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No police state here, move along.
WASHINGTON — As hundreds of commuters emerged from Amtrak and commuter trains at Union Station on a recent morning, an armed squad of men and women dressed in bulletproof vests made their way through the crowds.
The squad was not with the Washington police department or Amtrak’s police force, but was one of the Transportation Security Administration’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response squads — VIPR teams for short — assigned to perform random security sweeps to prevent terrorist attacks at transportation hubs across the United States.
“The T.S.A., huh,” said Donald Neubauer of Greenville, Ohio, as he walked past the squad. “I thought they were just at the airports.”
With little fanfare, the agency best known for airport screenings has vastly expanded its reach to sporting events, music festivals, rodeos, highway weigh stations and train terminals. Not everyone is happy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/us...-security.html
No police state here, move along.
this is news?
police state like this is irreversibly metastasizing
it will spread to roads and highways where random stops and searches will be common
America is ed and un able
TSA, already "pre-busted" by the Repugs from being unionized so TSA pays low wages to losers who can't get a better paying job, will start out-sourcing to corporate America that will pay even less to lightly screened security asshole losers.
example:
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