Legal Commentary

InfraGard: Below the Radar

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

Best-quality tin-foil I’ve seen in weeks: it’s a substantially (but not utterly) unsourced report originating from The Progressive, which is more respectable than you often get for stuff of this kind. And, unlike most stuff of this kind, I can’t automatically debunk it, although I can certainly construct scenarios in which relatively innocent comments might be misunderstood (“Will you get in trouble for stopping people storming your power plant? No”).

But it can’t really be the case that the FBI and Homeland Security are going around recruiting businesses to be capos if we ever need martial law, can it?

So, readers, reassuring pointers would be most welcome.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on February 10, 2008 (boomark / email).