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Did RAND Corporation Pen the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act?

Kurt Nimmo
TruthNews
November 22, 2007
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9fyZ62U8fc

According to Jessica Lee of Indypendent and Kamau Karl Franklin of the
Center for Constitutional Rights, the Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
was penned with plenty of help from the RAND Corporation.

“Rep. Jane Harman, Democrat from California, has had a lengthy
relationship with the Rand Corporation,” Lee tells Democracy Now,
although she was unable to determine if RAND wrote the bill. On the 12th
anniversary of the OKC bombing, Rep. Harman, as chair of the Homeland
Security Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing and Terrorism
Risk Assessment, introduced the bill in the House of Representatives.

“The ‘Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007? seeks to address the
roots causes of radicalization, and would establish a grant program to
provide funds to States to foster badly needed vertical information
sharing from the Intelligence Community to the local level and from local
sources to state and federal agencies,” explains Harman’s website. “It
also creates a Center of Excellence for the Prevention of Radicalization
and Home Grown Terrorism to examine the social, criminal, political,
psychological and economic roots of domestic terrorism and to propose
solutions, and promotes international collaboration on strategies to
combat radicalization.”

Franklin mentions Brian Michael Jenkins, an “expert” on “terrorism,
counterinsurgency, and homeland security,” according to RAND. Jenkins is
“someone who helped the United States in counterinsurgency measures in
Vietnam,” states Franklin. “In addition to that, he wrote a book, and in
his own book” Jenkins declared that “in their international campaign, the
jihadists will seek common ground with leftists, anti-American and
anti-globalist forces, who will in turn see radical Islam comrades
against a mutual foe.”

In short, according to Kamau Karl Franklin, the Violent Radicalization
and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act is more about domestic political
activism than Islamic terrorism, although it appears Jenkins—and neocons
such as the former Marxist David Horowitz—are attempting establish a link
between the two, an absurdity at best, as the best way to discredit both
the antiwar and patriot movements.

According to a Center for Constitutional Rights factsheet, RAND is a key
player in the “domestic terrorism” prevention effort detailed in this
draconian bill. A RAND study “Trends in Terrorism,” Chapter 4 on
“homegrown terrorism,” advocates “special attention to environmentalist,
Anti-globalization activist and anarchists as potentially new terrorist
in the making.”

Not surprisingly, RAND is intimately connected to the global elite and
the military-industrial-intelligence complex: “The interlocks between the
trustees at Rand, and the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations
were so numerous that the Reece Committee listed them in its report (two
each for Carnegie and Rockefeller, and three for Ford). Ford gave one
million dollars to Rand in 1952 alone, at a time when the chairman of
Rand was simultaneously the president of Ford Foundation,” notes
SourceWatch (Rene Wormser, Foundations: Their Power and Influence,
p65-66). “Two-thirds of Rand’s research involves national security
issues. This is divided into Project Air Force, the Arroyo Center
(serving the needs of the Army), and the National Defense Research
Institute (providing research and analysis for the Office of the
Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and the defense agencies).”

As Lee Rogers notes, the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism
Prevention Act, in its effort to flush out “terrorists,” including those
opposed to the sort of globalism supported by Ford, Rockefeller, and
Carnegie foundations, will perform an end-run around the Constitution and
the Bill of Rights. The bill “states in the first subsection that in
general the efforts to defeat thought crime shall not violate the
constitutional rights, civil rights and civil liberties of the United
States citizens and lawful permanent residents. How does this protect
constitutional rights if they use vague language such as in general that
prefaces the statement? This means that the Department of Homeland
Security does not have to abide by the Constitution in their attempts to
prevent so called homegrown terrorism.”

This bill is completely insane. It literally allows the government to
define any and all crimes including thought crime as violent
radicalization and homegrown terrorism. Obviously, this legislation is
unconstitutional on a number of levels and it is clear that all 404
representatives who voted in favor of this bill are traitors and should
be removed from office immediately. The treason spans both political
parties and it shows us all that there is no difference between them. The
bill will go on to the Senate and will likely be passed and signed into
the law by George W. Bush. Considering that draconian legislation like
the Patriot Act and the Military Commissions Act have already been
passed, there seems little question that this one will get passed as
well. This is more proof that our country has been completely sold out by
a group of traitors at all levels of government.

