The TSA has announced its intention to expand the VIPR program to include roadside
inspections of commercial vehicles, setting up a network of internal checkpoints and rolling out security
procedures already active in airports, bus terminals and subway stations to roads and highways across the United
States.
Truckers Inspected by V.I.P.R. teams
The TSA has announced its intention to expand the VIPR program to include roadside
inspections of commercial vehicles, setting up a network of internal checkpoints and rolling out security
procedures already active in airports, bus terminals and subway stations to roads and highways across the United
States.
Another look at the gear
Paul Joseph Watson Infowars.com September 29, 2010
Federal authorities do not
concern themselves about the flood of illegal immigrants and drugs crossing the border every day, they’re more
worried about radiating American truck drivers at internal checkpoints with mobile scanners that shoot dangerous
x-rays through both vehicles and passengers.
As we reported last month, the federal government has
acquired hundreds of backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans
that they are now using to randomly scan vehicles, passengers and homes in complete violation of the 4th amendment
and with wanton disregard for any health consequences.
An example of their expanding usewas reported by WSBTV
yesterday, after federal agents from several agencies, including Homeland
Security, the Department of Transportation, and the TSA, set up an internal checkpoint on Interstate 20 just west
of Atlanta and detained truck drivers for half an hour or more at a “state-owned inspection station” while they
were scanned with a bomb detection device.
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”.
Watch the videohere
“The Screening
Mobile Module”
Backscatter
x-ray vision devices mounted on trucks are already being deployed inside the
United States to scan passing individuals and vehicles in complete violation of the Fourth Amendment. Similar
to naked airport body scanners, the devices fire x-rays outwards which are then absorbed by dense objects or
the human body. Frequentexposure to low doses of radiation can cause cancer and birth
defects, according to a report by the Inter-Agency Committee on
Radiation Safety.
“Without a warrant, the government doesn’t have a right to peer beneath your clothes
without probable cause,” points out Marc Rotenberg, executive director of EPIC. “Even airport scans are
typically used only as a secondary security measure. If the scans can only be used in exceptional cases in
airports, the idea that they can be used routinely on city streets is a very hard argument to
make.”
As we have warned from the very beginning, everything you see being rolled out in
the airports is eventually designed to hit the streets as Americans become prisoners in their own communities,
constantly harassed, scanned and surveilled by an oppressive state.
Body and vehicle scanners are just one tool authorities plan to implement on a
widespread basis as part of our deepening decline into a hi-tech militarized police state.
Homeland Security is already implementing technology to be enforced at “security
events” which purportedly reads “malintent” on behalf of an individual who passes through a checkpoint. The video
below explains how “Future Attribute Screening Technology” (FAST) checkpoints will conduct “physiological” and
“behavioral” tests in order to weed out suspected terrorists and criminals.
The clip shows individuals who attend “security events” being led into trailers
before they are interrogated as to whether they are terrorists while lie detector-style computer programs analyze
their physiological responses. The subjects are asked about their whereabouts, and if they are attempting to
smuggle bombs or recording devices into the “expo,” proving that the technology is intended to be used at public
events and not just airports. Individuals who do not satisfy the first lie detector-style test are then asked
“additional questions”.
The implementation of ‘Checkpoint USA’, where citizens are routinely stopped,
searched and radiated by federal VIPER teams is further evidence of how America is crumbling into a Soviet-style
police state where the presumption of innocent until proven guilty is abolished and the 4th amendment
eviscerated.
Privacy organizations and civil rights lawyers need to activate immediately to
bring lawsuits against the federal government for unleashing this tyranny upon the American people as part of the
bid to create a chilling atmosphere that ends all dissent and makes the people fearful of their government as they
are made to prove they are not criminals or terrorists on a day to day basis while a high-tech slave pen is
constructed around their entire existence.
The Technology
Body Scanner Health Alert - Radiation Causes Cancer
Rapiscan Systems, Inc.
The company was recognized for its market leadership when
named by Frost & Sullivan as the 2008 North American Homeland Security
Inspection and Screening Company of the Year.
6/1/2010
Protecting Our Forces One of the most difficult
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These lethal and indiscriminate weapons pose a serious and continual threat to
defense forces and the safety and stability of local populations. Detecting IEDs and preventing their deadly
results is critical to the force protection and the local security missions of the armed forces.
Ajay Mehra, CEO of Rapiscan Systems,
Inc.
