Abel writes: "The out-of-control Transportation Security Administration is past patdowns at airports - now it's checkpoints and roadblocks."
A TSA 'viper' (VIPR) team patrolling mass transit. (photo: Guardian UK)
The TSA's Mission Creep Is Making the US a Police State
22 April 12
The out-of-control Transportation Security Administration is past patdowns at airports - now it's checkpoints and roadblocks.
ver since 2010, when the Transportation Security Administration started requiring that travelers in American airports submit to sexually intrusive gropings based on the apparent anti-terrorism principle that "If we can't feel your nipples, they must be a bomb", the agency's craven apologists have shouted down all constitutional or human rights objections with the mantra "If you don't like it, don't fly!"
This callous disregard for travelers' rights merely paraphrases the words of Homeland Security director Janet Napolitano, who shares, with the president, ultimate responsibility for all TSA travesties since 2009. In November 2010, with the groping policy only a few weeks old, Napolitano dismissed complaints by saying "people [who] want to travel by some other means" have that right. (In other words: if you don't like it, don't fly.)
But now TSA is invading travel by other means, too. No surprise, really: as soon as she established groping in airports, Napolitano expressed her desire to expand TSA jurisdiction over all forms of mass transit. In the past year, TSA's snakelike VIPR (Visual Intermodal Prevention and Response) teams have been slithering into more and more bus and train stations - and even running checkpoints on highways - never in response to actual threats, but apparently more in an attempt to live up to the inspirational motto displayed at the TSA's air marshal training center since the agency's inception: "Dominate. Intimidate. Control."
Anyone who rode the bus in Houston, Texas during the 2-10pm shift last Friday faced random bag checks and sweeps by both drug-sniffing dogs and bomb-sniffing dogs (the latter being only canines necessary if "preventing terrorism" were the actual intent of these raids), all courtesy of a joint effort between TSA VIPR nests and three different local and county-level police departments. The new Napolitano doctrine, then: "Show us your papers, show us everything you've got, justify yourself or you're not allowed to go about your everyday business."
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee praised these violations of her constituents' rights with an explanation asinine even by congressional standards:
"We're looking to make sure that the lady I saw walking with a cane … knows that Metro cares as much about her as we do about building the light rail."
See, if you don't support the random harassment of ordinary people riding the bus to work, you're a callous bastard who doesn't care about little old ladies.
No specific threats or reasons were cited for the raids, as the government no longer even pretends to need any. Vipers bite you just because they can. TSA spokesman Jim Fotenos confirmed this a few days before the Houston raids, when VIPR teams and local police did the same thing to travelers catching trains out of the Amtrak station in Alton, Illinois. Fotenos confirmed that "It was not in response to a specific threat," and bragged that VIPR teams conduct "thousands" of these operations each year.
Still, apologists can pretend that's all good, pretend constitutional and human rights somehow don't apply to mass transit, and twist their minds into the Mobius pretzel shapes necessary to find random searches of everyday travelers compatible with any notion that America is a free country. "Don't like the new rules for mass transit? Then drive."
Except even that doesn't work anymore. Earlier this month, the VIPRs came out again in Virginia and infested the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel, also known as the stretch of Interstate 64 connecting the cities of Hampton and Norfolk. Spokesmen admitted again that the exercise was a "routine sweep", not a response to any specific threat. Official news outlets admitted the checkpoint caused a delay (further exacerbated by a couple of accidents), but didn't say for how long. Local commenters at the Travel Underground forums reported delays of 90 minutes.
I grew up in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia. When I was a kid, my dad crossed the bridge-tunnel every day while commuting to work. When I was in university, I did the same thing. The old conventional wisdom said "Get to the airport at least two hours early, so TSA has time to violate your constitutional rights before boarding." What's the new conventional wisdom - "Leave for any destination at least 90 minutes early, so TSA can violate your rights en route"?
Airports, bus terminals, train stations, highways - what's left? If you don't like it, walk. And remember to be respectfully submissive to any TSA agents or police you encounter in your travels, especially now that the US supreme court has ruled mass strip-searches are acceptable for anyone arrested for even the most minor offence in America. If you're rude to any TSA agent or cops, you risk being arrested on some vague catch-all charge like "disorderly conduct". Even if the charges are later dropped, you'll still undergo the ritual humiliation of having to strip, squat, spread 'em and show your various orifices to be empty.
