[Originally posted at
http://personalliberty.com/2013/04/10/dhs-suggests-christians-constitutionalists-should-get-extra-surveillance-from-leos/ ]
April 10, 2013 by
Bob Livingston
Big government progressives and collectivists love labels. They seem
to come up with a new one almost daily, as they seek to isolate and
demonize one small segment of the population at a time that they can
identify as “extremist” and then dismiss from any discussion about the
country’s direction.
The Department of Homeland Security and the military have, in
reports published
over the past several years, equated a large segment of the U.S.
population with terrorists for simply expressing displeasure of the
nation’s course, preparing for disaster or even paying in cash. DHS and
the Barack Obama regime are aided in this endeavor by government
propaganda arm mainstream media and organizations like the Southern
Preposterous Lie Center (aka Southern Poverty Law Center), see
here,
here and
here.
Now, true to its communistic-sounding roots, DHS is becoming
exceedingly fearful of Christians who believe the Bible is God’s word,
Christian “fundamentalists” (whatever those are), Americans who believe
the country was founded on Godly principles and those who believe the
Constitution stands as the law of the land. In training materials, DHS
has lumped Christians and Constitutionalists in with a group it calls
the sovereign citizen movement and identified them as requiring special
surveillance by law enforcement.
In a letter to a conservative blogger, Prowers County (Colo.)
Undersheriff Ron Trowbridge revealed what he learned during a recent
training course conducted by Colorado State Patrol (CSP) Trooper Joe
Kluczynski, a CSP analyst for the Colorado Information Analysis Center,
(CIAC). CIAC is funded by DHS and run by the CSP, and the training
materials Kluczynski used came from DHS.
Here is the letter, unedited and in its entirety:
On April 1, 2013 I attended training in La Junta,
Colorado hosted by the Colorado State Patrol (CSP). The training was
from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm and covered two topics, Sovereign Citizens, and
Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs. I was pretty familiar with motorcycle gangs
but since we often deal with the so-called sovereign citizen groups I
was interested to see what they had to say. The group consisted of
police officers, deputies, and CSP troopers. There were about 20 people
in attendance.
Trooper Joe Kluczynski taught a 2-hour section on sovereign
citizens. Kluczynski spent most of his two hours focusing on how, in
his view and apparently the view of Homeland Security, people turn to
the sovereign citizen movement. Kluczynski started off by saying there
are probably some sovereign citizens in this room and gave a generalized
list of those groups that have sovereign citizen views. Among those
groups, Kluczynski had listed, were those who believe America was
founded on godly principles, Christians who take the Bible literally,
and “fundamentalists”. Kluczynski did not explain what he meant by
“fundamentalists” but from the context it was clear he was referring
again to those who took the Bible literally or “too seriously.”
While Kluczynski emphasized that sovereign citizens have a right to
their beliefs, he was clearly teaching that the groups he had listed
should be watched by law enforcement and should be treated with caution
because of their potential to assault law enforcement. Kluczynski
explained why he believed these groups were dangerous saying they were
angry over the election of a black president. When someone in the group
suggested the failing economy was probably much more to blame,
Kluczynski intimated that those who are not going along with the changes
in America will need to be controlled by law enforcement. Kluczynski
even later questioned some of the troopers present if they were willing
and prepared to confiscate “illegal” weapons if ordered to.
Kluczynski’s assignment with the CSP was an Analyst for the Colorado
Information Analysis Center, (CIAC). CIAC is funded by Homeland
Security funds and run by the CSP.
Kluczynski said he gets his
information from the Department of Homeland Security. Kluczynski said
he was leaving the CSP at the end of that week (March 29, 2013) to begin
his new career with Homeland Security. I thought he was perfect for
the job.
Ron Trowbridge
Undersheriff
Prowers County Sheriff’s Office
April 5, 2013
Trowbridge’s boss, Sheriff Jim Faull, issued a news release Monday
suggesting CSP suspend and re-evaluate the training program, because:
“When an instructor with a state law enforcement agency is teaching
their (sic) own employees and other law enforcement agencies that bible
(sic) believing citizens and those that do not agree with current
political trends are dangerous and should be under the scrutiny of law
enforcement, then that agency needs to make some fundamental changes
with that particular course.”
Trowbridge said he was surprised and frightened by the amount of
attention his letter received, but he stood by it. He issued another
letter on Monday responding to those seeking to verify his initial
claims.
Understand what is at work here is a concerted effort by the regime
to marginalize and demonize Americans, “those who are not going along
with the changes” the Marxist Obama regime is making to the country.
Demonizing and ultimately dehumanizing the “enemy” is a tried and true
propaganda tactic. You will also see this tactic demonstrated in the
comments posted to
Personal Liberty articles by the regime’s
messengers, who have taken to equating the Tea Party with the Taliban
and calling them extremists and terrorists. It is a designed strategy
based on the Saul Alinsky model.
