Posted on 02/14/2003 10:17:44 AM PST by swarthyguy
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:09:07 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON -- Critical industries and key infrastructure should take steps to guard against potential terrorist attacks, including checking for possible infiltrators among employees, according to a new government warning.
The FBI and the National Infrastructure Protection Center said in the bulletin that security routines should be varied and officials should think back to unusual incidents that might indicate they are being targeted.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Situation much worse if even longterm employees are considered critical threats and worthy of suspicion.
The counterterrorism folks must be very unsure about the trustworthiness of even long term residents and certain citizens of the USA when such a sweeping, across the board warning is sent to employers.
Sounds to me the threat is huge. And in our midst.
Watch out for all the flower and chocolate delivery guys today, eh?
Notice the story is on page A34. I think it's more deserving of a prominent placement.
I am confused. The only way employers can "check for possible infiltrators among employees" is by using some form of profiling, but if they use profiling of any kind they will be sued.
How exactly can this be complied with?
That's why the TSA has all those screeners at every airport in the country.
As soon as the first firecracker goes off in a shopping mall they will be able to deploy them to every mall in the entire country.
Within a few months the welfare rolls will be empty because all the high school dropouts will have full employment as minimum-wage Gestapo, and you will have to undergo a strip-search to enter a Starbuck's.
Not if you know what you're doing...... ;-)
Change the word "dramatic" to "draconian" and I will readily agree.
No. It's because the statists have perceived an opportunity to destroy freedom that is too tempting to resist.
The mythical "freedom versus security" tradeoff is a false choice.
The 911 attacks did not occur because Americans have too much freedom.
They occurred because terrorists were able to gain access to the cockpits of hijacked aircraft.
Instead of retrofitting all commercial aircraft with doors which could actually be used to keep terrorists out of cockpits, Washington created an Orwellian monster named the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and hired tens of thousands of minimum-wage Gestapo to root through the underwear of airline passengers and arrest/prosecute those who object.
Simply setting foot in an airport is now considered to be a terrorist act.
The fact that the TSA created a national airport police force without ever addressing the cockpit-door scandal is damning evidence that their mandate has nothing to do with protecting anyone.
The true purpose of the TSA is to turn America into a police state.
Airports are the incubators.
The statists want to condition us to accept the idea that probable cause is dead and they can search our houses, our hard drives and our persons and demand to see our papers at any time.
After Patriot Act II, there will be Patriot Act III, IV, V, VI and on and on until "freedom" is considered to be an archaic, obsolete concept that only a wacko would be concerned about
ANTI-TERROR ÜBER ALLES
Thorough security in sensitive sectors should be implemented for reasons in addition to the threat from terrorism.
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