• Home
  • About Off The Grid
  • Advertise
  • Contact Us
Friday, May 16, 2025
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
No Result
View All Result
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
No Result
View All Result
Off The Grid News
Home How-To

Homeland Security Focuses on American Citizens Who Are “Reverant of Individual Liberty”

by Tim George
in How-To
Print Print
Homeland Security Focuses on American Citizens Who Are “Reverant of Individual Liberty”
Share on FacebookShare on XShare on TruthEmail Article

WASHINGTON, D.C. – A recent study funded by the Department of Homeland Security identifies potential threats to national security as including Americans who are “reverent of individual liberty” and “suspicious of centralized federal authority.”

The study was produced by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism at the University of Maryland, an organization launched with the aid of $12 million of DHS funding.

Hot Spots of Terrorism and Other Crimes in the United States essentially omits Islamic terrorism, failing to even mention the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and focuses on Americans with conservative and libertarian beliefs. Islamic radicals are barely mentioned while individuals and groups that reflect the majority view of America at large are placed in the category of radical extremism.

The new report derived its definitions from a 2011 study entitled Profiles of Perpetrators of Terrorism, produced by the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. That report, also used by DHS, identifies the following characteristics to recognize potential homegrown terrorists:

  • Americans who believe their way of life is under attack.
    Americans who are fiercely nationalistic (as opposed to universal and international in orientation).
  • People who consider themselves “anti-global”.
  • Americans who are suspicious of centralized federal authority.
  • Americans who are reverent of individual liberty.
  • People who believe in conspiracy theories that involve grave threat to national sovereignty and/or personal liberty.
  • People opposed to abortion.

Over the last few years, the Department of Homeland Security has taken part in producing a large body of literature that depicts advocates of limited government as terrorists. The most glaring example is a 2009 report, published by the Missouri Information Analysis Center, which framed Ron Paul supporters, libertarians, people who display bumper stickers, people who own gold or even people who fly a U.S. flag, as potential terrorists.

Such targeting of Americans is not limited to DHS. The FBI’s Communities Against Terrorism program warns that citizens who purchase bulk food or show an interest in web privacy when using the Internet in a public place are possible terrorists.

As part of its ‘See Something, Say Something’ campaign, the Department of Homeland Security educates the public that generic activities performed by millions of people every day, including using a video camera, talking to police officers, wearing hoodies, driving vans, writing on a piece of paper, and using a cell phone recording application,” are all potential signs of terrorist activity.

©2012 Off the Grid News


ShareTweetShareSend

Related Posts

Safe And Effective Ways to Defend Your Home From Ants Without Using Poisons

Safe And Effective Ways to Defend Your Home From Ants Without Using Poisons

by Bill Heid

As warm weather rolls in, so do the ants—marching through your kitchen, marching along baseboards, or trailing across patios and...

The Secret Lives of Ticks: How They Find You and Natural Ways to Fight Back

The Secret Lives of Ticks: How They Find You and Natural Ways to Fight Back

by Bill Heid

It's a common experience to return from a day outdoors and discover a tick nestled in your skin or your...

How to Use Diatomaceous Earth This Spring As A Powerful Natural Insect Shield

How to Use Diatomaceous Earth This Spring As A Powerful Natural Insect Shield

by Bill Heid

When Spring Wakes Up… So Do The Bugs With longer days and warmer temperatures, spring brings a welcome burst of...

Next Post

Is Your Survival Medicine Cabinet Up To Speed? with Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy - Episode 110

Please login to join discussion

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE

Obama Unresponsive To Own Party Members’ Requests For Greater Drone Strike Transparency

Obama Unresponsive To Own Party Members’ Requests For Greater Drone Strike Transparency

government shutdown food safety

80 Percent Of Food Not Being Inspected During Government Shutdown

The Government and the Grid

The Government and the Grid

TRENDING STORIES

  • bubonic plague

    Is Another Bubonic Plague Pandemic On The Horizon?

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Waco Fertilizer Plant Explosion & A Look Back On The “Waco Massacre”

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • Make Yourself 3 Times More Likely To Survive A Heart Attack

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • AI Surveillance Of Shoppers: Walmart’s Newest Tool To Grab Your Data

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0
  • ‘Apocalyptic’ Microchip Implants Are Here – And Being Inserted Into People’s Hands

    0 shares
    Share 0 Tweet 0

Subscribe to our Insider Newsletter

Huge discounts on off-the-grid gear and life saving supplements.






‘Off The Grid News’ is an independent, weekly email newsletter and website that is crammed full of practical information on living and surviving off the grid. Advice you’ll never hear from the mainstream media.

  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Extreme Survival
  • Survival Gardening
  • Off-Grid Foods
  • Worldview
  • Natural Health
  • Survival Hunting
  • Privacy
  • Financial
  • Current Events
  • Self Defense
  • Home Defense
  • Pain-Free Living
  • Miscellaneous
  • Off Grid Videos

© Copyright 2025 Off The Grid News.  All Rights Reserved.

No Result
View All Result
  • How-To
  • Grid Threats
  • Survival
  • Gardening
  • Food
  • Worldview
  • Health
  • Privacy
  • Hunting
  • Defense
  • Financial
  • News
  • Misc
  • Videos

© Copyright 2025 Off The Grid News.  All Rights Reserved.