'Feds radiating Americans'? Mobile X-ray vans hit US streets

[Jack Ryan]

I didn't end up doing it, but I said a while back that the next time I flew, I was going to spell out "Hi TSA" in aluminum foil on my stomach and walk through the backscatter scanner.

Either that or "Are we safe now?", but probably the "Hi TSA" one. The other would take too much foil. I don't buy it in pallet loads like some folks.

Blessings,
Bill

Just cut one out in the shape of a fist giving them the finger. They'll get the idea.

 

[PatriotPride]

That point is not lost on me, things are so wildly out of hand, I can't think of words to describe it. It's my opinion, that if you introduced all the government's heavy handedness of the last 50 years, in 6 months, 90% of people would take to the streets immediately.

I'm still scratching my head and wondering why we HAVEN'T taken to the streets yet.

Seems to me that the 4th Amendment just fell victim to the .gov again.

 

[Blackhawk2001]

what do you think is the deciding factor that we aren't now?

or, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK WE AREN'T ALREADY?

We haven't been disarmed and we don't have to show our papers before leaving town.

 

[XMil]

We haven't been disarmed and we don't have to show our papers before leaving town.

Part A of your statement is only partially true.

 

[mrjarrell]

We haven't been disarmed and we don't have to show our papers before leaving town.

Haven't tried to board a plane recently?

 

[rambone]

The exact amount of tyranny you will live under, is the amount you are willing to put up with.

- Thomas Jefferson

 

[lashicoN]

We haven't been disarmed and we don't have to show our papers before leaving town.

lol. Go buy a machine gun and legally drive it into Chicago across state lines.

We don't have to show our papers before leaving town?! We have to show our papers every time we're pulled over. Having a driver's license issued by the government isn't enough. Having a license plate issued by the government isn't enough. We also have to have government issued tags and government mandated insurance and well as registration.

And of course, we have to pay for each of these things. The dream is over guys, we need to wake up, or we are going to die in our sleep.

 

[Vasili]

We haven't been disarmed and we don't have to show our papers before leaving town.

GCA, NFA, FOPA, and you need to give three days' notice before crossing the border by plane.

you tell me just how ********** we are.

 

[ocsdor]

We haven't been disarmed and we don't have to show our papers before leaving town, YET!

FIFY

 

[LEaSH]

I'm thing about how Google, a private self funded company can canvas pert near every street in every populated area in the country in order to photograph for their 'street view'.

Imagine what a government funded entity can do in the same sort of platform with more technology and more resources than Google could hope to have.

Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if Google was in on something as a contractor.

 

[Vic_Mackey]

I'm thing about how Google, a private self funded company can canvas pert near every street in every populated area in the country in order to photograph for their 'street view'.

Imagine what a government funded entity can do in the same sort of platform with more technology and more resources than Google could hope to have.

Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if Google was in on something as a contractor.

They are, and have been for years. There is a piece of equipment I had in Iraq that did all kinds of wonderfull things, it was made with an offshoot of Windows OS and it's gps was powered by Google. When we would get the area maps for ops, right on the bottom of the image was Google.

Here's a little story for ya: Google Searches For Government Work - washingtonpost.com

 

[Vic_Mackey]

As far as the "xray" vans go, I don't carry drugs or bombs in my car, unless you count burger king farts, they're like the atom bomb of bustin ass. So I'm nt worried about it.

And another thing that cracks me up is that we've had this tech for sooooo long and people are just now finding out about it lol. My best friend freaked out about the body scanners they put into the airports like they were new and all that. I told him that we have had that tech since at least 2005 because we scanned all the Iraqi workers that came on our base. I've seen a lot more, but I can't/don't/will not talk about it, that's the one convo that gives me the heeby jeebies!

 

[lashicoN]

As far as the "xray" vans go, I don't carry drugs or bombs in my car, unless you count burger king farts, they're like the atom bomb of bustin ass. So I'm nt worried about it.

First they use the technology in a war zone to protect our soldiers, then they use it at home to look for "illegal" drugs and bombs to protect our citizens.

But then after a while they scan people's houses to make sure they aren't growing "illegal" gardens or carrying any banned firearms. They've got vans to drive around and monitor what everyone is saying, GPS on everyone's cars to see where they are driving and some more vans to see what you are driving with.

If you have nothing to hide, you should still be mad, because I also have nothing to hide, like almost everyone else, which means this is a giant waste of tax dollars and a giant encroachment on our liberties as free Americans.

Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

 

[E5RANGER375]

I'm still scratching my head and wondering why we HAVEN'T taken to the streets yet.

Seems to me that the 4th Amendment just fell victim to the .gov again.

why not? because some people are totaly blind or satisfied with the oppression we are under, as seen in the quote below. People living today have never experienced true freedom as it was intended. I wonder why some people even continue to live in the U.S.?

We haven't been disarmed and we don't have to show our papers before leaving town.

 

[Vic_Mackey]

I stopped caring about my tax dollars a long time ago, because it's just too much of a headache to worry about it. Until the day my weapons get on the "banned" list, I have nothing to worry about other than my tic tacs glowing in the dark from all the radiation. A few more years of crap going the way it is and I won't be living in the U.S.S.A much longer either. Mexico oughta be pretty empty in a few years......

 

[xring62]

I want them looking for bombs ,funny how some people DONT. But when guns are outlawed one day ,shelf this idea. They will see my truck full of goodies. In meantime look away ,why would anyone care unless your a criminal.

 

[lashicoN]

I stopped caring about my tax dollars a long time ago, because it's just too much of a headache to worry about it. Until the day my weapons get on the "banned" list, I have nothing to worry about other than my tic tacs glowing in the dark from all the radiation. A few more years of crap going the way it is and I won't be living in the U.S.S.A much longer either. Mexico oughta be pretty empty in a few years......

There won't be a place for you in the next few years if we allow America to collapse. Mexico won't be empty, nor free.

We create the world, directly through our actions, or indirectly through inaction. I'll take freedom with a headache over tyranny with prescribed meds any day. If you wait until your weapons are on the banned list, you won't have a foothold and you won't stand a chance.

Good luck.

 

[lashicoN]

I want them looking for bombs ,funny how some people DONT. But when guns are outlawed one day ,shelf this idea. They will see my truck full of goodies. In meantime look away ,why would anyone care unless your a criminal.

BECAUSE WE HAVE RIGHTS IN THIS COUNTRY!

Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

 

[Vic_Mackey]

they can look all they want, all there gonna see is a lot of xxx and beer drinking. They wanna come inside, then we(they) gotta big problem, cuz my ol lady don't take kindly to unexpected company. And neither does Mr. Mossberg for that matter. I have yet to see one case of where these things that pertain to the PATRIOT ACT have done any wrongdoing to innocent people, if I'm wrong enlighten me, but I'm pretty sure the only things I've seen or heard resulting from spy gadgets are dead or arrested terrorists.

I'm pretty sure someone is going to say that "all they need to do is deem you a terrorist because you own guns blabity blah, you are a war vet blah blah". If it came down to that, I would wake the entire block up and make it known that something fishy is going on. But I highly doubt that is going to happen, not because I have faith in the gov or any of that crap, I'm just a realist. But please, show me examples of these things snaring up the wrong people.

 

[ATOMonkey]

Power is a weapon.

You're giving a weapon to people hoping that they use it the way you want them to.

You're betting on stopping the bad guy the instant before he uses the weapon for something bad. Why not cut him off at the pass and not give him the weapon in the first place?

I understand why people employed by the government would feel differently about this.