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Government Tests Limits of Americans Tolerance in Emerging Police State
VIPR  Searches and the Amercan Citizen: 'Dominate. Intimidate. Control'

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By John W. Whitehead

The transition to a police state will not come about with a dramatic coup d’etat, with battering rams and marauding militia. As we have experienced first-hand in recent years, it will creep in softly, one violation at a time, until suddenly you find yourself being subjected to random patdowns and security sweeps during your morning commute to work or quick trip to the shopping mall.

Perhaps you have yet to experience the particular thrill, and I use that word loosely, of being manhandled by government agents, having your personal possessions pawed through, and your activities and associations scrutinized. If so, not to worry. It’s only a matter of time before more and more Americans will experience such a military task force knocking at their door. Only, chances are that it won’t be a knock, and they might not even be at home when government agents decide to “investigate” them. Indeed, as increasing numbers of Americans are discovering, these so-called “soft target” security inspections are taking place whenever and wherever the government deems appropriate, at random times and places, and without needing the justification of a particular threat. Worse, not only is this happening with the blessing of the Obama administration but at its urging.

What I’m describing–something that was once limited to authoritarian regimes–is only possible thanks to an unofficial rewriting of the Fourth Amendment by the courts that essentially does away with any distinctions over what is “reasonable” when it comes to searches and seizures by government agents. The rationale, of course, is that anything is “reasonable” in the war on terrorism. And by constantly pushing the envelope and testing the limits of what Americans will tolerate, the government is thus able to ratchet up the level of intrusiveness that Americans consider reasonable.

The latest test of our tolerance comes from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the same agency that continues to make headlines with its intrusive airport searches of travelers. Thanks to TSA Chief John Pistole’s determination to “take the TSA to the next level,” there will soon be no place safe from the TSA’s groping searches. Only this time, the “ritualized humiliation” is being meted out by the Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) task forces, comprised of federal air marshals, surface transportation security inspectors, transportation security officers, behavior detection officers and explosive detection canine teams.

At a cost of $30 million in 2009, VIPR relies on 25 teams of agents, in addition to assistance from local law enforcement agencies as well as immigration agents. And as a sign of where things are headed, Pistole, himself a former FBI agent, wants to turn the TSA into a “national-security, counterterrorism organization, fully integrated into U.S. government efforts.” To accomplish this, Pistole has requested funding for an additional 12 teams for fiscal year 2012, bringing VIPR’s operating budget close to $110 million.

VIPR is the first major step in the government’s effort to secure so-called “soft” targets such as malls, stadiums, bridges, etc. In fact, some security experts predict that checkpoints and screening stations will eventually be established at all soft targets, such as department stores, restaurants, and schools. Given the virtually limitless number of potential soft targets vulnerable to terrorist attack, subjection to intrusive pat-downs and full-body imaging will become an integral component of everyday life in the United States. As Jim Harper of the Cato Institute observed, “The natural illogic of VIPR stings is that terrorism can strike anywhere, so VIPR teams should search anywhere.”

For now, under the pretext of protecting the nation’s infrastructure (roads, mass transit systems, water and power supplies, telecommunications systems, and so on) against criminal or terrorist attacks, these VIPR teams are being deployed to do random security sweeps of nexuses of transportation, including ports, railway and bus stations, airports, ferries and subways. VIPR teams are also being deployed to elevate the security presence at certain special events such as the Democratic National Convention.

Incredibly, in the absence of any viable threat, VIPR teams–roving SWAT teams, with no need for a warrant–have conducted 8,000 such searches in public places over the past year. These raids, conducted at taxpayer expense on average Americans going about their normal, day-to-day business, run the gamut from the ridiculous to the abusive.

The question that must be asked, of course, is who exactly is the TSA trying to target and intimidate? Not would-be terrorists, given that scattershot pat-down stings are unlikely to apprehend or deter terrorists. In light of the fact that average citizens are the ones receiving the brunt of the TSA’s efforts, it stands to reason that we’ve become public enemy number one. And how does the TSA deal with perceived threats? Its motto, posted at the TSA’s air marshal training center headquarters in the wake of 9/11, is particularly telling: “Dominate. Intimidate. Control.”

Those three words effectively sum up the manner in which the government now relates to its citizens, making a travesty of every democratic ideal our representatives spout so glibly and reinforcing the specter of the police state. After all, no government that truly respects or values its citizens would subject them to such intrusive, dehumanizing, demoralizing, suspicionless searches. Yet by taking the TSA’s airport screenings nationwide with VIPR and inserting the type of abusive authoritarianism already present in airports into countless other sectors of American life, the government is expanding the physical and psychological scope of the police state apparatus.

VIPR activities epitomize exactly the kind of farcical security theater the government has come to favor through its use of coded color alerts and other largely superficial yet meaningless maneuvers. It’s an ingenious plan: the incremental ratcheting-up of intrusive searches (VIPR searches are not yet widespread), combined with the gradual rollout of VIPR teams permits the normalization of TSA activities while inciting minimal resistance, thereby muting dissent and enabling the ultimate implementation of totalitarian-style authoritarianism. And you can be sure that once VIPR has accrued a sufficient bureaucracy, it will be virtually impossible to eradicate.

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His new book The Freedom Wars (TRI Press) is available online at www.amazon.com. He can be contacted at johnw@rutherford.org. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org



Police to carry out on-the-spot fingerprinting in the street even for minor traffic offenses
  • Device can search 8.5million prints on national database
  • Forces insist fingerprints will NOT be retained
By Anna Edwards


Police are now armed with a device that can scan fingerprints so they can correctly identify suspects who lie about their details.