Can I call America a police state now, without being accused of hyperbole?
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I guess this is the best Obama can do for a jobs program. All the unemployed can become VIPERS.
I was in Washington DC a few weeks ago and went to some museums. I did not see any police or VIPERS. I guess they still want tourism to free and pleasurable. I'm sure that I would not have entered any museum if there were VIPERS at the doors. I'm sure that there were plenty of plain clothed VIPERS in the crowd, but they were invisible.
Seems to me that step one would be to get rid of anyone who voted for any of this crap, FROM EITHER PARTY!
So.. your defense of Obama continuing and/or expanding all of Bush's more heinous policies is "But Bush started it!"???? Really????
Did you know that a bill, HR 658, the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act, has just passed both the House and the Senate that authorizes the use of 30,000 spy drones over America? Like the anti-Posse Comitatus NDAA legislation that passed in November, this bill was not widely reported by the mainstream media. Think... we are being attacked by BOTH Parties...
My synapses and reasoning ability are good enough, in fact, that although I campaigned for Obama, I can readily see that I was very wrong. Maybe, given some time, you can evolve from the delusional goo also.
From the DHS,
TSA currently has 25 Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) multi-modal teams in operation and the FY 2012 budget request includes funding for 12 additional VIPR teams. VIPR teams are comprised of personnel with expertise in inspection, behavior detection, security screening, and law enforcement for random, unpredictable deployments throughout the transportation sector to deter potential terrorist acts. TSA's VIPR teams work alongside local law enforcement agencies throughout the transportation domain, enhancing the agency's ability to leverage a variety of resources quickly to increase security in any mode of transportation anywhere in the country. VIPR teams also represent an ongoing effort to develop surge capacity to enhance security in public transportation systems. TSA conducted over 8,000 VIPR operations in the past 12 months, including over 3,700 operations in mass transit venues. VIPR operational plans are developed with a risk-based methodology, in conjunction with local transportation security stakeholders, and conducted jointly by TSA, local law enforcement, and transportation security resources.
To enhance coordination and deterrent effects of VIPR team operations, TSA and the representatives of the Transit Policing and Security Peer Advisory Group (PAG) work together to improve coordination, preparation, planning, execution, and after action review of VIPR deployments in mass transit and passenger rail systems. This cooperation has grown since the mutually agreed upon operating guidelines for "Effective Employment of Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response Teams in Mass Transit and Passenger Rail" were implemented in October 2007. The guidelines were distributed to Federal Security Directors (FSDs), lead regional Surface Inspectors, and Federal Air Marshal Supervisory Air Marshal in Charge (FAM SACs) around the country to improve the effectiveness of the VIPR program.
JCM, There are always two sides to every story, and I appreciate your posting the other side in this one.
I am appalled by the tactics our country has resorted to that continue to encroach on our civil liberties. That said, we must remember that other countries have had mass transit facilities targeted by terrorists, and as long as USA foreign policies do not change, ours certainly could be too.
Also, based on personal knowledge, I do believe most TSA agents are people just trying to do the best job they can. My younger son is one of them. A victim of the economy, he was laid off and without work for nearly a year before finally being hired by TSA. People do have to make a living, and this was the job he was offered from among the many applications he put in. He and the friends he's made on the job since beginning work are individuals of high integrity who are courteous to a fault in their dealings with the public; most of them try to make things as painless as possible for the traveling public while still doing their job.
Thank you for your post.
This is a major problem with most media outlets. When true scrutiny reveals abuse, corruption, or waste, the contrast presented is usually uncritical stenography of the words of an often unnamed source, as if this equates to an objective presentation of “both sides” of an issue.
I'm not denying that the Republicans are awful. I merely point out, repeatedly, that the Democrats – being beholden to the same corporate deep-pockets – behave virtually identically to them on a vast array of issues of vital importance to freedom, justice, and democracy. From this I conclude that voting for Obama or other Democrats will be only marginally less harmful, and that the margin is not meaningfully helpful to the 99%.
While you may disagree with my conclusion, denial is not the appropriate word to describe my basis for it. I said you were in denial because despite the horrendous abuses of Obama and the complicit Democrats, you insist that he and they are actually good for people and the country and that everything would be fine if we could only get rid of those terrible Republicans. There is no evidence for your conclusions and plenty to support mine.
