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Utah Fusion Center Warns Cops: Watch Out for Don't-Tread-on-Me Flags
reason.com ^ | 2/5/2016 | Jesse Walker

Posted on 02/06/2016 8:31:02 AM PST by rktman

Funeral services will be held today in Kanab, Utah, for LaVoy Finicum, the rancher killed last month during the occupation of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge in Oregon. In a bulletin distributed this week to cops across the region, the Utah Statewide Information and Analysis Center-one of the dozens of intelligence-sharing "fusion centers" around the country that get funds from the Department of Homeland Security-warns that "extremists may utilize such a high profile funeral for media attention or to further ideological beliefs." Although "no credible threats to law enforcement are present at this time," the authors still think police should be wary: "Caravans of individuals traveling to the funeral services may be comprised of one or more armed extremists. Law enforcement should remain vigilant and aware that confrontation with these potentially volatile persons, may include more than one individual. These individuals may adhere to a sovereign citizen ideology, and may not recognize law enforcement as a legitimate authority.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; domesticterrorists
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To: rktman
I would be especially wary of any bernie stickers or any vehicle that still carries obie sticker from both the first and second (s)election of the lyin' king.

Priuses. You see those a lot on Priuses (the car for the environmentally pious).

21 posted on 02/06/2016 9:39:48 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Disambiguator

LOL! Kinda like the teslas that are touted as enviro friedly non polluters. Uh, if you can discount the tires, lubricants and the manufacturing process. Yeah, pollutant free.


22 posted on 02/06/2016 10:05:44 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: GregoTX
We proudly fly the yellow "Don't Tread On Me" Gadsden flag right below our American flag on a flagpole at the entrance to our homestead. It is right on a major, north-south highway in north central Florida where everyone can see it.

My wife and I don't consider ourselves "extremist or disaffected" individuals. We're both veterans and patriots. We believe in the Constitution, individual liberties, responsibilities and the freedoms that this country affords us.

Since when did displaying the colors of our country and upholding the values that created it, become something for the government to question as extremist? Extremist to the radical, Marxist, liberals currently in power maybe but not to all patriotic Americans who have seen the erosion of our Founding Fathers' values for decades now.

Unlike a certain president and first lady in office now.

23 posted on 02/06/2016 10:09:07 AM PST by HotHunt
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To: JDoutrider

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24 posted on 02/06/2016 10:29:09 AM PST by JDoutrider
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To: rktman

Texas has Don’t tread on me license plates.


25 posted on 02/06/2016 10:52:19 AM PST by zeugma (Lon Horiuchi is the true face of the feral government. Remember that. Always.)
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To: BenLurkin

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_center

“A fusion center is an information sharing center, many of which were jointly created between 2003 and 2007 under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice.

“They are designed to promote information sharing at the federal level between agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. military, and state- and local-level government. As of July 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security recognized at least 72 fusion centers. Fusion centers may also be affiliated with an Emergency Operations Center that responds in the event of a disaster.

“The fusion process is an overarching method of managing the flow of information and intelligence across levels and sectors of government to integrate information for analysis.[1] That is, the process relies on the active involvement of state, local, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies—and sometimes on non-law enforcement agencies (e.g., private sector)—to provide the input of raw information for intelligence analysis. As the array of diverse information sources increases, there will be more accurate and robust analysis that can be disseminated as intelligence.

“A two-year senate investigation found that “the fusion centers often produced irrelevant, useless or inappropriate intelligence reporting to DHS, and many produced no intelligence reporting whatsoever.”[2][3] The report also said that in some cases the fusion centers violated civil liberties or privacy.[4]”

Much more info at link.


26 posted on 02/06/2016 11:19:55 AM PST by Taxman
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To: rktman
"Gadsden flag, commonly displayed by sovereign citizen extremists."

And yet...Sold in every Historic National Park gift shop I've been in in the past 5 years.

