Rats! The FBI Beat Us To It!

[OldTigerCub]

Memo to all NWO field personell:
FBI InfraGard program siphoning off prospective NWO recruits.

An article in The Progressive, pointed out by a post at 911blogger, reveals in some detail a program by the FBI to share information with personnel responsible for maintaining and protecting America's important infrastructure:

InfraGard started in Cleveland back in 1996, when the private sector there cooperated with the FBI to investigate cyber threats.

“Then the FBI cloned it,” says Phyllis Schneck, chairman of the board of directors of the InfraGard National Members Alliance, and the prime mover behind the growth of InfraGard over the last several years.

InfraGard itself is still an FBI operation, with FBI agents in each state overseeing the local InfraGard chapters. (There are now eighty-six of them.) The alliance is a nonprofit organization of private sector InfraGard members.

“We are the owners, operators, and experts of our critical infrastructure, from the CEO of a large company in agriculture or high finance to the guy who turns the valve at the water utility,” says Schneck, who by day is the vice president of research integration at Secure Computing.

“At its most basic level, InfraGard is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the private sector,” the InfraGard website states. “InfraGard chapters are geographically linked with FBI Field Office territories.”

In November 2001, InfraGard had around 1,700 members. As of late January, InfraGard had 23,682 members, according to its website, www.infragard.net, which adds that “350 of our nation’s Fortune 500 have a representative in InfraGard.”

What has twoofers (and the ACLU's) panties in a bunch is the idea that someone beside them may have the authority to protect their respective businesses or utilities with deadly force. They are also convinced that martial law is imminent, apparently:

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.
InfraGard is “a child of the FBI,” says Michael Hershman, the chairman of the advisory board of the InfraGard National Members Alliance and CEO of the Fairfax Group, an international consulting firm

It seems that our plan to stage a recruiting drive for the "NWO Scouts" has been upstaged!
(for any prospective InfraGard recruits out there, the NWO does have cooler T-shirts)

 

[LastChild]

http://info.ethicspoint.com/newsandevents/event08140702.asp

Kroll’s Fraud Solutions will debunk some common identity theft myths, help you and your organization gain a better understanding of your exposure, and explore ways you can minimize it.

Jim’s principal focus with Kroll is aiding clients in understanding their potential for exposure to breaches of security and assisting in the development of their investigation and response strategy. Jim is a founding member of the Nashville Chapter of the ISSA (Information Systems Security Association); a member of the APWG, (Anti-Phishing Working Group), which is committed to wiping out internet scams and fraud globally; and FBI’s InfraGard, a public-private partnership and platform for the confidential exchange of information.

http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2007/02/meet-jerome-hauer-911-suspect-awaiting.html

Meet Jerome Hauer, 9/11 Suspect Awaiting Indictment

On September 11, 2001, Jerome Hauer was a national security advisor with the National Institute of Health, a managing director with Kroll Associates, and a guest on national television. His background in counter-terror and his specialized knowledge of biological warfare served him well on that day. Perhaps a little too well.

 

[Par]

http://info.ethicspoint.com/newsandevents/event08140702.asp

Kroll’s Fraud Solutions will debunk some common identity theft myths, help you and your organization gain a better understanding of your exposure, and explore ways you can minimize it.

Jim’s principal focus with Kroll is aiding clients in understanding their potential for exposure to breaches of security and assisting in the development of their investigation and response strategy. Jim is a founding member of the Nashville Chapter of the ISSA (Information Systems Security Association); a member of the APWG, (Anti-Phishing Working Group), which is committed to wiping out internet scams and fraud globally; and FBI’s InfraGard, a public-private partnership and platform for the confidential exchange of information.

http://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2007/02/meet-jerome-hauer-911-suspect-awaiting.html

Meet Jerome Hauer, 9/11 Suspect Awaiting Indictment

On September 11, 2001, Jerome Hauer was a national security advisor with the National Institute of Health, a managing director with Kroll Associates, and a guest on national television. His background in counter-terror and his specialized knowledge of biological warfare served him well on that day. Perhaps a little too well.

Nor is “evidence” the plural of “innuendo”.

 

[LastChild]

Nor is “evidence” the plural of “innuendo”.

No it's not. That's why we don't need InfraGard.

 

[Par]

No it's not. That's why we don't need InfraGard.

I see. Well, take it to the Politics forum.

 

[ktesibios]

It might be of interest to look at some bits from the article that somehow were overlooked in the OP, for example:

“The FBI should not be creating a privileged class of Americans who get special treatment,” says Jay Stanley, public education director of the ACLU’s technology and liberty program. “There’s no ‘business class’ in law enforcement. If there’s information the FBI can share with 22,000 corporate bigwigs, why don’t they just share it with the public? That’s who their real ‘special relationship’ is supposed to be with. Secrecy is not a party favor to be given out to friends. . . . This bears a disturbing resemblance to the FBI’s handing out ‘goodies’ to corporations in return for folding them into its domestic surveillance machinery.”

I'd call that a legitimate concern- equality before the law, and that includes law enforcement- is a cornerstone of the American system, or at least so I was taught back when I was a sprout at school. The existence of such "Junior Birdman" cards and the privileges which accompany them is utterly inimical to the principles of a democratic society. It also gives off an odor reminiscent of how Party membership worked back in the USSR.

That paragraph is fatal to the attempt to imply a specious identity between paranoid conspiracy theorists and the bête noire of authoritarian followers, the ACLU.

All in all, the OP's quote-mining is moderately well done- it earns points for the way that the "nub" is so lightly touched upon, in the manner of the "Jack Hunt" letter- and it's every bit as honest.