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There are prophecies in the Bible which indicate that a time is coming in which powerful religio-political forces will persecute a non-conformist minority, attempting to intimidate them into submission, and eventually using deadly force against them. I agree with my Seventh-day Adventist Church in its application of one such prophecy to the United States government. The prophecy has been studied in this respect for over 100 years, comparing the machinations of the Federal Government with the words of the Bible. The Book of Revelation contains one such prophecy:

Revelation 13:15-17, “He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark.

This prophecy connects the power of commerce “buy or sell” with the power to exert deadly force. The introduction of digital banking, check-cards, and identification numbers was a first step toward the ability to bar access to commerce to hand-picked members of the population. To my mind, however, the deadly force aspect was vague; I couldn’t see yet how a large number of American citizens could be militarized and authorized to use lethal force against their fellow Americans. Then the following story was told on my local Pacifica radio station, and I sat there stunned as I listened to it, the implications of it creating a sick feeling in my stomach.

The FBI is partnering with businesses ostensibly to help guard our nation’s economic infrastructure from terrorist threats, but in so doing is granting business leaders the right to the prosecution-free use of deadly force when martial law is declared.

Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does—and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told me they have permission to “shoot to kill” in the event of martial law.

…“The meeting started off innocuously enough, with the speakers talking about corporate espionage,” he says. “From there, it just progressed. All of a sudden we were knee deep in what was expected of us when martial law is declared. We were expected to share all our resources, but in return we’d be given specific benefits.” These included, he says, the ability to travel in restricted areas and to get people out.
But that’s not all.

“Then they said when—not if—martial law is declared, it was our responsibility to protect our portion of the infrastructure, and if we had to use deadly force to protect it, we couldn’t be prosecuted,” he says.

…Christine Moerke is a business continuity consultant for Alliant Energy in Madison, Wisconsin. She says she’s an InfraGard member, and she confirms that she has attended InfraGard meetings that went into the details about what kind of civil patrol function—including engaging in lethal force—that InfraGard members may be called upon to perform.

“There have been discussions like that, that I’ve heard of and participated in,” she says.

Curt Haugen is CEO of S’Curo Group, a company that does “strategic planning, business continuity planning and disaster recovery, physical and IT security, policy development, internal control, personnel selection, and travel safety,” according to its website. Haugen tells me he is a former FBI agent and that he has been an InfraGard member for many years. He is a huge booster. “It’s the only true organization where there is the public-private partnership,” he says. “It’s all who knows who. You know a face, you trust a face. That’s what makes it work.”

He says InfraGard “absolutely” does emergency preparedness exercises. When I ask about discussions the FBI and Homeland Security have had with InfraGard members about their use of lethal force, he says: “That much I cannot comment on. But as a private citizen, you have the right to use force if you feel threatened.”

“We were assured that if we were forced to kill someone to protect our infrastructure, there would be no repercussions,” the whistleblower says. “It gave me goose bumps. It chilled me to the bone.”

Democracy Now! broke the news to me first; here’s their online version of the radio/video report.
The report appeared first in the Progressive Magazine. Here is a link to the web version of it.
www.infragard.net
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I hear Pacifica through my favorite radio station, KFCF (Fresno), which mostly just broadcasts the content of KPFA, in the bay area.