Trash collectors to serve as eyes and ears in the street for police

During the George W. Bush's term in office, every liberal became outraged that certain wiretapping was conducted in the USA without a warrant. Currently, I haven't heard a peep from anyone criticizing Obama, who gave the FBI a broader authority to look at the trash you throw out once a week. Only a paranoid thin-skinned fool, who is currently sitting in the White House, could have thought this up. I think the word "ruler" has become Obama's path to be a dictator of this great nation.

(MSNBC) Waste Management workers are out and about when almost everyone else is not. Except someone who might be up to no good.

A former FBI agent recently trained all Waste Management drivers, helpers and technicians in Rensselaer and Albany Counties to act as a mobile community watch.

"They're on these routes every day so they're used to the normal situation so they are able to recognize a non-normal situation," explains Ken Bevis of Waste Management. Trucks are now armed with a cell phone, camera and incident reports so they'll have accurate information for police and, possibly, prosecutors.

Get Rid of TSA Director John Pistole Because there is a Solution

In light of the nightmare conducted by TSA employees, the Director John Pistole is adamant that security screening is here to stay. The inconvenience of removing our shoes, separating liquid into plastic bags, placing laptops and backpack in a separate tote is tolerable, but subjecting to harmful x'rays and physical grope-down is another story. There is a better way to travel, and it is not through pageantry. Most of the problem occurred outside this country by non-Americans and not from a passenger flying from Orlando to Los Angeles. Since pageantry is a must at the security checkpoint, it gives the passengers a false sense of security. In my personal travels, I see many TSA employees standing around looking official. Like every federal employee, it is the government expansion for job security.

The list below came via email. It gives a brilliant idea how security should be handled at the airports. These ideas would make TSA Director John Pistole's job obsolete. Finally, we no longer have to endure inefficient x'rays and intrusive pat down, ever!

The TSA Solution for Better Travel

1) Mass spectrometry devices: They're already in use at some secure federal facilities and are known for the blast of air they release in the detection process. Unlike the full-body scanners, these can detect bomb materials in body cavities and leave little room for human error.

2) Intelligence-based assessments: The method the Israeli airline El-Al employs to keep terrorists off its planes. This requires personnel trained assessing a traveler's threat level through a series of questions designed to evoke emotion.

3) Profiling: The method most recently endorsed by columnist Charles Krauthammer in a Washington Post op-ed. "...95 percent of these inspections, searches, shoe removals and pat-downs are ridiculously unnecessary," he wrote. "The only reason we continue to do this is that people are too cowed to even question the absurd taboo against profiling -- when the profile of the airline attacker is narrow, concrete, uniquely definable and universally known. So instead of seeking out terrorists, we seek out tubes of gel in stroller pouches."

TSA Reached in Her Pants To Feel an ABC News Employees Junk

(ABC New.com) An ABC News employee said she was subject to a "demeaning" search at Newark Liberty International Airport Sunday morning.

"The woman who checked me reached her hands inside my underwear and felt her way around," she said. "It was basically worse than going to the gynecologist. It was embarrassing. It was demeaning. It was inappropriate."

That search was against protocols and "never" should have happened, TSA Administrator John Pistole told "Good Morning America" today.

"There should never be a situation where that happens," Pistole said. "The security officers are there to protect the traveling public. There are specific standard operating protocols which they are to follow."

In recent days, TSA purposely broke a urostomy bag of a passenger, made a flight attendant take off her prosthetic breast, and felt a shirtless boy's body. In all honesty, the director of TSA must resign his position. TSA Administrator John Pistole needs to prove to us that he doesn't have a pedophile, rapist, and bully mentality because such action we are enduring has gone too far. Pistole said there should never be a situation where that happens is a lie because it happened more than once. Just because it happened to an ABC News employee, Pistole finally admitted fault. MORON!

