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“Fusion Centers” harassing patriots concerned about Islam
Posted on 3/20/18 at 4:51 am
Posted on 3/20/18 at 4:51 am
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"This is ominous: a free citizen being harassed by the West Virginia State Police over her concerns about a mosque with ties to the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). This shows how successfully such groups have manipulated government and law enforcement officials with their spurious claims of being victims of “racism” and “Islamophobia.” These Fusion Centers are extremely insidious. The Trump Administration needs to act to protect patriotic American citizens, and close them.
“Deep state attacks: Gov’t ‘Fusion Centers’ spying on patriots concerned about Islam,” by Leo Hohmann, March 6, 2018 (thanks to M.S.):
Brenda Arthur received an unexpected visit on March 8 that, one week later, leaves her feeling more than a little uneasy.
At her door that day was an officer with the West Virginia State Police. He wanted to know about her involvement in a Freedom of Information request regarding a local mosque.
Arthur, who will turn 67 this summer, serves as leader of the West Virginia chapter of ACT For America, whose mission is to educate Americans about the advancement of Islamic principles in Western societies.
As a Jewish American, she was concerned about a major expansion of the Islamic Association of West Virginia in her hometown of South Charleston. This mosque has hosted an openly anti-Semitic preacher in the past, and so she went to city hall in late January to have a look at its construction permits and site plans, something that is within the right of every American citizen under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and state open-records laws.
She had no idea that this perfectly legal activity, performed every day by citizen watchdogs across the U.S., would prompt a visit from the state police.
Arthur was not available to answer the door when Sgt. R.C. Workman came knocking, but Workman left his business card with a hand-written note on the back:
“Brenda, please contact me at: 304-573-6190.”
Workman’s unit is part of the West Virginia Intelligence Exchange, a secretive outfit that works closely with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s “intelligence fusion center” in West Virginia.
All 50 states have at least one DHS fusion center, and the story of Brenda Arthur lends credence to the views of civil libertarians that these centers, whatever their stated purpose, have been weaponized against law-abiding American citizens.
Fusion centers were established a few years after the 9/11 terror attacks by the George W. Bush administration and expanded under Barack Obama.
The West Virginia Fusion Center website says its mission is to “Embrace proactive intelligence efforts. Those efforts are key to inhibiting criminal networks, whether those groups are terrorists, drug-related groups, organized crime, or other criminal enterprises.”
Fusion centers work with “non-traditional sources,” including corporate America, to build threat assessments on people.
But what is it about Brenda Arthur that could garner the attention of this specialized police unit? She seems like an unlikely candidate to be involved in terrorism or organized crime.
Arthur is a senior citizen who’s never broken a law in her life. She is a professional insurance broker, a great-aunt to six children, one of whom she helps with financial support for a private education at a Montessori school.
But fusion centers know no boundaries, including the U.S. Constitution, says constitutional attorney and civil liberties advocate John Whitehead.
“The word mosque, it’s key words like that. If you don’t like mosques, they’re gonna be after you, they’re watching you, because everything is determined by algorithms,” said Whitehead, founder of the Charlottesville, Va.-based Rutherford Institute.
Being an “activist” also draws the attention of the fusion centers, he said.
‘Do not talk to them’
Whitehead has strict advice for any law-abiding citizen who is approached by law enforcement asking questions about their personal activities.
“If they come to your door, do not talk to them. If they call you on the phone, do not talk to them.”
Whitehead said the intimidation tactics used by fusion centers are similar to the East German Stasi and other secret-police agencies.
“They’re copying the tactics of former totalitarian regimes and the slightest mistake can get you in trouble,” he said. “That’s why you shouldn’t talk to them. The threat assessments are very dangerous. Don’t talk to them. Call someone like us, let us issue one of our letters and that usually shuts them up, and also puts them on record.”
“Once you’re in their system,” Whitehead added, “you cannot get out.”...
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"This is ominous: a free citizen being harassed by the West Virginia State Police over her concerns about a mosque with ties to the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). This shows how successfully such groups have manipulated government and law enforcement officials with their spurious claims of being victims of “racism” and “Islamophobia.” These Fusion Centers are extremely insidious. The Trump Administration needs to act to protect patriotic American citizens, and close them.
