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The agency founded because of 9/11 shifts to face the threat of domestic terrorism
The Washington Post via MSN ^ | February 14th, 2021 | Nick Miroff

Posted on 02/14/2021 4:58:43 PM PST by Mariner

On a Saturday morning in August 2019, a 21-year-old White man with ear protectors, safety glasses and an AK-47-style rifle walked into a crowded Walmart in El Paso, Tex., his pockets bulging with ammunition. He had to driven hundreds of miles across the state, prosecutors say, because he wanted to kill Latinos.

Kevin McAleenan, the acting Homeland Security secretary, was at a Coast Guard picnic in Virginia that day, and soon the urgent messages began arriving. A sinking feeling of horror set in as the magnitude of the attack became clear. “It was devastating,” he said.

Twenty-three people were murdered in the worst attack on Hispanic Americans in modern U.S. history.

About 5,000 U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees live in El Paso, and six lost family members that day. “To have an individual attack us, at one of the home bases of our agency and specifically going after Hispanic Americans who make up a majority of our employees in that area, was very personal for us, and it galvanized an effort that was already underway,” McAleenan said.

For years leading up to El Paso, the Department of Homeland Security — created to prevent another 9/11 — had been under growing pressure to do more to address domestic extremism. Within seven weeks of the El Paso massacre, McAleenan released a plan for “countering terrorism and targeted violence” that amounted to a road map for the department’s pivot from foreign threats to homegrown ones. It was the first time DHS had identified the extent of the danger posed by domestic violent extremists and white supremacists.

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Who are the naive who believed a government could be enabled to track and stop international terrorists, but that power and capability would not be turned inward?

It's just like giving an arsonist a gallon of gas, a lighter and a get out of jail free card.

All these agencies are pointed at the right. And they're comin'.

1 posted on 02/14/2021 4:58:43 PM PST by Mariner
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To: Mariner

“Woke Madness” is overtaking every part of our govt.

https://media.defense.gov/2021/Jan/26/2002570959/-1/-1/1/TASK%20FORCE%20ONE%20NAVY%20FINAL%20REPORT.PDF

I’ve skimmed most of the lengthy new official USN policy pdf.

Takeaways:
1. Any white and/or male officer will never dare to criticize any minority subordinate. It will be automatic career death. Competent white men are going to flee the officer corps and NCO ranks in droves. Reading this document makes it clear that there is no future for white male officers and NCOs, unless, maybe, they announce they are transitioning to women, have strongly progressive Leftist views, etc.

2. Any minority enlisted or junior officers (including gay, trans, whatever) will be empowered to say “fuck you, you racist asshole!” to any white superior, and refuse any order, and the white superior will have to undergo a Maoist struggle session with ample sincere self-criticism to keep their stripes, bars or oak leaves, or they will face charges, or at least be forced out of the military with “other than honorable.”

3. Totally incompetent morons will be placed in leadership and command roles from SGTs to Generals, no matter what. If planes and ships crash, [McCain and Fitzgerald were just warnings of what is to come] then it will be a small price to pay for inclusion and diversity.

4. Serving senior and flag rank officers who sign off on this identity-politics-driven Marxist insanity only care about finishing their careers and grabbing their pensions, and they don’t give one small damn about their units being utterly annihilated in a future war.

This is actually WORSE than what the Soviets did to their military. They only tried to control the economic part of human nature. They never denied male-female roles, or the need for the most competent (high scoring) Russians to be placed in leadership roles. They never said, “There are not enough trans Eskimos or gay Chechens flying our jets, fix it now, no matter what, if they can fly or not!”

This is insanity. God help us.

Why should intel and FLE agencies be immune? Obviously they are not.


2 posted on 02/14/2021 5:00:49 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Mariner

Damn right they’re after the American electorate..

The coup, (the real “insurrection” in DC) and the “impeachment” is because Donald Trump upended THE largest, multi-trillion dollar industry in America. The selling of American Congressional Legislation. The primary industry in DC.

THE issue that binds Red and Blue together in the UniParty is the issue of electoral fraud.Its why certain precincts have voted Red or Blue for over 100 years. Its the means by which Congress and K St lobbyists can guarantee “product delivery” to interests that pay enough.

Various “intelligence agencies” are the enforcement arm. Prolly different ones (there are 17 of them afterall!) supporting different “service lines”

Its mutually assured destruction if either side starts to betray the long-standing inter-generational process.

Whenever the issue starts to bubble too close to the surface we all start getting entertained with “pizza parties” and “SRA” issues/trafficking stories etc.-and other Red-Blue “trigger issues” intended to distract us-but these are only incidental to the business at hand-the selling of the votes and legislation of the most powerful legislative body in the world.

