From Harvard to UCLA, the Ivory Tower is Fast Becoming the Latest Watchtower in Fortress America

[Orwellian_Ghost]

How to Build a Homeland Security Campus in Seven Steps
By Michael Gould-Wartofsky

Free speech zones. Taser guns. Hidden cameras. Data mining. A new security curriculum. Private security contractors… Welcome to the new homeland security campus


Building a homeland-security campus and bringing the university to heel is a seven-step mission:

1. Target dissidents: As the warfare state has triggered dissent, the campus has increasingly become a target gallery -- with student protesters in the crosshairs. The government's number one target? Peace and justice organizations.

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At more than a dozen universities and colleges, police officers now double as full-time FBI agents and, according to the Campus Law Enforcement Journal, serve on many of the nation's 100 Joint Terrorism Task Forces. These dual-purpose officer-agents have knocked on student activists' doors from North Carolina State to the University of Colorado and, in one case, interrogated an Iraqi-born professor at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst about his antiwar views.


2. Lock and load: Many campus police departments are morphing into heavily armed garrisons, equipped with a wide array of weaponry from Taser stun guns and pepper guns to shotguns and semiautomatic rifles. Lock-and-load policies that began in the 1990s under the rubric of "the war on crime" only escalated with the President's Global War on Terror. Each school shooting -- most recently the massacre at Virginia Tech -- just adds fuel to the armament flames.

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3. Keep an eye (or hundreds of them) focused on campus: Surveillance has become a boom industry nationally -- one that now reaches deep into the heart of the American campus. In fact, universities have witnessed explosive growth in the electronic surveillance of students, faculty, and campus workers. On ever more campuses, closed-circuit security cameras can track people's every move, often from hidden or undisclosed locations, sometimes even into classrooms.



6. Take over the curriculum, the classroom, and the laboratory: Needless to say, not every student is considered a homeland security threat. Quite the opposite. Many students and faculty members are seen as potential assets. To exploit these assets, the Department of Homeland Security has launched its own curriculum under its Office of University Programs (OUP), intended, it says, to "foster a homeland security culture within the academic community."


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http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174879

[DiscussTed]

1. USDA and DHS Working Together

"Please note:
Land, buildings and other facilities of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center were transferred to the Department of Homeland Security in June 2003."

"USDA is continuing its traditional mission of research and diagnostic programs at the center."

[flashl]

2. 'it's big business' ...

Privatize, privatize, privatize: Of course, homeland security is not just a department, nor is it simply a new network of surveillance and data mining -- it's big business.

[lovuian]

3. NWO

is definitely the agenda
America is the War Machine

[countryjake]

4. Sounds like they are ready...

are our young people?

I really wish someone would invent some sort of anti-tase armor...not just to protect the person being tased, but to send the charge directly back at the asshat holding the taser. If they hit me with one, my heart will stop cold in a new york minute, so it would at least be comforting to know that the bastard who took me out felt it, too.

I wish lots of luck to all the bright fresh faces we watched last week, herding into the caucuses and voting booths.

[kelligesq]

6. Rubber suits, full body snorkeling outfit

I would imagine would circumvent the effects of taser

[mogster]

5. Set the controls for the heart of the sun

Pucker your lips for the apocalypse.

"Each school shooting -- most recently the massacre at Virginia Tech -- just adds fuel to the armament flames."

This is also being used as an argument for strong-arms politics over here, the massacre in Finland just recently reinforcing the 'dumbya'-guerillas position.

[kelligesq]

7. DHS

innoculating and growing their own American Gestapo

" "foster a homeland security culture within the academic community."