TSA Trains Super Bowl Hot Dog Sellers To Spot Terrorists
VIPR search teams to be out in force before Sunday’s big game
Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Friday, February 3, 2012
http://www.infowars.com/tsa-trains-super-bowl-hot-dog-sellers-to-spot-terrorists/
Despite acknowledging there are “no credible or specific threats” to the safety
of the 2012 Super Bowl in Indianapolis on Sunday, the TSA is training thousands
of fast food sellers to spot terrorists under the “First Observer” program.
“TSA said over 8,000 stadium vendors, parking lot attendants, shuttle bus
drivers, and other transportation professionals received the agency’s First
Observer training for detecting and assessing indicators and planning tactics
of potential terrorist activities,” reports Government Security News.
As we have previously reported, many of the behaviors characterized as
potential signs of terrorism by the TSA in its training procedures are mundane
activities performed by a majority of people, including using a video camera,
talking to police officers, wearing hoodies, driving vans, writing on a piece
of paper, and using a cell phone recording application.
The First Observer program has previously been used by the TSA on America’s
highways, most recently in Tennessee for the purpose of “bothering truck
drivers and passengers by subjecting their cargoes to exhaustive searches,” as
former Congressman Bob Barr wrote back in November.
Drivers were also recruited to become snitches under the auspices of “See
Something, Say Something,” as VIPR teams (Visible Intermodal Prevention and
Response) worked with the Tennessee Highway Patrol to oversee a process that
has been criticized as an alarming sign of internal checkpoints becoming
commonplace in America.
With Congress having recently given the green light to increase their funding,
VIPR teams, who conducted over 9300 unannounced checkpoints last year alone,
will also be very much in evidence at the Super Bowl this weekend.
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“According to TSA, Super Bowl fans may encounter TSA Visible Intermodal
Prevention and Response (VIPR) teams at local transportation venues, including
commercial and general aviation facilities and mass transit,” reports GSN.
VIPR’s presence at the big game again illustrates the expanding scope of the
deployment, under which TSA agents have been tasked with shaking down Americans
at everywhere from bus depots, to ferry terminals, to train stations, in one
instance conducting pat downs of passengers, including children, who had
already completed their journey when arriving in Savannah.
The TSA yesterday denied a report out of WPRI that full body scanners would be
used on fans entering the stadium, but reiterated that they would be in use at
the nearby airport and also made reference to other “security issues” being
coordinated with stadium venue security and local law enforcement.
Fans attending the game will be subject to a full body pat down and have been
warned that most items being brought into the Lucas Oil Stadium will be
confiscated.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the
author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The
Alex Jones Show and Infowars Nightly News.
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