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Title: Terror watch uses local eyes 181 TRAINED IN COLO.
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URL Source: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_9725077
Published: Jul 10, 2008
Author: Bruce Finley
Post Date: 2008-07-10 10:29:38 by Jethro Tull
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Terror watch uses local eyes 181 TRAINED IN COLO. Privacy advocates worry that officers' snooping will entangle innocent people. By Bruce Finley The Denver Post Article Last Updated: 06/28/2008 08:16:02 PM MDT Hundreds of police, firefighters, paramedics and even utility workers have been trained and recently dispatched as "Terrorism Liaison Officers" in Colorado and a handful of other states to hunt for "suspicious activity" — and are reporting their findings into secret government databases. It's a tactic intended to feed better data into terrorism early-warning systems and uncover intelligence that could help fight anti-U.S. forces. But the vague nature of the TLOs' mission, and their focus on reporting both legal and illegal activity, has generated objections from privacy advocates and civil libertarians. "Suspicious activity" is broadly defined in TLO training as behavior that could lead to terrorism: taking photos of no apparent aesthetic value, making measurements or notes, espousing extremist beliefs or conversing in code, according to a draft Department of Justice/Major Cities Chiefs Association document. All this is anathema to opponents of domestic surveillance. Yet U.S. intelligence and homeland security officials say they support the widening use of TLOs — state-run under federal agreements — as part of a necessary integrated network for preventing attacks. "We're simply providing information on crime-related issues or suspicious circumstances," said Denver police Lt. Tony Lopez, commander of Denver's intelligence unit and one of 181 individual TLOs deployed across Colorado. "We don't snoop into private citizens' lives. We aren't living in a communist state." Local watchdogs Among recent activities the Colorado contingent detailed: • Thefts of copper that could be used in bomb-making. • Civilians impersonating police officers and stopping vehicles — of particular concern with the pending Democratic National Convention in Denver. • Graffiti showing a man holding an AK-47 rifle. • Men filming the Dillon dam that holds Denver's water. • Overheard threats. • Widespread thefts of up to 20 propane gas tanks. Future terrorism "is going to be noticed earliest at the most local level," said Robert Riegle, director of state and local programs for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Washington. Civil liberties watchdogs warn of unprecedented new threats to privacy. "The problem is, you're drafting individuals whose job isn't law enforcement to spy on ordinary Americans and report their activities to the government," said John Verdi, director of the open-government project at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. In Colorado, TLOs report not only illegal but legal activity, such as bulk purchases along Colorado's Front Range of up to 150 disposable cellphones. TLO supervisors said these bulk buys were suspicious because similar phones are used as remote detonators for bombs overseas and can be re-sold to fund terrorism. Taking photos or videos can be deemed suspicious because "surveillance is a precursor to terrorist activity," said Colorado State Patrol Sgt. Steve Garcia, an analyst in Colorado's intelligence fusion center south of Denver, which handles TLO-supplied information. Colorado, California and Arizona are among the first to deploy TLOs after establishing robust state-run fusion centers, which initially relied on tips from private citizens. Federal security agents now sit in 25 of those centers, including Colorado's. Florida, Illinois, Tennessee, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C., also have deployed TLOs, and authorities in dozens of states are preparing to do so, said Norm Beasley, a retired Arizona trooper who has popularized the practice. 181 in Colorado In Colorado, TLO training began last year, with FBI assistance. A three-day seminar presented material on how to recognize and stop suicide bombers and included discussion of civil liberties. State officials declined to release the course syllabus or say specifically how far TLOs are allowed to go in search of information without a warrant. The 181 TLOs in Colorado were deployed without any announcement over the past year and are posted widely from Durango in the mountains to metro Denver to La Junta on the eastern prairie. "The thing that's surprising is how much stuff is out there," said Denver West Metro Fire Capt. Mike Kirkpatrick, who declined to specify observations he has submitted, saying some led to investigations. National intelligence chiefs who coordinate the CIA and 15 other agencies launched an initiative this month to define "suspicious activity" for TLOs and develop a process for handling TLO information so that basic freedoms and privacy are protected, said John Cohen, information-sharing spokesman in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Training is crucial "because what we don't want is just people documenting innocent activities. We don't want police officers focusing on people because of their ethnicity and religion," Cohen said. "What we're advocating for is developing a standardized process that can be put in place across the country so that frontline police officers (and others) are trained to recognize behaviors associated with certain activities related to terrorism," he said. Major city police chiefs are participating. "You can't profile. So you have to have behavior-based indicators of criminal activity where it's terrorism or activity that supports terrorism," said Tom Frazier, executive director of the Major Cities Chiefs Association. Civil libertarians questioned why firefighters, paramedics and corporate employees — such as Xcel Energy and railroad officials in Colorado — are drafted into the effort. They say public trust in emergency responders will suffer. The emerging TLO system "empowers the police officer to poke his nose into your business when you're doing absolutely nothing wrong. It moves the police officer away from his core function, to enforce the law, into being an intelligence officer gathering information about people," said Mike German, a 16-year FBI agent now advising the American Civil Liberties Union. "Where are we going to draw the line?"
