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Clergy response teams to help undermine liberty?
Posted : 9 Oct, 2009 02:25 PM
Over the past decade, cities around the country have established clergy response teams, comprised of pastors, priests and other religious leaders from all religious denominations, to provide aid, counseling and assistance to victims of crime and lately of natural disasters. Now a report suggests that these clergy response teams may be used to help put down civil unrest and enforce martial law.
Clergy response teams are nothing new. Though little information is available on the Internet, these teams have existed in various cities around the country since at least the 1990s. Their original purpose was to provide counseling for victims of violent crime and other traumatic events. One of the first such teams in Pacoima, Calif., is credited (PDF) with helping to reduce illegal gang activity in that area.
In Greeley, Colo., in 2002, the clergy response team helped officials deal with hate crimes against Muslim and Sikh residents and reduce community tensions. The program was set to expand to Grand Junction and Glenwood Springs by 2003, according to a 2002 U.S. Department of Justice report (PDF).
Some other clergy response teams are known to operate in Rochester, N.Y., (PDF) and Washington, D.C. (PDF) These were funded through Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Services Value Based Initiative grants to �respond to the scene of traumatic incidents and provide services to victims, witnesses, and their families.�
In Washington, the East of the River Clergy Police Community Partnership �sponsors teams of clergy and other faith-based individuals that reach out to the families, next of kin and other secondary victims of violent crimes and homicide,� according to a statement on its Web site. �Its purpose is to provide aid, counseling and assistance to victims, witnesses and their families and to intervene in the occurrence of retaliation.�
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Christ in Action, a non-profit group of clergy from around the country, assisted in disaster relief by providing meals and home reconstruction for victims displaced by the hurricane. According to the White House�s report on Hurricane Katrina, �Dr. Denny Nissley, the Director of Christ in Action, is organizing a Coalition of Faith-Based First Responders from around the Nation to be prepared for the next major disaster. This Coalition will perform disaster relief training for volunteers and will maintain a current roster of thousands of volunteers who can be quickly called upon to provide support during the next major disaster.�
Now comes a TV news report from Louisiana of what some other of those faith-based first responders were doing during Katrina: helping the government take away victims� guns.
Could martial law ever become a reality in America? Some fear any nuclear, biological or chemical attack on U.S. soil might trigger just that. KSLA News 12 has discovered that the clergy would help the government with potentially their biggest problem: Us. . . .
If martial law were enacted here at home, like depicted in the movie �The Siege�, easing public fears and quelling dissent would be critical. And that�s exactly what the �Clergy Response Team� helped accomplish in the wake of Katrina.
Dr. Durell Tuberville serves as chaplain for the Shreveport Fire Department and the Caddo Sheriff�s Office. Tuberville said of the clergy team�s mission, �the primary thing that we say to anybody is, �let�s cooperate and get this thing over with and then we�ll settle the differences once the crisis is over.�� � KSLA-TV
Watch the full report from KSLA-TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAv-LbARKyQ
Taken from:
http://www.homelandstupidity.us/2007/08/23/clergy-response-teams-to-help-undermine-liberty/
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