The TSA to start patrolling highways in Tennessee
I have great news for anyone who might actually enjoy being groped by overzealous TSA agents at the airports, the gropings may soon be coming to a highway near you!
Tennessee has announced that under the Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response program the state will be asking truck drivers to report any American citizen who they feel is engaged in suspicious behavior and the TSA will be charged with investigating these complaints. This is a program that is being implemented by the TSA in an apparent attempt to spy on American citizens.
Where is a terrorist more apt to be found? Not these days on an airplane more likely on the interstate,” said Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons.
Tuesday Tennessee was first to deploy VIPR simultaneously at five weigh stations and two bus stations across the state.
Agents are recruiting truck drivers, like Rudy Gonzales, into the First Observer Highway Security Program to say something if they see something.
“Not only truck drivers, but cars, everybody should be aware of what’s going on, on the road,” said Gonzales.
The Department of Homeland Security has jurisdiction over the TSA and so while this is being implemented on a state level one can easily imagine that if this program is successful-as determined by the federal government–that this will eventually spread to all other states in the union, virtually setting up a federal highway patrol across the nation. Tennessee is simply being used as a test case before this new policy goes national.
The idea of having American citizens spy on and turn in other American citizens based solely upon an impression that a person might have of another citizen seems quite Orwellian to me. And I find it very interesting that under Obamunism a likely illegal immigrant who has been pulled over for committing a crime cannot have his or her immigration status checked, but an American citizen who has not committed a crime can be stopped by the TSA simply because another citizen has found them to be suspicious before they have committed a crime.
Quite frankly, this sounds more like a program that would be instituted under a Lenin or Stalin controlled Russia than a free America and I find this to be quite troubling indeed. We must remember that people in the higher echelons of the Obama regime–Joe Biden is one–has already called the Tea Party members terrorists and as the Occupy Wall Street protesters grow and Barack Obama calls the people to march in the streets it seems more and more likely that violence is going to break out all across the United States and the TSA is gearing up to crack down on otherwise law abiding citizens. And one has to wonder what Barack Obama’s larger plan is.
It certainly seems as if Barack Obama is purposely inciting violence while at the same time preparing to crack down on the violence he created and this is all eerily similar to the manner in which communists eventually gain control over a nation.
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Sure, this country should have been profiling long ago. Not an invasion of privacy to insure the Muslim terrorist don’t repeat 9-11! You do what is necessary to protect and defend these United States.
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Most that feel this is an invasion of privacy usually have something to hide themselves. Getting the Liberal establishment out of Washington will do more to protect citizen’s rights!
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Robert, I don’t have anything to hide, but I sure as hell don’t feel like I should have to prove it to anyone. There, that was the comment to your first sentence, but the second sentence actually made sense to me, you are on the right track there.
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Are you serious??!! Sounds like you draw a paycheck from DHS or some other federal agency that sucks money out of the private sector. How long before these highly trained TSA agents start figuring out that working with high powered x ray machines all day long without protection kills you? That’s why the TSA hires only dummies and perverts. Welcome to the police state.
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I think that Robert is on our side although his comment was a little confusing. I think that he was saying that we should have been profiling and then we wouldn’t need this invasion of privacy.
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If that is the case, then you have my apologies, Robert. The “people who don’t like this have something to hide” comment is used by would-be tyrants and NWO advocates everywhere. Especially when they’re trying to steal our rights under the guise of “security”. ( Security for them, not we the people )
I had just read an article on Drudge about this, and although I’ve heard of this repeatedly for over a year, it still doesn’t make it any more tolerable.
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That line also has me a bit confused because his Robert’s other comments seem to indicate he is against this. Hopefully he will be back to clarify.
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I have no love for this corrupt Administration. Nothing they do or pretend to offer will ever convince me that this President isn’t Hell-Bent on promoting Muslim agendas. You be the judge. Obama has brought distrust even amongst the best of us. Change the electorate got, but was it really the corrupt change you wanted?
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Yes, Obama is trying to divide America and I think he is doing one hell fo a job at it.
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I have my Glock, do you? Better be worrying about what constitutional rights you are about to lose under this so-called President. Nothing more, and probably less than a community antagonizer. What a F— shame we have had to tolerate his rambling on!
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We are becoming a police state. I don’t understand how Americans can so easily give up freedom for a sense of security. Now we taxpayers with help from China get to pay for all these new TSA agents. Is this Obama’s idea of a jobs program?
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C on F, remember back when Walmart put Big Sis on the tv monitors by the checkouts saying “if you see something say something?”, that was so accepted! Then we started with all the TSA stuff at the airports and hear about it other place, but THIS having checkpoints on the highway is way over the top. Pretty soon we will have to carry papers and say where we are headed and for how long…sound familiar?So, guess this is their “dry run” to see if it gets accepted as protecting us. If this doesn’t get people screaming, I guess it is a lost cause. We can’t do anything to the illegals, but we can sure as hell stop an American for no good reason, pitiful!!!!