Poster Comment: Among recent activities the Colorado contingent detailed: - Thefts of copper that could be used in bomb-making. - Civilians impersonating police officers and stopping vehicles -- of particular concern with the pending Democratic National Convention in Denver. - Graffiti showing a man holding an AK-47 rifle. - Men filming the Dillon dam that holds Denver's water. - Overheard threats. - Widespread thefts of up to 20 propane gas tanks.
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#1. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
Paid snitches employed for no real purpose relative to terrorism. These snitches will be paid in FRNs, which are the primary impediment to freedom. Unlimited ability to print money makes it easy to buy anything necessary to imprison the public.
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces. De La Boétie
"A nation of sheep begets a government of wolves." --Edward R. Murrow
Not "Baaaaad" Eddy !
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces. De La Boétie
"Suspicious activity" is broadly defined in TLO training as behavior that could lead to terrorism: taking photos of no apparent aesthetic value, making measurements or notes, espousing extremist beliefs or conversing in code, according to a draft Department of Justice/Major Cities Chiefs Association document. So who do you suppose gets to define "extremist beliefs"? The same ones who train Law Enforcement to be their attack dogs: ADL Trains Law Enforcement : http://americandefenseleague.com/ Extremism in America: Introduction Today, ADL’s Center on Extremism continues our mission to expose and ... extremism are radical ideologies, radical religious beliefs and pent-up anger and ...America unfortunately has no shortage of extremists. Some come from the far right, primarily in the form of racist and anti-Semitic hate groups or anti-government extremists. http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/ [charming picture of KKK wizards. the KKK is Masonic, which is Jewish. they have to have an enemy, or two or three, doncha know.] Some of the people on their hit list [some I recognize as Jewish tools, like the KKK]: Individuals Richard Barrett Louis Beam Bertollini and Story/11th Hour Remnant Messenger Richard Butler Arthur Butz Willis Carto Alex Curtis David Duke Edward Fields Dan Gayman Bo Gritz Matt Hale Richard Kelly Hoskins David Irving Mark Koernke David Lane Alex Linder Kevin MacDonald Tom Metzger Pete Peters William Pierce Ted Pike/National Prayer Network Billy Roper Richard Scutari Malik Zulu Shabazz Bradley Smith/CODOH Edgar J. Steele Jared Taylor/American Renaissance Hesham Tillawi Ernst Zundel The example of Ted Pike: Ted Pike/National Prayer Network Ted Pike, the national director of the Oregon-based National Prayer Network, has for years engaged in an anti-Semitic campaign that denigrates the Jewish religion, as well as what he perceives as Jewish-controlled organizations and leaders. Through a series of Web-based articles, Internet radio interviews, videotapes, and books, Pike constantly claims Jewish control over the government and media and asserts Jewish hatred of Christians and the alleged desire of "evil" Jewish leaders and organizations to control what Christian Americans do and say....... Ideology: Anti-Semitism, conspiracy theories To promote his virulent anti-Semitic ideology, Pike often works under the guise of opposing federal hate crimes legislation and upholding free speech and Christian values. He gives interviews to extremist cable TV and Internet radio shows to further disseminate his anti-Semitic views and also links from his organization's Website to various anti-Semitic sites. Similarly, a variety of extremists, including neo-Nazis, post Pike's columns to their own hate sites, where they praise Pike's anti-Semitic invective. http://www.adl.org/Learn/Ext_US/pike/default.asp Here's Pike's site. Decide for