Apologies if this has been posted already.
The Missouri Information Analysis Center is "a "fusion center," combining resources from the federal Department of Homeland Security and other agencies, in particular local agencies. It collects intelligence from both the local agencies and the Department of Homeland Security and uses these combined sources to analyze threats and better combat terrorism and other criminal activity." In other words, its a living symbol of the post 9/12 world, domestic spying institutionalized and functioning.
The MIAC issued a report in early March to law enforcement officers across Missouri. The reports title: The Modern Militia Movement; its a rather scathing indictment of far right activists and operators in the United States.
Of course, the wing nuts completely freaked....
They freaked just like we did when we found out the FBI was monitoring Quakers and grannies protesting the Bush Administration. What's fascinating here is that the wingers have been successful in compelling the Missouri state government in to retracting the report and apologizing for its publication:
A report about modern militia activity will no longer be distributed to Missouri law enforcement officers after receiving nationwide criticism that it contains political profiling.
The decision came Wednesday, hours after Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder called for Department of Public Safety Director John Britt to be placed on leave because of the report, which said followers of third-party political candidates might be militia members.
But the superintendent of the Missouri Highway Patrol said Britt wasn't to blame. Instead, Col. James Keathley said, the issue is a flawed oversight system, which will be revamped. Keathley said the report was sent to highway patrol members without being reviewed by him or Britt.
Since the report was leaked to the public earlier this month, it has been criticized by conservatives and third-party candidates.
Amazing! What makes this even more bizarre is that the report is actually scary as hell! I'll be the first to admit that the far left has its own share of activists that commit crimes in support of their idealogy, but their recent crimes must be considered in comparison to the far rights committed acts and plans. The lefties tend to burn down things, while the righties want to kill people.
The report itself deserves your full attention. You can find it here. Pages 1-8 provide a laundry list of crimes and plots the militia have been involved in since the 90's, with 60 plots identified since September 11, 2001 alone!. This report makes these people actually sound really dangerous, and the entire Missouri state government is falling over themselves to issue apologies and retract the report!
There's a statement on page 3 of the report that the President's people need to pay attention to. The birthers movement, which challenges Obama's constitutional right to hold the presidency, is, in MIAC analyst's view, tied to the violent extremists associated with post 9/11 plots referenced above. They are enraged that an African American is now president.
The report also provides background on right wing extremists symbolism, publications, methods of organization, and potential targets. Kansas City is viewed by the analyst as a prime target, due to its status as a fast track freight hub in the North American Union and its perceived status as a FEMA command and control center for the coming internment of dissenting citizens under the Obama regime (conspiracy du jour among the far right).
If I were a lawman in Missouri, I would want access to this report. Missouri state government has done its citizens a disservice by suppressing the distribution of this report. And I find equally ironic and disturbing that the same machine these wingers probably endorsed in the early 2000's has pulled back the curtain on them.
This story really deserves national attention.