Homeland Security Fusion Centers say displaying any of these bumper stickers practically demands a SWAT team assault on the driver:
Posted on 10/03/2009 8:01:14 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's big city police chiefs are backing an anti-terrorism community watch program to educate people about what behavior is truly suspicious and ought to be reported to police.
Police Chief William Bratton of Los Angeles, whose department developed the iWATCH program, calls it the 21st century version of Neighborhood Watch.
Using brochures, public service announcements and meetings with community groups, iWATCH is designed to deliver concrete advice on how the public can follow the oft-repeated post-9/11 recommendation: "If you see something, say something." Program materials list nine types of suspicious behavior that should prompt people to call police.............
(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...
"..As historian Robert Gellately's analysis of the local offices established, the Gestapo was for the most part made up of bureaucrats and clerical workers who depended upon denunciations by ordinary Germans for their information..."
Coming to a community near you..
National Citizen Security Force, here we come
Many of the same folks who bristled at Bush’s 800-RAT-FINK
Seems to me that the practice of Islam should definitely be on the watch list.
Seems reasonable and common sense, we have a lot of people here of the Islamic faith now.
A new anti-terrorism community watch program, iWATCH, beginning this weekend in Los Angeles, advises the public that these nine suspicious signs should be reported to police:
—People drawing or measuring important buildings.
—Strangers asking questions about security or building security procedures.
—Briefcase, suitcase, backpack or package left behind.
—Cars or trucks left in “No Parking” zones in front of important buildings.
—Intruders in secure areas where they are not supposed to be.
—A person wearing clothes that are too big and too heavy for the weather.
—Chemical smells or fumes that worry you.
—Questions about sensitive information such as building blueprints, security plans or VIP travel schedules without a right or need to know.
—Purchasing supplies or equipment that can be used to make bombs or weapons or purchasing uniforms without having proper credentials.
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The iWATCH program advises people to be alert for those behaviors at these 12 important types of places:
—Government buildings.
—Religious facilities.
—Amusement parks.
—Sports/Entertainment venues.
—High-rise buildings.
—Mass-gathering locations — such as parades and fairs.
—Schools.
—Hotels.
—Theaters.
—Shopping malls.
—Bridges.
—Public transportation.
Actually, although when I saw the headline I was suspicious what they might mean by “terrorist,” what with Obama and Napolitano and all, this seems to make good sense as it’s presented.
Obama has virtually eliminated the word “terrorism” for Islamists, but I think there are still a lot of LEOs out there who know what the real threat is. And no doubt they are sitting up and taking notice at these recent stories in the news—and perhaps some back channel communications from the FBI.
Combine a Neighborhood Watch with the Second Amendment and we’ve got ... oh ... let’s call it a “militia” just for fun.
Funny how we never put those two concepts together ...
Homeland Security Fusion Centers say displaying any of these bumper stickers practically demands a SWAT team assault on the driver:
A few years ago people taking photographs of public buildings were also hassled. Tourist outrage got that canned.
What might be the nefarious reason for measuring, say, a church? Someone going to drop a slipcover upon it?
"—A person wearing clothes that are too big and too heavy for the weather."
That would include most homeless/drunks/panhandlers you see on the street and in other places the list is stupid.
"—Questions about sensitive information such as building blueprints, security plans or VIP travel schedules without a right or need to know.
—Purchasing supplies or equipment that can be used to make bombs or weapons or purchasing uniforms without having proper credentials."
DUH!
Eye Watch
Weird
AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHH
THE GEARS OF SATANIC TYRANNY ADVANCE . . . grinding all in their path.
Oh and not a peep about iWatch on the libertarian/left Electronic Freedom Foundation website (www.eff.org)
Most people don’t even know there is a mystic symbolism in the eye-on-a-pyramid figure. They just think it looks cool.
Cluelessness abounds
Particularly about the globalist tyranny building for so many many many decades . . . some say 400+ years via the same families.
DARPA playing with trouble and probably don’t even know it.
INDEED.
Though reportedly the upper ranks are initiated by buggering toddler boys ceremoniously.
satanic to the max, for sure.
“Program materials list nine types of suspicious behavior that should prompt people to call police....”
Fat person sweating, grunting and groaning while eating triple happy meal and wearing an SEIU T-shirt.
Does anyone have better ideas how to stop an individual or small cell from building backpack bombs or vests and deploying them at transportation nodes (like London and Madrid and, apparently, almost New York)? This article describes one FedGov approach, let’s see better ones put down here.
That kid in Norman, Oklahoma probably made some pungent stinks when he cooked up his batch of TATP for his backpack bomb.
And it’s still cloudy (probably to protect people) whether he poked around the stadium trying to get in.
Some of these items and no-brainer security questions, others depend on intent. I could be buying a police uniform, acetone, peroxide, swimming pool chemicals for a Halloween costume as a cop with painted fingernails and bleached hair, and the blueprint of this year’s Superbowl stadium because I like architecture. That acetone-acid stench? Stripping paint from an antique rocker.
Islamic terrorism is on the rise - these are common sense suggestions.
What is the “mystic symbolism”?
The “Police State Tactics” do NOT belong in the headline. This is a common sense group of suggestions to keep us safe.
Life is hard. I will write title on my threads as I see fit.
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