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You know, I wanted to mention the TSA in the Walmarts and I forgot to. That was the beginning, but have you notices more government public service announcements on the radio in the last few months. I have, and it just seems as if we are getting to the point where the government is everywhere spreading messages and it seems Orwellian to me.
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Yes Jim, we are becoming a police state and the people had better wake up soon or it will be too late–if it isn’t already!
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I think this portion of your post sums it up rather nicely, Steve.
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Thanks Larry; I think that sums up the double standard we are all facing in today’s America. Illegal aliens are treated with respect while law abiding American citizens are treated as criminals. This country is backwards.
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Steve, it seems that the only people that can be disrespected are American Citizens…things are not right, are they?
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I am not sure how we got to this point in our country, but it is a sad state of affairs.
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Big Sis… if you see something, say something. I am of mixed feelings about this. I suppose if it was the local governments doing it I’d feel better than if it were the Feds. Plus the TSA are riddled with incompetent people.
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It just has this creepy feeling about it where everywhere you go the government is asking you to spy on American citizens.
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Yes will we become a nation of CCCTV cameras like the UK?
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I am afraid we are headed that way!
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As you stated this is a Leninist concept. Americans will be less likely to drive with the fear of investigation. Exactly what the left wants;
Less use of “Fossil Fuels”.
Less use of the highways.
Less movement of the populace.
The last point was part of the USSR’s concept of population control. If you can’t see what is happening in other places then the propaganda machine can isolate and control you.
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So true Phillip, this program helps with different aspects of the Obama regime’s agenda, doesn’t it? People had better be paying attention to what is going on or we may lose our country.
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Phillip, they are drawing us closer and closer into a given area to live so they can control us better. Most people, if it inconviences them, they will not do it and this might be one of those things. Might be easier to just “stay home” as compared to going thru alot of checkpoints? And, look at all the fuel we will be saving, yep, you called it correctly.
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That’s right; the sixth plank of the communist mannifesto is a centralization of transportation and that is because if people can only move around to certain places and on a government schedule it is easier to control them.
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Remember Obama’s campaign speech about a “civilian national security force as strong and well funded as the military” ? This was his plan all along, and was actually implemented
in the “patriot act”.
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I remember that well and it appears as if we are begining to see what he meant. Between the TSA and the unions marching in the streets we will have no chance.
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The more I read about the OWS, the more I think that Obama is just showing us how easy it is for him to get people to gather for him “in mass”. I do not, at this time think that the youth and Old Hippies are his civilian force, but what about the TSA members that he is starting to train for the roadside checks. The pics I saw of them in uniform, didn’t look like your typical TSA airport screeners. Could they be the start of his force? I am just throwing this out to you, but I am also really starting to pay attention to them. Are these people going to be packing? If, as they say they are
“checking for drugs”, should they be without a piece? I think he is showing us they are doing one thing, but maybe starting to train them for a different reason??? As we are always told “watch what the other hand is doing”! Then when we throw in the union leaders and the Communist Party, Van Jones, etc., it is coming together very nicely for him, isn’t it?
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I believe that the TSA and the SEIU as well as other unions are the beginning of his army. And with the unions throwing their sipport behind OWS I feel they will soon be part of the army whether they realize it or not, in other words they are the useful idiots.
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Every time a new Big Brother regulation pops up I can’t help but remember these lyrics:
“Well, don’t it always seem to go
That you don’t know what you got till it’s gone
They paved paradise to put up a parking lot “
By taking away our liberties with the illusion of making us safe, this is exactly what they are doing.
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Ah, GP, you are one of us that remember that time in the 60’s! Illusion is correct, because does it really make us safer??? No! It controls us more to what they want us to be. Guess there are alot of people not watching what is going on and expecting the government to make sure we are safe, what a BIG mistake that will be for them. Then there are those of US with our eyes open and trying to scream at the top of our lungs for them to listen to us. Who will be the winners in the game? I think it is a no win situation at this point, all we can do is try and salvage what we have for the time being until we come up with another plan.
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Very true; being free to do whatever you want means that sometimes you wil not always be safe. In order to make us safe the government must encroach on our freedoms.
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They sure are; they are putting a parkin lot in our heads where our paradise of freedom used to be.
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And they think we are conpiracists. Anyone who thinks that there is not more to their agenda than this is living under a rock.
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You’ve got that right, sadly I am sure there are people who will be defending this policy.
