DHS Program Targets Middle-Aged Pro Life Advocates and Budding Conspiracy Theorists Under Guise Of Deradicalization

Article author: 
Mike Benz
Article publisher: 
Foundation for Freedom Online
Article date: 
31 July 2023
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 
  • Newly obtained FOIA documents from America First Legal reveal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans to produce training videos that get “bystanders” to intervene against “radicalization” of their peers.​
  • DHS targeted “suburban Moms” with pro-life beliefs and “old high school friends” who believe in “conspiracies” as examples of radicalized citizens in need of bystander intervention.
  • These findings add to the litany of evidence that DHS has shifted its focus from threats of foreign terrorism to monitoring and meddling in domestic US citizen political beliefs.

Apparently not content with setting up a Ministry of Truth, an Internet censorship directorate, and even a program for controlling speech in video games, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has devised yet another dystopian program for domestic thought control: pushing citizens to monitor each others’ political beliefs under the guise of “deradicalization.”

So reveal new documents obtained by America First Legal (AFL) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)...

Under the Biden Administration, DHS appears to be moving into the video propaganda space for policing political opinions in a new and disturbing way...