The Homeland Security Campus: 'Repress U'

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The Homeland Security Campus: Repress U

By Michael Gould-Wartofsky
Global Research, January 25, 2008

Free-speech zones. Taser guns. Hidden cameras. Data mining. A new security curriculum.
Private security contractors. Welcome to the homeland security campus.

From Harvard to UCLA, the ivory tower is fast becoming the latest watchtower in Fortress America. The terror warriors, having turned their attention to "violent radicalization and homegrown terrorism prevention"--as it was recently dubbed in a House of Representatives bill of the same name--have set out to reconquer that traditional hotbed of radicalization, the university.

Building a homeland security campus and bringing the university to heel is a seven-step mission:

1. Target dissidents. As the warfare state has triggered dissent, the campus has attracted increasing scrutiny--with student protesters in the cross hairs.
The government's number-one target? Peace and justice organizations.

MORE- http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...xt=va&aid=7900

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The number one danger with homeland defense is that it be used against the citizenry to effect a virtual dictatorship through deprivation of rights under the guise of protecting the homeland. We must be sure that there is proper oversight, including the use of private citizens free from the temptations of government civil servants and officials, to monitor the activities of the government in its pursuit of homeland security. The slippery slope of a Christian nation to a fascist regime was well chronicled in the last century. Shame on us if we let it happen again.