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Can you see this being abused by citizens who have an ax to grind with another? I can. This is another example of a federal agency violating our 4th amendment rights. Until we contact our elected officials and voice our concerns this will continues to happen.
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I can see it also John, it seems as if we are empowering more people to have more control over our lives and while people may have accepted the fact that they are being trated like criminals at the airports and have accepted this violatin of the fourth amendment you have to think that there is a point when the majority of people will realize that something is wrong in America. And I like to think that if a federal police force of sorts starts roaming the highways that the rest of the sleeping Americans will finally wake up but by that time it will be too late. This is something that must be stopped before it gets going.
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The DHS has made if very clear they consider “homegrown” terrorism to be the biggest threat. Maybe we should just leave our ID’s at home and pretend not to speak English?
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I think you may have just found a loophole in the system!
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RJ, that is an interestin concept. As I have said before, we Americans can be stopped and asked for license, registration and insurance, but apparently that infringes on the “rights” of illegals, go figure.
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The right wing terrorist report was released for a reason and now we are beginning to see why.
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As I’ve said in past posts, DHS and DOJ have been setting the stage for a “home grown terror” attack for some time now. The rhetoric has been all about white, gun owning, Christians, veterans, TEA party members, people with RON Paul and Gadsden flag bumper stickers, etc, etc. This goes back to the MIAC report. Look it up if you haven’t already. I’m not defending Obama by any means but this joker isn’t smart enough to come up with all of this. He’s a puppet. This all goes back to the UN’s Agenda 21(look this up as well) and the NWO/ central bankers who are actually running this and many other countries world wide. The first thing put in place in Libya after the “rebellion” was a central bank. Anyone who thinks NATO went into Libya to save the citizens needs to turn off the TV and start doing their own research.
As far as the VIPR teams starting their shit in Tennessee. My theory is that DHS tried to pick a state full of gun owning, good ol’ boys in the hopes that they (DHS) could piss someone off enough to start a shooting conflict with citizens. Then they’ll come out on the news and start their rhetoric about “home grown terrorists” again and try to justify a clamp down in the name of “security”. If this doesn’t get started legitimately, they’ll just pull a false flag with a mentally deranged person or some mercs and fabricate the whole thing. Whatever the case, things are going to get ugly.
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You know I have been trying to figure out why Tennessee wa chosen as the trial state and I think that you have hit on the reason. I remember the homegrown terrorist report and agenda 21 and let us not forget that they were also sending arms into Mexico as well in order to propagate the 90% lie and crack down on gun owners.
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T, of course they are setting the stage for us and I too do not believe that The One is all that intelligent that he is calling the shots, there are higher powers envolved. To my knowledge we have not gone into a country to save the people, on the surface, maybe, but it usually has another motive behind it like OIL. As for your comment about Tennessee being picked as the starter state, maybe you are on to something there. What did Van Jones say, to “nudge” people? Maybe this is their nudge to see how far we will go before they can declare martial law on We the People. I also do not put a “set up” past this administration, do you? We know that the F&F was a massive set up, so this is just the beginning of one with the TSA. I think in the very near future you are going to have to revise your “ugly” word to a stronger one, I just don’t forsee a good outcome with this and still all most are interested in is the GAME and who is winning. Amazes me, but what can you do!!
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This is all being manipulated from above and Obama is the puppet master pulling the strings masterfully, or perhaps there is another above him–maybe Soros–who is pulling the strings, either way we are the ones who are going to pay for this.
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We either hang together, or we hang separately. If this all blows over and the TSA backs off, the people will have learned nothing. Everyone will go back to their tv sets and watch sports like every thing’s fine. It will be the same incremental creep toward totalitarianism we’ve been seeing for decades now. Two steps forward, one step back. I am not calling for violence, I am predicting it. Violence is what the tyrants in the (shadow) government want and they will get what they want. If they can’t instigate it, they will fabricate it. Just like Hitler did with the Reichstag fire. Mutalleb (under ware bomber) had NO passport when he boarded flight 253. A witness came forward and stated he (M) was helped onto the plane by an official looking individual who argued momentarily with airport security. Have you ever heard of anyone arguing their way onto an international flight with NO PAPERS ? This witness, a lawyer, was about to take the stand at Mutalleb’s trial and explain what he saw. He was the only witness called on by the defense. Miraculously, before the witness could take the stand, Mutalleb changed his not guilty plea to guilty, saving the prosecution from having to explain why a government agent had put this man, who had no passport, on flight 253. Shortly after his attempt to blow up 253 with a fake bomb, We the People, children and elderly alike, are being sexually assaulted and robbed by the felons and pedophiles of the TSA. Another false flag designed to strike fear in the masses and allow more government intrusion into the average citizens’ lives. Next came TSA at train stations and subway stations. Now it’s the highways in Tennessee. Next month, highways nation wide. Then grocery stores, shopping malls, Wal Mart, you name it. Eventually you will have to be cleared by DHS to get a job. If you’re on one of many “lists”, no job for you. It won’t stop unless it is stopped.
