It makes me afraid for our civil liberties. From “Reich Here, Reich now,” posted by William Grigg on Lew Rockwell:
In a commercial republic — or a reasonably free society of any description — warfare of any kind should hardly be considered “routine.” This is particularly true of military deployments in a modern urban environment and training that seems suspiciously well-suited to scenarios involving economic collapse and massive social unrest. Those blessed with a capacity for healthy cynicism would suspect that the purpose of such military exercises is to train the public, rather than Special Forces operators — to acclimate the citizenry to the spectacle of helicopter gunships plying the skies above them.There is no ambiguity about the purpose of the TSA-supervised BUSSAFE initiative: It is geared entirely to the purpose of molding public opinion.
When heavily armed, black-clad figures began stalking bus and train stations in New Jersey on August 23, Transit Police Chief Christopher Trucillo explained that they hadn’t been deployed in response any specific threat. The VIPR teams — local police units supervised by agents from the Transportation Security Administration — were intended “to increase uniform police visibility. … Just to step on a bus and have somebody visually look in the bus, and have the folks on the bus see a police presence, and to give a sense of security to folks who use the bus daily.”
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A “Police Presence” On Buses Doesnt Make Me Feel Safe
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