Homeland Security infiltrating higher education by establishing Big Brother campus recruiting, surveillance schemes

Sunday, March 11, 2012 by: Ethan A. Huff, staff writer
Tags: Homeland Security, campus, recruiting

(NaturalNews) The total government control and surveillance nightmare portrayed in the book 1984 has all but fully arrived in the United States as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now implementing its abhorrent spying and recruitment programs at American institutions of higher learning. Kurt Nimmo at PrisonPlanet.com explains how DHS ringleader Janet Napolitano recently established a new Homeland Security Advisory Council composed of 19 university and college presidents, all of whom will be tasked with helping to integrate education and the goals of "national security" into a single entity.

As originally reported in The Kaimin, the independent student newspaper of the University of Montana (UM), UM President Royce Engstrom, for instance, is among the 19 college and university heads who have been chosen by Napolitano to lead this new committee. And one of the specific goals of this committee is to "advise the department on a wide range of issues from how the DHS can better recruit from campuses to emergency preparedness" (http://www.montanakaimin.com).

Published in the Federal Register under Docket No. DHS-2011-0121, the official announcement about the new council goes into further detail about its purpose, explaining that the council will "provide advice and recommendations to the Secretary (Napolitano) and senior leadership on matters relating to student and recent graduate recruitment; international students; academic research; campus and community resiliency; security and preparedness; and faculty exchanges" (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-03-01/html/2012-4897.htm).

Though Napolitano denies that such measures are a federal government ploy to monitor and spy on students and faculty, this description of what the committee is all about appears to imply just that. Similar to its If You See Something, Say Something snitch network (http://www.infowars.com) and its Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response teams (https://www.naturalnews.com/033961_TSA_security_checkpoints.html), this new academic recruitment and spying effort represents just one more nail in the coffin of liberty.

Submit a comment of opposition to Napolitano's academic spying ring before March 31, 2012

Officially published on March 1, 2012, the Federal Register announcement about the council comes with a 30-day comment period during which members of the public can provide feedback. So if you value your freedom from government oppression and oppose the ever-encroaching Big Brother invasion into your private life, now is the time to speak your mind -- and here are several ways you can do this right now:

1) Leave a comment in the Federal Register before March 31:
http://www.regulations.gov/;D=DHS-2011-0121-0001

(If you have trouble with the comment submission link, be sure to contact the Regulations.gov Help Desk at 1-877-378-5457 and reference Docket No. DHS-2011-0121).

2) Email the Office of Academic Engagement (be sure to reference Docket No. DHS-2011-0121 in the subject line):
[email protected]

3) Send a fax of opposition to:
(202) 447-3713

4) Send a physical letter of opposition to:
Academic Engagement
MGMT / Office of Academic Engagement / Mailstop 0440
Department of Homeland Security
245 Murray Lane SW
Washington, D.C. 20528-0440

5) Attend the first meeting of the council, which is open to the public, on March 20, 2012, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at:
Ronald Reagan International Trade Center
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Floor B, Room B1.5-10
Washington, D.C. 20004

(You will need government-issued photo identification to enter the building)

You can also access the full DHS announcement here:
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-03-01/html/2012-4897.htm

Sources for this article include:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/big-sis-and-dhs-move-on-campus.html