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Saturday, March 03, 2012

Tsar Barack I gets his American Oprichnina/Secret Police

Timothy Birdnow

The TSA is expanding it's reach beyond airports, and is now stopping drivers on highways and roads.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/tsa-to-start-fondling-drivers-now-too/

From the article:

“In October,” she continued, “Tennessee became the first state to conduct a statewide Department of Homeland Security Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) team operation [that] randomly inspected Tennessee truck drivers and cars.”

TSA representative Nico Melendez confirmed to the Los Angeles Times that these VIPR teams have also branched out to conduct security checks at subways, trains and cruise ship ports.

Businessweek reports the total number of TSA agents more than tripled in the last decade, from 16,000 to 51,000, while the Times further reports that VIPR teams conducted more than 9,300 checkpoints and other ops in 2011 alone.

Yet Blackburn is concerned not only with the increasing presence of the TSA, but also with the perceived power they have over Americans. For despite the fancy uniforms and tin badges, she asserts, the TSA’s transportation security officers, or TSOs, aren’t police and shouldn’t appear to be."

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The TSA is under the Department of Homeland Security, making it a wing of the Presidency. Interesting; remember Barack Obama's call for a fifth mil

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/07/17/are-the-media-airbrushing-obamas-speeches/

""We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." -Barack Obama, July 2, 2008

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Interesting. Obama wanted a national security force with military powers, and the TSA is suddenly patroling the highways.

I think Mr. Obama has created the nucleas for his American Oprichnina. (The Oprichnina was Tsar Ivan the Terrible's internal secret police/personal nation that he used to terrorize his enemies. They were outside of the laws of Russia, a seperate nation that answered only to him.)

Tsar Barack I?

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