March 11, 2009

Mr. Jones has received a secret report distributed by the Missouri
Information Analysis Center (MIAC) entitled “The Modern Militia Movement”
and dated February 20, 2009. A footer on the document indicates it is
“unclassified” but “law enforcement sensitive,” in other words not for
public consumption. A copy of the report was sent to Jones by an anonymous
Missouri police officer.

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The MIAC report specifically describes supporters of presidential candidates
Ron Paul, Chuck Baldwin, and Bob Barr as “militia” influenced terrorists and
instructs the Missouri police to be on the lookout for supporters displaying
bumper stickers and other paraphernalia associated with the Constitutional,
Campaign for Liberty, and Libertarian parties.

“Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) provides a public safety
partnership consisting of local, state and federal agencies, as well as the
public sector and private entities that will collect, evaluate, analyze, and
disseminate information and intelligence to the agencies tasked with
Homeland Security responsibilities in a timely, effective, and secure
manner,” explains the MIAC website.

http://www.miacx.org/(X(1)S(413cdauiqwvi1k455cefc4mi))/default.aspx?A...

 “MIAC is the mechanism to collect incident reports of suspicious activities
to be evaluated and analyzed in an effort to identify potential trends or
patterns of terrorist or criminal operations within the state of Missouri.
MIAC will also function as a vehicle for two-way communication between
federal, state and local law enforcement community within our region.”

MIAC is part of the federal “fusion” effort now underway around the country.
“As of February 2009, there were 58 fusion centers around the country. The
Department has deployed 31 officers as of December 2008 and plans to have 70
professionals deployed by the end of 2009. The Department has provided more
than $254 million from FY 2004-2007 to state and local governments to
support the centers,” explains the Department of Homeland Security on its
website. Missouri is mentioned as a participant in this federal
“intelligence” effort.

http://www.dhs.gov/xinfoshare/programs/gc_1156877184684.shtm

Last month, the ACLU issued a news release highlighting the activity of a
fusion center in Texas as the “latest example of inappropriate police
intelligence operations targeting political, religious and social activists
for investigation,” in particular “Muslim civil rights organizations and
anti-war protest groups.”

http://www.aclu.org/privacy/gen/38835prs20090225.html

The MIAC report does not concentrate on Muslim terrorists, but rather on the
so-called “militia movement” and conflates it with supporters of Ron Paul,
Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr, the so-called patriot movement and other political
activist organizations opposed to the North American Union and the New World
Order. The MIAC document is a classic guilt by association effort designed
to demonize legitimate political activity that stands in opposition to the
New World Order and its newly enshrined front man, Barack Obama.

In September of 2008, Missouri sheriffs and prosecutors organized truth
squads to intimidate people opposed to Obama and threatened to arrest and
prosecute anybody who ran “misleading television ads.” Missouri governor
Matt Blunt eventually denounced the use of “police state tactics” on the
part of the Obama-Biden campaign.

MIAC claims members of a “rightwing” militia movement organized in the
1990s — generally in response to the Oklahoma City bombing and the events at
Waco — “continuously exploit world events in order to increase participation
in their movements. Due to the current economical and political situation, a
lush environment for militia activity has been created” and supposedly
exploited by “constitutionalists” and “white supremacists,” the latter an
oft-employed canard used to demonize activists as dangerous and potentially
violent lunatics.

MIAC notes many of the political issues cited by the so-called patriot
movement — the Ammunition Accountability Act, the impending economic
collapse of the government, the possibility of a constitutional convention,
the North American Union, Obama’s “Universal Service Program,” and the
implementation of RFID, issues that are not limited to the patriot movement
but are shared by a wide array of political activists.

The MIAC document includes a map of the North American Union not dissimilar
from one released by NASCO, the North America SuperCorridor Coalition (see
the NASCO map here).

http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/articles/OperationU-Turn_fil...

The MIAC report is similar to one created by the Phoenix Federal Bureau of
Investigation and the Joint Terrorism Task Force during the Clinton
administration (see page one and page two of the document). The FBI document
explicitly designates “defenders” of the Constitution as “right-wing
extremists.” The MIAC report expands significantly on the earlier document.

http://www.keepandbeararms.com/images/FBI-MCSOTerroristFlyer-Front.jpg

http://www.keepandbeararms.com/images/FBI-MCSOTerroristFlyer-Back.jpg

 In order to artificially heighten the perceived threat threshold, MIAC
rolls in Christian Identity, white nationalism, “militant” anti-abortion
activists, opposition to illegal immigration, and income tax resistance.
MIAC deceptively blurs the lines between these disparate political
ideologies and underscores the possibility for violence in a summary of the
organizational structure of the militia movement and a section describing
how members strive to train in “combat readiness.”

The MIAC effort to characterize Libertarians and Constitutionalists as
racists is reminiscent of an attempt by the corporate media in early 2008 to
portray Ron Paul as a racist by attempting to link him to a series of
vaguely racist newsletters produced in the 1980s. Paul did not exercise
editorial control over the newsletters and went so far as to apologize for
them, but this did not prevent the corporate media from characterizing him
as a racist.

According to MIAC, opposition to world government, NAFTA, federalization of
the states, and restrictive gun laws are a threat to the police. “The
militia subscribes to an anti-government and NWO mindset, which creates a
threat to law enforcement officers. They view the military, National Guard,
and law enforcement as a force that will confiscate their firearms and place
them in FEMA concentration camps,” the document claims in a section entitled
“You are the Enemy.”

In regard to supposed militia movement literature and media, the MIAC report
mentions Aaron Russo’s America: Freedom to Fascism and William Luther Pierce
’s The Turner Diaries — the latter was penned by the former leader of the
white nationalist organization National Alliance and the former by a
Libertarian filmmaker. In order to underscore the absurdity of the MIAC
attempt to link Pierce’s novel and Russo’s anti-tax documentary, it should
be noted that the late Aaron Russo was Jewish and The Turner Dairies posits
a Zionist government in America (or ZOG, the Zionist Occupation Government)
run by Jews.

The award-winning film Zeitgeist, featuring Alex Jones, is also mentioned as
terrorist material.

The MIAC report is particularly pernicious because it indoctrinates Missouri
law enforcement in the belief that people who oppose confiscatory taxation,
believe in the well-documented existence of a New World Order and world
government (a Google search of this phrase will pull up numerous references
made by scores of establishment political leaders), and are opposed to the
obvious expansion of the federal government at the expense of the states as
violent extremists who are gunning for the police. It specifically targets
supporters of mainstream political candidates and encourages police officers
to consider them dangerous terrorists.

MIAC is attempting to radicalize the police against political activity
guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. If Missouri
police indoctrinated by MIAC propaganda overreact to political activists and
supporters of Ron Paul in their state and injure or kill people involved in
entirely legal and legitimate political activity, MIAC, the governor of
Missouri (his name appears on the MIAC document), and the DHS and federal
government should be held directly responsible and prosecuted the fullest
extent of the law.