“Deep state attacks: Gov’t ‘Fusion Centers’ spying on patriots concerned about Islam,” by Leo Hohmann, March 6, 2018 (thanks to M.S.):
Brenda Arthur received an unexpected visit on March 8 that, one week later, leaves her feeling more than a little uneasy.
At her door that day was an officer with the West Virginia State Police. He wanted to know about her involvement in a Freedom of Information request regarding a local mosque.
Arthur, who will turn 67 this summer, serves as leader of the West Virginia chapter of ACT For America, whose mission is to educate Americans about the advancement of Islamic principles in Western societies.
As a Jewish American, she was concerned about a major expansion of the Islamic Association of West Virginia in her hometown of South Charleston. This mosque has hosted an openly anti-Semitic preacher in the past, and so she went to city hall in late January to have a look at its construction permits and site plans, something that is within the right of every American citizen under the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and state open-records laws.
She had no idea that this perfectly legal activity, performed every day by citizen watchdogs across the U.S., would prompt a visit from the state police.
Arthur was not available to answer the door when Sgt. R.C. Workman came knocking, but Workman left his business card with a hand-written note on the back:
“Brenda, please contact me at: 304-573-6190.”
Workman’s unit is part of the West Virginia Intelligence Exchange, a secretive outfit that works closely with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s “intelligence fusion center” in West Virginia.
All 50 states have at least one DHS fusion center, and the story of Brenda Arthur lends credence to the views of civil libertarians that these centers, whatever their stated purpose, have been weaponized against law-abiding American citizens.
Fusion centers were established a few years after the 9/11 terror attacks by the George W. Bush administration and expanded under Barack Obama.
The West Virginia Fusion Center website says its mission is to “Embrace proactive intelligence efforts. Those efforts are key to inhibiting criminal networks, whether those groups are terrorists, drug-related groups, organized crime, or other criminal enterprises.”
Fusion centers work with “non-traditional sources,” including corporate America, to build threat assessments on people.
But what is it about Brenda Arthur that could garner the attention of this specialized police unit? She seems like an unlikely candidate to be involved in terrorism or organized crime.
Arthur is a senior citizen who’s never broken a law in her life. She is a professional insurance broker, a great-aunt to six children, one of whom she helps with financial support for a private education at a Montessori school.
But fusion centers know no boundaries, including the U.S. Constitution, says constitutional attorney and civil liberties advocate John Whitehead.
“The word mosque, it’s key words like that. If you don’t like mosques, they’re gonna be after you, they’re watching you, because everything is determined by algorithms,” said Whitehead, founder of the Charlottesville, Va.-based Rutherford Institute.
Being an “activist” also draws the attention of the fusion centers, he said.
‘Do not talk to them’
Whitehead has strict advice for any law-abiding citizen who is approached by law enforcement asking questions about their personal activities.
“If they come to your door, do not talk to them. If they call you on the phone, do not talk to them.”
Whitehead said the intimidation tactics used by fusion centers are similar to the East German Stasi and other secret-police agencies.
“They’re copying the tactics of former totalitarian regimes and the slightest mistake can get you in trouble,” he said. “That’s why you shouldn’t talk to them. The threat assessments are very dangerous. Don’t talk to them. Call someone like us, let us issue one of our letters and that usually shuts them up, and also puts them on record.”
“Once you’re in their system,” Whitehead added, “you cannot get out.”...
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Posted on 3/20/18 at 4:52 am to Boatshoes
...Blindsided
Arthur was typical in that she was caught off guard by the visit.
“So I called him at the number he gave me and asked ‘what’s this about?’”
Sgt. Workman did not beat around the bush.
“We came by your house and wanted to talk to you.”
“Yes sir, what about?” Arthur asked.
“It’s about that FOIA request you made about the building plans for the mosque,” he told her.
It did not immediately dawn on her that she was actually not the one whose name was on the Freedom of Information Act request.
“I hadn’t filed it, a friend of mine did. Within seconds it occurred to me, but I didn’t want the other lady to be brought into it so I just acknowledged it and said ‘you know I file a lot of FIOAs, I filed one with the Health and Human Resources, with the auditor’s office, with Bureau for Medical Services, and more.”
“Yes, but those FOIAs are within the normal course of things,” said the stern voice on the other end of the phone line.
