NPR: Surveillance On Other Side Of Planet Is Newsworthy

Big Sister Janet Napolitano has her Department of Homeland Security (DHS) watching.

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Bruce

'If you think the Federal government has any different goal for the American people, you are fooling yourself. As Congressman Blackburn of Tennessee pointed out a year ago:

“Many of my constituents discovered this first hand this past fall as those familiar blue uniforms and badges appeared on Tennessee highways. In October Tennessee became the first state to conduct a statewide Department of Homeland Security Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) team operation which randomly inspected Tennessee truck drivers and cars. VIPR teams which count TSOs among their ranks, conduct searches and screenings at train stations, subways, ferry terminals and every other mass transit location around the country. In fact, as the Los Angeles Times has detailed, VIPR teams conducted 9,300 unannounced checkpoints and other search operations in the last year alone.”

TSO are TSA “officers.” People Blackburn points out who have zero law enforcement training and who are recruited from signs in DC-area convenience stores and on the lids a pizza boxes. The grid is being built around us. It is amazing how clearly we can see it in China and ignore it at home.'