Privacy Group Sues Big Sis Over Secretive Mobile Body Scanners

Steve Watson
Infowars.com
May 26, 2011

Previously released Federal documents show that the Department of Homeland Security is actively moving to install radiation firing naked body scanners in all manner of public places, beyond the nation’s airports. However, the agency is refusing to release further details on the program.

Privacy watchdog EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) filed a lawsuit this week against the Department of Homeland Security for attempting to keep the program secret.

EPIC’s suit asks a federal court to order disclosure of nearly 1,000 pages of additional records detailing the controversial program – records the agency has repeatedly refused to make public, despite freedom of information requests and appeals over the last seven months.

The lawsuit points to an agency under the DHS umbrella, the Science and Technology Directorate, which has released only 15 full pages of documents on the mobile scanners, whilst heavily redacting another 158 pages and withholding 983 pages of documents.

In February, EPIC discovered (PDF) that the DHS had paid contractors “millions of dollars on mobile body scanner technology that could be used at railways, stadiums, and elsewhere” on crowds of moving people.

According to the documents obtained by EPIC, the Transport Security Agency plans to expand the use of these systems to peer under clothes and inside bags away from airports.

The documents include a “Surface Transportation Security Priority Assessment” [PDF] which revealed details of conducting risk assessments and possible implementation of body scanners in “Mass transit, commuter and long-distance passenger rail, freight rail, commercial vehicles (including intercity buses), and pipelines, and related infrastructure (including roads and highways), that are within the territory of the United States.”

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The DHS maintains that it has discontinued the program, but has yet to provide the proof.

EPIC also notes that the DHS has actively deployed “mobile body scanner technology in vans that are able to scan other vehicles while driving down public roadways.”

“These vans, known as ‘Z Backscatter Vans,’ are capable of seeing through vehicles and clothing and routinely store the images that they generate.” EPIC’s lawsuit notes.

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As we reported last year, while the focus remained on the TSA’s use of naked body scanners at airports, the feds had already purchased hundreds of x-ray scanners mounted in vans that were being used to randomly scan vehicles, passengers and homes in complete violation of the 4th amendment and with wanton disregard for any health consequences.

WSBTV reported on once instance of the mobile scanners being used to check trucks for explosive devices at an internal checkpoint set up by Homeland Security, the Department of Transportation, and the TSA. Officials admitted there was no specific threat that justified the checkpoint, and although it was labeled a “counter-terror operation,” the scans were also being conducted in the name of “safety”.

As Texas attempts to fight back against TSA airport tyranny, many travelers are unaware of the fact that the TSA and Big Sis are now roaming neighborhoods and highways with the same invasive technology.

EPIC hopes to fully bring this information into the public domain and should be commended for doing so.

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Steve Watson is the London based writer and editor for Alex Jones’ Infowars.net, and Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham in England.

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Peter Fonda Issues Threat Against Obama: Is There a DHS Double Standard?

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
May 24, 2011

Is actor Peter Fonda on a terror watch list now that he has called for the murder of Obama? Is it possible Rep. Peter King, the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, will include Fonda in his investigation into domestic terrorism? Has the FBI pulled Fonda aside like it has less famous political activists and asked him if he plans to engage in terrorist activity?

On Sunday, the Telegraph reported Fonda had made a round-about threat while attending the Cannes film festival in France. “I’m training my grandchildren to use long-range rifles,” said Fonda. “For what purpose? Well, I’m not going to say the words ‘Barack Obama,’ but …”

The actor, famous for his portrayal of the hippie biker Captain America in the 1969 film “Easy Rider,” said “we are heading for a major conflict between the haves and the have nots. I came here many years ago with a biker movie and we stopped a war. Now, it’s about starting the world. “

On May 18, the Telegraph reported that Fonda called Obama a traitor for the role he played in the BP oil disaster. “I sent an email to President Obama saying, ‘You are a f—— traitor,’ using those words… ‘You’re a traitor, you allowed foreign boots on our soil telling our military — in this case the coastguard – what they can and could not do, and telling us, the citizens of the United States, what we could or could not do’.”

