Tag Archives: DHS
TSA violates 4th amendment and ushers in US police state
At Union Station on a recent morning, an armed squad of men and women dressed in bulletproof vests made their way through the crowds. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/us/tsa-expands-duties-beyond-airport-security.html?pagewanted=1&ref=us The squad was not with the Washington police department or Amtrak’s police force, but was one of the Transportation Security Administration’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response squads — VIPR […]
National identification law included in immigration bill
The sweeping immigration measure advancing rapidly in the Senate goes far beyond much-debated border security measures and a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants with a crucial requirement that could affect every American who takes a new job in the future. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/us/politics/bill-to-expand-us-database-to-verify-hires.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&hp The provision, a linchpin of the legislation, would require all employers in the […]
American sheeple clamor for police state
Americans overwhelmingly favor installing video surveillance cameras in public places, judging the infringement on their privacy as an acceptable trade-off for security. There are lingering questions about the role of the nation’s intelligence agencies before the recent attacks, with people divided about whether they had collected information that could have prevented them, 41 percent said […]
Dirty Babylon 