See the following RSN articles from just the last couple of days:
http://readersupportednews.org/off-site-opinion-section/56-56/11047-americas-drone-sickness
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/328-121/11038-us-muslim-i-was-tortured-at-fbis-behest-in-uae
http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/317-65/11067-usa-today-journalists-targeted-after-report-on-dod-propaganda-program
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/282-98/11066-the-tsas-mission-creep-is-making-the-us-a-police-state
Some people say the Democrats are just like the Republicans, and in some ways that’s true, but when it comes to making legislation, over all, they try to protect the interests and lives of the 99% and all Americans. The Republicans platform is now, “Donate to our campaign and we’ll make you wealthier.”
Our only chance to heal our country is to have a true Democratic super majority, until the Republicans regain their sanity.
JCM: Your descriptions of what will happen if Republicans "take control" are correct. What I repeatedly point out is that in most cases virtually the same result will occur with the Democrats.
I think it's good to discuss the issues, but no matter what details I have described (often at length) in our previous exchanges, you ignore pretty much everything I say and simply repeat your same views.
This isn't a conversation. It’s digital ping pong.
If you are only engaging in this back and forth in the hopes of changing my mind, please save your energy. I've drawn conclusions based on facts and you repeatedly present fear-based ideology. It's not compelling to me.
If you’d like to discuss how to pursue policy changes outside electoral politics we may find common ground there.
OK what are your alternatives?
The same result???
The DEMOCRATS are going to pass the Ryan budget, will repeal health care, will continue to lower taxes for the rich and create larger deficits, will reduce funding for food stamps, for clean energy, for science, for global warming, for Pell Grants, will try to destroy unions, and will probably come up with some excuse to go to war? The Dems are going to try to destroy voter rights, women’s rights, want to deregulate the industries that pollute and steal from us, reduce funding for research and development, funding for the space program and our infrastructure? ARE YOU SERIOUS???????
How meaningful do you think “voters’ rights and women’s rights are when Obama has officially eliminated most CIVIL RIGHTS guaranteed by the constitution?
Yes, Obama is SOOO pro-Union. That must be why the FBI raided members of the SEIU in Chicago last year for their supposed “terror links,” and conducted coordinated raids on trade union members and “progressive” anti-war activists in six US cities the year before. This included confiscating their property.
And Obama would never deregulate industry – oh, wait – except for Wall Street, GMO crops, toxic air pollution from industrial boilers… He signed an executive order requiring federal agencies to ensure that all regulations promote economic growth, and he ordered a government-wide review of existing regulations to remove any that place “unreasonable restrictions” on business, or that are “just plain dumb.”
Obama has blocked effective action on global warming and sleazed through a back-door approval of the Keystone XL pipeline after pretending to block it.
The Obama budget disproportionat ely cuts social programs (including, for example, $320 billion from Medicare and Medicaid and $2.5 billion in cuts to community service block grants and an energy assistance program that helps poor people stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer); it fails to adequately address the jobs crisis ($100 billion for “job creation,” which would create 2 million jobs at $50,000 for the 20 million unemployed or underemployed IF the entire amount translated to jobs – allowing for no profits or overhead. But NOT ONE PENNY of the total was for hiring workers. It consisted largely of tax cuts for businesses that hire workers or raise their pay, extended unemployment benefits, and aid to state and local governments). Obama preserved the Bush tax cuts, increased military spending, and made no effort whatsoever to close loopholes for offshore tax cheats (or onshore cheats, for that matter).
I could go on, but I've already discussed many other issues that would also address your question. Do you read them? Or are your "questions" really just comments?
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/confused-about-ndaa-and-detention-provision
This second link is a longer Greenwald post with more details on the same topic. It includes a 13-minute video clip at the bottom of the Young Turks that includes a clip of Senator Levin explaining that the original language of the bill explicitly exempted Americans and lawful residents, but that Obama asked him to remove that language because he didn't want that constraint. It also includes a short interview with Greenwald.
http://www.salon.com/2011/12/15/obama_to_sign_indefinite_detention_bill_into_law/singleton/
So you're ok with slaughtering innocent people, including hundreds of children, with drones as long as we don't declare war? As long as Americans aren’t killed in larger numbers?
You're ok with ensuring that bankers are never held accountable, the system stays rigged, people keep losing their homes and jobs... because the crisis occurred during a Republican administration?
