THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY HAS GROWN INTO A MONSTER WHICH NOW PREPARING FOR ”MASS CIVIL BREAKDOWN”
Allselfsustained.com
Mar. 9, 2016
The Department of Homeland Security is spending millions of dollars in preparation for a “Mass Civil Breakdown,” using universities to study how the U.S. military can respond to civil unrest.
The government program, called the “Minerva Research Initiative,” which started in 2008, became public when The Guardian revealed details of the program. The multi-million dollar project is designed to help the U.S. Government put down civil disturbances by targeting political movements, identifying political activists and even using social media sites like Twitter to identify and target “peaceful activities and protest movements.”
According to the Guardian, the Minerva program has $75 million in government funds allocated over five years for social and behavioral science research. This year alone it has been allocated a total budget of $17.8 million by US Congress.
I contacted the project’s principal investigator, Prof Maria Rasmussen of the US Naval Postgraduate School, asking why non-violent activists working for NGOs should be equated to supporters of political violence – and which “parties and NGOs” were being investigated – but received no response.
Similarly, Minerva programme staff refused to answer a series of similar questions I put to them, including asking how “radical causes” promoted by peaceful NGOs constituted a potential national security threat of interest to the DoD.
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