yourself who is "extremist"; Ted Pike or the ADL: Ted Pike http://www.truthtellers.org/ "....ADL/B'nai B'rith want to make Christians and freedom-loving Americans into hate criminals simply for holding to Constitutional rights and Biblical values they can’t compromise. For example, the ADL's "Office of Global Anti-Semitism" in the U.S. State Department now transforms tens of millions of Christians who inflexibly believe the New Testament into "classic anti-Semites." (See, Bible is Hate, says U.S. Government) The moral principles of conservative Christians are mis-defined as evil and “hateful;” the ultimate goal is to remove Christian influence from society. ...." vs. the ADL http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/hatecriminalswithnolaw.htm Great quote from one of the current articles: "“Christians don't get a veto on words or images that blaspheme God and his prophets. The same must be true of Islam -- not to mention Judaism, Hinduism and every other faith. No matter what your faith, the trade-off for living in a society that honours free speech is the requirement to grow a thick skin.” " http://www.truthtellers.org/alerts/freespeechwinincanada.htm Balfour Declaration "His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country." An extremist belief to me, is where one small group of people thinks they should be able to carve out for themselves a superior existence in the world, based on lies, fraud, deception, theft, and outright murder, while the rest of the world is delegated to eating their trail of sh%t. "Suspicious activity" is broadly defined in TLO training as behavior that could lead to terrorism: taking photos of no apparent aesthetic value, making measurements or notes, espousing extremist beliefs or conversing in code, according to a draft Department of Justice/Major Cities Chiefs Association document. So, Inform on the informers!
"...as long as there..remain active enemies of the Christian church, we may hope to become Master of the World...the future Jewish King will never reign in the world before Christianity is overthrown - B'nai B'rith speech http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/luther.htm / http://bible.cc/psalms/83-4.htm
ZIEG HEIL!
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition "Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." © IndieTx The snitches in the former Soviet Union created such an oppressive atmosphere of fear that it kept that failed system alive 70 years longer than it should have lasted.
Here in PA, they use underage kids to buy cigarettes and beer. That's quite a spot to put a 15 y/o undercover. If some poor dude is working the 3rd shift b/c he needs to feed his family, and gets fined and fired for missing a phony ID, one of these kids might turn up in a ditch.
#2. To: noone222 (#1)
Paid snitches employed for no real purpose relative to terrorism. These snitches will be paid in FRNs, which are the primary impediment to freedom. Unlimited ability to print money makes it easy to buy anything necessary to imprison the public.
#3. To: TwentyTwelve (#2)
"A nation of sheep begets a government of wolves." --Edward R. Murrow
#4. To: Jethro Tull (#0)
(Edited)
Influences: Claude Pike (father – died 2004)
Books: Israel: Our Duty…Our Dilemma (1984)
Videos: Zionism and Christianity: Unholy Alliance (2005); Why the Mid-East Bleeds (2003); Shaking Campus Liberalism: How Christian Students Defied the Pro-Gay Faculty…and Won! (2002); Hate Laws: Making Criminals of Christians (2000); The Other Israel: The Whole Story of Zionist Conspiracy (1987)
#5. To: Jethro Tull, REDPANTHER (#0)
"There is no 'legitimate' Corporation by virtue of it's very legal definition and purpose."
-- IndieTx
#6. To: noone222, christine, Jethro Tull, rowdee, angle, lodwick (#1)
Paid snitches employed for no real purpose relative to terrorism.
#7. To: IndieTX (#5)
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