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Friday 2 May 2008

Clergy Response Teams (CRTs) were planted with federal seed money from the “Justice” Department in the mid-1990s, and began to sprout later in the decade. Funding has come through the “Justice” Department’s Community Oriented Police Services Value Based Initiative and the Bush Regime’s Office of Faith-Based Initiatives. The product of this process was on display during the post-Katrina military occupation of New Orleans. As “police” — National Guardsmen freshly returned from patrolling Iraqi cities, Blackwater mercenaries, and militarized law enforcement personnel — went house-to-house to roust residents and confiscate their firearms, CRTs fanned out to pacify outraged citizens by reciting a statist misapplication of Romans 13: Obey the State in all things, and you’ll be blessed. The Real Cult Menace (Part Two): “Freedom” Through Submission

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