Posted on Jul 12, 2014
How do you feel about the Obama Homeland Security and Law Enforcement targeting Veterans as terrorist?
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Obama administration using Homeland Security specifically to target military Veterans. The Obama administration is also turning over military vehicles and equipment to local law enforcement to militarize them. Indiana Police Sergeant Dan Downing admitted that the militarization of domestic law enforcement was partly to deal with returning veterans who are now seen as a homegrown terror threat.
Homeland Security
Terrorism
Barack Obama
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Wartime vets returning home to peacetime civilians hasn't always been smooth in the past, I'm guessing that's where it's coming from. The draw-down forces veterans out, who feel bitter about it, and then on top of that civilians disapproving of/not understanding wartime service, stress due to difficulty of finding employment after perception of job security. It piles up, builds resentment . . . it would be better to have preventative measures like reintegration programs and investment in vet benefits, than reactionary like police force buildup.
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I used to serve as the Chief of the Law Enforcement Threat Information Center (LETIC) at US Northern Command. We monitored and assessed all threats against Dept. of Defense facilities, personnel, and missions.
When the DHS assessment was published identifying returning veterans as potential threats, it was disheartening. Sure, there are a few crazies in any demographic group, but to collectively assess those that wore the uniform as a threat to our country was demeaning, and frankly, an inaccurate portrayal of the overwhelming majority of those that served.
When the DHS assessment was published identifying returning veterans as potential threats, it was disheartening. Sure, there are a few crazies in any demographic group, but to collectively assess those that wore the uniform as a threat to our country was demeaning, and frankly, an inaccurate portrayal of the overwhelming majority of those that served.
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MSG Mitch Dowler
This is what happens when we have a CIC who has never served and it openly hostile to the idea of protecting and defending the Constitution against all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC. By far the DOMESTIC internal government threat to our Constitution is by far more immediate and serious than any external or foreign threat. Our military Veterans are targeted because they will always be first in line to stand up defend our nation against this internal threat as many of us still voluntarily bind ourselves to the oath we have taken.
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