Obama’s TSA Nominee Targets Anti-Government Christians

Former FBI agent Southers says government should pay attention to political Americans

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

President Obama’s nominee to head the TSA and
boss the naked body scanners now being installed at airports across the
country says that white Christian “anti-government” types
will be the primary target of suspicion for authorities.

Former FBI agent Erroll Southers has been under
scrutiny following Republican efforts to block his confirmation after
it emerged Southers had abused his power to run a database check on his
ex-wife’s new boyfriend.

Back in October, Southers told the Senate Homeland
Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Commerce, Science
and Transportation Committee, both of whom voted on his confirmation,
that he carried out the search because he was concerned for his wife
and son. However, after the committees had approved him, Southers
admitted that he had lied under oath by failing to reveal that he had
personally conducted the search and had done so on more than one
occasion, as well as sharing the information with the police (so they
could harass the target of the search, according to the Ace of Spades blog).

Given that the potential future head of the TSA has
abused his power in the past and then lied about it to Congress while
under oath, how can we have any confidence that he will change the
climate of corruption and thuggishness that pervades the TSA, as
stories of innocent people being terrorized and harassed continue to appear on an almost daily basis?

In a video interview posted to You Tube yesterday,
Southers states the the government and the TSA has to “pay
attention” not to Muslim terrorists but to
“anti-government, anti-abortion, survivalist types” who are
“christian identity oriented,” before he links such
individuals with neo-nazi white supremacists and people like Buford
Furrow, a former Aryan Nations member who killed one and injured three
during a shooting at the Los Angeles Jewish Community Center in August
1999.

Southers subsequently throws in Ben Smith, a spree
killer who targeted members of racial and ethnic minorities in random
drive-by shootings in Illinois and Indiana in July 1999.

“Those groups are groups that claim to be
extremely anti-government and christian identity oriented,” added
Southers.

As we have exhaustively documented for years, even if
there were hordes of Muslim terrorists planning to bomb airliners, the
federal government is far more concerned with what politically active
conservative and libertarian Americans are up to.

An infamous leaked report
distributed by the Missouri Information Analysis Center last year
listed Ron Paul supporters, libertarians, people who display bumper
stickers, people who own gold, or even people who fly a U.S. flag and
equated them with radical race hate groups and terrorists.

The 2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment,
produced by the Virginia Fusion Center, smeared anyone who is
“anti-government,” “anti-abortion,” as
potential terrorists, equated people who enjoy rifle shooting practice
and hunting with terrorists, and demonized the use of the Internet and
websites like You Tube, Fark and Slashdot as terrorist tools. The use
of “e-protests” is also talked about in the context of
terrorism.

The document also discusses “special interest
groups” who “incorporate a political message” in its
section about domestic terrorists, which could be defined as any mildly
political organization whatsoever.

These are just two of a plethora of similar police and federal government reports
stretching back well over a decade that identify politically active
Americans as domestic terrorists and a target of domestic authorities.

Watch the clip below.

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