You're ok with Obama saying robosigning was ok because some of those people really shouldn't be in their homes, and then backing that up by ensuring that the "settlement" included immunity for this fraud they used to evict God knows how many people?
You don't want to take a chance on a third party because there is too much risk? People who never take chances never change anything.
I've already told you repeatedly what I want and how I intend to proceed. You just don't want to hear it.
From my post below: Regarding third parties, I honestly believe that if everyone just voted for the candidate they thought was best, a third party candidate would win. It’s the relatively widespread belief that they can’t win that poses the – admittedly large – main obstacle. In my personal experience, it is impossible to achieve anything without trying, and virtually impossible to succeed without first envisioning success. We absolutely can change things. It depends on our attitudes and beliefs.
I would appreciate for you to stop putting words in my mouth. There is nothing easy about getting every, Progressive, Liberal and Democrat to actually vote for Obama and every Democrat they can.
The largest difference we have is that you think the Dems are as bad as the Republicans and have a few pieces of legislation that you chose to use as evidence. However, I believe that most of your examples can be seen from both sides and you can find differences of opinion, from liberal minded people, over the internet(there are a few that I find hideous). The examples I have chosen, I believe, are much less defensible from Liberal minded people, such as the Ryan budget, repealing health care, reducing funds for food stamps, for clean energy, for science, for global warming, for Pell Grants. Their desire to destroy Social Security, Medicare, Medicare, etc, etc, etc. I know you have criticisms about much of this but you fail to see any legislature passed in regards to this kind of legislation as the product of having the Republicans with so much power. Continued to part 2
Unbelievable that you equate the "difficulty" of spreading the word with what peaceful protesters face (pepper spray, beating, arrest, strip search...) when genuinely speaking truth to power.
You have a dream that everyone will vote for a third party candidate that will have the ability to restore politics. I have a dream of keeping the Republicans gaining more power and for the Democrat to have total power for at least a while until the Republican regains their sanity (Both dreams are, unfortunately, far from reality). That certainly puts us at odds with each other. A talent like yours would have been a great help. I will not take a chance on the Republicans gaining more influence. If you can’t see why (I apparently do not see the Democrats in complete control as being any where near as destructive) then enough said, Goodbye
You have a dream that everyone will vote for a third party candidate that will have the ability to restore politics. I have a dream of keeping the Republicans gaining more power and for the Democrat to have total power for at least a while until the Republicans regain their sanity(Both dreams are, unfortunately, far from reality). That certainly puts us at odds with each other. A talent like yours would have been a great help. I will not take a chance on the Republicans gaining more influence. If you can’t see why (I apparently do not see the Democrats in complete control as being any where near as destructive) then enough said, Goodbye.
You are essentially saying that you only object to horrific acts if they are committed by the "other" side.
That is one of the main reasons we have had so much trouble getting out of this mess. Half of the country is always making excuses for the atrocities committed by the leader of their own tribe.
“sorry if I am going to be nailed I would rather it be done by a real republican and not one who is a latent republican...”
So let’s let the Republicans totally destroy SS, Medicare and Medicaid instead. While we're at it let’s let them gut the Department of Education, and Pell Grants, lets lower taxes on the wealthiest and raise taxes on the poor. Hell just for spite because we don't like Obama, let’s let the Republicans add another two conservative judges on the Supreme Court and then repeal Roe v Wade and countless other beneficial rulings for the working class, let them repeal health care so that people could still be denied insurance when they get sick and the people with pre existing conditions will be out of luck, let them create larger deficits, and reduce funding for food stamps, for clean energy, for science, for global warming, don’t forget we can let them destroy unions too. Sounds like a great plan, John Locke, Karl Rove would be proud.
It's nice to hear that there actually are people there who are trying to do a good job, but given the job requirements it seems like it would be hard for a person of conscience to avoid doing things he doesn't want to do.
I wonder whether you have ever been in the situation of having to choose between taking a job or being unable to pay your bills and eat. The view is very different from the other side of the fence. It's pretty easy to talk about our ideals but sometimes in the real world it is not so easy to live them. Practically everybody I know is sometimes required by their jobs to do something they would not choose to do.
And I wonder why JCM and I are getting red numbers...it's as if some here do not want a discussion of all sides of an issue. Too bad, it's a loss to all of us when we choose not to listen to another's POV.
I genuinely feel bad about the position your son is in, and grateful that even though things are scary financially, for the moment I'm ok.
