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by Wendy McElroy
07/28/10
What is a fusion center? The answer depends on your perspective. If you work for the Department of Homeland Security, it is a federal, state, local, or regional data-coordination units, designed to improve the sharing of anti-terrorism and anti-crime data in order to make America safer. If you are privacy or civil-rights advocate, it is part of a powerful new domestic surveillance infrastructure that combines data from both the public and private sectors to track innocent people and so makes Americans less safe from their own government. In that respect, the fusion center is reminiscent of the East German stasi, which used tens of thousands of state police and hundreds of thousands of informers to monitor an estimated one-third of the population. The history of fusion centers provides insight into which answer is correct...
http://www.wendymcelroy.com/news.php?extend.3427
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=Homeland+Security
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=fusion+center
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://mindcontrol.twoday.net/search?q=stasi
