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DHS Awards $20 Million To Program That Flags Americans As Potential “Extremists” For
Quote:The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded 34 grants to as many organizations, worth a total of $20 million, whose role will be to undergo training in order to flag potential online “extremist” speech of Americans.
The money will be spent from the Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) grant program for fiscal year 2023, while the recipients include police, mental health providers, universities, churches and school districts.
According to DHS, this program (administered by its Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships, CP3, and for some reason, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA) is the only federal one of its kind whose goal is “helping local communities develop and strengthen their capabilities in combating targeted violence and terrorism.”
Those given the money from the grants fund are expected to develop prevention programming at the community level that would stop “targeted violence and terrorism,” as well as come up with innovative prevention ideas, and “identify prevention best practices that can be replicated in communities nationwide.”
In announcing and explaining the need for such spending, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas cited the Jacksonville shooting. As he remarked while justifying the awarding of grants, the event was racially motivated, and – “[it] made painfully clear, targeted violence and terrorism can impact any community, anywhere.”
DHS claims that the “current” environment is one of heightened – and lethal – threat, based on ideology or personal grievances of “lone offenders and small groups.”
The DHS announcement came on the anniversary of 9/11, but it showed that the focus is now on Americans rather than some foreign terrorist threat (or even foreign terrorist gangs in the habit of “invading” US soil).
And the way the terrorist threat is defined here looks more like a drive to suppress dissent to dominant narratives pushed by the government and large traditional and social media who work in concert with the federal authorities.
Specifically, what opponents of such policy single out as possible reasons to be branded a violent extremists or (domestic) terrorist could be disagreeing, and expressing that opinion online on anything from Covid, vaccines, gun rights, gender and LGBTQ policies, the war in Ukraine, or immigration.
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RE: DHS Awards $20 Million To Program That Flags Americans As Potential “Extremists” For
Did the ADL get some?
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RE: DHS Awards $20 Million To Program That Flags Americans As Potential “Extremists” For
(09-14-2023 03:47 PM)513Alex Wrote: Did the ADL get some?
The ADL will get all of it. They are already a primary recipient of funding from law enforcement of all sorts. Not that they are ever in harms way or ever go do anything, but they have found ways to siphon off as much as they can get away with nonetheless.
“Did you know ADL trains every new FBI agent on their role as protectors of the American people and the Constitution?”
Oh, thank god they are looking out for us…
https://twitter.com/ADL/status/472384478464061441
(This post was last modified: 09-16-2023 02:21 AM by Todor.)
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RE: DHS Awards $20 Million To Program That Flags Americans As Potential “Extremists” For
In other words, another formal free speech battering censorship program.
The left is going to divide us and spend ourselves into 3rd world status before long.
(This post was last modified: 09-16-2023 03:04 AM by TripleA.)
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