In what sounds like something out of George Orwell's dystopia 1984, suspects can now be finger printed in the street thanks to the new hand-held police gadget.


The mobile identification service scans a print, then checks it by trawling through a national database for the details.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021074/Police-carry-spot-fingerprinting-street-just-seconds.html#ixzz1UX41DaOr
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Hand them over: The new gadget will test fingerprints against a huge database

But police insist they do not retain the print afterwards.

The device is about the size of a mobile phone and allows police to read the fingerprint of an index finger.

It can search 8.5million prints on the database in two minutes.

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Operational officers justify the device with their argument that many people stopped for moving traffic offences offer false details initially - so the new device will help police detect who is telling the truth about their identity.

The database holds prints from people who have been convicted or who are involved in police investigations.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021074/Police-carry-spot-fingerprinting-street-just-seconds.html#ixzz1UX51oa7N
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Checking up: Despite the police insisting they will not retain the information, campaigning groups argue they have no legal right to ask for fingerprints

The device has been in use in Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire for the last four weeks but it has now been officially launched across the country.

Detective Inspector Gary Etherington of Cambridgeshire said: 'Identification is crucial to police investigations and ensures offenders do not evade justice.

  TODAY'S POLL   Should police be allowed to carry out on-the-spot fingerprinting?

  No   Yes All polls 'Giving officers the ability to do this on-the-spot, usually within a few seconds, could save a huge amount of time which would be wasted taking people to a police station to confirm identities.

'This will give officers more time to spend working in their communities, helping to fight crime, bring more offenders to justice and better protect the public.'

But critics say the device is unnecessary and 'effectively and extension of police powers'.

Guy Herbert, general secretary of NO2ID,  a group which campaigns against national databases, said: 'There are two things wrong with this.

'One is that we even have a database in the first place, where police can check valuable things about you.

'Two is that you have to voluntarily give your prints, but people will feel pressure to give them, even though there is no legal basis for it.

'It will make people feel like criminals.'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2021074/Police-carry-spot-fingerprinting-street-just-seconds.html#ixzz1UX5Z2MDO

Can Feds track the GPS of every American?

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The Supreme Court today began talks over what legalities could exist to allow authorities to secretly track global positioning system devices on everyday Americans. Is it a haunting transformation into an Orwellian society?

Pending their verdict, it very well could be

“You could tomorrow decide that you put a GPS device on every one of our cars, follow us for a month; no problem under the Constitution?" Chief Justice John Robertsuld asked to a government lawyer in Washington DC this week. Should the court come to a consensus that would allow for such action, that could very certainly be the future of America.

“It shows how far we’ve come,” radio host Alex Jones told RT. Only five years ago, he said, President George W Bush was falsely denying the authorities were monitoring phone calls of Americans. Only one administration later, however, the American judicial system is identifying ways to legalize constant surveillance over every American.

Up for debate exactly is whether the government could monitor GPS-systems in cars and elsewhere in order to keep track of the actions of Americans. The ruling would limit surveillance to public places — which would more or less mean the only haven for most would be their own residences. The case has escalated in the years since 2005 when Antoine Jones, a suspected drug dealer, was bugged with a GPS device by Washington DC police. They monitored his movements for a month before bringing charges against him which ended with a life sentence — until, that is, a federal appeals court overruled the decision. The surveillance was conducted for four weeks on Jones without authorities ever obtaining a warrant.

Now, however, the Obama administration is challenging that ruling in a decision which could keep the feds’ eyes all over America with no warrant whatsoever.

According to the US Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated."

The Obama administration seems adamant to make such surveillance legal, but some Supreme Court judges and throngs of Americans are quick to point out the problems with the notion.

Justice Antonin Scalia clearly sees what violations would erupt of the president has his way. "When that device is installed against the will of the owner of the car, that is unquestionably a trespass … an unreasonable search and seizure,” said Scalia.

"If you win this case then there is nothing to prevent the police or the government from monitoring 24 hours a day the public movement of every citizen of the United States. … So if you win, you suddenly produce what sounds like '1984'," Justice Stephen Breyer commented.

To RT, Alex Jones added that this is just only the latest maneuver to keep the government’s presence on the citizens of America never-ending. He points to federal TSA agents now on the highways of the country operating checkpoints and noted that “The FBI can’t randomly grope people’s genitals but the TSA does.”

“They are the revolutionaries,” added Jones, “overthrowing our republic and replacing it with an Orwellian homeland.”

According to Jones, such surveillance is already widespread but carried out by corporations such as Facebook.

“We’re sold by Zuckerberg, by Schmitt of Google. Hey, don’t do something online if you don’t want the public to see it,”he said. “It’s just an attempt to overwhelm us and get in our face.”

Even outside of the private sector, Jones added that this is nothing new.

“I see court rulings where judges say don’t bring the Constitution in our courtrooms,” Jones said. “That is America!”

Jones continued that other nations across the country have implemented similar measured in order to rule the people. Those countries, he says, were the corrupt governments throughout history.

“I am living in something out of a third world dictator and it is getting worse by the minute,” Jones said.

“They want to feed on and gather intelligence against the general public to bring in tyranny,” he said, “When you are against the Bill of Rights and Constitution, you are against this republic that has been a shining light of freedom in this world.”

“I don’t think North Korea goes to this level,” he added.

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