TSA "Show of Force" on Atlanta area interstates
Sep 28, 2010, 7:55 pm
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TSA "Show of Force" on Atlanta area interstates
http://www.ajc.com/news/feds-involve...or-643211.html
"No specific threat." Fantastic. Don't you feel safer?
Probably best not to speculate as to what my reaction would be if "feds and local law enforcement" tried to search my car with no cause.
"No specific threat." Fantastic. Don't you feel safer?
Probably best not to speculate as to what my reaction would be if "feds and local law enforcement" tried to search my car with no cause.
Sep 28, 2010, 8:17 pm
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"This is a live operation intent on deterring would-be terrorists or criminal activity," Nelson Minerly, spokesman for the federal agency, told the AJC.
How can they search any vehicle without a warrant?
Sep 28, 2010, 8:23 pm
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This totally disgusting. The Burger Flippers Brigade is now "helping" to fill the inland void where CBP can't harass people.
Herren Himmler und Röhm would be so proud.
They can't, but they probably intimidate a lot of people into thinking that they can.
Sounds like they were using the mobile x-ray.
Hello, ACLU? This police state must end.
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Video on myfoxatlanta.com
Herren Himmler und Röhm would be so proud.
They can't, but they probably intimidate a lot of people into thinking that they can.
Originally Posted by wsbtv
A team of federal agents has been stopping tractor-trailers on Interstate 20 just west of Atlanta, inspecting each truck as it passed through a weigh station, and Channel 2 has learned its part of a counter-terrorism operation.
Channel 2's Linda Stouffer reported a flashing sign on the interstate directed the trucks to pull into a state-owned inspection station near Lee Road in Douglas County at the height of the evening commute.
Channel 2 Action News confirmed that agents from several federal agencies, including Homeland Security, the Department of Transportation, and the Transportation Security Administration were involved. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office was assisting in the exercise.
A TSA spokesman told Channel 2 the event is known as Visible Inter-mobile Prevention and Response, or VIPER, an operation that is conducted with local authorities as a training exercise. The TSA spokesman said the operation is not in response to a specific threat.
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News Chopper 2 showed screening devices, dogs and a large drive-through bomb detection machine in use along the eastbound interstate near Lee Road.
Trucks were being sorted into two lines, one with more rigorous screening. Agents used a variety of devices to check the exteriors of the trailers, including a large drive-through machine similar to a security tool used at the Super Bowl, and a tool that measures radiation.
Channel 2's Linda Stouffer reported a flashing sign on the interstate directed the trucks to pull into a state-owned inspection station near Lee Road in Douglas County at the height of the evening commute.
Channel 2 Action News confirmed that agents from several federal agencies, including Homeland Security, the Department of Transportation, and the Transportation Security Administration were involved. The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office was assisting in the exercise.
A TSA spokesman told Channel 2 the event is known as Visible Inter-mobile Prevention and Response, or VIPER, an operation that is conducted with local authorities as a training exercise. The TSA spokesman said the operation is not in response to a specific threat.
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News Chopper 2 showed screening devices, dogs and a large drive-through bomb detection machine in use along the eastbound interstate near Lee Road.
Trucks were being sorted into two lines, one with more rigorous screening. Agents used a variety of devices to check the exteriors of the trailers, including a large drive-through machine similar to a security tool used at the Super Bowl, and a tool that measures radiation.
Hello, ACLU? This police state must end.
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Video on myfoxatlanta.com
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Sep 28, 2010, 8:43 pm
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http://www.ajc.com/news/feds-involve...or-643211.html
"No specific threat." Fantastic. Don't you feel safer?
Probably best not to speculate as to what my reaction would be if "feds and local law enforcement" tried to search my car with no cause.
"No specific threat." Fantastic. Don't you feel safer?
Probably best not to speculate as to what my reaction would be if "feds and local law enforcement" tried to search my car with no cause.
Sep 28, 2010, 8:51 pm
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Medals and awards to all involved for sure
I just checked the news. Not a single report of a car being hijacked in ATL today and driven into a downtown skyscraper. Press release from BB and PV praising the "Total Major Success" of today's operation in 5...4...3..2...1.. 
In other news, Lisa's Rock still keeping Springfield a Tiger Free Zone. . . ^
In other news, Lisa's Rock still keeping Springfield a Tiger Free Zone. . . ^
Sep 28, 2010, 9:01 pm
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http://www.ajc.com/news/feds-involve...or-643211.html
"No specific threat." Fantastic. Don't you feel safer?
Probably best not to speculate as to what my reaction would be if "feds and local law enforcement" tried to search my car with no cause.
"No specific threat." Fantastic. Don't you feel safer?
Probably best not to speculate as to what my reaction would be if "feds and local law enforcement" tried to search my car with no cause.
Sep 28, 2010, 9:30 pm
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They gots a shiny gold badge and you don't. Welcome to Amerika.
Wait until there are nude-o-scopes at the grocery store. 
Yep, the highway checkpoints I always said would show up. The sad part is the same people are willing to "do anything for safety" when it comes to airports and train stations will say the same about highway roadblocks. The worst part is many will probably be jump at a chance to register their travel plans and submit to random searches on the street. But hey, we're all safer right?
Sep 28, 2010, 10:08 pm
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What exactly has this "show of force" done beyond impeding interstate commerce? If I was an OTR truck driver paid by miles driven, not time on the road, I would be seriously PO'd. Great job, TSA, on alienating another demographic when you need it least.
Sep 28, 2010, 10:18 pm
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I hope they are the recipients of a few airmail "trucker bombs". 
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Sep 28, 2010, 10:58 pm
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Sep 29, 2010, 6:49 am
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The jackboots and their apologists aren't going to give it back easily. Every day, they take more and more of it away and give proof of the following: while the filthy totalitarians of the late 1930s and early 1940s are dead, their ways live on and are conquering America several decades later.
What a shame that all of our dedicated opposition to madness abroad hasn't stopped the madness from taking root at home.
What a shame that all of our dedicated opposition to madness abroad hasn't stopped the madness from taking root at home.
Sep 29, 2010, 8:55 am
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