Good news! Homeland security is only spying on antigovernment citizens.

[McGrupp]

The perfectly loyal and good citizens with nothing to hide have nothing to fear!

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130402/02150622543/homeland-security-fusion-center-director-were-not-spying-americans-just-anti-government-americans.shtml

and a link to an article about the congressional report on fusion centers:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121002/22020120576/congressional-investigation-slams-dhs-anti-terror-centers-wasted-taxpayer-funds-created-no-useful-intelligence-violated-civil.shtml

Also apparently they misplaced 1.4 billion dollars and bought way more flat screen tvs and SUVs than even congress thinks was appropriate.

Okay, it's going to look like I'm going to go over to the corner of the room and curl up in a fetal postition but........well I'm not sure how to finish that sentence.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Blocked.

Verify that with another site?

[McGrupp]

http://nwahomepage.com/fulltext?nxd_id=415892

I think that's the local news site where they first interviewed the guy. He does seem to be heavily implying that antigovernment folks aren't real citizens. You would think that they would have taught their PR folks to lie a little more about what they're doing. Here's another link to a similar story.
http://reason.com/24-7/2013/04/01/fusion-centers-spy-on-anti-government-am

I'll try to find a link to that congress report later this afternoon but I have a patient here. Lousy hospital patients, you'd think they were sick or something....oh wait. I should probably see what they want. 

[McGrupp]

http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/10-2-12FUSIONCENTERS.pdf 
That should be a pdf version of the report. I admit I have not read it all although the jist seems to be that fusion centers cost a lot, learned almost nothing, and probably violated some civil rights.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/02/homeland-security-fusion-centers_n_1933998.html

[navkat]

THANK YOU, JESUS.

Hey...you know what I think we need now? A new war. It'll totally fix the economy.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

THANK YOU, JESUS.

Hey...you know what I think we need now? A new war. It'll totally fix the economy.

I think I feel an emote coming on...

[Juana]

So, like, a huge number of Americans?

[Cain]

So, like, a huge number of Americans?

No, they're not Americans.  They're anti-American subversive citizens, who happen to be American.

Big difference.

[Juana]

So, like, a huge number of Americans?

No, they're not Americans.  They're anti-American subversive citizens, who happen to be American.

Big difference.

Aaah, right.

[McGrupp]

So, like, a huge number of Americans?

No, they're not Americans.  They're anti-American subversive citizens, who happen to be American.

Big difference.

Aaah, right.

To be fair, it's our own fault. I distinctly remember being told the following many times in the last decade or so:



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/us/inquiry-cites-flaws-in-regional-counterterrorism-offices.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
More hilarity here.

The investigators also discovered that federal officials cannot account for as much as $1.4 billion in taxpayer money earmarked for fusion centers and that some of the centers listed on paper by the Homeland Security Department do not even exist.

The Department of Homeland Security provided only one week of training to officials assigned to sift through tips and uncorroborated information about American citizens that came into their offices.

Top officials of the Homeland Security Department have known about the problems for years, but hid an internal department report on the program's flaws from Congress while continuing to tell lawmakers and the public that the fusion centers were highly valuable and that they formed the centerpiece of Homeland Security's counter-terrorism efforts. A 2010 internal assessment by the department discovered, for instance, that four of its claimed 72 fusion centers did not exist, even as department officials kept using the 72 figure publicly with Congress.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130404/03230222574/new-evidence-homeland-security-spied-peaceful-protestors-worried-about-protests-getting-news-coverage.shtml

Also apparently making sure that peaceful protests didn't get media attention was a priority for these centers.

The documents show a Department of Homeland Security that appears obsessed with the question of whether any and all protests that are being surveilled receive media attention and coverage. Reporting within the DHS on media coverage of First Amendment protected activities, even in the smallest places, appears to be a routine part of DHS intelligence reports. None of the documents explain why media coverage of peaceful demonstrations is of interest to law enforcement or concerns "homeland security" in any way.

I feel safer already.

[Juana]

Oh good.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

And we thought WND and all those Survivalists were confused when they were warning about the concentration camps in the midwest... Now we know,, they're for all those anti-American subversive American citizens.

:tinfoil:

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

Well how else are they gonna know when we're all in one place for the drone strike?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I, for one, would like to take this chance to denounce all of you as anti-American subversives.

Should be good for a buck or two.

[Q. G. Pennyworth]

I, for one, would like to take this chance to denounce all of you as anti-American subversives.

Should be good for a buck or two.

Too late. I'm already on ALL THE LISTS.