarks..... 'While the amendment seeks to keep gang members and members of violent groups out of the military, the amendment by its language is much more broad. Specifically, it confers upon the Attorney General the ability to categorize groups as hate groups, and this sounds an alarm for many of us because of the recent shocking and offensive report released by the Department of Homeland Security which labeled, arguably, a majority of Americans as 'extremists.'... 'I take extreme offense that the federal government... would dare to categorize people who are 'dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition or abortion or immigration' as 'right-wing extremists.'" See The Enemy of the People
June 2009
Guess who's supporting Sotomayor? "The way to end 'right-wing' terrorism in the U.S. is to confirm Sonia Sotomayor as a Supreme Court justice, boycott Fox News and support Barack Obama's plan for nationalizing health care, the Communist Party USA said in an editorial in its newspaper, the People's Weekly World today. The organization blamed the murders of late-term abortionist George Tiller in Kansas and Holocaust Museum security guard... on the 'extreme right,' explaining that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano's much-criticized report warning about the threat of violence by 'right-wing extremists' was in fact prophetic. 'Republican right denounced her timely report as an 'attack' on veterans, anti-abortionists, and anti-immigrant crusaders,' the editorial said. 'Some even called for her resignation.'..."The solution? The party said: "[T]he best answer is to defeat the hatemongers politically. Boycott Fox News. Demand Senate confirmation of Supreme Court nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, latest target of hate. Build maximum unity to win healthcare for all... an end to wars, and a more inclusive, tolerant democracy in our country.'"
See The Enemy of the People Napolitano adds adviser with ties to terror backers: "Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano swore in to her official advisory council the head of an Arab American organization [ADC] whose officials have labeled deadly anti-U.S. jihadists as 'heroes' and opposed referring to Hamas as a terrorist organization...."
Last week, Napolitano swore in Damascus-born Kareem Shora, the ADC's national executive director, to a position on the Homeland Security Advisory Council, an outside-the-department group of national security experts that advises the secretary. Shora is the first Arab rights advocate on the panel....The ADC takes an openly anti-Israel line. Its official material has accused the Jewish state of 'apartheid' and 'atrocities' against the Palestinians."Obama Appoints Devout Muslim to Homeland Security: "Our Islamic loving President Obama has appointed Arif Alikhan a devout Sunni Muslim to assistant secretary for the Office of Policy Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Alikhan was instrumental in taking down the LA Police Department's plan to monitor it's Muslim community."
Demand: Root out pro-life 'terrorists': "The murder of late-term abortionist George Tiller in Kansas has prompted a call upon the Department of Homeland Security to crack down on pro-lifers as just the kinds of 'right-wing extremists' that the government identified earlier in a controversial report that sparked outrage across the country.... NOW, the National Organization for Women... released the following statement: 'Bringing the killers to justice is not enough – the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security must root out and prosecute as domestic terrorists and violent racketeers the criminal enterprise that has organized and funded criminal acts for decades.' ... 'We call on the new attorney general, Eric Holder, and head of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano to treat these murders in the same way they would treat politically-motivated domestic terrorism of any other kind...."
"Prolonged detention" for Americans who may break a law? Biblical Truth is clearly a major focus of the "Hate Crimes" bill. When it becomes law, Christian moral guidelines could be blamed for such contemptible acts as the murder of abortionist Dr. Tiller. In fact, that tragic killing could well be used to speed the passage of the bill -- and to vilify Christians who have no desire to hurt anyone. As Hillary Clinton said, "Never waste a good crisis."
OBAMA: "My administration has begun to reshape the standards that apply to insure that they are in line with The Rule of Law. We must have clear and lawful defensible standards for who shall fall into this category. ... Our goal is not to avoid a legitimate framework. In our constitutional system, prolonged detention [based on potential "threat" not proof of guilt] should not be the decision of any one man."
In other words, a new set of legal standards will allow the government to bypass constitutional "rights" and imprison a person based on suspicion of "threat."
Repeated Bill creates detention camps in U.S. for 'emergencies': "The proposed bill... appears designed to create the type of detention center that those concerned about use of the military in domestic affairs fear could be used as concentration camps for political dissidents.... The bill also appears to expand the president's emergency power....
"The broad specifications... contribute to concern that the 'national emergency' purpose could be utilized by the secretary of homeland security to include any kind of situation the government wants to contain or otherwise control."
The Religious Right Didn't Kill George Tiller: "Tiller's alleged killer, Scott Roeder, is a long-time radical antiabortion activist with reported ties to a militant antigovernment organization called the Freemen. Within hours after the murder, every antiabortion group in the country denounced the attack. The organized antiabortion movement has always opposed violence against abortion providers. That has never stopped opportunistic prochoice activists, however, from conflating their passionate rhetoric with the behavior of individual criminals. True to form, on Sunday, Mike Hendricks of the Kansas City Star accused anyone who had criticized Tiller as a murderer (Tiller aborted healthy, nine-month old fetuses) of being an 'accomplice' to his death...."In addition to fighting violent, Muslim jihadists abroad, some liberals argue that America must deal with its own, homegrown terrorists. These are not just people who commit violence but millions of socially conservative evangelicals and Catholics -- 'Christianists' -- who comprise the base of the Republican Party and threaten the stability of the country....
If 'Christianists' were anything like actual religious fascists they would applaud Tiller's murder as a 'heroic martyrdom operation' and suborn further mayhem.... The manifestos of Islamic militant groups are replete with paeans to killing infidels." Doctor who provided late-term abortions is shot to death in his church: "George Tiller, the nation's most prominent provider of controversial late-term abortions, was shot and killed Sunday in the lobby of his Lutheran church in Wichita, Kan.... Hours later, police stopped and apprehended Scott Roeder, 51, of Merriam, Kansas. ...The FBI and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation are involved to determine whether others were part of the attack and whether the suspect had any connection to antiabortion groups. ...."'Tiller's murder will send a chill down the spines of the brave and courageous providers and other professionals who are part of reproductive-health centers that serve women across this country,' said Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.... Operation Rescue President Troy Newman, whose group is based in Wichita... said he was 'shocked' by the killing. 'Operation Rescue has worked for years through peaceful, legal means.... We denounce vigilantism and the cowardly act that took place this morning.'"
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