{"id":186015,"date":"2014-06-13T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/13\/another-reason-to-shut-down-the-fusion-centers\/"},"modified":"2014-06-13T07:06:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T12:06:00","slug":"another-reason-to-shut-down-the-fusion-centers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/06\/13\/another-reason-to-shut-down-the-fusion-centers\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Reason to Shut Down the Fusion Centers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justiceonline.org\/commentary\/fusion-centers-approached.html\">treated a consumer boycott for &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; 2011 as a terrorist event<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The documents reveal that Fusion Centers and  their personnel even conflate their anti-terrorism mission with a need  for intelligence gathering on a possible consumer boycott during the  holiday season. There are multiple documents from across the country  referencing concerns about negative impacts on retail sales.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The Executive Director of the Intelligence  Fusion Division, also the Joint Terrorism Task Force Director, for the  D.C. Metropolitan Police Department&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.justiceonline.org\/one-nation-under-surveillance\/documents\/council-shopping-centers-black-friday-boycott.html\">circulated a 30-page report tracking the Occupy Movement<\/a>&nbsp;in towns and cities across the country created by the&nbsp;<b>trade association the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)<\/b>.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">He directed that the recipients of the  document, who included top staff at the Washington, D.C. Fusion Center,  \u201cdevelop a one page product that we can send to our District Commanders  to make them aware of the potential threat.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<i>emphasis original<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>Can you say out of control totalitarian organization?<\/p>\n<p>Good, I knew that you could.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because they treated a consumer boycott for &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; 2011 as a terrorist event: The documents reveal that Fusion Centers and their personnel even conflate their anti-terrorism mission with a need for intelligence gathering on a possible consumer boycott during the holiday season. There are multiple documents from across the country referencing concerns about negative &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[981,970,972,1041,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war","category-corruption","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}