The 2nd Amendment is remarkable in its brevity:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Today, however, many in government equate the term, Militia, with kooks such as Ted Kazynski. In many circles, the term is employed interchangeably with "terrorist".
This past February, the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) issued a report on behalf of the Highway patrol entitled The Modern Militia Movement. After releasing the report, the agency deleted all records relating to it, in direct contravention of established records requirements.
The report, however, remains in circulation - although the agency claims (1) to have retained no source data regarding the foundations of the report itself, and (2) lack of information regarding the actual author or authors. These are interesting revelations, in view of the fact that the report has been widely circulated not only among Missouri's top enforcement agencies, but distributed as well to enforcement agencies in other states.
The report advises the profiling as possible terrorists all individuals with concerns or interests in the areas of unemployment, taxes, illegal aliens, gangs, border security, abortion, cost-of-living, gun restrictions, FEMA, the IRS, and/or the Federal Reserve.
The advisory report futher noted that attractants for potential domestic terrorists include gun shows, shortwave radios, action movies, Tom Clancy novels, and "right-wing" candidates such as Ron Paul, among other tell-tale signs.
The problem with MIAC and related centers distributed across the USA is the observable lack of accountability; regarded as "fusion centers" and working closely with DHS and other agencies, they bring together widely-ranging bits of data for "analysis" that may or may not stand up to scrutiny. By the very nature of these centers, however, scrutiny is precisely disallowed. By failing to retain source data and records of analysis/authorship, the validity of the reports and advisories generated by the centers cannot be verified.
The potential for negative effects upon the freedoms of Americans is substantial, as is the likelihood for incorporation of fabrication into the reports and advisories released by such centers.
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