Fonda is a producer of “The Big Fix,” billed as an environmental documentary about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The film concentrates on “the deep-rooted connection between the environmental crisis and the economic crisis,” according to its director, environmental activist and documentary filmmaker Josh Tickell.

“We are taking on the oil companies, the U.S. government, the military and the banks,” Tickell told The Hollywood Reporter. “And we are exposing something that the U.S. media didn’t cover… So there is a danger.”

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No indication yet if that danger comes from the government, the FBI, and the Department of Homeland Security.

In 2010, a report issued by the DHS pinpointed the patriot movement, Second Amendment advocates, opponents of an open border, and returning veterans as the preeminent threat to the government, not environmentalists. The DHS, however, has not completely ignored leftists – it issued a similar report warning about the threat posed by extremists on the so-called left.

Is it possible the government does not consider Fonda and co-producer Tim Robbins as a serious threat to the established order because the environmental movement is by and large a creation of the globalists and their foundations?

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If not for the largess of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Turner Foundation and assorted other foundations, the modern environmental movement would be an ignored fringe political movement. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the small but influential Rockefeller Family Fund operate the Environmental Grantmakers Association, one of the central guiding agencies for the global green movement.

Fonda and Tickell may rage against Obama and the bankers, but their screed fits nicely in the larger anti-capitalist movement directed and funded by the globalists in order to introduce their eugenics concepts of population reduction and the so-called rewilding of North America, in essence a dismantling of civilization under the aegis of saving the earth.

Peter Fonda will likely be allowed to issue indirect threats against the president without serious repercussions. If, on the other hand, a member of Oath Keepers, WeAreChange, or any other patriot organization not part of the left coddled and orchestrated by the elite, unwisely did likewise the FBI would be at their doorstep and the NSA cataloging and scrutinizing their phone calls, email and web destinations.

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It is Now a Tradition: Government Militarizes Super Bowl

It is Now a Tradition: Government Militarizes Super Bowl

 

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
February 3, 2011

The government says there is no specific threat to the Super Bowl this weekend in Arlington, Texas. On the other hand, it warns that al-Qaeda “and other similar groups remain interested in carrying out attacks during such high-profile events,” according to the Associated Press. Examples provided include the 1972 and 1996 Olympic games in Munich and Atlanta.

“Tight security around the massive Cowboys Stadium is likely to deter attacks at the actual event. However, this makes other less secure targets, such as nearby hotels and restaurants, more appealing for determined terrorists, according to a government intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press. One concern would be a device exploding at local businesses or parking lots.”

If the track record of al-Qaeda is any indication, the public has little to worry about. The underwear and Times square bombers were dismal failures. In numerous other cases, the FBI was responsible for motivating dim-witted patsies who posed absolutely no threat to the public but were depicted by the corporate media as insidious terrorists bent on murder and mayhem.

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The Super Bowl is merely another high profile event exploited by the government in order to acclimate the public into accepting troops on the streets and the militarization of local cops, firefighters, and first responders.

Posse Comitatus is now officially dead. The distinction between local police and emergency workers and the U.S. Army no longer exists. The DHS “see something, say something” program encourages average Americans to rat out their fellow citizens.

“For the second year, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano visited the host city to tour the Super Bowl stadium and review the NFL’s security plans. The federal government designates the Super Bowl as a Level One security event, which makes more money and resources available to secure the area,” reports the Associated Press. “During a news conference Monday, officials urged people to report any suspicious activity.”

Last month the Department of Homeland Security’s “see something, say something” program resulted in the lockdown of a Montana Walmart after police received a report of an armed man acting erratically in the parking lot.

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“The individual was talking on a cell phone at the time of the incident. It’s likely that is the object the passerby identified as a gun,” the Kirksville Daily Express reported.

Wal-Mart Invasion Part of Larger DHS Takeover of America