Since the beginning of
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Rapiscan has worked tirelessly to invent and deploy new, advanced
technologies specifically designed to detect IEDs and to operate reliably in the most extreme environments.
Defense forces that rely on Rapiscan equipment have been highly successful in attacking the IED threat, but
we know that the enemy continues to challenge us with new and more lethal threats.
In order to continually help defend and protect our
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Establish a strong deployed field service team to ensure Rapiscan
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Develop and deploy new “ruggedized” and relocateable systems allowing for
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With thousands of systems deployed around the world, we remain vigilant in
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Rapiscan Eagle M10– inspects
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agricultural products, weapons, and other contraband. The system is road-worthy, all weather and can be
operated in most countries without any specialized drivers licensing.
Rapiscan Eagle C02– performs
safe and effective inspection (less than five seconds) of occupied vehicles at sites such as border crossings
and facility entrances.
Rapiscan Secure 1000– built
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fast set-up and tear-down in one hour or less. The system is ideal for high security environments because both
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Rapiscan MobileCheck– a
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Baggage and Parcel Inspection, Cargo and Vehicle Inspection, Hold Baggage Screening and People
Screening.
Heading up the renewed push for those controversial,
clothes-penetrating scanners at airports is former homeland security secretaryMichael
Chertoff. His consulting firm represents companies who make the
scanners, but you wouldn't know it from reading the papers.
TheUnderpants
Bomber alerted the world to the possibility of terrorists putting
bombs in their underpants. So noweveryone is debating whether we should deploy
scanners which can see through clothes and show bombs nestled close to terrorists' nekkid bodies. Michael
Chertoff, who was Bush's homeland security secretary from 2005-2009, is a huge fan! Yesterday
hetold NPR:
A couple of years ago we began the process of testing them to see, first of
all, if they worked and second, if they could be deployed without unduly restricting the flow of traffic. And
the good news is that we were able to demonstrate that they were successful. We could use them without slowing
up traffic and we could also protect privacy.
But when Chertoff launched into his pitch for full-body scanners
onCampbell
Brown tonight, we learned that he is paid by the very companies
who make the penetrating devices:
Chertoff is a former homeland security secretary and the founder of the Chertoff Group, a
security consulting firm whose clients include manufacturers of full-body scanners.
In 2009, Chertoff founded
theChertoff
Group, a security consulting agency. The Chertoff Group's client list is
unknown—Chertoffrefused to talk about it in an interview—but he
admits in the clip above that some of his clients manufacture full-body scanners.
Yet when he appears inThe New York
Times,
The Washington Post, and onNPR to advocate for full-body scanning, Chertoff is
identified only as a former secretary of homeland security. No mention is made of the Chertoff Group. ("If they'd
been deployed, this would pick up this kind of device," he tells theTimes.) Did Chertoff 'forget' to tell reporters about
his connection to the industry he's pimping in their stories? It didn't look like he was about to volunteer the
information on Campbell Brown tonight. (Good catch, though, Campbell. We always knew there had to be some reason
you had your own show!)
So, here is a service to all you journalists working on upcoming articles about
full-body scanners, which will inevitably feature Chertoff playing the cheerleader. Feel free to copy this sentence
and paste it after Chertoff's name: Chertoff is a former homeland security secretary and the founder of
the Chertoff Group, a security consulting firm whose clients include manufacturers of full-body scanners.
NAKED BODY
SCANNERS
Mark Dice Challenges Michelle Obama To Prove Body
Scanners NoninvasiveAnd Safe
Infowars is set to commission a poll by a professional polling agency that will ask Americans if
they are willing to submit to a TSA anal cavity search in order to fly. We reckon a solid 10-20 per cent would say
yes. What other questions should be asked in order to illustrate how much indignity travelers will tolerate?
The logical conclusion of a new Harris poll is that one third of Americans actually want to be
slaves. We are in a lot of trouble and we're running out of time.
How could there be aWar on Terror and actually say that we're having
awar against terrorism, and leave the
borders wide open? If you were the President of the United States, or I were the President of the United States,
and9/11 really happened the way they
want us to believe it happened, the first thing you would do is shut down the borders, so people couldn't get in
the country to harm you. But they left the borders wide open. Becausethe bankers want the borders open, because they want
aone-world government. They
want a North American Union. They don't want borders
here.9/11 was only a manifestation.
It was done to create afear in the
American public, so that we willobey what they want us to do.