[Vigilanteman]

More security theater to enforce the Obama Doctrine: Every citizen, a potential terrorist; every terrorist, a potential higher breed of citizen.

[no-to-illegals]

We don’t have to have more junk touched, do we?

[OneWingedShark]

Always remember to prostrate yourself before government agents:
Stop, Drop, and Cower
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[Mouton]

“Not everyone is happy.”

Not since the time of the Sheriff of Nottingham has anyone been less happy at having roving bands of the king’s men out roaming the countryside under the banner of enforcing the king’s laws. Does ANYONE actually think that a roaming band of heavily armed troops patroling the streets is going ot prevent some terror attack? If that were true, facilities in Vichy France would have had no sabotage. Well, we know how that worked out for the Nazi occupiers.

[Paladin2]

Maybe they just need Wiener training so they know how to run around holding their own junk.

[COBOL2Java]

Terrific. I take Union Station to get to work, now I have to deal with these Mall Cop rejects. Guess I have to find another way to commute.

[The Great RJ]

The very thought of TSA gumshoes being armed is scary.

[Uncle Miltie]

Because expensive bureaucratic incompetence at airports isn’t enough!

[PGR88]

We are creating for ourselves an extremely complex, and expensive system - trying to anticipate and eliminate every outlier event - whether it be in security, foreign affairs, economics, or society.

It will prove impossible and it won’t last.

[novemberslady]

As hundreds of commuters emerged from Amtrak and commuter trains at Union Station on a recent morning, an armed squad of men and women dressed in bulletproof vests made their way through the crowds

They're here from the government, and they're here to help.

Yep they're helping themselves...to everything.

[DTogo]

"the Transportation Security Administration’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response squads — VIPR teams for short"

So should Freedom-loving Americans start referring to themselves as a mongoose?

[Carry_Okie]

The squad was not with the Washington police department or Amtrak’s police force, but was one of the Transportation Security Administration’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response squads — VIPR teams for short — assigned to perform random security sweeps to prevent terrorist attacks at transportation hubs across the United States.

TSA exists because the bulk of air transportation is interstate.

“The T.S.A., huh,” said Donald Neubauer of Greenville, Ohio, as he walked past the squad. “I thought they were just at the airports.”

The moron ought to realize that TSA policing intrastate transportation is blatantly unconstitutional.

[Dead Corpse]

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/reading_list/indices/book_425.html

Vin’s “Lightning Squads” made real.

This is nothing a Free Country needs.

[GOPJ]

Your papers please....

[nfldgirl]

“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.” - Barack Obama 2008

[Vendome]

T.S.A. officials respond that the random searches are “special needs” or “administrative searches” that are exempt from probable cause because they further the government’s need to prevent terrorist attacks.

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They are creating supra authority outside the Constitution on vagaries.

[I want the USA back]

They say it’s to make us feel secure.

Actually, it’s to make us feel like sheep.

[Travis McGee]

[Dick Bachert]

TSA troopers like these will soon arrive in YOUR town/neighborhood to assure your complete safety.

[veracious]

There _is_ no Federal police power. This is/was well established until what? changed it?

Barely one person on even FR knows this or mentions it...