In the early days of the newly elected Obama administration in 2009, many citizens were shocked to learn that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had issued an internal memo that referred to conservative Christians who believe the Bible, citizens who emphasize a strict adherence to the Constitution, and those who are pro-life as "potential homegrown terrorists."
Apparently such thinking has also begun to infect state police organizations and other law enforcement groups.
According to Steven H. Ahle, the Colorado State Police recently held a seminar for law enforcement personnel in the state during which conservative evangelical Christians and Catholics are referred to as "extremists" who must be watched closely by law enforcement.
Ahle was informed of the seminar by an attendee, Undersheriff Ron Trowbridge of Powers County, Colo. Trowbridge wrote a letter in which he described what was said during part of the seminar led by Trooper Joe Kluczynski. An excerpt states,
While Kluczynski emphasized that sovereign citizens have a right to their beliefs, he was clearly teaching that the groups he had listed should be watched by law enforcement and should be treated with caution because of their potential to assault law enforcement. Kluczynski explained why he believed these groups were dangerous saying they were angry over the election of a black president. When someone in the group suggested the failing economy was probably much more to blame, Kluczynski intimated that those who are not going along with the changes in America will need to be controlled by law enforcement. Kluczynski even later questioned some of the troopers present if they were willing and prepared to confiscate “illegal” weapons if ordered to.
Kluczynski stated that he gets his information from DHS and would be leaving the Colorado State Police soon in order to take a job with DHS.
As Ahle points out, not a single mass murderer over the last 30 years has been identified by friends, family, or others in the community as evangelical Christians or devout Catholics. However, all of the shooters were either liberals or Muslims. Thus, why would a law enforcement officer smear Christians over something they had absolutely no role in perpetrating? And why would he avoid smearing Muslims and liberals?
The very fact, according to Ahle, that Kluczynski would claim Christians would turn violent because a black man had been elected president indicates that every single statement proceeding from the mouth of Kluczynski or others like him is suspect. It further proves that DHS is indoctrinating law enforcement agencies with the indefensible and dangerous propaganda that Christians are to be viewed as volatile and apt to open fire on law enforcement agents.
Such an idea creates a potentially deadly scenario in which unwitting law enforcement agents erroneously assume that the evangelical Christian they encounter is to be treated as a possible threat -- an incredibly dangerous assumption that is a certain prescription for disaster.
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