One course I attended used the example of a person employed as a plumber being the target of a search warrant. In this example, the officers were told how to use his employment as a plumber as further evidence of terrorism. The suspect’s employment would be described as an elaborate scheme to justify possessing pipes and chemicals so as to have bomb making materials readily available. Based on this example, all plumbers are potential pipe bomb makers. All gun dealers are plotting to provide arms to gangs or terrorists. All pest control companies are preparing mass poisonings. By using this logic, simply having the ability to do something criminal automatically makes the person guilty of plotting the crime. With all the various methods of manufacturing methamphetamine, it would also be easy to claim that a disassembled clandestine drug lab was located during the search. In other words, it is easy to frame anyone for possessing bomb making materials (or other crimes) if the officer knows what items to list in the report and how to link these items to terrorism.
And why would such 'training' be happening? Who'd want to do this?
During the past several years, I have witnessed a dramatic shift in the focus of law enforcement training. Law enforcement courses have moved away from a local community focus to a federally dominated model of complete social control. Most training I have attended over the past two years have been sponsored by Department of Homeland Security (DHS), namely the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
No matter what topic the training session concerns, every DHS sponsored course I have attended over the past few years never fails to branch off into warnings about potential domestic terrorists in the community. While this may sound like a valid officer and community safety issue, you may be disturbed to learn how our Federal government describes a typical domestic terrorist.
Go read the whole thing. Remember cases in the past where some ATF agent would find a piece of header pipe or exhaust pipe and charge the guy with making illegal silencers? Same thing, except your reloading or craft materials can be used to 'prove' you're a domestic terrorist.
Methods of developing evidence of terrorist activity from virtually any search have also been discussed. Various common materials which may be associated with homemade explosives are listed, such as lengths of pipe, gunpowder, matches, flammable liquids and fireworks. Officers are told when these items are found, they can be listed as “bomb making materials”. The training even goes so far as to instruct officers that the items are cleverly disguised as legitimate, such as gasoline stored near a lawn mower, pipes stored in a shop building or gunpowder stored with reloading materials.
Found over at Sipsey Street
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Google "anarcho-tyranny". What you read is that in action.
Freeholder, thanks for the lead. I did the search and got a page about Samuel T. Francis.
after lots of smearing about his alleged racism (which figures as he was apparently an old school conservative), down at the bottom of the page is the bit about power politics and the "Managerial State"
It certainly articulates and connects a lot of what we can see and complain about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managerial_state
Ah, yes. Crime investigation and prevention by leftists.
I swear, you look at any garage in my neighborhood when I was growing up, and you'd find all sorts of devices and materials that could be used for nefarious ends, or, more likely, used to raise happy, productive, law-abiding Americans.
This basically boils down to "If you can't find any evidence of an actual crime, here how you can lie about what you DID find so as to arrest them anyway, or at least put them under suspicion." And any LE officer who does such ought to be fired and blackballed from ever again wearing a badge.
"By using this logic, simply having the ability to do something criminal automatically makes the person guilty of plotting the crime."
Sounds like they took a page from the Brits, who consider possession of certain items to be proof that you're a burglar on the prowl. They call it "going equipped for stealing" and it's a felony.
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