{"id":7956,"date":"2015-05-09T07:02:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T12:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7956"},"modified":"2015-05-09T07:02:50","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T12:02:50","slug":"how-a-department-of-homeland-security-fusion-center-in-texas-targeted-animal-rights-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7956","title":{"rendered":"How a Department of Homeland Security Fusion Center in Texas Targeted Animal Rights Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"

How a Department of Homeland Security Fusion Center in Texas Targeted Animal Rights Activists<\/a><\/h3>\n

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Last September, a Facebook event caught the eye of a counterrorism specialist within the Texas Department of Public Safety.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The email was\u00a0among those released\u00a0by the Austin Regional Intelligence Center (ARIC) last month. This same release revealed that ARIC took stock of\u00a0potential anti-circus demonstrators\u00a0in 2012.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Given the overall tame tenor, it\u2019s unclear how such a post came across a counterterrorism specialist\u2019s desk, or why it merited sharing.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0privacy policy for ARIC\u00a0similarly limits collection of information on individuals and organizations.\u00a0Collected information must relate to terrorism, criminal activism or a threat to public safety.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2013 Fromt the Muckrock article:\u00a0Vegan Potlucks, Anime Screenings on the Counterterrorism Unit\u2019s Calendar<\/a><\/p>\n

In the wake of the attacks on September 11, 2001, the American public morphed into a collective of spineless jellyfish and basically let Congress and the intelligence agencies to do whatever they\u00a0wanted in order to \u201cprotect them.\u201d Never mind that\u00a0convincing a naive and fearful populace to hand over authoritarian powers to the government has been the playbook of tyrants for millennia, it still worked brilliantly on the dumbed down American public.<\/p>\n

One of the most hideous creations to emerge from the\u00a0post 9\/11 societal lapse in sanity<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>was the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As far as I can tell, this\u00a0organization has done nothing but harass and threaten ordinary Americans for completely normal activities. Let\u2019s revisit a few examples from the DHS highlight reel:<\/p>\n

The \u201cWar on Terror\u201d Turns Inward \u2013 DHS Report Warns of Right Wing Terror Threat<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Navy Veteran is Fired from Hotel Job and Called a \u201cTerrorist\u201d for Posting Pictures of DHS Vehicles on Facebook<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWar on Terror\u201d Targets Underwear \u2013 Department of Homeland Security Raids Maker of Unlicensed World Series Panties<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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How a Department of Homeland Security Fusion Center in Texas Targeted Animal Rights Activists Last September, a Facebook event caught the eye of a counterrorism specialist within the Texas Department of Public Safety. The email was\u00a0among those released\u00a0by the Austin Regional Intelligence Center (ARIC) last month. This same release revealed that ARIC took stock of\u00a0potential […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10,14,5279,2621,2290,338,483,613,652,765,5280,1796,2344],"class_list":["post-7956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-10","tag-activism","tag-animal-rights","tag-counterterrorism","tag-department-of-homeland-security","tag-freedom","tag-liberty-2","tag-patriot-act","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance","tag-texas-department-of-public-safety","tag-us-congress","tag-us-state-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7957,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7956\/revisions\/7957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}