27 posted on 02/06/2016 11:25:58 AM PST by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Don't Tread On Me)
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To: rktman
"Caravans of individuals traveling to the funeral services may be comprised of one or more armed extremists.snip...

Sounds like a slew of LEOs going to a funeral of one of their own.

28 posted on 02/06/2016 11:27:29 AM PST by Dust in the Wind (U S Troops Rock)
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To: MUDDOG

They’re like little NSA centers only instead of focusing on foreign targets overseas, they are mostly focused on intercepting traffic on white Christian military veterans. You know, the ones who swore to protect and defend the Constitution of The United States from enemies foreign and domestic.


29 posted on 02/06/2016 11:38:47 AM PST by Dogbert41 (All the days of my life were written in your book before there was one of them!)
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To: rktman
This ain't new.

From a few years ago ... a collection of FR discussions on the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC)

(though the very first post in that list is due to a keyword misspelling).

30 posted on 02/06/2016 12:59:22 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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31 posted on 02/06/2016 2:29:53 PM PST by DoughtyOne (the Free Republic Caucus: what FReepers are thinking, 100s or 1000s of them. It's up to you.)
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To: Disambiguator

environmentally pious

Is that Latin for sanctimonious pricks?


32 posted on 02/06/2016 7:50:27 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: HotHunt
...individual liberties, responsibilities and the freedoms that this country had once afforded us.
33 posted on 02/06/2016 7:54:26 PM PST by onedoug
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To: Blue Collar Christian
Is that Latin for sanctimonious pricks?

Pretty much.

34 posted on 02/07/2016 6:10:57 AM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Travis McGee

“All of the boys and girls down in the fusion centers who have been hired in the past 7 years are Social Justice Warriors with degrees in Oppression Studies.”

To be more specific (and I know this first hand) they are typically “disabled” veterans that go and get a Bachelor of Science in Cyber Security then get a cushy federal job. These “disabled” are primarily bogus PTSD diagnosis that gives them 100% disability. They also get their educations paid for plus $1,800 a month in living expenses. When they graduate, they are hired at these fusion centers and various other NSA/NRO sites. They will do whatever is asked of them.

Most are liberals. To be a sloth and a welfare recipient of the worst kind, it kind of takes that mentality in the first place. They say crap like, “The US constitution is outdated. It doesn’t evolve fast enough. The worst person we could ever spy on are those redneck so-called patriotic Americans that hate foreigners. Free speech should be limited. They shouldn’t be allowed to speak. We should kill them anyway.” These are idiots with TS/SCI clearances.

I am speaking from current first-hand knowledge.


35 posted on 02/07/2016 10:13:46 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: CodeToad
Most are liberals. To be a sloth and a welfare recipient of the worst kind, it kind of takes that mentality in the first place. They say crap like, "The US constitution is outdated. It doesn't evolve fast enough. The worst person we could ever spy on are those redneck so-called patriotic Americans that hate foreigners. Free speech should be limited. They should't be allowed to speak. We should kill them anyway." These are idiots with TS/SCI clearances.

Perhaps these individuals should be having "accidents". At the very least they have to be identified and monitored so when TSHTF they can be neutralized, right after THOSE WHO GIVE THE ORDERS.

36 posted on 02/07/2016 10:33:27 AM PST by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: JimRed

No need to keep lists. If they work in one of those sites they are targets during SHTF.


37 posted on 02/07/2016 10:34:16 AM PST by CodeToad (Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: rktman

I think they issued a shoot on sight order for anyone with a Cracker-Barrel sticker.


38 posted on 02/07/2016 10:40:10 AM PST by The Toll
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To: CodeToad

I wonder how long the generators will run down in the fusion centers when (not if) the grid collapses?

Then what will the FLEA/SJWs do?


39 posted on 02/07/2016 2:04:06 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: BenLurkin

What is a “fusion center”?

Trynannical govt outpost.

When the SHTF they will be cowering in there hoping we come for them last.


40 posted on 02/07/2016 2:22:42 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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