http://www.operationdefuse.com/

We are currently raising money to send activists to visit more fusion centers and police state conferences and also to initiate and finalize open records requests to every fusion center in the country.

If you appreciate our mission please consider donating to Operation Defuse. We are a strictly volunteer grassroots operation and every dollar goes a long way.

Be sure to check out Operation Defuse’s YouTube Channel with more original footage not seen on the show! Check back, more videos to be posted soon.

OPERATION DEFUSE

Mission: Empower the public so they may better understand the police/surveillance state by educating them about fusion centers and the role they play in both militarizing and nationalizing our police forces.

Vision: A harmonious relationship between law enforcement and the people that promotes peace while respecting liberty.

Methodology: Throughout the year 2010 representatives from TAG and LRP will travel across the United States visiting America’s fusion centers, holding public forums, leading activist trainings and meeting with representatives and local law enforcement.

Here’s footage from the entire interview:

via OPERATION: DE-FUSE / Please Join Us in New Orleans to Protest the National Fusion Center Conference!.

After attending the Continental Congress of 2009 John Bush, executive director of TAG, and myself realized that our movement is not aware of the intrusive and destructive relationship between DHS and our local/state law enforcement.

You see, DHS has found a back door way to both militarize and federalize every level of law enforcement, and through these “fusion centers”, all levels of law enforcement basically become pledged to the war on terror.

If 2009 was the year of the Federal Reserve, we intend to make sure 2010 is the year of the Fusion Center – educating every activist in our movement and exposing their fraud against the American people.

Learn more about our initiative here: www.operationdefuse.com

This project will involve:
1. Visit every fusion center in the nation, interviewing staff for our new radio show Rise Up Radio (on micro broadcasts in cities all across the midwest including Stl, OKC, and Austin starting January 1!!!!!!).
2. Coordinate simultaneous open records requests to every fusion center in the country during National Sunshine week in March.
3. Conduct community forums in each state to educate the public while building harmonious relationships with local law enforcement (humanize) - these will be live streamed.
4. Provide a central location for each state to display their open records documents… a Patriot Fusion Center of our own www.libertyrestorationproject.org/wiki
5. Filming for a documentary on fusion centers.

How you can help!
If you want to help out in anyway please consider becoming an Operation Defused sponsor or even the coordinator for your state .

The dollars and cents:
Our biggest expense will be gas and food – So far we have arranged free housing accommodations at every location we have pursued (thank you)!  We know how to stretch a dollar, every penny will help.  (You can donate to our chipin @ http://operationdefuse.com/) Thank you Cissy for being the first to sponsor us!

We’re also in need of a donated or loaned scanner we can take on the trip to immediately upload any documents we get, a Verizon Wireless air-card so we can live stream our events and our radio show, and a donated or loaned GPS so we don’t get lost on the road!  The full estimated cost break down will be posted shortly only our website.

Save the Date Kansas City: December Tuesday 22nd, 2009
We will be kicking off “Operation Defuse” with our annual LRP Christmas Party to be held on Tuesday December 22nd from 6pm-8pm at http://thegustolounge.com/.  Big thanks to Sergio and Steven for donating the space to us and supporting our cause!  A local friend of the movement is also providing DJ services for the event!

Your $10 donation is appreciated at the door!  (if you cannot donate, please come anyway!)

Come ready to hear what LRP has in store for 2010 – we will be making waves bigger than you’ve ever seen!

We are still looking for a donor to provide finger foods and a few kegs so our supporters can mingle and learn while having some fun   Let me know if you are willing to sponsor us in that way (we can get you down as an ODF sponsor)!

RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/notifications.php#/event.php?eid=229388609971&index=1

Save the Date Austin: December
Our second event will be held in Austin, TX on December 28th.  TAG will be holding their annual Christmas party at Bagpipes Pub and Brewery where we will kick off the Southern tour of “Operation Defuse”.

“Operation Defuse” Southern  Tour
During the week between Christmas and New years, Catherine Bleish and John Bush plan to visit every fusion center in Texas.  On January 4the we will be testifying in the Austin City Council hearing on fusion centers and then we will take off for our next stop, Phoenix.  We will be driving through the south hitting fusion centers in AZ, OK, LA, GA, AL, MS, TX and, of course, MO.

Keep an eye on www.operationdefuse.com for the official dates/event locations as they develop.

“Operation Defuse” Missouri
Kevin Kobe, KC Area Director for LRP will be coordinating the Missouri components of Operation Defuse.  In February we plan to hold mirror MIAC hearings in the same cities our legislature held theirs.  Because LRP feels their report was nothing more than a whitewash, we intend to take liberty loving state rep candidates across the state of Missouri so they may listen to the public and develop a strategy to combat the intrusive nature of fusion centers once in office.  We will be inviting law enforcement, the media and the general public to contribute. The goal is to live stream these events on the web.

I can guarantee you the report out of this liberty-candidate committee will NOT be a white wash.

You can learn more by visiting www.operationdefuse.com

Thank you all for your support – I can’t wait to experience liberty in OUR lifetime!

Shoulder to shoulder we stand,
Catherine

Catherine Bleish
executive director
Liberty Restoration Project
http://www.LibertyRestorationProject.org/

blog: http://www.donttreadoncat.com/
facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DontTreadOnMe

Freedom reaches across party lines.

I would like to put together a “grassroots report” on the issue and hand deliver to every state rep.  Please email your suggestions to Catherine@libertyrestorationproject.org

Recommendations by the Committee:

- Enact legislation defining MIAC’s mission and scope in statute. In response to the federal government creating the Department of Homeland Security, MIAC was established in 2005 as a central repository for police agencies to share crime trends. Until the militia report controversy, very few state lawmakers even knew the 30-person agency existed.