Why is it that this particular request, for information on a mosque project, was considered abnormal? And who decides what is NORMAL in a search of public-record documents?
She explained that she is an upstanding citizen activist and member ACT For America.
“I explained we are an organization with 750,000 members, we support the Constitution, American liberty, American values, and we fight terrorism and the concepts of Sharia law, which are antithetical to the U.S. Constitution.”
In the course of the 10-minute phone conversation, Arthur did a lot of explaining.
She explained that she was perusing the website of the local mosque when she came across a photo that caught her attention. It was of a man standing in the middle of the mosque speaking to the congregation. That man was Nihad Awad, executive director of Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR.
“He’s a terrorist supporter, he finances terror, and is part of a terrorist-tied organization,” Arthur told the sergeant.
That prompted Sgt. Workman to hint at the real reason for his inquiry.
“Well, we have a good relationship with that mosque and when he came here they notified us he was coming,” he told Arthur.
That sparked something in Arthur’s memory.
When she and a friend had gone to city hall on Jan. 31 to inspect the documents, the city manager and another city official stood over their shoulders the entire time. They made a point of telling the two women, “We have a good relationship with the mosque.”
Who’s the snitch?
The West Virginia Fusion Center’s website encourages Americans to report “suspicious activity” by filing a SAR or Suspicious Activity Report on a fellow resident.
A SAR is defined as “the sharing of information concerning activity, incident, or behavior that the reporting individual considers to be outside of normal parameters,” the website states.
Inquiring about a mosque was not NORMAL activity. Arthur had been flagged for suspicious activity, probably by a city official who has a good relationship with the mosque, or someone at the mosque itself.
In West Virginia, the fusion center operates under the supervision of the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety [DMAPS].
I called DMAPS Tuesday and asked what could possibly be suspicious about a 66-year-old insurance broker with no criminal record going to city hall and inspecting public-record documents.
Lawrence Messina, director of communications for West Virginia DMAPS, said he would ask that question of his superiors and get back with me.
He sent the following email at 2:09 p.m. on March 13:
“I have consulted with my colleagues here at the Office of the Secretary as well as with the W.Va. Intelligence Fusion Center and the W.Va. State Police (the latter is also part of this department). We decline to comment on this matter.”
Arthur, as a Jewish American, has every reason to be concerned that an anti-Semite like Awad would be invited to speak in her community. He is a supporter of Hamas, which is on the U.S. State Department’s list of designated foreign terrorist organizations, and he rejects the right of Israel to exist. [See Discover the Networks for documentation of Awad’s long history of radical statements, activities and affiliations.]…."
Arthur was typical in that she was caught off guard by the visit.
“So I called him at the number he gave me and asked ‘what’s this about?’”
Sgt. Workman did not beat around the bush.
“We came by your house and wanted to talk to you.”
“Yes sir, what about?” Arthur asked.
“It’s about that FOIA request you made about the building plans for the mosque,” he told her.
It did not immediately dawn on her that she was actually not the one whose name was on the Freedom of Information Act request.
“I hadn’t filed it, a friend of mine did. Within seconds it occurred to me, but I didn’t want the other lady to be brought into it so I just acknowledged it and said ‘you know I file a lot of FIOAs, I filed one with the Health and Human Resources, with the auditor’s office, with Bureau for Medical Services, and more.”
“Yes, but those FOIAs are within the normal course of things,” said the stern voice on the other end of the phone line.
Why is it that this particular request, for information on a mosque project, was considered abnormal? And who decides what is NORMAL in a search of public-record documents?
She explained that she is an upstanding citizen activist and member ACT For America.
“I explained we are an organization with 750,000 members, we support the Constitution, American liberty, American values, and we fight terrorism and the concepts of Sharia law, which are antithetical to the U.S. Constitution.”
In the course of the 10-minute phone conversation, Arthur did a lot of explaining.
She explained that she was perusing the website of the local mosque when she came across a photo that caught her attention. It was of a man standing in the middle of the mosque speaking to the congregation. That man was Nihad Awad, executive director of Council on American-Islamic Relations or CAIR.
“He’s a terrorist supporter, he finances terror, and is part of a terrorist-tied organization,” Arthur told the sergeant.
That prompted Sgt. Workman to hint at the real reason for his inquiry.
