We have lost huge amouts of freedom in the last 10 years. We are under unprecedented surveillance. It literally exceeds what the Stasi ever succeeded in gathering. They capture almost everything you do electronically.
They passed NDAA saying that the military has the right to arrest an American, in America, and hold them without any legal recourse as long as they want if they think they “aid terror”. (such as writing something pro constitution)
TSA is now in the testing and planning stage of using VIPR team checkpoints randomly on the highways.
All of this is done in the name of “terrorism”. The hallmark of every totalitarian is convincing the population that enemies lurk in every direction. This justifies their measures to watch and control the people. Looking for enemies.
Preventing the next 9/11 you say? Then ill ask you if that is a concern, why in the middle of protecting us from terror, we have opened the floodgates for moslems from Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, all over Africa, etc?
The closest terrorists we have are the Mexican cartels. So why are we plying them with thousands of assault rifles and throwing the borders wide open? In the decade where we have been looking for terror in every food cart, we let 15 million 3rd worlders cross the southern border.
Thats quite a disconnect there.
Not to mention we are giving billions of dollars and weapons to the Muslim Brotherhood. They are only the largest ideological home base to terror on earth.
Yes, it is time to start ridiculing the constant search for terrorists. The answer to terror is not to tighten the screws on Americans, it’s to B-52 the snot out of anybody remotely involved with an attack on us (including the Saudis) Let them be terrorized and police themselves.
And as this “wheres the terrorist” mentality continues, how long will it take them to decide, “only terrorists need assault rifles”?
I hear you on lots of freedom issues, but I tell you these trucks aren’t the place to take a stand.
Most of the guys operating them aren’t Americans anyway.
I’m fine with permitting the trucks as long as there’s security checks on them and, as this document suggests, the right authorities are considering the possibilities with them. Probably turn up some useful terrorism links just researching the background on these guys.
And you’re confounding federal policies with the City of NY looking out for itself.