Global Police, Precrime and the War on Domestic ExtremistsBy John Whitehead As such, you are now viewed as a greater threat to America than ISIS or al Qaeda. Let that sink in a moment. If you believe in and exercise your rights under the Constitution (namely, your right to speak freely, worship freely, associate with like-minded individuals who share your political views, criticize the government, own a weapon, demand a warrant before being questioned or searched, or any other activity viewed as potentially anti-government, racist, bigoted, anarchic or sovereign), you have just been promoted to the top of the governments terrorism watch list. I assure you Im not making this stuff up. Police agencies now believe the main terrorist threat in the United States is not from violent Muslim extremists, but from right-wing extremists. A New York Times editorial backs up these findings: Law enforcement agencies around the country are training their officers to recognize signs of anti-government extremism and to exercise caution during routine traffic stops, criminal investigations and other interactions with potential extremists. The threat is real, says the handout from one training program sponsored by the Department of Justice. Since 2000, the handout notes, 25 law enforcement officers have been killed by right-wing extremists, who share a fear that government will confiscate firearms and a belief in the approaching collapse of government and the economy. So what is the government doing about these so-called terrorists? The government is going to war. Again. Only this time, it has declared war against so-called American extremists. After decades spent waging costly, deadly and ineffective military campaigns overseas in pursuit of elusive ISIS and al Qaeda operatives and terror cells (including the recent accidental bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan that left 22 patients and medical staff dead), the Obama administration has announced a campaign to focus its terror-fighting forces inwards. Under the guise of fighting violent extremism in all of its forms and manifestations in cities and communities across the world, the Obama administration has agreed to partner with the United Nations to take part in its Strong Cities Network program. Funded by the State Department through 2016, after which charities are expected to take over funding, the cities included in the global network include New York City, Atlanta, Denver, Minneapolis, Paris, London, Montreal, Beirut and Oslo. Working with the UN, the federal government will train local police agencies across America in how to identify, fight and prevent extremism, as well as address intolerance within their communities, using all of the resources at their disposal. What this program is really all about, however, is community policing on a global scale. Community policing, which relies on a broken windows theory of policing, calls for police to engage with the communityin order to prevent local crime by interrupting or preventing minor offenses before they could snowball into bigger, more serious and perhaps violent crime. The problem with the broken windows approach is that it has led to zero tolerance policing and stop-and-frisk practices among other harsh police tactics. When applied to the Strong Cities Network program, the objective is ostensibly to prevent violent extremism by targeting its source: racism, bigotry, hatred, intolerance, etc. In other words, policeacting ostensibly as extensions of the United Nationswill identify, monitor and deter individuals who exhibit, express or engage in anything that could be construed as extremist. Consider how Attorney General Loretta Lynch describes the initiative: As residents and experts in their communities, local leaders are often best positioned to pinpoint sources of unrest and discord; best equipped to identify signs of potential danger; and best able to recognize and accommodate community cultures, traditions, sensitivities, and customs. By creating a series of partnerships that draws on the knowledge and expertise of our local officials, we can create a more effective response to this virulent threat. Translation: U.S. police agencies are embarking on an effort to identify and manage potential extremist threats, violent or otherwise, before they can become actual threats. (If you want a foretaste of how extreme things could get in the U.S.: new anti-terrorism measures in the U.K. require that extremists be treated like pedophiles and banned from working with youngsters and vulnerable people.) The governments war on extremists, of which the Strong Cities program is a part, is being sold to Americans in much the same way that the USA Patriot Act was sold to Americans: as a means of combatting terrorists who seek to destroy America. For instance, making the case for the governments war on domestic extremism, the Obama administration has suggested that it may require greater legal powers to combat violent attacks by lone wolves (such as people motivated by racial and religious hatred and anti-government views who communicate their hatred over the Internet and through social media). Enter the governments newest employee: a domestic terrorism czar. However, as we now know, the USA Patriot Act was used as a front to advance the surveillance state, allowing the government to establish a far-reaching domestic spying program that has turned every American citizen into a criminal suspect. Similarly, the concern with the governments anti-extremism program is that it will, in many cases, be utilized to render otherwise lawful, nonviolent activities as potentially extremist. Keep in mind that the government agencies involved in ferreting out American extremists will carry out their objectivesto identify and deter potential extremistsin concert with fusion centers (of which there are 78 nationwide, with partners in the private sector and globally), data collection agencies, behavioral scientists, corporations, social media, and community organizers and by relying on cutting-edge technology for surveillance, facial recognition, predictive policing, biometrics, and behavioral epigenetics (in which life experiences alter ones genetic makeup). This is pre-crime on an ideological scale and its been a long time coming. For example, in 2009, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released two reports, one on Rightwing Extremism, which broadly defines rightwing extremists as individuals and groups that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely, and one on Leftwing Extremism, which labeled environmental and animal rights activist groups as extremists. Incredibly, both reports use the words terrorist and extremist interchangeably. That same year, the DHS launched Operation Vigilant Eagle, which calls for surveillance of military veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, characterizing them as extremists and potential domestic terrorist threats because they may be disgruntled, disillusioned or suffering from the psychological effects of war. These reports indicate that for the government, anyone seen as opposing the governmentwhether theyre Left, Right or somewhere in betweencan be labeled an extremist. Fast forward a few years, and you have the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which