“Well, we have a good relationship with that mosque and when he came here they notified us he was coming,” he told Arthur.
That sparked something in Arthur’s memory.
When she and a friend had gone to city hall on Jan. 31 to inspect the documents, the city manager and another city official stood over their shoulders the entire time. They made a point of telling the two women, “We have a good relationship with the mosque.”
Who’s the snitch?
The West Virginia Fusion Center’s website encourages Americans to report “suspicious activity” by filing a SAR or Suspicious Activity Report on a fellow resident.
A SAR is defined as “the sharing of information concerning activity, incident, or behavior that the reporting individual considers to be outside of normal parameters,” the website states.
Inquiring about a mosque was not NORMAL activity. Arthur had been flagged for suspicious activity, probably by a city official who has a good relationship with the mosque, or someone at the mosque itself.
In West Virginia, the fusion center operates under the supervision of the West Virginia Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety [DMAPS].
I called DMAPS Tuesday and asked what could possibly be suspicious about a 66-year-old insurance broker with no criminal record going to city hall and inspecting public-record documents.
Lawrence Messina, director of communications for West Virginia DMAPS, said he would ask that question of his superiors and get back with me.
He sent the following email at 2:09 p.m. on March 13:
“I have consulted with my colleagues here at the Office of the Secretary as well as with the W.Va. Intelligence Fusion Center and the W.Va. State Police (the latter is also part of this department). We decline to comment on this matter.”
Arthur, as a Jewish American, has every reason to be concerned that an anti-Semite like Awad would be invited to speak in her community. He is a supporter of Hamas, which is on the U.S. State Department’s list of designated foreign terrorist organizations, and he rejects the right of Israel to exist. [See Discover the Networks for documentation of Awad’s long history of radical statements, activities and affiliations.]…."
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:01 am to Boatshoes
They like to carve out safe havens in these mosques and turn them into no-go territory. Makes it easier for them to administer sharia, take up collections for terror groups, and plot to kill the infidels.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:11 am to Boatshoes
Too busy to arrest the Nicholas Cruz’s of the world
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:16 am to Strannix
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Too busy to arrest the Nicholas Cruz’s of the world
Now why would you want to go and arrest a guy who is going to give gun confiscation advocates a talking point so close to an election?
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:22 am to Boatshoes
This happened to me in Milwaukee. I called the local Lutheran Charities to ask about how many Muslim refugees they relocated to Milwaukee and what kind of government funding they got. The lady on the phone gave me no information and said somebody from their office would call me back.
About a week later I kept getting these phone calls from blocked numbers which I didn’t answer. About the 5th one they left a menacing VM from a Milwaukee police detective demanding I call back - was a specific number and name like in the story. When I called back this really jerky guy told me if I called again they would come visit me, and they strongly suggest I don’t. I pushed back a little about my honest concerns and he didn’t budge in his tone or aggressiveness.
About a week later I kept getting these phone calls from blocked numbers which I didn’t answer. About the 5th one they left a menacing VM from a Milwaukee police detective demanding I call back - was a specific number and name like in the story. When I called back this really jerky guy told me if I called again they would come visit me, and they strongly suggest I don’t. I pushed back a little about my honest concerns and he didn’t budge in his tone or aggressiveness.
This post was edited on 3/20/18 at 5:31 am
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:28 am to SirWinston
Catholic Charities and Lutheran Charities are two of the biggest offenders in mainstreaming Muslims into America...and they are compensated well by your and my tax dollars to do it. Interesting that the ACLU has no separation of church/state issue here. Also interesting that this was a GW Bush program that not too many people complained about at the time.
Good government is small government.
Good government is small government.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 5:37 am to Boatshoes
Posted on 3/20/18 at 6:31 am to Boatshoes
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At her door that day was an officer with the West Virginia State Police. He wanted to know about her involvement in a Freedom of Information request regarding a local mosque.
There is no reason to send police to someone's house for a FOIA request other than to intimidate them. This is the Deep State at work. And to think some people still refuse to accept that they exist.
It was all laid out 150 years ago. It was written by Albert Pike that the globalists would use Muslims to end Western civilization and install a one-world government. Actions like this make it difficult to refute that it is happening.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 6:46 am to TenWheelsForJesus
We glorify our police officers here in the states but give them a fancy and unique badge, put them in a different building and give them an extra $12,500 per year and they will gladly use their title and position to intimidate Christian Patriots on behalf of Islam.