I also strongly believe that neither of the two main party candidates will do anything to change the status quo regarding jobs (or most other problems) because they are too beholden to their corporate funders who are profiting from our rigged system.
With regard to the thumbs down, take a look at a lot of my posts. I have been given thumbs down – sometimes very large numbers of them – from people who haven't even bothered to respond to my comments (bizarrely, one of the posts that got thumbs down indicated my belief in working toward world peace, even though it sometimes seems completely unattainable). I can’t speak for the people who gave you thumbs down, but for the record, none of them are from me.
Obviously I misunderstood and overreacted -- sorry. Guess I'm too touchy, probably due to the prevalent negative opinion of TSA agents. Hell, I used to share those opinions! And I've pretty much stopped flying, it's just too much of an unpleasant hassle now. But having a family member in the business has opened my eyes to a lot of things.
And as I've said before, I honestly do hear what you say about our "leaders" -- of both parties. BUT -- I see no way for a 3rd party or write-in to come anywhere near a win this year, and I will not waste my vote by just opting out or voting for someone I know can't win. I KNOW under the Repigs, things would be infinitely worse than we can even imagine. I won't help that happen.
The T-partiers co-opted the Repigs in 2010; why can't the Progressives do something similar with the Dems in 2012? If we can get a solid Dem Congress and Pres in, then they have no excuse not to make positive changes, beginning with getting the money out of elections! Voting them in and then relentlessly keeping pressure on them is the best chance we have to effect positive change.
I've pretty much stopped flying, too, though because on my last flight, in particular, I had the misfortune to encounter TSA agents not as conscientious as your son.
Regarding third parties, I honestly believe that if everyone just voted for the candidate they thought was best, a third party candidate would win. It’s the relatively widespread belief that they can’t win that poses the – admittedly large – main obstacle. In my personal experience, it is impossible to achieve anything without trying, and virtually impossible to succeed without first envisioning success. We absolutely can change things. It depends on our attitudes and beliefs.
I used to feel that way, too, Stephanie. But after living through 8 yrs of bushco and seeing what happened in 2004, I gave up on that idea. The only way I see for a third party ever to have a chance is to get the money out of politics. And we'll never do that as long as a repig lives and breathes in congress! I KNOW the Dems rake in money, too -- if they didn't they'd never get elected. It's the only game in town, and if you want to play, you have to observe the existing rules. But if the PEOPLE want those rules changed, they CAN be changed, I believe, by electing a Dec majority and then keeping the pressure on them. Once they're in, we can never let them forget for a single day, or even a single minute, what we want! Leveling the playing field by eliminating bought and paid for elections is the only way a third party candidate will ever have a chance to even get into the game.
Thanks for your understanding and empathy. Sorry you've run afoul of the bullies in TSA. I have too, and honestly, even under the best of circumstances, flying is a major hassle these days. I'd rather drive, cross country driving trips are kind of fun sometimes.
I've pretty much given up trying to figure out the red numbers here. I remember that post you made about working toward world peace (I totally agree and pray for that daily) -- couldn't believe even that got thumbs down! Who wouldn't want world peace??? (Besides the war machine that rakes in all the money making war, that is.)
Yep, I'm still lurking, JCM. :-) The conversation seems to be ongoing...
Yep, your reasons are all plausible ones, plus, some people are just tag-alongs. They see which way the wind is blowing and then pile on. But like I said, I've pretty much stopped caring. Will say what I think/feel/beli eve and let the red ink fall where it may!
But I am getting seriously worried about this election. There seem to be so many people who are so thoroughly disillusioned with Obama that they'll sit it out or throw their vote away on some 3rd party candidate who doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning anything. I've been pretty much disgusted myself on many occasions, and felt betrayed early on. But in all reality, I think many of us were expecting the kind of miracles of change NOBODY could have produced! None of us can really know all the pressures that a president feels from all sides. In my more paranoid moments I even wonder whether O has been under threat of physical harm to himself and/or his family if he doesn't "obey" his big donors.
Bottom line for me is that the repigs would be so unutterably worse that I would not even think of wasting my vote this year! The best -- and I really think ONLY -- chance we have is to put the Dems in charge en masse and make sure that we hold their feet to the fire!
If you're still checking here, JCM, yes, I've read your comments pretty consistently and realize we agree. Guess we have to just keep trying to convince people of the facts...those who are gung-ho to write somebody in or vote 3rd party this year are dreaming -- it's just not gonna happen til we get the $$ out of politics!
