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Police State USA: TSA Gestapo Empire
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
URL of this article:www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=22047
Global Research, November 23, 2010
It doesnt take a bureaucrat long to create an empire. John Pistole,
the FBI agent who took over the Transportation Security Administration
on July 1 told USA Today 16 days later that protecting trains and
subways from terrorist attacks will be as high a priority for him
as air travel.
It is difficult to imagine New Yorkers being porno-screened and
sexually groped on crowed subway platforms or showing up an hour
or two in advance for clearance for a 15 minute subway ride, but
once bureaucrats get the bit in their teeth they take absurdity to
its logical conclusion. Buses will be next, although it is even
more difficult to imagine open air bus stops turned into security
zones with screeners and gropers inspecting passengers before they
board.
Will taxi passengers be next? In those Muslim lands whose citizens
the US government has been slaughtering for years, favorite weapons
for retaliating against the Americans are car and truck bombs. How
long before Pistole announces that the TSA Gestapo is setting up
roadblocks on city streets, highways and interstates to check cars
for bombs? That 15 minute trip to the grocery store then becomes
an all day affair.
Indeed, it has already begun. Last September agents from Homeland
Security, TSA, and the US Department of Transportation, assisted
by the Douglas County Sheriffs Office, conducted a counter-terrorism
operation on busy Interstate 20 just west of Atlanta, Georgia.
Designated VIPER (Visible Inter-mobile Prevention and Response),
the operation required all trucks to stop to be screened for bombs.
Federal agents used dogs, screening devices, and a large drive-through
bomb detection machine. Imagine what the delays did to delivery
schedules and truckers bottom lines.
There are also news reports of federal trucks equipped with backscatter
X-ray devices that secretly scan cars and pedestrians.
With such expensive counter-terrorism activities, both in terms of
the hard-pressed taxpayers money and civil liberties, one would
think that bombs were going off all over America. But, of course,
they arent. There has not been a successful terrorist act since
9/11, and thousands of independent experts doubt the governments
explanation of that event.
Subsequent domestic terrorist events have turned out to be FBI sting
operations in which FBI agents organize not-so-bright disaffected
members of society and lead them into displaying interest in
participating in a terrorist act. Once the FBI agent, pretending
to be a terrorist, succeeds in prompting all the right words to be
said and captured on his hidden recorder, the terrorists are arrested
and the plot exposed.
The very fact that the FBI has to orchestrate fake terrorism proves
the absence of real terrorists.
If Americans were more thoughtful and less gullible, they might
wonder why all the emphasis on transportation when there are so
many soft targets. Shopping centers, for example. If there were
enough terrorists in America to justify the existence of Homeland
Security, bombs would be going off round the clock in shopping malls
in every state. The effect would be far more terrifying than blowing
up an airliner.
Indeed, if terrorists want to attack air travelers, they never need
to board an airplane.
All they need to do is to join the throngs of passengers waiting
to go through the TSA scanners and set off their bombs. The TSA has
conveniently assembled the targets.
The final proof that there are no terrorists is that not a single
neoconservative or government official responsible for the Bush
regimes invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and the Obama regimes
slaughters of Pakistanis, Yemenis, and Somalians has been assassinated.
None of these Americans who are responsible for lies, deceptions,
and invasions that have destroyed the lives of countless numbers
of Muslims have any security protection. If Muslims were capable
of pulling off 9/11, they are certainly capable of assassinating
Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, Libby, Condi Rice, Kristol,
Bolton, Goldberg, and scores of others during the same hour of the
same day.
I am not advocating that terrorists assassinate anyone. I am just
making the point that if the US was as overrun with terrorists as
empire-building bureaucrats pretend, we would definitely be
experiencing dramatic terrorist acts. The argument is not believable
that a government that was incapable of preventing 9/11 is so
all-knowing that it can prevent assassination of unprotected neocons
and shopping malls from being bombed.
If Al Qaeda was anything like the organization that the US government
claims, it would not be focused on trivial targets such as passenger
airliners. The organization, if it exists, would be focused on its
real enemies. Try to imagine the propaganda value of terrorists
wiping out the neoconservatives in one fell swoop, followed by an
announcement that every member of the federal government down to
the lowest GS, every member of the House and Senate, and every
governor was next in line to be bumped off.
This would be real terrorism instead of the make-belief stuff
associated with shoe bombs that dont work, underwear bombs that
independent experts say could not work, and bottled water and shampoo
bombs that experts say cannot possibly be put together in airliner
lavatories.
Think about it. Would a terror organization capable of outwitting
all 16 US intelligence agencies, all intelligence agencies of US
allies including Israels Mossad, the National Security Council,
NORAD, air traffic control, the Pentagon, and airport security four
times in one hour put its unrivaled prestige at risk with improbable
shoe bombs, shampoo bombs, and underwear bombs?
After success in destroying the World Trade Center and blowing up
part of the Pentagon, it is an extraordinary comedown to go after
a mere airliner. Would a person who gains fame by knocking out the
world heavyweight boxing champion make himself a laughing stock by
taking lunch money from school boys?
TSA is a far greater threat to Americans than are terrorists. Pistole
has given the finger to US senators and representatives, state
legislators, and the traveling public who have expressed their views
that virtual strip searches and sexual molestation are too high a
price to pay for security. Indeed, the TSA with its Gestapo attitude
and methods, is succeeding in making Americans more terrified of
the TSA than they are of terrorists.
Make up your own mind. What terrifies you the most. Terrorists,
who in all likelihood you will never encounter in your lifetime,
or the TSA that you will encounter every time you fly and soon,
according to Pistole, every time you take a train, a subway, or
drive in a car or truck?
Before making up your mind, consider this report from antiwar.com
on November 19: TSA officials say that anyone refusing both the
full body scanners and the enhanced pat down procedures will be
taken into custody. Once there the detainees will not only be barred
from flying, but will be held indefinitely as suspected terrorists
. . . One sheriffs office said they were already preparing to handle
a large number of detainees and plan to treat them as terror suspects.
Who is cowing Americans into submission, terrorists or the TSA
Gestapo?
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