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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

WARNING - VIPR “Dominate, Intimidate and Control”

"..Back in the USSR"  The Beatles.
"Obamastapo"
Quote:  "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set.  We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." -- Obama, 2008
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From: Western Journalism  Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011
Napolitano's V.I.P.R. Vows to "Dominate, Intimidate and Control" the American People
Posted by , Western Center for Journalism, on July 15, 2011 by Doug Book, staff writer, CoachIsRight.com, Fr. July 15, 2011

     Since its inception in 2002, the Department of Homeland Security has grown increasingly contemptuous of the rights of the American people.  Indeed, the Gestapo-like tactics of one of the Department's better known masters of overreach, the TSA, are responsible for countless examples of the organization's daily assault on the Constitution.
     But recently, another of Janet Napolitano's handmaidens of harassment has begun to make news - albeit only on the web, of course.  It is the TSA's Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response task force or VIPR.  Organized into mobile swat teams, VIPR has executed some 8,000 highly public searches in the past 12 months.
     And what meaningful operations they have been.
     In a Georgia Amtrac station, VIPR personnel "patted down" all travelers, children and adults, both entering AND LEAVING the station.
     In Santa Fe,  New Mexico,  teams of VIPR agents were assigned to conduct searches at a high school prom.
In Texas, agents thoroughly searched all private and commercial vehicles entering and exiting the port of Brownsville.  EACH AND EVERY VEHICLE was searched even though the task force was not responding to any known or reported threat!
     In April,VIPR staged a raid at a Tampa bus station.  Once again,the teams were not responding to any particular threat. Rather, Homeland Security official Gary Milano said the purpose of the exercise was to invent the wheel in advance, in case we have to, if there is ever specific intelligence requiring us to be here.
    And two months later, VIPR targeted 5,000 square miles bordering West Virginia,Ohio and Kentucky.   Four hundred agents representing 70 federal agencies appeared in Black Hawk helicopters, small planes and Coast Guard craft.  Once again this was a training exercise.  As usual, no threat had been suspected or reported.  TSA official Michael Cleveland stated, the purpose of the exercise was to have a visible presence and let people know we're out here.  IT CAN BE A DETERRENT.
     But who is being deterred, intimidated and threatened by these unnecessary shows of force - certainly not terrorists.
     Uncontrolled search and seizure is one of the first and most effective weapons in the arsenal of every arbitrary government.   Among deprivations of rights, none is so effective in cowing a population, crushing the spirit of the individual and putting terror in every heart, said Justice Robert Jackson, the chief US prosecutor at Nuremberg.
     The American people are being systematically subjected to, and desensitized to, warrantless searches and the most egregious and unnecessary forms of personal humiliation by an organization whose raison d'etre is inscribed at the TSA Air Marshall Training Center:  DOMINATE, INTIMIDATE, CONTROL.    And the more often this is done, the more reasonable it will seem.  Routine?  Acceptable?  Like 10% unemployment, government harassment will become the new norm.   After all, it is for our own good!
     One has to wonder if Barack Obama isn't grateful to Muslim terrorists for the 9/11 attacks.  After all, without those 3,000 murders, how could a would-be dictator justify the Constitutional abuse to which he is subjecting millions of American citizens?   Makes it easier somehow to understand his bow to the King of Saudi Arabia, doesn't it!
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Source: http://www.rutherford.org

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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

o'mobacrat - Quote: "Nudge, Shove, Shoot"

"First they nudge ...then they shove ...then they shoot!" 
     -- Glenn Beck (paraphrased), Mo.20Jun11, The Glenn Beck TV Show

o'bamastapo - TSA VIPR Tentacles Spreading!

Surprise!  TSA Is Searching Your Subway, Truck, Ferry, Bus, AND Plane [...and cars, under your clothes, bras, genitalia]
By Jen Phillips, Mon Jun. 20, 2011, MotherJones.com
photo source: Scott Ableman/Flickrphoto source: 
     Think you could avoid the TSA's body scanners and pat-downs by taking Amtrak? Think again.  Even your daily commute isn't safe from TSA screenings.  And because the TSA is working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol, you may have your immigration status examined along with your "junk".
     As part of the TSA's request for FY 2012 funding, TSA Administrator John Pistole told Congress last week that the TSA conducts 8,000 unannounced security screenings every year.  These screenings, conducted with local law enforcement agencies as well as immigration, can be as simple as checking out cargo at a busy seaport.  But more and more, they seem to involve giving airport-style pat-downs and screenings of unsuspecting passengers at bus terminals, ferries, and even subways.  These surprise visits are part of the TSA's VIPR program: Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response.  The VIPR program first started doing searches in 2007, and has grown since then.  Currently, the TSA only has 25 VIPR teams doing these impromptu searches: in 2012, it wants to get 12 more.
     The searches are in the name of passenger security, and the TSA says it wants to prevent incidents like the 2004 Madrid train bombings.  But if the airports' TSA searches miss security risks like large knives, loaded guns, and explosives, there's certainly the chance that screenings at train stations would be similarly flawed.  Not to worry: security isn't the only goal of VIPR.  A recent VIPR operation/screening at a Tampa Greyhound bus station was conducted with US Border Patrol and ICE.  "What we're looking for is threats to national security as well as immigration law violators," said Steve McDonald from US Border Patrol.  An ICE representative said that they were also looking for smuggling, and Gary Milano from Homeland Security said that although that was the first time the Tampa bus depot had been screened, VIPR would be back again sometime in the future and was using the element of surprise as a deterrent to "the bad guys."
     Although one man at the Tampa screening said he felt "safer," VIPR operations are not without their naysayers.  A VIPR screening at a Des Moines Greyhound station last week is alleged to have targeted Latinos.  Another TSA/Border Patrol VIPR screening on a trolley in San Diego resulted in three teens being handcuffed and deported while on their way to school.  Around 20 others were also deported, according to local news outlets.  The trolley is part of the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System.  "We believe this is a flagrant violation of human rights, when we have a situation in which children are being separated from their families without the proper due process rights being afforded to them," said a spokesman for the girl's family.  The three teens nabbed in the San Diego VIPR operation were deported to Tijuana, but later allowed to re-enter the United States on humanitarian visas.
     More children, this time train passengers disembarking at Savannah, Georgia, were treated to questionable TSA treatment in February along with their families. While the passengers (who again, had just gotten OFF a train) were lifting their shirts and having bras handled during pat-downs, their luggage was sitting unattended on the train platform.  The TSA later admitted that the VIPR operation should have ended before the train entered the station, but told the public that the Savannah passengers didn't have to enter the screening area... even though an eye-witness says a TSA agent instructed them to go into the screening area to collect their luggage... the luggage that was actually waiting somewhere else.
     VIPR operations are now even targeting freight trucks on highways. [more "inland check-points"]  In addition to the random checks on public transit systems, it makes you wonder:  can private vehicles be far behind?  Will there be any mode of transportation beyond the reach of the TSA?
     UPDATE: According to at least one news report out of Brownsville, Texas, TSA/VIPR has already conducted unannounced inspections of private passenger cars and trucks.  Thanks for the tip, reader @jwindz.
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