The "JOBS" Act is incredibly destructive to the economy and actual jobs, but the NDAA and Obama's assassination program are destructive of democracy -- completely tyrannical power grabs. It is unbelievable to me that people who care about freedom and justice could advocate for a man who claims the right to take anyone's freedom or life without opportunity for self defense. What is the United States of America without the Constitution? A name. What are you defending?
The NDAA had to be passed, but the two sections codifying indefinite detention into law absolutely did NOT. Have you read the two sections yourself or are you quoting from another article? If not, please read sections 1021 and 1022 and, if you haven't already, see the Greenwald links I posted for you above.
In case you don't know about him, he was an apolitical lawyer specializing in constitutional law until he became horrified at what GWB was doing, at which point he quit his practice and started blogging and is one of the most knowledgeable, articulate, and insightful writers and speakers on the topic.
sexlife is being groped in the
airport.
And for sure you can call America
a police state.
But I doubt even the Gestapo was so bluntly outspoken -- "Dominate-Intim idate-Control" -- about its tyrannical purpose.
Hence, precisely as the dicta imply, we witness the transformation of TSA from airport guards to national transit police, soon from national transit police to national police and thence to recreation of the original Geheime Staatspolizei.
Somewhere in Hell, Heydrich, Himmler and Hitler are all smiling. Meanwhile here on Earth it's "Dominate-Intim idate-Control": welcome to the Fourth Reich.
As usual in such instances, I cannot find a legal basis for such an organization in the Constitution, although the spirit of federalism would seem to find such an organization an odious prospect, as it seems to be a usurpation of the states' sovereignty in regards to their own police powers.
On the other hand, I also cannot find a prohibition for such an organization in the Constitution.
Can we get some Constitutional lawyers to work on this?
wish you luck America.
In bitter truth it proves beyond a scintilla of doubt that "recovery" (whether of our jobs or our constitutional rights -- is the ultimate Big Lie. Instead what the One Percent has in store for us is National Enslavement, for details of which see http://truth-out.org/news/item/8637-locking-down-an-american-workforce-prison-labor-as-the-past-and-future-of-american-capitalism.
And capitalism it is – infinite greed as maximum virtue (as it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be) – its smirking masters enabled by ever-more-savag e capitalist governance: absolute power and infinite profit for the Ruling Class, total subjugation and genocidal poverty for all the rest of us.
For how else but by exploitation of "human capital" -- the enslavement of us all -- will the capitalists maintain their obscenely lavish lifestyle in a time of dwindling natural resources and a planet raped to increasing rebellion against human survival?
Remember how for Europe, Bush turned the United States from honored, if dizzy, friend, to toxic pariah.
At some point it became the policy of the oligarchy, which includes the military industrial complex, to keep the domestic population from asking embarrassing questions about seemingly unnecessary defense spending and endless wars. Don't forget that Total Information Awareness was originally under the purview of Admiral Poindexter and the defense department under Rumsfeld, who promised he would pursue it under another name after it was defeated.
One of the main aims of the War on Terror is not just unreasonable searches and seizures, but to terrorize and intimidate the American public.
Tommy Rimes
The republicans got to where they can control things by beginning at the grass roots with local elections and moving into the state legislatures. ALEC is the result. If real Americans, not the Caribou Barbie facsimile, want to return America to a nonpolice state, we need to start at the bottom and elect people who are willing to ignore the fascists' marching orders and to call them out when they overstep.
I am the devil incarnate. I shall invoke murderous anti-spirit energies, and these shall wipe out the entire TSA, from top administrators to lowly cheek spreaders. Their life force shall simply bleed away in the moment of enforcement activity of any kind. Thus shall it (maught it) be!
Never co-operate with secret services. The first thing they do is turn you into a murderer (by making you accessory to their crimes).
We must open all fbi/cia files in order to understand the total corruption of these two groups of homicidal sociopaths and how they blackmail all other branches of gov, including congress & courts.
Must also understand the threat to the people of the WHOLE world by the assassins & torturers of the fbi/cia/mi6/mos sad; start here:
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/part4-worldinabo.html
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/non-consensual.html
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/statement.html
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/hightechassau.html
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/part16-updatefor.html
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/affidavit2007.html
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/tooth14.html
http://www.sosbeevfbi.com/mystory.html
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