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Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong> The DHS appears to have finally found a use for all those bullets it\u2019s been buying. At a Tea Party protest outside an IRS building in St. Louis yesterday there were no regular police \u2014 only armed Homeland Security guards.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Video footage from the demonstration at which protesters, including Infowars,com readers, chanted \u201cno more harassment,\u201d shows numerous DHS Federal Protective Service vehicles along with several armed DHS guards. There is not a regular police officer in sight.<\/p>\n The St. Louis demonstration was just one of numerous similar protests against the IRS\u2019s punitive targeting of conservative groups that took place across the country yesterday.<\/p>\n The DHS was\u00a0supposedly founded<\/a>\u00a0to protect against and respond to terrorist attacks, man-made accidents, and natural disasters. It was not created to protect the IRS from peaceful protesters, but in the decade since its inception, Big Sis has morphed into an entity that polices and monitors political free speech as one of its primary functions.<\/p>\n Homeland Security has routinely been caught spying on protesters from both ends of the political spectrum via its nationwide network of \u201cthreat fusion centers\u201d.<\/p>\n Government documents unearthed in April<\/a>\u00a0revealed that the DHS, \u201cconducts daily monitoring of peaceful, lawful protests as a matter of policy\u201d and functions as a \u201csecret political police force against people participating in lawful, peaceful free speech activity,\u201d such as \u2018Occupy\u2019 demonstrations.<\/p>\n In 2011, the\u00a0DHS asserted<\/a>\u00a0that it had every right to spy on peaceful protest groups and had been using Federal Protective Service (FPS) agents to do so since at least 2006.<\/p>\n In March,\u00a0Arkansas State Fusion Center Director Richard Davis admitted<\/a>\u00a0that the federal agency spies on Americans deemed to be \u201canti-government,\u201d noting that the DHS concentrates on, \u201cdomestic terrorism and certain groups that are anti-government. We want to kind of take a look at that and receive that information,\u201d so-called threats which included people, \u201cputting political stickers in public bathrooms or participating in movements against the death penalty.\u201d<\/p>\n A\u00a02012 Senate subcommittee investigation<\/a>\u00a0of DHS data fusion centers found that millions of dollars had been spent not on gathering important anti-terrorism information but on collating \u201ca bunch of crap,\u201d which was \u201cunrelated to terrorism\u201d and in fact targeted Americans peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights.<\/p>\n In its promotional material for the \u2018See Something, Say Something\u2019 snitch program, the\u00a0DHS has routinely portrayed<\/a>\u00a0white, middle class Americans as the most likely terrorists. Mock news reports and security drills run by the DHS have also depicted\u00a0gun owners<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0homeschoolers<\/a>\u00a0as violent terrorists.<\/p>\n It\u2019s no surprise that the DHS is now deploying its agents to defend the IRS against the ire of the American people given that both federal agencies have gone to extreme lengths to target law-abiding, conservative, or God forbid \u201canti-government\u201d Americans as domestic extremists and even terrorists.<\/p>\n *********************<\/p>\n Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for\u00a0Infowars.com<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Prison Planet.com<\/a>. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.<\/p>\n <!– <\/p>\n –><\/p>\n This article was posted: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 at 5:47 am<\/p>\n Tags: government corruption<\/a>, police state<\/a><\/p>\n
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