It’s Official: Southern Poverty Law Center Is Now Part of DHS

As the below document makes clear, Southern Poverty Law Center is Now Officially Part of DHS. The CEO of SPLC now sits on the DHS “Working Group on Countering Violent Extremism” along with the leaders of other So-called Non Government Organizations (but can we really call them such now that they are part of the government?) And select “law enforcement” officers such as the Clark County Nevada Sheriff, Doug Gillespie. What does the working group do? Make recommendations on training and how to use all of the local resources – police, social services, media, NGO’s, you name it – to fight “extremism. So, now no need to file a FOIA request to discover that SPLC is writing the reports naming constitutionalists as possible terrorists. Now it is in your face and the mask is off.

When you read the below document, keep in mind the current ordeal of the Irish family where their newborn baby was taken based on an affidavit that notes the father’s “association with a militia group known as Oath Keepers.”. Pay attention to who sits on this panel (see pages 26-30), to who DOESN’T, how they plan on reaching DHS tentacles down into every level of society, and how they talk overtly about the need to utilize local SOCIAL WELFARE and MENTAL HEALTH agencies to counter “violent extremism.”. In other words, what is now being done to the Irish family will be done all over.

This is the overt politicization of DHS, to use it against political enemies

imaginethat wrote:Give it up Blade. The "Bush bashing" retort is a pure, CC response, as meaningless now as it ever was. Plus, I don't see where anyone was "bashing Bush" anyway.

Keep your nose clean. No worries then.

Bladerunner wrote:

imaginethat wrote:Give it up Blade. The "Bush bashing" retort is a pure, CC response, as meaningless now as it ever was. Plus, I don't see where anyone was "bashing Bush" anyway.

Keep your nose clean. No worries then.

Gee, thanks IT. Nice to see that CC is still in your crosshairs. Maybe you too should give it up.

One thing for sure, Bush and Cheney do not hate America.

Federal workforce increased substantially under Bush
Scripps Howard News Service ^ | Jan. 22, 2004 | THOMAS HARGROVE
Posted on 01/26/2004 7:19:37 PM PST by Anthem

WASHINGTON -- Big government is back.

Since President Bush took office, the federal government's domestic civilian workforce has increased by more than 79,000 jobs, nearly a 5 percent increase. And the number of government workers paid at least $130,000 annually has tripled.

Much of the increase came with the creation of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security two years ago. But the nation's war on terrorism does not account for all of the rise. The Department of Health and Human Services, for example, has added 1,445 employees since President Bill Clinton left office.

"We are seeing a general growth in the size of government. That is just a fact," said Bob Moffit, former deputy assistant health secretary during the Reagan administration and now a scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation. "And the increases did not all go to Homeland Security. The rise in federal discretionary spending, frankly, has been breathtaking."

A study of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management records by Scripps Howard News Service has found that the domestic federal workforce grew from 1,697,753 people in September 2000 to 1,777,217 in September 2003, the most recent information available. That is an increase of 79,464 people, more than the population of Dubuque, Iowa, and nearly identical to the seating capacity of Giants Stadium.

Federal workers paid $130,000 annually _ the highest wage category reported in personnel records _ rose from 6,249 people receiving at least $812 million in 2000 to at least 21,178 people earning more than $2.7 billion. Both the number of top-wage earners and their aggregate salaries more than tripled in three years.

The White House on Thursday defended the increases.

imaginethat wrote:In your opinion, is pointing this out BHS?

Bladerunner wrote:

imaginethat wrote:In your opinion, is pointing this out BHS?

Dunno, IT, maybe it's just BS. What's happening now pales in comparison to the stuff you dug up to make your point.

imaginethat wrote:The good thing about Obama is this: If it wasn't for him, Bush would be the worst US president in a long, long while.

imaginethat wrote:What lousy yardstick?

Bladerunner wrote:

imaginethat wrote:What lousy yardstick?

Obama. No president in our history can, or even should, be compared to him. He is in a league all by himself. But it's OK, IT, you see our succession of presidents as a continuum; I don't.

imaginethat wrote:

Bladerunner wrote:

imaginethat wrote:What lousy yardstick?

Obama. No president in our history can, or even should, be compared to him. He is in a league all by himself. But it's OK, IT, you see our succession of presidents as a continuum; I don't.

I agree O is in a category all to himself. How do you see our succession of presidents, Blade?

swiftfoxmark2 wrote:Obama is probably the first true product of the Left-wing student movement of the 1960s and 70s, setting aside his upbringing of course. He was taught it from the first day he had cognitive functions and he continues to believe it to this day.

I don't believe he views what he is doing as working against the United States, but working for the people of the United States to make things better for all. He is a ideologue and therefore a puppet to the darker interests of many insiders beyond the rim of insanity. The ideology is inconsequential to them so long as their desires and goals are met.

So when Obama stops prosecution of the Black Panthers, for example, he can do so without running afoul of the global leaders who got him into power. But if he were to pull the troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan or open investigations on the outright banking foreclosure frauds, well, there might be Hell to pay from his masters.

I know this all seems conspiratorial, but I truly believe that there are men working behind the scenes to manipulate events to their benefit any which way they can. And while I can't name anyone specifically, except maybe George Soros, I know they exist. When you look at the patterns of governing that our past and our current President have taken, you'll see a distinct set of policies that don't change no matter who takes office.

With an organization like the Southern Poverty Law Center now a part of the DHS, this allows them to wield some political strength against honest men who would rather serve citizen than force them to serve the 'masters'. It reminds me of the Nightwatch organization in the show Babylon 5.