President Obama has continually re-upped, that allows the military to take you out of your home, lock you up with no access to friends, family or the courts if youre seen as an extremist. Now connect the dots, from the 2009 Extremism reports to the NDAA and the UNs Strong Cities Network with its globalized police forces, the National Security Agencys far-reaching surveillance networks, and fusion centers that collect and share surveillance data between local, state and federal police agencies. Add in tens of thousands of armed, surveillance drones that will soon blanket American skies, facial recognition technology that will identify and track you wherever you go and whatever you do. And then to complete the circle, toss in the real-time crime centers being deployed in cities across the country, which will be attempting to predict crimes and identify criminals before they happen based on widespread surveillance, complex mathematical algorithms and prognostication programs. Hopefully youre getting the picture, which is how easy it is for the government to identify, label and target individuals as extremist. Were living in a scary world. Unless we can put the brakes on this dramatic expansion and globalization of the governments powers, were not going to recognize this country 20 years from now. Frankly, as I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, the landscape has already shifted dramatically from what it was like 10 or 20 years ago. Its taken less than a generation for our freedoms to be eroded and the police state structure to be erected, expanded and entrenched. Rest assured that the government will not save us from the chains of the police state. The UNs Strong Cities Network program will not save us. The next occupant of the White House will not save us. For that matter, anarchy and violent revolution will not save us. If there is to be any hope of freeing ourselves, it restsas it always hasat the local level, with you and your fellow citizens taking part in grassroots activism, which takes a trickle-up approach to governmental reform by implementing change at the local level. Attend local city council meetings, speak up at town hall meetings, organize protests and letter-writing campaigns, employ militant nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience, which Martin Luther King Jr. used to great effect through the use of sit-ins, boycotts and marches. And then, while youre at it, urge your local governments to nullify everything the federal government does that is illegitimate, egregious or blatantly unconstitutional. If this sounds anti-government or extremist, perhaps it is, in much the same way that King himself was considered anti-government and extremist. Recognizing that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed, Kings tacticswhile nonviolentwere extreme by the standards of his day. As King noted in his 1963 Letter from Birmingham City Jail: [A]s I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a bit of satisfaction from being considered an extremist. Was not Jesus an extremist in loveLove your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you. Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremistThis nation cannot survive half slave and half free. Was not Thomas Jefferson an extremistWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. So the question is not whether we will be extremist but what kind of extremist will we be. Will we be extremists for hate or will we be extremists for love? So how do you not only push back against the police states bureaucracy, corruption and cruelty but also launch a counterrevolution aimed at reclaiming control over the government using nonviolent means? Take a cue from King. Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute, where this article first appeared. He is the author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State. Whitehead does some great work, his organization, something of a small conservative ACLU, represented Brandon Raub, the US soldier hauled in by US military Gestapo for questioning and a psychiatric hold for Facebook posts critical of the US government. When interviewed about Raub, Whitehead said he didnt agree with Raub (e.g. about 9/11 being a false flag) but he believes Raub has the Constitutional right to free speech. Too bad Whitehead never publicly questioned the official story of 9/11 given it is the rationalization for the Patriot Act, NDAA, surveillance state, etc. The official federal government story does not matter one bit. If not 9/11, they would have just found another justification for imposing their tyranny. 9/11 catalyzed a steep learning curve for many. It isnt enough to know the history of false flags, thats only the beginning of a larger paradigm shift. A similar shift occurred during the era of Vietnam war protests. I have to be honestI thought Iwas describing Jon Rappoport I commented on the wrong article (lol)my mistakebut you inadvertently corrected me as I dont know anything about Whiteheadglad I didnt step in it(lol)but honesty is a big player in the golden rule society I want to live in cheers We are running out of time. If we can network to educate locally thats great. A national awakening (and global) must take place as well. Getting us to compartmentalize and relinquish a vision of national and state sovereignty is walking into a trap. The immigration reform GATEKEEPERS told their followers 12 years ago to focus their energy not on screening out open borders congressional representatives (and concomitantly educating the nation as a whole on deep state issues), but rather to focus on local initiatives. The latter consumed much time and energy resulting in NO changes because the rigged judicial system overturned prevailing initiatives resulting in a sense of helplessness as it was designed to do and to buy more time. Be wary, localism has a place in a free society yet it can just as easily serve the Agenda 21 model of control. Localism infiltrated by a George Soros funded NGO called Common Purpose (what they call it in the UK) like peppering a gold mine with a shotgun) that insidiously surreptitiously infiltrates all the nexus positions of power within local govnt bureaucracies.. the 1st thing they do is to introduce Politically Correct versions of their NGO reality-speaklook up Julia Middleton Common Purpose UKit will explain the pit of vipers mandatecheers basically promoting the state absorbing of our children in line with the edicts secreted in Agenda 21 a UN mandate to empty the rural sequester people into the cities .. extrapolated means lining up for 10 blocks everyday to get your allotted portion of Soylent Green -compulsory vaccines. RFID chipped public that can turn off your living allowance credits in a key stroke by the local stasibasically your generic dystopian society replete with Hate Screenstotal totalitarianism within a neo-feudal construct.while the 0.0001% live luxurious lives in a separate Hunger Games society Dont forget the Social Credit System scores techdirt.com/articles/20151006/10194832450/china-looks-to-quell-dissent-with-citizen-scores-number-that-tracks-purchases-opinions-social-circles.shtml Soros contagion! Thanks, Ill check it out. Im sure it will be very familiar. it sounds CRAZY.dont they read the constitution they swore to uphold? 