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What is "terrorism"?(Insider Report)
Under the "Homeland Security" regime being erected to fight the open-ended "war on terror," practically any crime--and many uncouth but nonviolent pranks--can fall under the definition of terrorism if the target is somehow connected to the federal government.
Take the case of Kenneth C. Tennant, a 45-year-old chiropractor from Des Moines, Iowa. Tennant was arrested by agents of the Federal Protective Services (FPS), a branch of the Homeland Security Department, for making "harassing phone calls" to a Veterans Affairs office.
"He had been harassing them for the past three years," explained FPS special agent Wil Calvey to the Quad Cities Times. "We were looking at the messages and while there were no direct threats, the language was abusive and derogatory and seemed to be getting worse." Tennant, the Times points out, "filed a lawsuit in 1998 disputing a denial of disability insurance benefits and Supplemental Security income." That denial was upheld after a two-year court battle, but Tennant continued to nurse a ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 17, 2006 700+ words
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 15, 2006 700+ words
...15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Homeland Security Capital Corp. (BULLETIN BOARD...acquiring, developing and consolidating homeland security-related businesses, reported its...Corp. (SHC), a subsidiary of Homeland Security Capital Corporation, as well as...
- Homeland Security Industries Association Releases Eight Position Papers On Key...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 25, 2002 700+ words
...government as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security nears formalization, the Homeland Security Industries Association (HSIA) today...guidelines for efficient execution of key homeland security segment priorities. Seven of the...
- Most Homeland Security money remains unspent: Order backlogs, radio problems...
- Newspaper article from: Tulsa World (Tulsa, OK) July 30, 2006 700+ words
...attacks on America, the state's Homeland Security Office is bloated with unspent federal...project. Between 2002 and 2005, the Homeland Security Office in Oklahoma was awarded about...an additional $19.5 million in Homeland Security funds, bringing the total to about...