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I hadn’t heard that story about Mutalleb before and I would love to know how he managed to get on that plane. Interesting that he ended up changing his plea, I wonder what he got in return.
We are entering dangerous times and the thought of having a federal police type force on our highways should send a shudder down the back of every American.
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Steve – Whoever is pulling the strings obviously does not have the best interests of the American people at heart. My father and others fought the Nazi’s to protect our freedoms.
Are we to now to dishonor their sacrifice by informing on each other in the best tradition of the Soviet NKVD or the German Gestapo?
It would seem at this juncture in time that sadly, we have paid too much attention to external threats – the rot is coming from inside.
The radical socialists, following the lead of Barack Obama and his puppet masters, are trying to pick up the torch of international radical socialist fascism that so many brave Americans have fought and died for, while trying to keep the dark side of this parastic rot, from destroying our country.
The late Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev once said, “…..America will be defeated from within.
My reply to that statement is, ” “only if we let it.” ….WM
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Exactly. Some of these external threats have been over blown as a distraction. “Never let a good crisis go to waste” so to speak. That is why I am supporting Ron Paul for POTUS. I don’t push this in these posts because people always try to minimize him due to “foreign policy”. Well, I don’t live in “foreign”, I live in the USA. The scariest terrorists in the world are right here in this country. Some of them are in positions of great power. Many of them are heads of federal agencies.Communistic, tyrannical psychopaths with inferiority complexes should NEVER be put into positions of power but that’s what we’ve done.
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When it comes to personal liberty and freedom Ron Paul is by far the best candidate out there. He is a true originalist and constitutionalist and I haven’t ruled him out yet.
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I think if you look at a persons voting record in Congress you will see what they are made of. Ron Paul has not gotten the coverage the other candidates have gotten, on purpose. I believe the MSM is afraid of him, for good reason. His Foreign Policy is not the best, but if you look at the overall picture, he is right up there on the top. We could do worse. He loves the Constitution and that is a plus in my book. I do agree with him that we need to be out of those other countries, maybe then we could protect our OWN borders.
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I do believe that it is time to wind down the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and I like Ron Paul but I think his isolationism might go a little too far.
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I believe it has gotten to the point that we are spread too thin all over the world. I think it is time to bring them home, regroup and then make the decision who to help and why. We have bases all over the world to “protect” others, what about us? We pay for everything from protection to food to any natural disaster there is in the world. When something happens, the hands go out our direction. At this point, we are borrowing the money to do it. Maybe he is a bit one sided on the isolationism, but he does have a point. We need to stay out of other peoples business AND we need to stop giving money away to people that are demanding it from us. Why do we let them get away with calling the shots on our money? Don’t we have enough needy people right here in OUR country. There is not perfect candidate, but we have to find the best of the bunch or hope someone jumps in quickly. We can’t have more of the same going on for the next 4 years.
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I agree with much of what you just said, but when he said that it isn’t America’s business if Iran develops a nuke is when he lost me. There is no way that Iran should have nukes and if he hadn’t made that statement I would probably be in his corner already. I haven’t ruled him out yet, but that makes it hard for me to support him.
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I don’t agree with that issue either and he had said other things I am not in agreement on. Iran is a time bomb at the moment and we need to watch them. If there was a normal person at their helm, it might be different for them to have nukes. I listen to each candidate and think, well maybe they would be ok and then they say something stupid that gets me thinking about another candidate. I can’t honestly say who I will vote for, it is up in the air. I can’t ever remember an election that I have been so indecisive as this one. I can’t watch the bickering that goes on during the “debates”, so am relying on what I can read. Does anyone else have this issue?
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I actually do enjoy the debates, but they do turn into a bickering contest between Romney and Perry and because I am not voting for either I feel this takes time away from the other candidates I am more interested inhearing from. I think the bickering will have a negative impact on Romney and Perry by the time the primaries get under way, people are going to tire of it and look elsewhere.
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The TSA was stood up by President George Bush not President Obama. And the African American race in this country have been profiled in this manner for decades. Some have been outright falsely accused of crimes they didn’t commit and have spent most of their lives in prison. Now it’s true and there is a danger here in that (as have been pointed out already) that our rights (as American citizens) are being slowly erroded one atom at a time (if you catch my meaning). This problem is bigger than left vs right; conservative vs democrat; white vs black; minority vs majority; so let’s not be so chort sighted as to limit this problem to conservative vs President Obama. It’s so much more; open your eyes and let’s attack this problem from the correct vantage point.
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