‘FBI Deputizes Business’

A radical allegation has surfaced alleging that the FBI is preparing infrastructure related private businesses for martial law under an organization called InfraGard.

Included in this program are representatives from agriculture, banking and finance, the chemical industry, defense, energy, food, information and telecommunications, law enforcement, public health, and transportation.

Two members of have specifically acknowledged FBI and Homeland Security officials have given InfraGard members permission to “shoot to kill” in order to protect their businesses part of the infrastructure in the event of martial law.

One business owner in the United States tells me that InfraGard members are being advised on how to prepare for a martial law situation—and what their role might be. He showed me his InfraGard card, with his name and e-mail address on the front, along with the InfraGard logo and its slogan, “Partnership for Protection.” On the back of the card were emergency numbers.

This business owner says he attended a small InfraGard meeting where agents of the FBI and Homeland Security discussed in astonishing detail what InfraGard members may be called upon to do.

“The meeting started off innocuously enough, with the speakers talking about corporate espionage,” he says. “From there, it just progressed. All of a sudden we were knee deep in what was expected of us when martial law is declared. We were expected to share all our resources, but in return we’d be given specific benefits.” These included, he says, the ability to travel in restricted areas and to get people out.
But that’s not all.

“Then they said when—not if—martial law is declared, it was our responsibility to protect our portion of the infrastructure, and if we had to use deadly force to protect it, we couldn’t be prosecuted,” he says.

I was able to confirm that the meeting took place where he said it had, and that the FBI and Homeland Security did make presentations there. One InfraGard member who attended that meeting denies that the subject of lethal force came up. But the whistleblower is 100 percent certain of it. “I have nothing to gain by telling you this, and everything to lose,” he adds. “I’m so nervous about this, and I’m not someone who gets nervous.”

The FBI adamantly denies it, also. “That’s ridiculous,” says Catherine Milhoan, an FBI spokesperson. “If you want to quote a businessperson saying that, knock yourself out. If that’s what you want to print, fine.”

But one other InfraGard member corroborated the whistleblower’s account, and another would not deny it.

Christine Moerke is a business continuity consultant for Alliant Energy in Madison, Wisconsin. She says she’s an InfraGard member, and she confirms that she has attended InfraGard meetings that went into the details about what kind of civil patrol function—including engaging in lethal force—that InfraGard members may be called upon to perform.

“There have been discussions like that, that I’ve heard of and participated in,” she says.

I love how you tagged the article under “Terror.”
This is what went wrong in Rome: The privatization of the military. Rome worked fine when its legions were under the Senate. It may have continued to expand and secure military victories under its Imperial government, but the Roman civil wars only occurred because generals such as Julius Caesar refused to turn over control of their privately funded legions.
However, even Caesar’s armies were trained and equipped with the purpose of foreign expeditions. That Caesar used his to march on Rome with the clear intent of overthrowing the Senate is historically debated, but his legions had spent years in Gaul and Briton before being used for “martial law.”
Which is what scares me. The real question is, why are we preparing for a civil war?