“With overwhelming bipartisan support, Rep. Jane Harman’s ‘Violent
Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act’ passed the House
404-6 late last month and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman’s Homeland
Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain,” write Ralph E.
Shaffer and R. William Robinson for the Baltimore Sun. “Not since the
‘Patriot Act’ of 2001 has any bill so threatened our constitutionally
guaranteed rights.”

Harman’s “proposed commission is a menace through its power to hold
hearings, take testimony and administer oaths, an authority granted to
even individual members of the commission—little Joe McCarthys—who will
tour the country to hold their own private hearings. An aura of authority
will automatically accompany this congressionally authorized mandate to
expose native terrorism.”

Ms. Harman’s proposal includes an absurd attack on the Internet,
criticizing it for providing Americans with “access to broad and constant
streams of terrorist-related propaganda,” and legalizes an insidious
infiltration of targeted organizations. The misnamed “Center of
Excellence,” which would function after the commission is disbanded in 18
months, gives the semblance of intellectual research to what is otherwise
the suppression of dissent.

While its purpose is to prevent terrorism, the bill doesn’t
criminalize any specific conduct or contain penalties. But the commission’s
findings will be cited by those who see a terrorist under every bed and
who will demand enactment of criminal penalties that further restrict
free speech and other civil liberties. Action contrary to the commission’s
findings will be interpreted as a sign of treason at worst or a lack of
patriotism at the least.

While Ms. Harman denies that her proposal creates “thought police,”
it defines “homegrown terrorism” as “planned” or “threatened” use of
force to coerce the government or the people in the promotion of
“political or social objectives.” That means that no force need actually
have occurred as long as the government charges that the individual or
group thought about doing it.

As Shaffer and Robinson note, examples of “resulting crackdowns on such
protests include the conviction and execution of anarchists tied to
Chicago’s 1886 Haymarket Riot.” Additionally, we might add that the FBI’s
COINTELPRO—targeting civil rights, antiwar, and national liberation
movements—may serve as a template for “insidious infiltration of targeted
organizations.” Although the official history would have us believe
COINTELRPO was shut down in the 1970s, events since that time reveal the
government is still in the business of illegally going after Americans
who exercise their constitutional right to petition the government. For
more on these recent events, see Brian Glick’s COINTELPRO Revisited:
Spying and Disruption.

Thus it makes perfect sense that the corporate media—compromised by the
CIA under Operation Mockingbird beginning in the 1950s—would employ the
likes of Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly to characterize the antiwar, truth
and patriot movements—and even supporters of Ron Paul—as potentially
violent advocates of “domestic terrorism.” No doubt, in the weeks and
months ahead, we should expect more such propaganda as Harman’s “proposed
commissions,” little more than federally mandated inquisitions, get up to
speed.

Finally, as noted above, it is only a matter of time before the so-called
Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 becomes law. The bill has been
referred to the Senate where it awaits scrutiny from the Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and is almost certain to pass.

This has nothing to do with RAND. I've been to RAND, know people at RAND,
was invited to teach a seminar (in wargaming) at RAND, for possible future
employment at RAND. However the cost of living in Santa Monica made me
choose Rockwell International (they had places world-wide, but RAND had only
the one place - not counting the Arroyo Center - called "dry gulch" by those
in the know.)

If you knew anything at all about RAND you would know that they conduct
studies, and can only make recommendations to a "decision-making" body. All
of their studies are peer-reviewed by many people. Dr. Strangelove does not
exist in reality.

Of course this is all another anti-american conspiracy piece of crap, and
facts have nothing to do with it.

Now the response will be, "Oh Yeah! You didn't address the facts!"
Notwithstanding the fact that the screed has no facts, just crap. Then it
will be, "Oh yeah! You didn't provide a cite!" I am the cite. I have been
there. I know what they do. I had the highest clearance, and they briefed
me.

Don't bother responding. You're in the plonk file.

I apologize to the other members of soc.veterans for even responding to this
obviously political screed, and promise to only plonk them, without reply,
in the future.