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The DHS is training Americans to spy on those who oppose leftism
American Thinker ^ | 10 May, 2023 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 05/11/2023 5:03:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber

One of the constants about socialist governments, going back to Stalin and Hitler, is that ordinary people become spies against their neighbors. When East Germany fell, and people could finally see files from the Stasi (i.e., secret police), it turned out that almost 200,000 people were currently serving as informers, and everyone was encouraged to spy on family, friends, and neighbors to serve the cause. Biden’s DHS would like to see the same happen in America. A FOIA request revealed that it produced training documents teaching ordinary Americans to report on Americans opposed to Biden’s policies.

This sounds too far-fetched to be believable, but it’s true. The Foundation for Freedom Online reviewed documents that America First Legal obtained from the DHS via a Freedom of Information Act request. It showed that the DHS is planning to train ordinary Americans to intervene when they see “radicalization” among their peers.

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However, in Biden’s America, it’s not those people who are the problems. Instead, the problem is you. And that’s not because you have committed violent acts and neither have those who share your beliefs. It’s just that the Biden Administration and the Deep State are worried about “suburban moms” who are pro-life or old friends who believe that the COVID vaccine doesn’t work, masks were a failure, the lockdowns destroyed lives, the border is essentially erased, or any of a number of other “conspiracy theories” that have proven to be true.

Here's how Mike Benz describes what the DHS documents reveal:

Apparently not content with setting up a Ministry of Truth, an Internet censorship directorate, and even a program for controlling speech in video games, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has devised yet another dystopian program for domestic thought control: pushing citizens to monitor each others’ political beliefs...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism; dhs; impeachableoffense

1 posted on 05/11/2023 5:03:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
The Foundation for Freedom Online article describing the FOIA documents obtained from DHS, titled Political Police? New Docs Show DHS Program To Target “Middle-Aged Pro Life Advocates” and “Budding Conspiracy Theorists” Under Guise Of “Deradicalization” is here:

Political Police? New Docs Show DHS Program To Target “Middle-Aged Pro Life Advocates” and “Budding Conspiracy Theorists” Under Guise Of “Deradicalization”

2 posted on 05/11/2023 5:03:40 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
Of course they are. This is what Obama meant when he said he was going to fundamentally change this country. He was laying the foundation for his Marxist revolution.

By weaponizing the government, Obama was creating the Left's Gestapo.

3 posted on 05/11/2023 5:06:08 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Bonhoeffer: “Silence in the face of evil is evil. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”)
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To: MtnClimber

Didn’t work so well here when one of tjem had a meltdown and left an opus on their profile page.


4 posted on 05/11/2023 5:17:17 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: MtnClimber

Stitches for snitches


5 posted on 05/11/2023 5:18:39 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly." )
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To: MtnClimber

East Germany we’ve become. Now spy on your neighbors like a good comrade.


6 posted on 05/11/2023 5:21:08 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: MtnClimber

It comes under the heading of Fundamental Change. The transformation of a Consitutional Republic into something like the “wildly successful Soviet Union”.

Quote from Ann Coulter’s column this morning in Townhall.


7 posted on 05/11/2023 5:21:44 AM PDT by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: MtnClimber

Give democrats the reins of power of government office and they’ll promptly abuse the rights and responsibilities of their offices to harass and persecute their political opponents. The Biden administration is exhibit A.

That’s when they’re GIVEN the reins of power. But when they steal the reins of power, as Biden did, don’t be surprised when they follow through with tyranny. This is what comes of a stolen election.


8 posted on 05/11/2023 5:22:36 AM PDT by lowbridge ("Let’s check with Senator Schumer before we run it" - NY Times)
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To: MtnClimber

Bttt


9 posted on 05/11/2023 5:54:28 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: MtnClimber

In commie nations, they’re called “block captains”. They are the government snitches.

Know who they are on your street and in your families. There are usual signs.
BLM, diversitty, democRAT and anti gun signs in their yard.
They are not only leftist, but usually the biggest gossips in the neighborhood.

Be aware.
On our street, the conservative men gathered for a safety meeting after a hurricane left the neighbordood without power, which lasted for 17 days. We also discussed this very matter and unanimously agreed that caution was prudent when conversing with members of one particular houshold on the street. This was back in 2005 -and here we are today on the threshold of that very real concern =o/

Today is the eleventh day of the month, so today’s reading in Proverbs is chapter eleven. It is a glory and a blessing to the Lord that His Word is perfect in timing, tune and tempo...

“With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors, but through knowledge the righteous escape”
PRO 11:9


10 posted on 05/11/2023 5:58:32 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer ("Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.")
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To: MtnClimber

Like the rest of the country, local neighborhoods are comprised of both free thinking and patriotic folks and the rest are puppets being controlled by the government and it is getting worse.


11 posted on 05/11/2023 6:04:08 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: SheepWhisperer

And if you’re trying to ID the conservatives nearby, an American flag is a 90%+ indicator, in my experience.


12 posted on 05/11/2023 6:11:27 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: MtnClimber

Just to make things easier on our tyrant overlords, I am a suburban dad who is pro-life, who believes that the COVID vaccine doesn’t work (and was designed to line the pockets of politicians like Biden who are owned by Big Pharma), that masks were a LAUGHABLE failure (except that they are an infallible aid to this day in identifying the morons that voted for Biden), that the lockdowns destroyed lives, that the border is essentially erased and that BIDEN AND THE DEMS STOLE THE ELECTION FROM TRUMP, who is the rightful POTUS.

Do I get my free train trip to the vacation camp?


13 posted on 05/11/2023 6:26:06 AM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: ConservativeInPA

“Stitches for snitches”
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If they’re lucky. Ditches will become the norm before long…if, that is, the arseholes running our country into the ground don’t get us nuked or EMP’d first.


14 posted on 05/11/2023 6:28:53 AM PDT by Ancesthntr (“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.” ― A.E. Van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: FreedomPoster

And if you’re trying to ID the conservatives nearby, an American flag is a 90%+ indicator, in my experience.

***
...add a Gadsden flag below it, as a new neighbor around the corner has, and the certainty is 100%


15 posted on 05/11/2023 6:29:19 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer ("Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.")
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To: MtnClimber

Good link, thank you.


16 posted on 05/11/2023 6:31:40 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

17 posted on 05/11/2023 6:35:49 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpin' -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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To: MtnClimber

Biden’s DHS and his “intelligence’ liars ARE Stasi... creepy filthy totalitarian sh*ts feeding off the fear of citizens...

backed up by the scum at Department of Just Us ‘legal’ goons...

Biden has the lowest approval rating of any President and it’s going lower. Are his thugs, liars and bullies part of the drop? Bet on it.


18 posted on 05/11/2023 6:59:42 AM PDT by GOPJ (Mayorkas is a liar... his 'solutions' work for the cartels and against Americans.)
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