Posted on 09/29/2014 5:29:01 AM PDT by Whenifhow
The New York State Intelligence Center — a known Fusion Center with the stated purpose to, “collect, evaluate, analyze, and disseminate information and intelligence data regarding criminal and terrorist activity relevant to New York State” — issued a Counter Terrorism Bulletin last June identifying Oath Keepers in addition to other liberty related groups as “far-right extremist group and/or a threat to law enforcement.”
Here is a portion of a statement released by Oath Keepers yesterday:
On August 11, 2014, the New York Oath Keepers sent out correspondence to both the Governor and the Superintendent of the New York State Police clearly pointing out the New York State Intelligence Center’s faulty logic and misstatements of fact that were used to politically demonize the New York Oath Keeper organization whose clearly stated nonpartisan mission is simply to encourage our Military and Law Enforcement Officers, and others, to honor their oaths to the United States and New York State Constitutions.
In that correspondence, we requested that the officials at the NYSIC issue a public correction, indicating their error in classifying New York Oath Keepers as a far-right extremist group and/or a threat to law enforcement. We also requested a meeting with the Governor, the Superintendent of the New York State Police and/or officials from other NYSIC member organizations, so we could address any misinformation and misunderstandings about the New York Oath Keepers mission. We told them that It is our goal to see this extremely prejudicial “far-right extremist” label retracted and the necessary corrections made to the Bulletin.
A month and a half has passed and neither the Governor nor the Superintendent of the New York State Police has seen fit to even reply to our original correspondence.
So, today the New York Oath Keepers, an organization consisting of thousands of active duty and retired military, police and fire personnel, who have at one or more times in their lives taken an Oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America, sent them a second letter. We also sent a letter to the Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Office of the FBI, as they are also key members of the NYSIC.
The full statement is up on the official Oath Keepers site here which includes copies of all letters (including the latest) sent to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
Some 58 fusion centers were created by the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of 9/11, supposedly to help fight terrorism through local data intelligence gathering. This is not the first time that one of these fusion centers has criminalized anyone outspoken against tyrannical government control and the destruction of the Constitution of the United States and the rights of the American people.
The Missouri Information Analysis Center, or MIAC, which Fox News describes as, “a government collective that identifies the warning signs of potential domestic terrorists for law enforcement communities,” identified Constitutional militia members and even Ron Paul supporters as potential terrorists.
Oath Keepers, meanwhile, is a nonpartisan group made up of current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders who have pledged simply to fulfill the oath all military and police take — to “defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” [emphasis added]
It’s that part about Oath Keepers standing up to defend the law of this land, our Constitution — something Homeland Security has been actively destroying since its inception with leaked DHS training videos referring to America’s founding fathers as domestic terrorists and ludicrous actions like the creation of “100-mile inland Constitution-free zone” checkpoints around the nation’s border, that seems to be the real issue here.
Branding liberty minded groups and those that would stand up for our rights and the Constitution as potential domestic terrorist threats is essentially branding them as criminals, setting them up under a dubious legal framework, and paving the way to make government dissent a crime.
the “ FUSION Center”? preparing to go Nuclear ?
The Fusion Center should go F Themselves!
Politically correct delusions are truly dangerous. Such a “security center” is worse than useless. These dopey people can’t even define the real threat much less stop it.
At least they know who the real terrorists are!/s
thank you... fellow “extremist”
I am an Oath Keeper, and joined soon after they began and I heard about them. 22 years, United States Air Force. I take my OATH as a lifelong commitment, as does the United States government, as they’re still paying my retirement.
They want to declare me a terrorist because of that??? Fine then. We now know who’s side they are on. The Constitution is the Supreme Law of the Land. They can be outside of it, but your damn right I’ll be for it. Let the games begin!
The enemies of the politicians are not criminals or terrorists. The are honest, hard working, moral, patriotic Americans. They will use whatever resources they have, that we pay for, to steal from us and to hurt us.
Ping
—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
Who will protect us from our protectors (RIP Mark Scott)?
Dear Mr. Security Agent
(My open letter to the boys and girls down in the fusion centers.)
http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/bracken-dear-mr-security-agent/
Excelsior, Excelsior my friend!
He is so missed, I wish he was here to opine of the days events. He'd invite the Fusion Center on his show but my guess is they would never do it. Man the show's he had in 98-99' time frame warning America about some guy Busama Len Oaden or something like that still give me the willies. He was so ahead of his time...
The motto of the State of New York is not “The Empire State” for nothing. The first thing that empirists do is nullify any mere scrap of paper that limits their ability to build and maintain their power.
They DO know who the real terrorists are. YOU are the real terrorist I am the real terrorist. Those who believe in limited government are the real terrorists. "Law Enforcement" perceives as a threat anything or anyone who object to their masters' agenda of implementing a totalitarian police state. We make such "threatening gestures" as pointing out their corrupt and tyrannical ways before elections (hence McCain Feingold) and insist on exercising our 2nd amendment rights to be armed.
Does anyone seriously think that a few demented homicidal religious fanatics who want to kill some peasants represent a threat to the politicians and bureaucrats? Of course not. OTO honest americans who understand and exercise their rights represent s significant threat to their dream society "where only the police and military are armed."
It is communist New York, after all.
Liberals always find a way to take anything useful and turn it into something oppressive that furthers their ends. So an intelligence-gathering "Fusion Center " becomes the modern liberal equivalent of the Cheka and used to infiltrate and persecute any group that is remotely perceived as a threat to Godless Progressivism.
FFC!
Yes, he was. EXCELSIOR!, taildragger.
Possible to hit them up with a libel suit?
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