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Homeland Security in the Land of the Free
by Sartre Batr
The horror stories about the Transportation Security Administration are indisputable. In the post 911 environment, civil liberties routinely ignored or eliminated, become a mere memory in a country that once prided itself as the beacon of freedom for the entire world. The TSA is part of the Department of Homeland Security. FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency is also an agency of DHS. The public relation spin for the purpose of such authorities is to protect citizens and guard the nation. The reality is that DHS bureaus have the same mission, keep the government safe from potential real or imaginary threats. Interpret threats to mean anyone who opposes the establishment regime, now known as, the military-industrial-financial-security complex.
DHS is the third largest Cabinet department, after the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. A Department of Homeland Security site acknowledges a FY 2012 Budget of $56,941,507,000, in the latest testimony of DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano before Congress,
“The Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 Budget for DHS is $58.6 billion in total budget authority, $48.7 billion in gross discretionary funding, and $39.5 billion in net discretionary funding. Net discretionary budget authority is 0.5 percent below the FY 2012 enacted level. An additional $5.5 billion for the Disaster Relief Fund (DRF) is provided under the disaster relief cap adjustment, pursuant to the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA).”
Wikipedia cites a much higher amount, in fiscal year 2011 it, had allocated a budget of $98.8 billion and spent, net, $66.4 billion, with more than 200,000 employees.
Secretary Napolitano defines the assignments and tasks for the DHS.
The Budget builds on the progress the Department has made in each of its mission areas while also providing essential support to national and economic security.
Mission 1: Preventing Terrorism and Enhancing Security – Protecting the United States from terrorism is the cornerstone of homeland security. DHS’s counterterrorism responsibilities focus on three goals: preventing terrorist attacks; preventing the unauthorized acquisition, importation, movement, or use of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear materials and capabilities within the United States; and reducing the vulnerability of critical infrastructure and key resources, essential leadership, and major events to terrorist attacks and other hazards.
Mission 2: Securing and Managing Our Borders – DHS secures the Nation’s air, land, and sea borders to prevent illegal activity while facilitating lawful travel and trade. The Department’s border security and management efforts focus on three interrelated goals: effectively securing U.S. air, land, and sea borders; safeguarding and streamlining lawful trade and travel; and disrupting and dismantling transnational criminal and terrorist organizations.
Mission 3: Enforcing and Administering Our Immigration Laws – DHS is focused on smart and effective enforcement of U.S. immigration laws while streamlining and facilitating the legal immigration process. The Department has fundamentally reformed immigration enforcement, focusing on identifying and removing criminal aliens who pose a threat to public safety and targeting employers who knowingly and repeatedly break the law.
Mission 4: Safeguarding and Securing Cyberspace – DHS is the Federal Government lead agency for securing civilian government computer systems and works with industry and State, local, tribal, and territorial governments to secure critical infrastructure and information systems. DHS analyzes and mitigates cyber threats and vulnerabilities; distributes threat warnings; and coordinates the response to cyber incidents to ensure that our computers, networks, and cyber systems remain safe.
Mission 5: Ensuring Resilience to Disasters – DHS provides the coordinated, comprehensive Federal response in the event of a terrorist attack, natural disaster, or other large-scale emergency while working with Federal, State, local, and private-sector partners to ensure a swift and effective recovery effort. The Department’s efforts to build a ready and resilient Nation include fostering a community-oriented approach, bolstering information sharing, improving the capability to plan, and providing grants and training to our homeland security and law enforcement partners.
The expansion of full spectrum dominance into domestic oversight and the integration of military practices and functions with local law enforcement are especially disturbing.
From a DHS site the security apparatus discloses.
“Today, fusion centers throughout the country serve as focal points at the state and local level for the receipt, analysis, gathering, and sharing of threat and vulnerability-related information.
In addition, the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative helps to train state and local law enforcement to recognize behaviors and indicators related to terrorism, crime and other threats while standardizing how those observations are analyzed and disseminated.”
The Jesse Ventura video, THE TRUE FACTS ABOUT FEMA CAMPS is so compelling that it was pulled from cable viewing. Dispelling charges of conspiracy allegations with clear evidence of enslavement preparation is too upsetting for the average media induced zombie. The government dependency society is obedient to the dictates of police authority. Fake nationalists, actually are Tory subjects of a pernicious empire.
Just the tip of an intrusive iceberg, the concept of an internal police state emerges as the primary real threat that faces the public. Countless examples of repression, documented in the alternative media, provide evidence that draconian measures to achieve phony internal security, is an integral component of central government subjugation.
Homeland Security chronicles false threats to justify and guarantee greater state control. This bureaucratic behemoth is in the business of recruiting dredges of perverse and pathological domination that would make the “Brownshirts” proud. Flying squadrons of drones for permanent surveillance does not make a country free. America, founded on dissent, now has a timid and docile population. Two examples from history clarify this point.
