The Center for Security Policy educates state and local leaders on threats to national security, and what can be done to strengthen both the security of individual states and the nation as a whole.
In many cases states implement policy changes more nimbly than the federal bureaucracy, addressing evolving and complex threats more quickly. Further, through the “laboratory of democracy” states can develop innovative solutions which later become nationwide models for responding to national security threats. Many of the concepts the Center has championed go on to become the standard in states across the country, far beyond where they are initially introduced.
Paramount to the Center’s state level work is a threat focused education campaign, which helps state leaders better understand the nature and methods of America’s adversaries. Many of these adversaries have adopted whole of society strategies which target American security at all levels- local, state and federal. This requires a whole of society response that cannot be achieved just at the federal level. Giving state leaders an accurate understanding about the threats faced enables them to develop tailored policies with maximum impact.
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Below is a list of Center for Security Policy initiatives which have been adopted in states across America and have contributed to national security:
Limiting the influence of terror states and foreign adversaries:
- Divesting state pension systems from terrorist sponsoring nations, such as Iran, and foreign adversaries such as Communist China.
- Prohibiting state and municipal contracts with entities from terrorist sponsoring nations, such as Iran, and foreign adversaries, such as Communist China.
- Prohibiting foreign adversaries from owning or controlling agriculture land.
- Prohibiting foreign adversaries from owning land near state and federal military installations.
- Protecting Critical Infrastructure: Prohibiting foreign adversary components in critical infrastructure.Preventing Foreign Adversary Influence and Infiltration Operations: Forbidding state colleges and universities, their employees and officials, and political subdivisions from accepting anything of value from foreign adversaries and their agents.
Protecting Americans from lawfare by terror sponsors and foreign adversaries:
- Protecting Individual Fundamental Constitutional Rights from the infiltration of foreign law in our state court systems: American Laws for American Courts.
- Free Speech Protection from Foreign Lawsuits and Preventing Libel Tourism: Rachel’s Law
- Restricting foreign funding of lawsuits.
Protecting Americans from terrorism and political extremism:
- State level counterterrorism and material support for terrorism initiatives and training.
- Law enforcement counterterrorism and counter extremism education and training FREE OF CHARGE.
- Protecting Critical Infrastructure: Training and creating enhanced penalties for trespassing, vandalism and attacks on critical infrastructure.
- Employing state RICO laws to combat terrorism, human trafficking, rioting and extremism.
- Terrorist Offender Registry: requiring convicted terrorists to register with local law enforcement.
- Creating enhanced civil causes of action to pursue terrorists and organizations that materially support terrorists: Andy’s Law
- Protecting houses of worship: Creating enhanced penalties for trespassing, vandalism and attacks on religious facilities, monuments, houses of worship, and cemeteries
- Combating Public Disorder: Anti-rioting legislation targeting the tactics and techniques used by extremists.
- Education and Outreach against Muslim Brotherhood infiltration and indoctrination targeting law enforcement, elected and appointed officials and state education systems.
Protecting Americans from threats crossing the border:
- Enhanced penalties for felonies committed by illegal aliens.
- Prohibition on employing illegal aliens in state and local law enforcement.
- Prohibition of so-called “sanctuary” policies.
- Protecting Americans from the unprecedented, multifaceted threat to the health and safety of Americans, as well as the national security of the entire country, posed by fentanyl.
- Protecting the health and safety of American children from child sex trafficking
Protecting American sovereignty:
- Protecting healthcare policy and medical privacy from being usurped by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Protecting American patriotism:
- Helping schools to teach about the virtues of the US Constitution and the evils of communism and other totalitarian systems.
To learn more, please contact Christopher W. Holton (504) 234-8857 [email protected]