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Training excercise startles locals (papers please, mein herr)
Daily Commercial ^
| 1/5/12
| MILLARD K. IVES | Staff Writer
Posted on 01/05/2012 9:36:10 AM PST by Nachum
It may have looked like they were ready for war or some deranged person looking for his late Social Security benefits.
But it was only Federal Protective Service officers with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security who were conducting a random training operation early Tuesday morning when they surprisingly showed up at the Social Security Administration office in downtown Leesburg.
With their blue and white SUVs circled around the Main Street office, at least one official was posted on the door with a semiautomatic rifle, randomly checking identifications. And other officers, some with K-9s, sifted through the building.
"I thought someone was upset about not getting there check," said Laura Kelly, who took a friend to the office on Tuesday.
According to one Homeland official in the Washington, D.C. office, Operation Shield. is an effort that uses routine, unannounced visits by FPS inspectors to test the effectiveness of contract guards, or protective security officers -- "detecting the presence of unauthorized persons and potentially disruptive or dangerous activities."
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: dhs; excercise; federalprotectivesvc; florida; fps; id; idcheck; k9; leesburg; locals; operationshield; resist; security; socialsecurity; startles; suv; thissucks; training; whatacrock
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To: sport
There is a message in everything these people do and say. Each thing they do, every word they utter has an ulterior purpose. And they have this forum riddled with judas goats as obama's law evidenced.
Back when Bush started pushing this DHS B.S. through in the wake of 9/11 and the Republicans in Congress were happy to write him a blank check, plenty of FReepers were warning folks and this wasn't a good idea in case a Democrat got in the White House.
Looks like the chickens have come home to roost.
To: af_vet_rr
Back when Bush started pushing this DHS B.S. through in the wake of 9/11......I got sick to my stomach!
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posted on
01/05/2012 1:22:07 PM PST
by
houeto
To: SoldierDad
What the hell is going on with this?
Welcome back Michael Rivero, we've missed you......Any further info on the fleet of white unmarked vans stored in a previously undisclosed area or the hidden internment camps scattered across the country?
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posted on
01/05/2012 1:43:01 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Naugahyde is no longer available due to the Naugas being hunted to extinction.....)
To: Hot Tabasco
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posted on
01/05/2012 2:22:13 PM PST
by
SoldierDad
(Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
To: af_vet_rr
You are correct. I got fooled into supporting that.But fool me onec, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I heard it said,”They can’t do ______[fill in blank]. The fact of the matter is that they can do as they damn well please. Power is power. I no longer trust any of them.
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posted on
01/05/2012 2:23:43 PM PST
by
sport
To: SoldierDad
Elucidate please!
Michael Rivero was/is a FReeper.......welcome back.
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posted on
01/05/2012 3:08:52 PM PST
by
Hot Tabasco
(Naugahyde is no longer available due to the Naugas being hunted to extinction.....)
To: Hot Tabasco
I have no idea of whom you speak. If you are suggesting this Michael Rivero individual and I are the same person, you are off your meds.
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posted on
01/05/2012 3:23:43 PM PST
by
SoldierDad
(Proud dad of an Army Soldier currently deployed in the Valley of Death, Afghanistan)
To: All
Have you ever heard of a, “law” enforcement agency conducting “training exercise” in a public building, while that building is being used by the public? Wonder who is really getting the training? HS or the citizens? Why use an SS building? Maybe because disabled and senior citizens are more likely to comply?
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posted on
01/05/2012 4:15:08 PM PST
by
redreno
(Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
To: 556x45
NDAA? Don’t show ID, we arrest you as suspected terrorist?
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posted on
01/05/2012 4:26:03 PM PST
by
tbw2
To: sport
“Power is power I no longer trust any of them” Good for you now you are learning .
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posted on
01/05/2012 5:05:05 PM PST
by
Nebr FAL owner
(.308 reach out & thump someone .50 cal.Browning Machine gun reach out & crush someone)
To: All
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posted on
01/05/2012 5:33:01 PM PST
by
deks
("...the battle of our time is the battle of liberty against the overreach of the federal government")
To: deks
Disgusting and what are these new SUV’s that say Federal Police? Anyone seen these around?
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posted on
01/05/2012 5:46:06 PM PST
by
mojitojoe
(SCOTUS.... think about that when you decide to sit home and pout because your candidate didn't win)
To: Travis McGee; Las Vegas Ron
What right do they have to check ID? I highly doubt that old man in that picture was terrorist suspect. Well, maybe he was, he was white and did have white hair.
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posted on
01/05/2012 5:47:58 PM PST
by
mojitojoe
(SCOTUS.... think about that when you decide to sit home and pout because your candidate didn't win)
To: Las Vegas Ron; manc
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posted on
01/05/2012 5:49:32 PM PST
by
mojitojoe
(SCOTUS.... think about that when you decide to sit home and pout because your candidate didn't win)
To: Las Vegas Ron
got this earlier off Joe and told him about an SUV I saw that was driving through my area of which I drove aside them.
It said federal police on the side now WTF is that crap?
Now this and what happened to the ATF turning up at Joes, .
There is something going on and this needs to get out as having armed feds at a SS checking peoples ID needs an investigation.
I’ve called my rep Mica and Proctor and Rubio plus the likes of Beck, talk radio and if Hannity could be a conservative for once then they need to mention this
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posted on
01/05/2012 6:21:06 PM PST
by
manc
(Marriage is between one man and one woman.Trolls get a life, I HATE OUR BIASED LIBERAL MEDIA.)
To: manc
The local newspaper’s article that is linked at the top of this thread is now on Drudge Report (right column-scroll down).
That could definitely get Rush Limbaugh’s attention (you can see the Drudge Report on his computer monitor in his video broadcast).
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posted on
01/05/2012 6:58:41 PM PST
by
deks
("...the battle of our time is the battle of liberty against the overreach of the federal government")
To: deks
"With their blue and white SUVs circled around the Main Street office, at least one official was posted on the door with a semiautomatic rifle, randomly checking identifications." (I wonder how the reporter knows it's a semiautomatic and not an automatic rifle?)
This is what their vehicles look like...
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posted on
01/05/2012 7:36:46 PM PST
by
deks
("...the battle of our time is the battle of liberty against the overreach of the federal government")
To: deks
that’s like the SUV I saw in my town a couple of weeks ago.
Who the hell are they as we had never seen them before?
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posted on
01/06/2012 6:46:40 AM PST
by
manc
(Marriage is between one man and one woman.Trolls get a life, I HATE OUR BIASED LIBERAL MEDIA.)
To: manc
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posted on
01/06/2012 11:59:50 AM PST
by
deks
("...the battle of our time is the battle of liberty against the overreach of the federal government")
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