During the Viet Nam protest movement, flowers of peace inserted into the barrels of National Guard troops were cause for reflection. The internal strife that divided the country, based upon a bogus war, gave rise to the slogan, “Luv it or Leave it” . . . As the decades passed, even the most “gung ho” Rambo has come to the conclusion that the grunts were ferried in country for the purpose of ingratiating the military-industrial-complex. The net result of the conflict was the advancement of Communism. Not just in Southeast Asia, but more significantly, inside the gilded corridors of authoritarian centers of power in our own government.
Do you believe that the dimwitted TSA goons would be receptive to challenges of their S&M dominating practices? An anti internal internment camp protest needs to spread nationwide before the trains start to roll. Where is the outrage from the public? When will the spirit of the 60’s resurrect the moral imperative necessary to save this nation from the fascist elites, who are intent on perfecting our own holocaust?
Remember the courage of the lone Chinese dissenter standing in the path of rolling tanks in Tiananmen Square. Just short of two decades after the Kent State shootings, the world watched the Red Chinese disgraced and loss of face. Since those days, the United States proceeds in lock step to adopt the Marxist Capitalist version of the Chinese model that operates slave communities and rewards crony comrades.
The international merging of global corporatism into a board of directors designed to abolish any remnants of individual freedom is unassailable. The shredding of the Bill of Rights goes on with little anger. The ACLU of fifty years ago is a gutted shell of a vigorous advocate of liberty. Where are the conservatives and libertarians eager to defend Nobel Peace Prize nominee PFC Bradley Manning? The most silent amendment to the Constitution is the third, Conditions for quarters of soldiers.
“No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.”
Today’s application of Amendment III has Homeland Security effectively quartering their domestic spy warriors in the form of technological devices that gather intelligence on ordinary citizens. The physical barrier of a locked door poses little protection when the DHS Stasi invades and violates your inherent autonomy.
The recent “prescribed law” called the NDAA, National Defense Authorization Act is an offense against every American. The good news is that there is at least one constitutional federal judge, Katherine Forrest, left on the bench. The video, NDAA declared unconstitutional; Indefinite detention of Americans blocked by the court, provides a sliver of relief.
The Washington Times concludes,
“Section 1021 of the NDAA could have set a slippery precedent for indefinite detention of American citizens.
This ruling was a milestone in the protection of 900 years of legal precedent, but the fight for due process raises frightening questions about the future of American liberty and the intentions of our representatives.”
America desperately needs protection from the Homeland Security Gestapo. Their stated mission is the essence and embodiment of domestic government terrorism. Until Americans acquire the fortitude and will to resist and disobey unlawful edicts, the country will remain in danger of dictatorial despots. Without concerted commitment, the next dictate will include the internment in re-education facilities of Federal Judges that are insistent in upholding the Constitution.
The FEMA armored combat vehicles are ready for deployment. Remember Tiananmen Square before yet another Kent State becomes routine.
SARTRE – May 20, 2012
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We have Homeland Security because Israel did 911. Are they going to do another terrorist attack in the United States?
Excerpts from the article:
EU Times A bizarre Foreign Ministry report circulating in the Kremlin today states that this Friday past (11 May) Russian Envoy Vladimir Vinokurov, the Consulate General of San Francisco, was approached near his hotel room during a visit to Los Angles by an agent of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation identifying himself as Stephen Ivens [photo top left] who warned that he and a former FBI agent named Donald Sachtleben had uncovered evidence of an impending terror attack on US soil stating that those behind the attack were “all insane.”
Before Ivens was able to finish his “message,” this report says, the three American Diplomatic Security agents, who trail all Russian diplomats in the US, began to “surge” towards Ivens causing him to flee.
Even more bizarre about this case, this report continues, is that the retired FBI agent named Donald Sachtleben mentioned by Ivens, who also knew about this impending “plot,” was arrested within hours of Ivens disappearing and charged with trading child pornography.
Most important to note about Sachtleben was, aside from his being an over 25-year veteran of the FBI, he was a special agent bomb technician before retiring in 2008 who specialized in counterterrorism and bombing investigations and whose most important case was the 11 September 2001 attacks on New York City.
According to US news reports about Sachtleben’s arrest, this most knowledgeable of FBI agents openly traded child porn using the e-mail address ‘pedodave69@yahoo.com’ in an act so stupid for one of the United States most highly reained intelligence agents it defies belief.
The practice of US intelligence services charging their most feared dissidents with child pornography and/or sex charges is well known, with the most celebrated case being against the former UN weapons inspector William Scott Ritter, Jr. who warned about the lies being told to the American people in the run-up to the Iraq War only to find himself sent to prison on trumped up charges involving a minor girl.
Here is the link:
http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/fbi-agent-fleeing-massive-manhunt-warns-theyre-all-insane/15232
From the article:
According to US news sources, Special Agent Ivens, after leaving downtown Los Angeles, returned to his home in Burbank whereupon he then fled into the rugged Verdugo Mountains after which a massive manhunt for him ensued involving 100 FBI agents, 40 sheriff’s department rescuers and a dozen local police officers.
Late yesterday, after the massive manhunt failed to find any trace of Ivens, his wife Thea Ivens issued an urgent public appeal stating: “Steve, if you are out there listening right now, your wife wants to let you know, ‘Babe, we are in this together for better or for worse. I love you, no matter what happens.’ Your child wants you to know, ‘Daddy’s work? Daddy home?’”
