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Download a DHS App and Help Spy On Your Fellow Citizens

You, too, can be part of the problem

Reason Staff | 9.21.2012 3:40 PM

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Homeland Security officials routinely associate camera-wielding citizens as bomb-strapped terrorists, as you can see in the above video, so it's a little surprising they are now asking citizens to use their smart phone cameras to report suspicious behavior.

The only catch is that you would have to download a special Homeland Security app in order to send the photos or videos to your local Homeland Security fusion center, where they would be forced to stop monitoring citizens' Facebook pages for a few moments in order to check out your report

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