Congress is set to give the green light on funding for a massive expansion of TSA checkpoints, with the federal agency already responsible for over 9,000 such checkpoints in the last year amidst increased fears America is turning into a police state following the passage of the ‘indefinite detention’ bill.
The increase in funding has nothing to do with the TSA’s role in airports – this is about creating 12 more VIPR teams to add the federal agency’s 25 units that are already scattered across the country and responsible for manning checkpoints on highways, in bus and train terminals, at sports events and even high school prom nights.
“The TSA’s 25 “viper” teams — for Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response — have run more than 9,300 unannounced checkpoints and other search operations in the last year. Department of Homeland Security officials have asked Congress for funding to add 12 more teams next year,” reports the L.A. Times.
Think about this. Check points on the highway. Bus terminals, airports. This is the next toward calling a national emergency, taking control of all of us. It is not just Dems but Repubs too, both taking our country socialistic, marxist. We are watching the government control of every facet of our lives. There will be problems my friends, many this next year.
@TOO INFORMED
“Okay, here’s a novel idea. Since Congress bailed out Wall Street using $700 BILLION of OUR money, why can’t Congress give every legal American one million dollars, tax free to spend as they wish? 307 Americans = 307 million dollars. A drop in the bucket compared to the $700 BILLION they GAVE away. And where would this $307 million come from? The Federal Reserve Bank…where else, just print it. Wouldn’t THAT be a shot in the arm for our economy.
(wishful thinking)”
Hate to say this buddy but that’s only one dollar for each American. Well actually it is kind of hard to make out how your math works but let’s try.
307 million Americans = 307 million dollars = $1 per American
Now if you want to give each American 1 million dollars that would = 307 trillion if my brain is functioning right ( I say that cause I just did a quick thing in my head).
Now if you wanted to give each American a piece of the pie of the 700 billion dollars given to bailout the banks then each American would get about 2,280 dollars.
Now for all those Americans that have paid their bills on time or those that have paid all their bills and late fees and are square with the banks this kind of sucks for them but those that have defaulted on loans this is a fairly good deal especially if the amount of the default was more than $2,280. I say this cause the money (FIAT money) we use is not ours, it belongs to the banks. The Federal Reserve is a private bank and the IRS is their collection agency staffed by federal government workers.
I am sure you knew all this, you just had a brain fart or something or maybe you are just to young to understand the system just yet.
Oh and if we all paid our debts to include the federal government we would have no money cause it would all be sitting in some bank vault waiting to get loaned out. So if all of us pay our debts of and quit relying on the system and stop the government from borrowing money then we can get rid of the banks and create our own money that doesn’t require a tax (enterest payment). Hey we can get rid of the IRS and stop the government from stealing our houses and property. Wow what a novel idea, not, this is why the founding fathers fought the revolutionary war. What a way to repay them eh.
@ Ed In Florida
I hate to break the bad news to you but the Republicans have been just as distructive as the Democrats if not more so. While the choices seem to be different you still end up in the same place, the slaughter house where we and our posterity are raped and pillaged before slaughtered.
” Now if you want to give each American 1 million dollars that would = 307 trillion if my brain is functioning right ( I say that cause I just did a quick thing in my head).”
I think I got this one wrong, I think this should be 3. 07 trillion but then again I still trying to do the math in my head. Big differences here though but when you get in to the trillion of dollars most Americans are completely over whelmed with the numbers to include myself. So let’s break this down a little.
Let’s work with just the 307 part of it. If we had 307 Americans and we were to give each of them 307 dollars you wouldn’t say 307 Americans = 307 dollars cause that would only give each one $1. But if you multiply 307 x 307= 94249 or you want to give each one 100 dollars you wouldn’t say 307 x 100 = 307, it = 30700.
very good comments, this is a continuation of building Obamas civilian police state that he wants in place. Yes obama is the biggest danger we are faceing today, and his reign of terror must be stopped . I am so ashamed of this country today and the idiots that vote with out a clue . And yes the billions spent by this crook in washington could have been better spent by giveing it back to the people he stole it from. We need some desperate action soon or we will lose all of our freedoms and what is left of this country. Obama said" america is over " after his speech in Kansas . Well He needs to be over.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
This was written by Franklin, within quotation marks but is generally accept as his original thought, sometime shortly before February 17, 1775 as part of his notes for a proposition at the Pennsylvania Assembly, as published in Memoirs of the life and writings of Benjamin Franklin (1818).
Hang all traitors to the constitution of the United States of America.
@ Patriot7
“It isn’t bad enough that the TSA has made air travel impossibly difficult and unpleasant but now it will be expanding to our streets and highways to provide us with more intrusive inconvenience. How much more intrusion will Americans allow the government to make into their private lives until they get fed up enough to speak out? No wonder wealthy people and celebrities are relocating to other countries where there is more freedom.”
“We The People” can handle this in several different ways.
1. We can do what a lot of people here are saying and have another revolution which is counter productive in my opinion because what we are suppose to do is create a “more perfect union” not tear it to shreads which is what the left ( I consider Democrats, Republicans, Conservitives, so called religious right wingers…. to all be lefties) wants so that they can wage war on the Constitionalist Libertarians, which is what most of our founding fathers were, or….