Homeland Security Lied to Us About Storage of Images, Health Safety, and High Resolution Revealing Everything

(Prison Planet.com) The Drudge Report today linked to a story by Gizmodo.com which highlights the fact that the TSA and Janet Napolitano’s assertion that the imaging machines cannot store, transmit or print images is not true.

The footage of images taken and stored by a full body imaging machine that have leaked online only tell part of the story as to why the machines constitute such a threat to privacy.

So clearly this story proves that the aforementioned claims of the TSA and Napolitano are outright lies, and that the American public therefore cannot trust the government’s pledge of privacy protection.

However, proponents of the technology may seize upon the fact that the leaked images show only fuzzy outlines of the people walking through the machines, thus bolstering an already debunked notion that the full body scanners do not show crisp detailed images of naked bodies.

“What’s the big deal here?” the wider public may be inclined to think after seeing the images.

It therefore should be reiterated that the leaked images are taken from a millimeter wave machine and not one of the x-ray backscatter machines. The two have roughly the same capabilities, but the majority of machines being implemented now in airports all over the country, and the world for that matter, are the more sophisticated backscatter devices, which produce images of a much higher resolution, revealing much more detail. As scientists have pointed out, these machines are also more of a health threat.

The group points to a further document (PDF) it has obtained from DHS showing that the machines used by the department’s TSA are not only able to record and store naked body images, but that they are mandated to do so.

It is impossible to believe anything coming from Janet Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security. In order not to cause a public panic, Napolitano lied to the American pulblic. In reality, TSA do store the body scan images, the picture is of higher resolution, revealing more detail, and the machines are a health threat.

Don't Let TSA Touch Your Crotch or Your Breast

(Chicago Tribune) When it comes to protecting against terrorism, this is how things usually go: A danger presents itself; the federal government responds with new rules that erode privacy, treat innocent people as suspicious and blur the distinction between life in a free society and life in a correctional facility; and we all tamely accept the new intrusions, like sheep being shorn.

The war on terrorism is going to get personal. Very personal. Americans have long resented the hassles that go with air travel ever since 9/11 — long security lines, limits on liquids, forced removal of footwear and so on. But if the Transportation Security Administration has its way, we will look back to 2009 as the good old days.

The agency is rolling out new full-body scanners, which eventually will replace metal detectors at all checkpoints. These machines replicate the experience of taking off your clothes, but without the fun. They enable agents to get a view of your body that leaves nothing to the imagination.

The new policy is being challenged in court by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which says it violates the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches. But don't expect judges to save us. Says Stanford University law professor Robert Weisberg, with resignation in his voice, "Airports are pretty much a Fourth Amendment-free zone."

The federal Government Accountability Office has said it "remains unclear" if the scanners would have detected the explosives carried by the would-be Christmas Day bomber.

They would also be useless against a terrorist who inserts a bomb in his rectum — like the al-Qaida operative who blew himself up last year in an attempt to kill a Saudi prince. Full-body scanning will sorely chafe many innocent travelers, while creating only a minor inconvenience to bloodthirsty fanatics.

Liberals really don't care to find out if there is a limit to the sacrifices of personal freedom in the name of fighting terrorism. They understand the harm to privacy is certain, but the benefit to public safety is not. But once we disregard the Constitution, we are no longer Americans. Liberal extremism leads toward a Marxist Regime.

Opt Out of a Body Scanner and Embarrass the TSA workers

There are reports of malicious activities with TSA workers using the body scanners at various airports. From poking fun at the passengers body parts to printing out the x-rays for personal use, the use a body scanner violates our privacy rights. I would rather get a full pat down than go through a body scanner. TSA is using an obtrusive way to make the passenger think twice before asking a pat down, and use the body scanner instead. It is likely that TSA is making the rigorous pat down as a deterrent.

If these TSA employees continue to belittle or embarrass these passengers, I would personally make it a point to embarrass them back. If they want to cup my private parts, I would moan to put the inspector in an embarrassing moment. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

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