- Define and limit the types of intelligence information gathering or sharing in which MIAC can engage.

- Establish a legislative committee to provide oversight of MIAC to review its activities.

- Require MIAC to present an annual report to the legislature on its activities.

- Strengthen personal privacy, civil rights and liberties laws to ensure they can’t be compromised by MIAC’s intelligence-gathering and sharing operations.

- Establish a formal, independent oversight board to provide policy direction and overall leadership to MIAC. Currently, there is an informal committee of advisers.

http://www.news-leader.com/article/20091016/NEWS01/910160334/1007/NEWS01/MIAC-changes-proposed-after-controversial-report

Oh, and I have emails that talk about where they come from.  I have the employee sending the report to his boss for approval. 

You can find the article on their blog here: http://www.getliberty.org/

“According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s response to ALG’s Sunshine Law Request, “[b]ackground material was not retained by the author during drafting” and “[t]here is no record listing the individual who wrote the report.” In fact, the only record the state of Missouri apparently claims it has of the report was its single draft version.”

I have pasted the important parts below for your convenience. My comments are in red.

THIS IS WHY THE FIGHT AGAINST THE FUSION CENTERS AND THE MIAC IS SO IMPORTANT.

I spoke with the woman who wrote this report last week – I was very clear that non of this was about race. VERY. I gave her facts about the government and she obviously had an agenda….

Blaming anti-government sentiments on racism, again.

One big difference from the militia movement of the 1990s is that the face of the federal government — the enemy that almost all parts of the extreme right see as the primary threat to freedom — is now black. And the fact that the president is an African American has injected a strong racial element into even those parts of the radical right, like the militias, that in the past were not primarily motivated by race hate. Contributing to the racial animus have been fears on the far right about the consequences of Latino immigration.

Quoting the RETRACTED MIAC report implying we are racist

The situation has many authorities worried. Militiamen, white supremacists, anti-Semites, nativists, tax protesters and a range of other activists of the radical right are cross-pollinating and may even be coalescing. In the words of a February report from law enforcement officials in Missouri, a variety of factors have combined recently to create “a lush environment for militia activity.”

Defending the DHS Report?

That same pugnacious attitude was on display after conservatives attacked an April report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that suggested a resurgence of radical right-wing activity was under way.

Linking in Ron Paul, as always these days, implicated Oath Keepers and Stewart Rhodes (I interviewed Stewart on my old internet radio show earlier this year GREAT intelligent guy)

In April, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes — a Yale Law School graduate and former aide to U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (a Texas Republican and hard-line libertarian) — worried about a coming dictatorship. “We know that if the day should come where a full-blown dictatorship would come, or tyranny … it can only happen if those men, our brothers in arms, go along and comply with unconstitutional, unlawful orders,” Rhodes told conspiracy-minded radio host Alex Jones. “Imagine if we focus on the police and military. Game over for the New World Order.”

Jack McLamb Implicated (was a speaker at the Revolution March in DC last year that I helped plan)

He’s not the first to think so. In the 1990s, retired Phoenix cop and conspiracy enthusiast Jack McLamb created an outfit called Police Against the New World Order and produced a 75-page document entitled Operation Vampire Killer 2000: American Police Action Plan for Stopping World Government Rule.

Sheriff Mack and Oath Keepers Implicated (Mack is a SPEAKER at MWLF)

One Oath Keeper is longtime militia hero Richard Mack, a former sheriff of a rural Arizona county who collaborated with white supremacist Randy Weaver on a book and who, along with others, won a U.S. Supreme Court decision that weakened the Brady Bill gun control law in the 1990s. “The greatest threat we face today is not terrorists; it is our federal government,” Mack says on his website. “One of the best and easiest solutions is to depend on local officials, especially the sheriff, to stand against federal intervention and federal criminality.” Mack’s views echo those of the Posse Comitatus, which believed that sheriffs are the highest law enforcement authorities in America. “I pray for the day that a sheriff in this country will arrest an IRS agent for trespassing or attempting to victimize citizens in that particular sheriff’s county,” Mack said in a video he made for Oath Keepers.

10th amendment movement

remarkable aspect of the current antigovernment movement is the extent to which it has gained support from elected officials and mainstream media outlets. Lawmakers complaining about the intrusiveness of the federal government have introduced 10th Amendment resolutions (reasserting that those powers not granted to the federal government remain with the states) in about three dozen states.

Tea Parties Implicated

Patriot ideology also has crept into the anti-tax “tea parties” that were staged by conservatives around the country in April and July. In addition to protesting government spending and taxation, some demonstrators called for the sovereignty of the states, abolition of the Federal Reserve (a long-time bogeyman of the radical right), and an end to “socialism” in Washington.

We must protect the internet

The recent Department of Homeland Security report also pointed to the role of the Internet in the current movement: “Unlike the earlier period, the advent of the Internet and other information-age technologies since the 1990s has given domestic extremists greater access to information related to bomb-making, weapons training and tactics, as well as targeting of individuals, organizations and facilities, potentially making … the consequences of their violence more severe.”

Catherine Bleish
executive director
Liberty Restoration Project

http://www.LibertyRestorationProject.org/

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Freedom reaches across party lines.

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I am urging everyone who can to please take any camera with video capabilities that you have access to, as your footage could probably be included in this full-length documentary.

If you have a tripod and good camera, brilliant, however this video is a grassroots effort and we’ve been going by the rule of content first, quality second, so don’t be too discouraged if your footage is not immaculate.

Please contact me at kevin@libertyrestorationproject.org when you have the footage available.

Everyone with footage in the film will get credit and I will try to make sure any groups or causes associated with those who help with the film also get mention.