TSA to harass Americans on Busses too

Wednesday, 18 April 2012

The fondling of people's junk will no longer be exclusive to US airports only, Americans will experience TSA hands on their bus rides too.

A new program in Houston will place undercover TSA agents and police officers on buses whose job it will be to perform bag searches, watch for “suspicious activity” and interrogate passengers in order to ‘curb crime and terrorism’.

Democratic Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee unveiled the program, labeled Bus Safe, during a press conference on Friday. According to a Metropolitan Transit Authority of Houston (METRO) press release, agencies involved in the scheme will, “ride buses, perform random bag checks, and conduct K-9 sweeps, as well as place uniformed and plainclothes officers at Transit Centers and rail platforms to detect, prevent and address latent criminal activity or behavior.”

“While local law enforcement agencies focus on overall safety measures noted above, representatives with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) will also be on hand, lending their counter-terrorism expertise and support during the exercise,” states the press release.

Even the Soviets in the 50's would be jealous they didn't think of patting down people on the bus.

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Houston Police Brutality - Prostrate Teen Suspect Beaten by Thug Cops

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Raw Video - Houston Police Beating Teen Burglary Suspect




Shame and disbelief
A graphic video brings back old images of Houston police.

Houston Chronicle

We already knew that a suppressed video of Houston police beating a prostrate 15-year-old burglary suspect would be shocking and sickening. City officials had used those words in justifying withholding the images from the public. But its airing by Channel 13/KTRK TV after being leaked to the station by activist Quanell X still proved viscerally horrifying.

Watching a mob of Houston police officers kicking and punching Elsik High School sophomore Chad Holley in the head and body after a chase last March 24 evokes first disbelief and then shame.

Disbelief that our paid professional police force includes groups of officers capable of such actions against a prone, unarmed youth. And shame that it took an inadvertent video-camera tape from a self-service storage company to expose their actions. How many other similar incidents have gone unreported because they occurred outside the view of witnesses and camera lenses?...

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Consequences of 9/11: Houston Police Use Secret Drones to Spy on You

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Big Brother Surveillance Comes to Houston Courtesy of DHS

Smile, if you're in downtown Houston
Homeland Security picking up tab for 250-300 surveillance cameras

Houston Chronicle
By BRADLEY OLSON and ZAIN SHAUK
Nov. 24, 2010

The city is installing 250 to 300 cameras at downtown intersections in an effort to prevent and fight terrorism and crime, part of a security initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

The cameras, which the city began installing in earnest this summer, already have helped police catch car burglars in the act, said Dennis Storemski, the city's director of the Office of Public Safety and Homeland Security. Eventually, he said, the cameras could be used to allow dispatchers or officers approaching a crime scene to survey what's happening from their patrol vehicles before they arrive.

"The intent is to protect critical infrastructure and prevent terrorism," he said. "Experience has shown that when people plan terroristic acts, they plan and they do dry runs, so what we would be looking for is suspicious activity around certain locations. And for any crimes, you can go back and look at the video and identify the perpetrators."

More than 50 cameras already have been installed around the George R. Brown Convention Center, Discovery Green Park, the theater district and Minute Maid Park. Every downtown intersection will be equipped with a camera. Eventually, Storemski said, the program may be expanded to include the Reliant Stadium complex, the Port of Houston, even some city parks where festivals frequently are held.

'Big government'

The footage can be monitored in real time by police and after the fact through a computer network built during the past three years.

The cameras will allow police to monitor any scene from several viewpoints at once rather than having to staff events with officers surveying the scene in binoculars, he said.

For some who passed by the northeast corner of Milam and Texas early Wednesday, where a crew installed one such surveillance device, the idea was alarming.

"I'm not in favor of it," said Mike Wells, who was walking to his office across the street.

The cost of operating the cameras, as well as their capability to invade privacy, was troubling, he said.

"That's big government watching our every move," he said.

Chris Goldsmith, who works downtown, said he was most concerned with the cost to taxpayers of installing and operating the cameras.

Public spaces not private

Privacy, he said, is not necessarily a concern because "in the public you've got no expectation of privacy."

Storemski sounded a similar note, saying that all the cameras are in public spaces where people should be aware that their actions are not private.

"We live in an age right now where there's really no expectation that there would be no video in a public space," he said. "Everybody that has a cell phone has a video camera. This happens all the time. We're just doing it for public safety purposes."

The city has spent about $14 million in federal grant funding on the camera program, which it expects to finish by the end of January. The money comes from Urban Area Security Initiative funds doled out annually by Homeland Security to regions across the country, Storemski said.

In recent years, Houston has received an estimated $18 million to $20 million, money to spend on initiatives to prevent and detect terrorism.

Other projects include funding an interoperable radio system and the video network that can sustain the cameras, make footage shot by private cameras accessible to police and even take footage from a helicopter and allow first responders to see it. The latter particularly has been useful for fighting fires, Storemski said.

ID'd subway bombers

Cameras in public spaces already have proven successful in major worldwide incidents, such as identifying suspects in the 2005 subway bombings in London, he said.

[Webmaster - The 7/7/2005 London Subway bombings was a provocateured attack by the British government and intelligence services. They used the same template that was used for 9/11 by having mock terror drills running at the same time to cause confusion and provide cover for the real attacks. For more information, go to The 7/7 London Bombings: How to Set Up a Patsy , 7/7 Mock Terror Drill: What Relationship to the Real Time Terror Attacks?, and watch the movie 7/7 Ripple Effect.]

In Chicago, dispatchers already have access to cameras and can provide descriptions to police arriving at a scene.

Some Houstonians on Wednesday responded favorably to the camera program.

Julio Flores, a waiter at a downtown skyscraper, said he felt more comfortable knowing that surveillance camera footage could be used to solve crimes or to track suspects.

Judith Hanson, who was visiting downtown to watch her daughter's performance at the Wortham Center, said the cameras could provide comfort to women who come to the area.

"Just knowing that there is a camera just makes me feel a little bit safer," she said.

READ THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES:

The 7/7 London Bombings: How to Set Up a Patsy

7/7 Mock Terror Drill: What Relationship to the Real Time Terror Attacks?

WATCH THE FOLLOWING MOVIE:

7/7 Ripple Effect

Regarding the 7/7/2005 terrorist attacks in London, let us look at the facts, and what we were told, and compare them. Then, using Ockham’s Razor and common-sense, let us see what conclusions are to be drawn, so we can all understand what most likely really did happen that day.

Houston Police To Begin Training Officers To Staff Checkpoints

The Houston Police Department is poised to do what no other civilian police department in the United States has yet to publicly do. On the desk of the Chief of Police is the authorization to begin training officers to staff checkpoints at key infrastructure points throughout the city.

Although the talk about creating such a group has been discussed among supervisors of the Special Response Group for years, only in the last few months have those talks become reality. This idea received support of the former Chief of Police Harold Hurtt, but wasn’t signed before he retired on December 30, 2009 due to it being under review by departmental lawyers. Now under the just-named Chief of Police Charles McClelland, it stands ready to be signed and implemented almost immediately.

The Special Response Group, which was created in 1992 to deal with protestors at the Republican National Convention is the main crowd control unit in the Houston Police Department. They receive 40 hours of training annually in riot control and mass arrest scenarios. This group has a sub-group called the Hard Team, which receive an additional 32 hours of more intense training per year. This training includes pain compliance techniques, dispersal of chemical agents, rubber bullets, crowd control grenades, as well as many other less-lethal munitions. Now, the Hard Team is poised to get another sub-group called the Checkpoint Team...