DHS Terror Funds Creating Police Grid

Subject: DHS Terror Funds Creating Police Grid Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:38 pm

According to their own mission statement, the Department of Homeland Security was created in 2002 to investigate and prevent terrorism inside the United States. If this is so, then why are hundreds of millions of dollars in tax payer money being shoveled to local and state police and emergency agencies to stop car jackings, spy on citizens, and investigate minor crimes?

There is a Federal program called CEDAP (Commercial Equipment Direct Assistance Program) which uses equipment paid for by Congress, given to DHS, and is then piped down to the states via a grant program. States chomp at the bit for a chance at laptops, surveillance cameras, armor vests, night vision gear, etc.

CEDAP awardees have included local FEMA offices, fire and emergency units, and local and state police. The grantees' own websites glorify the use of the CEDAP equipment to do everything from fighting crime to rescuing kittens from trees. The equipment was appropriated by Congress to the DHS to stop terrorism, yet there is little evidence that any of this equipment has been used to find one terrorist or prevent one single terrorist attack. It's all done to stop red light runners, tail gaters, dead beat dads, and local dope sellers, all problems that could be solved with some good old detective work and a court order. Millions of dollars in used equipment, sometimes military equipment, does not need to be funded to the states just to get cats out of trees and sniff out marijuana bags at the local high school.

Coplink which is basically an IT database for police, champions its high tech gizmos that it uses to stop grand theft autos, kidnap rescues, low speed pursuits, and even a false suicide 911 call. Osama who?

One particular new toy being built and funded by the DHS is a Sergeant 4X4 armored van that will be used by first responders in Macomb County, Michigan. There will be 3 units built and will be used for the following:

"Firefighting, enabling personnel to transport heavy equipment to remote or isolated areas including so-called "hot zones", hazard material incidents, providing protection from 59 chemical contaminants, crowd control and riots, to protect officers entering violent scenes and search and rescue with four-wheel drive and 360-degree thermal imaging cameras.

The funding for this program was done through the Urban Area Security Initiative, another offshoot under the CEDAP umbrella."

Al-Qaeda where?

This entire grid being put over us is funded by Congress and given to an agency whose entire existence rests on the faithful mission of stopping terrorists. We've been sold the idea that terrorists are plane hijacking, bomb-strapped Muslim fundamentalists. If this is the case, then where is the justification for using this equipment and all this money to stop litterbugs, car thieves, and red light bandits? The answer is clear: the government sees its own people as the suspects and subjects of anti-terror laws, and the real question now is whether the people will awaken to this trap being placed around them before it's too late.

DHS Terror Funds Creating Police Grid

DHS Terror Funds Creating Police Grid

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