By Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive. Posted February 8, 2008.
Excerpted:
The FBI has a new set of eyes and ears, and they’re being told to protect their infrastructure at any cost. They can even kill without repercussion.
This business owner says he attended a small InfraGard meeting where agents of the FBI and Homeland Security discussed in astonishing detail what InfraGard members may be called upon to do. “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.
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