These “trigger issues” are intended to remove our eyes from what is going on right before our very eyes! These “trigger issues” are the stick the Deep State uses to marshal the votes they need to deliver product.

The contemporary information-digital communications technology has the ability to put an end to all of this -which is why the “information war” on the American electorate. Why “us” versus “them” is finally crystallizing.

Its why they barricaded Capitol Hill.


3 posted on 02/14/2021 5:00:57 PM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Mariner

And none at AntiFa or BLM


4 posted on 02/14/2021 5:01:06 PM PST by Skywise
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To: Mariner

5 posted on 02/14/2021 5:01:36 PM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Mariner
On a Saturday morning in August 2019,

And since then? Arson. Shooting. Taking over police departments. Murder. Intimidating citizens and politicians. Tearing up public and private property. And much, much more.

All. By. The. Left.

6 posted on 02/14/2021 5:03:02 PM PST by Arones (People say "this is not who we are." Have you not turned on the tv since Memorial Day? -Mark Steyn)
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To: Travis McGee

The UniParty started that Capitol Hill “insurrection” after it became obvious to the rest of the country they had pulled off a coup on behalf of their CCP masters.

The beauty of it all at this point is that their Capitol Hill “false flag” operation appears to be a MAJOR Achilles heel they’re ALL desperately afraid of.

Its why BOTH Pelosi and Mitch went ballistic after failing to drape it around DJT’s neck yesterday.

they’re terrified


7 posted on 02/14/2021 5:03:46 PM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Travis McGee

I’ve seen this in promotions already.


8 posted on 02/14/2021 5:05:17 PM PST by Arones (People say "this is not who we are." Have you not turned on the tv since Memorial Day? -Mark Steyn)
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To: Mariner

To democrats and their rump ranger butt-boys the enemy isn’t the CCP. It is Freeperdom and Trumpsters.


9 posted on 02/14/2021 5:06:56 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Mariner

What about BLM/ANTIFA? Nothing........?????


10 posted on 02/14/2021 5:07:16 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Mariner

LMAO

20 - 30 cities under attack, no problem.

One building in Washington, D. C., big problem.

I’ll bet the ANITIFA folks are the main focus... s


11 posted on 02/14/2021 5:07:21 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: Travis McGee

DHS, the agency with the creepy East German name, the manpower of the USMC, and twice the budget.

Thanks Bush. He created a turnkey tyranny.


12 posted on 02/14/2021 5:10:13 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: Mariner

And to think, it all started and was only supposed to be an entity where all the other agencies were supposed to deconflict and subsequently coordinate investigations if there was overlap. No enforcement agents.

Hold on.....they go their guys with guns. But they had no mandate so they stuck their heads in other peoples business, worried with any police department that was willing to work with the and now they’re huge.

However, since they’re securing the homeland, it might be a perfect time to disband the FBI.


13 posted on 02/14/2021 5:10:48 PM PST by qaz123
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To: Travis McGee

“This is actually WORSE than what the Soviets did to their military. They only tried to control the economic part of human nature. They never denied male-female roles, or the need for the most competent (high scoring) Russians to be placed in leadership roles.”

Perhaps you are unfamiliar with Stalin’s purge of the officer corps in the 1930s.


14 posted on 02/14/2021 5:11:06 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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Without reading the article, can I be safe to assume, that only “far right racists (all non democrats) are targeted while people who burn cities to the ground, terrorize beat and kill innocent bystanders, lock cops in stations and trailers qnd proceed to set them afire, wander into neighborhood and harass, intimidate, and threaten innocent civilians in their own homes, beat senior citizens and disabked veterans bloody and unconcious for being nazis, and destroy businesses and livelihoods even when “minority ownee” will be free from scrutiny of any kind?


15 posted on 02/14/2021 5:13:14 PM PST by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: dsrtsage

“will be free from scrutiny of any kind?”

You read and extrapolated correctly.


16 posted on 02/14/2021 5:14:45 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Travis McGee
Diversity - Inclusion - Equity = DIE
17 posted on 02/14/2021 5:17:00 PM PST by Jim Noble (He who saves his nation violates no law)
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To: DesertRhino
Thanks Bush. He created a turnkey tyranny.

In retrospect, we have overreacted to the tragic events of 9/11.

Now we are stuck with DHS and we are their worst enemy.

18 posted on 02/14/2021 5:17:11 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Mariner

People like Nick Miroff and his fellow travelers (John Brennan, et. al) are the ones that should be declared
“Domestic Enemies”


19 posted on 02/14/2021 5:17:38 PM PST by indthkr
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To: Mariner

The criminal democrat party declared war against half of this country’s citizens and as expected, continues to use government as its main weapon against us.


20 posted on 02/14/2021 5:26:43 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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