The tag “Homeland Security” is bogus in itself. Whose homeland and what security? Our homeland has enough male fighting stock to take care of ourselves. We don’t need foreign perverts and homegrown chickens telling us what to do. Furthermore they do not provide security, they are systematically locking us down on the pretext of threats that they fabricate.
Who came up with that name? Was it the same crazed family who came up with the name Committee for Public Safety during another time of sadistic terror? Their network of useful 18th century idiots eventually met the same fate they so wantonly meted out to their fellow citizens. Our useful idiots think they will fare better. They are so stupid. They think they count for something. But they will learn the hard way that in a criminal syndicate nobody counts for anything.
American society certainly won’t need alien perverts and psychopaths–we’ve got enough of them running around already–, but the shadow government might have good use for them. The horrors inflicted on the Russian people by the “Bolsheviks” may ultimately appear crude and amateurish in comparison to the weapons and plans reportedly being developed for use exclusively on US soil. In an earlier article, Capt May discusses exercises being conducted to condition Americans to having foreign troops on our soil with the blatantly Orwellian objective of protecting us when, in fact, our state and local police probably have more high-tech armaments and fire power than most foreign armies. If foreign military forces or “pubic safety” experts are brought in from a foreign country, it sure won’t be to direct traffic.
Our overlords are not smart, they simply have the upper hand. For centuries all their power was completely dependant on bluffing and a perverse game of smoke and mirrors. The show is over. The really smart ones have long since cashed out, and the morons are about to take us on. This is going to be a real drag. They have to be sure that every last gunman under their control will obey them. How likely? Not very. As for foreigners they might take us on initially but then again, they might not. They will be on terra incognito and are not likely to fight and die for a country that is not theirs. Involving foreigners will only serve to enrage us and make it all the worse for them and our fake leaders when they are cornered. The more they fight with us the less likely they will join their screwball friends under the palm trees of a Polynesian beach.
Ann, I disagree they’re not smart. They’ll never use straightforward military tactics, so their option is limited–whether initiated with a false-flag attack on our people or on our food supply ( the latter being more likely)–to the kind of reign of terror described in The Gulag Archipelago, a seemingly random blitzkrieg of battering down doors in the middle of the night and dragging people off to detention centers and, eventually, the abattoirs. The idea was to use maximum fear to neutralize spontaneous resistance. The same mentality toward the people on the part of the elites that existed in Russia a century ago exists among the elites in America today, which is becoming alarmingly evident in the sheer nastiness and disproportionality of our law enforcement and justice system. But, back to the point, in Russia the Bolsheviks had to rely on foreigners to do the real dirty work, many of them arriving from the New York and Chicago, in fact.
Ann – I have a bit of a suggestion here that may help to shine a light on this murky area – thereby answering your question. The inventors of this phrase were probably the same old people that coined the name of the Soviet ‘NKVD’ – or translated into English: ‘The People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs’.
Run by Lavrenty Beria and helped by an individual called Miliband. That individual is said to have organised the thousands of executions of Polish officers and intellectuals in the Katyn forest – among other atrocities. They routinely murdered in their millions.
It might NOT surprise you to know that the two grandsons (David and Ed Miliband) of this mass murderer are now at the very head of the British Labour party – and look like forming the next government. So much for the home of Parliament and democracy!
I wonder what the mathematical odds would be of these two leading the British government – without the application of the ‘hidden hand’?
Yep – all the same crackpots. The disgusting Rothschilds funded the French Revolution, and their psychopathic concubine Robespierre ran the “Committee for Public Safety,” the DHS of its day. These ghastly terrorists sent countless innocents to the scaffold for the most flippant reasons and sometimes none at all. Look up the lists of those who were condemned – they are still available. Infants were speared and thus held aloft in front of their parents while waiting their turn at the guillotine, teenagers and elderly alike were decapitated, and the valiant Vendee people rebelled against the depravity spewed forth by the Revolutionaries and were effectively wiped out and only of late have been recognized as specific targets of genocide. What a filthy legacy, how do the Rothschilds look in the mirror and not barf.
Yes, the Brits have been infiltrated for a long time, since the execution of good King Charles. I did not know that the Miliband kooks were Bolsheviks but it does not really surprise me. They are widespread as cockroaches. I always find it so risible that grubby street rats the likes of them are always trying to ape the bluebloods. What a joke. I bet the palace has to assign undercover cops among the butlers to make sure the reds don’t make off with the silverware after dinner. The royal household wait staff must be exhausted after a soiree with wannabes like them. I hope the day will come when the traitor Sir William Wiseman is posthumously stripped of his knighthood, dug up, and sprinkled over the town dump.
The Brits have taken more than their share of the hidden hand scammers who usurped and distorted natural progress and abused every single English family one way or another since their seizure of power in the 17th century. The deep reserves of ancient and recent British culture are still viable, and their recognition and practice will counter the effects of the varnished artifice foisted on the populace at present.