2. We can in an orderly unarmed fashion in an over whelmingly massive manner go to every local, county, state and federal police station, sherriffs office, state police office, federal law inforcement office, judges office, prosicuters (sp?) office, justice department office, mayors office, any and all elected officials office, even their homes if need be and file complaints in such an overwhelming massive amount that they are quite buried in them to the point that it totally stops and disrupts all other business and force them to take action to investigate and arrest all these crooks on every crime they have commited will serving office to include a breach of oath to protect the Constitution and the rights of The People (and when I say people I mean natural born humans not corporations of any kind or companies or any other nonhuman entity reffered to as people). We need to massively overwhelm them with complaints and petitions filed in courts in law inforcement offices and with the various justice departments from the lowest to the highest. Let them know that they will not have another second of peace until the Constitution and the laws of this land are restored and their criminal activity stops, or,
3. By force starting at the lowest levels do the job ourselfs. File writs of warrants to arrest all of them, every law enforcement officer, every judge, lawyer, prosicuter, elected and nonelected servant ( aka official) that fails to cooperate and throw their ass in jail and to prohibit them from ever serving in any servant (aka official) capacity ever again to which they lose any and all benefits.
We really need to crack down on these servants (aka officials) if they are not going to act in accordance with the law. This doesn’t mean they get to make up new laws and change the rules and regulations and the meaning of such to suit them and their needs when ever it is expediant for them.
And when I say have these people arrested I mean them personally. Press charges against them personally.
4. Go to the airports and overwhelm them with traffic, fly as many times as you possibly can fill those airports beyond capacity so they have to shut them down. And if you hear of a roadway or biway checkpoint overwhelm it with an unsustainable amount of traffic and protesters get their names so they can be brought up on charges even if it is maned by military. The more people that ask (demand) names the less of their job they will beable to perform. At the airports if you disrupt normal business travel by flying and taking up normal business travel with nonessintial junk flights this will enrage those that need to be on those flights for nesessary air travel. This will get them to file complaints with airlines, TSA, congress….. This will slow or stop and disrupt regular every day business and market profits for those businesses reqiureing air travel to conduct daily bussiness.
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The low lifes in Congress have sold out to the NWO,get ready to fight and die for your freedom!!!
On roadways where checkpoints are set up or you hear of one in your area get out there and create road jams by driving min speeds. When you get up to the checkpoints start taking pictures and videos and posting them online where ever you can as many sites as you can to shun them to the public. Call them criminals in your videos and pictures so that the public can shun them when they are recognized in public. If you can put a name to a face all that much better, then you can post there picture and name online, on bulitin boards around the city, send them to local news agencies to have them shuned as the criminals they are.
Make it your lifes mission to get out to these airport security check points and roadway checkpoints and do your best to get these criminals to search you (the more public it is the better, don’t let them if at all posible from wisking you away to some private area or room) and just stand there the whole time they are searching you belittling then, tell them of the laws they are breaking and asking them how that makes them feel especially if they are physically searching you, touching and grabbing your body asking them out load so everyone can hear if it makes them feel good to molest you or phiysically assault you and if you have your child and they want to cop a feel on them ask them out loud if the like molesting and assaulting children and they should be ashamed of them selfs for that. Get the laws and reg numbers and read them out loud as they do this to you or your children. Let them know specificly what laws they are breaking. Be polite about it but degrade them, belittle them, make them feel guilty, make them feel like the criminal they are, the lowest piece of scum that they are. It is our duty to put them in such mental distrest that they refuse to do there job.
Tell them, let them know that their behavior is unexceptable.
This increase is much more than searches for air planes..it is a new control over our population along with the camps constructed and hiring going on for employment at camps.
Funny how it is all coming together before the 2012 election..
Any ideas how they might work together?..
Remember the personal military our dear leader also mentioned he thought would be appropriate for him to have! ACORN might be a start..most are probably armed anyway.
Leon I agree with your pacifist approach but it will take hundreds of thousands of Americans to get off their rears and actually do something positive and be informed before it is too late.
I don’t believe we have much more time.
I believe he takes cues from dictators like chavez .
The Republicans are for the Police State: George Bush created Homeland Security, and now a Republican Congress is bent on expanding. the police state. Meanwhile crime is escalating everywhere. When crime rises too high, they just change the crime reporting methodology to reduce the number of crimes.
Citizens need to be given more latitude and responsibility for taking care of themselves instead of expanding the police state and increasing the national debt. Bring back the citizen's police force – "Bounty Hunters". Bounty Hunters are efficient, and very inexpensive for the tax payer compared to the growing police state.
TSA was created with the goal of defeating terrorizm but has now become a terrorist organization that sexually molests passengers and overreacts to small (and imaginary) problems. The "solution" is worse than the original problem.
DEFUND the TSA !!
The time has come to stop funding their nasty habbits and quit paying taxes, or we can wait until we can't pay taxes because there are no jobs. I think that all of the liberal democrats need to go first then everyone who is left either does the right thing or goes to jail for their Greedy dealings. Our congress and gov must be held accountable for what they have done with our tax money and what they have done to our constitutional republic. Obama if left to do his job will ruin this country we call home.
The TSA should be defunded and abolished. The regular security personnel at our airports should be trained to profile, so we can do away with this wasteful spending.
So, Where is the ACLU when WE need them??
The longer all the government give aways, welfare, food stamps, illegal and dead people voting for handouts etc., and anything else goes on, the more VOTES OUR DEAR LEADER IS GOING TO GET TO KEEP UP THIS INSANITY ON A ROAD TO ENDLESS SERVITUDE !
THEY ARE PURPOSEFULLY BANKRUPTING THIS NATION. The more in poverty wanting help the more votes to get it!
The more the control the more of less freedom, it is just as plain as that, no PHD dissertations or commentaries from erudite liberal pacifist sell outs.
piss on you TRAITORS
The time for commenting on such Orwellian tyranny has passed and it is imperative to take action; such as, rallying all of the American workforce that still wants to remain free to organize a One Day Freedom Strike – from work – and let these communists – that's what thet are – know that we are not going to take anymore of their tyrannicalBS!