The cops in the UK are mindless shills who stamp on free speech and defend Islam daily
The cops in the UK are mindless shills who stamp on free speech and defend Islam daily
This post was edited on 3/20/18 at 6:47 am
Posted on 3/20/18 at 6:57 am to Boatshoes
"we have a good relationship" mist likely means they have CIA operatives or assets in the mosque.
Likely observing people on a watch list, or possibly planning/encouraging attacks.
They don't want grandma interfering with their operations.
Likely observing people on a watch list, or possibly planning/encouraging attacks.
They don't want grandma interfering with their operations.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 7:01 am to SirWinston
quote:
We glorify our police officers here in the states but give them a fancy and unique badge, put them in a different building and give them an extra $12,500 per year and they will gladly use their title and position to intimidate Christian Patriots on behalf of Islam.
The cops in the UK are mindless shills who stamp on free speech and defend Islam daily
Something to keep in mind. Of all the criticism that Russia gets, it's the only police state I can think of in my lifetime whose soldier's didn't mow down the populace when ordered to do so when the USSR fell. China had no issue doing it. Venezuela has no issue doing it.
This post was edited on 3/20/18 at 7:02 am
Posted on 3/20/18 at 7:10 am to IllegalPete
quote:
about Islam by IllegalPete
"we have a good relationship" mist likely means they have CIA operatives or assets in the mosque.
Likely observing people on a watch list, or possibly planning/encouraging attacks.
They don't want grandma interfering with their operations
This is what it means.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 7:13 am to IllegalPete
quote:
"we have a good relationship" mist likely means they have CIA operatives or assets in the mosque.
Likely observing people on a watch list, or possibly planning/encouraging attacks.
Unfortunately, it doesn't mean that.
LINK /
Mosques have been off limits since Obama declared them to be.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 7:15 am to bencoleman
If the authorities are in cahoots with the mosque, who is protecting the people?
Posted on 3/20/18 at 7:17 am to TrueTiger
quote:
If the authorities are in cahoots with the mosque, who is protecting the people?
George Mason.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 7:23 am to Boatshoes
quote:
"we have a good relationship" mist likely means they have CIA operatives or assets in the mosque.
Likely observing people on a watch list, or possibly planning/encouraging attacks.
Unfortunately, it doesn't mean that.
It probably does mean that the mosque provides information to the state and to the DHS. The link you posted doesn't disprove any of that.
Muslims are the ones who provide the overwhelming majority of information about Islamic terrorism and crimes. Which makes sense, because you gotta know something to snitch in the first place.
Posted on 3/20/18 at 7:27 am to MrCarton
Makes sense, sense the mosques are where they coordinate all that shite
Posted on 3/20/18 at 7:34 am to MrCarton
quote:
It probably does mean that the mosque provides information to the state and to the DHS. The link you posted doesn't disprove any of that.
Muslims are the ones who provide the overwhelming majority of information about Islamic terrorism and crimes. Which makes sense, because you gotta know something to snitch in the first place.
When the largest Muslim lobbying organization in the US does this
"In its latest annual “Civil Rights Report,” the Council on American-Islamic Relations continues to encourage Muslims not to cooperate with the FBI and other law-enforcement officers.
CAIR’s “Civil Rights Report 2017: The Empowerment of Hate,” released May 9, considers FBI questioning of Muslims seeking information about Islamic terrorists to be a form of harassment, casting it as an “anti-Muslim bias incident,” noted the influential blog Jihad Watch, edited by Robert Spencer.
“CAIR pretends to be a civil rights organization,” Spencer told WND, noting the organization’s critics long have pointed to evidence it’s a Hamas-Muslim Brotherhood front intended to obstruct counter-terror efforts.
“Its long record of discouraging cooperation with the FBI shows its critics to be right,” he said."
You're on the wrong track.
LINK
Posted on 3/20/18 at 7:37 am to IllegalPete
quote:Seems like that would make it easy for terrorists to figure out which mosques have CIA operatives in them then. All you have to do is have someone file FOIA request and see if these people follow up.
"we have a good relationship" mist likely means they have CIA operatives or assets in the mosque.
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