American Horror Story: Schools, banks and corporations decide who's a terrorist (Updated)
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Imagine speaking out against the government and being labeled a terrorist. Imagine speaking out against police abuse and being labeled a terrorist. Imagine speaking out against corporate monopolies and being labeled a terrorist.
You can stop imagining, because it is already happening.
According to a recent article in the VV Daily Press, law enforcement, first responders, banks and schools are labeling people terrorists.
"San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Detective Heather Forsythe, with the department’s Criminal Intelligence Division, said Tuesday that public safety agencies and private sector personnel, such as in education and banking, meet monthly to network, “compare notes” and essentially engage in ever-important information sharing."
The Banking Secrecy Act otherwise known as 'Suspicious Activity Reporting' allows law enforcement and banks to secretly spy on customers. (To learn how banks are spying on our everyday transactions click here.)
Updated 6/26:
Hundreds of thousands of Americans on secret bank watchlist
Banks are putting people on a secret watchlist called World-Check. World-Check is really a bank risk assessment tool.
"Thomson Reuters claims that World-Check is a risk-assessment tool, not a blacklist, and that a listing is not necessarily meant to imply wrongdoing."
“This kind of list reminds me of those early years after 9/11 when almost every Muslim active in the American Muslim community was on some sort of list that caused them to be stopped or searched at the border,” said Ihsan Bagby, a professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Kentucky.
"More than 400,000 American citizens are on the 2014 list. Some of them are connected to categories of criminality like terrorism, organized crime, or narcotics. The vast majority are, or are linked to, “politically exposed persons”— people who might be able to abuse their public roles to corrupt ends."
The Terrorism Early Warning Group, (TEWG) is made up of 19,000 sheriffs and law enforcement agencies and thousands of private sector personnel, like those in education and banking.
Corrupt Sheriff Leroy Baca referred to the TEWG as "Public Trust Spying Policing." Fyi, Baca was recently sentenced for accepting a bribe and trying to thwart an FBI investigation.
How widespread is TEWG? A Google search for "Terrorism Early Warning Group" returned 4.5 million hits.
TEWG's are really Fusion Centers, which have sprung up all across the country.
"The St. Louis Fusion Center: Terrorism Early Warning Group (formerly the St. Louis Terrorism Early Warning Group) is a public safety partnership consisting of law enforcement, fire/emergency medical, public health, and emergency management agencies, and private sector areas that could be a target of terrorism." (To learn more about TEWG's click here & here .)
A 2010 TEWG report explains, how private corporations work with law enforcement to decide who's a terrorist.
"...all-source counter-terrorism centers would have to communicate with ‘‘first responders’’ (police officers, firefighters, public health officials, paramedics and physicians), local, state, and national government and nongovernmental agencies, private corporations, and ultimately the U.S. Intelligence Community.”
How is this allowed to happen?
How can we allow doctors, schools, banks, private corporations, firefighters, government agencies and law enforcement to decide who should be labeled an American terrorist?
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The mass media's war on alternative news, is a disturbing example of how corporations are attacking free speech.
How long before they label blogs and independent news sources as American terrorists?
Citizens encouraged to spy on neighbor's and report "petty" things
Two years ago, I warned everyone that DHS run Fusion Centers were profiling Americans social, political and religious views.
But things are about to get a lot worse...
Law enforcement is encouraging private citizens to call them about "petty" things their neighbors are doing!
"The basic modus operandi hasn’t changed, however, when it comes to private citizens acting as effective watchdogs: If you see something unsettling, say something — and regardless if it might feel “petty.”
And if that wasn't enough, law enforcement agencies are also encouraging businesses and citizens to spy on their neighbors using WeTip.com.
"The basic purpose of WeTip Inc. is to provide an absolutely anonymous crime reporting resource to residents, students and businesses throughout the entire Nation."
Allowing corporations, bankers, schools etc., to decide who's a terrorist is fraught with many dangers.
The 'War on Terror' has truly become an American Horror Story.
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