Federal TSA/VIPR agents conducting "suspicionless searches" near train stations

[rambone]

Paramilitary VIPR teams are being deployed by the central government to search travelers without probable cause or a warrant in train stations. For 10 years, the public has sufficiently been conditioned to having the TSA violating travelers in airports, and now the Police State being rolled out in public.

The War on Terror will be the excuse needed to destroy every remaining liberty we have left.


From Planes To Trains: TSA Expands Spot Searches To Union Station

KNX 1070′s Pete Demetriou reports rail passengers have started seeing Transportation Security Administration on patrol at Union Station on a more frequent basis. As many as 25 VIPR (Visible Intermodal Prevention & Response) teams began patrolling train stations nationwide last summer conducting an estimated 9,300 “suspicionless” spot searches of travelers.

The agency has said the presence of officers with explosive detection dogs, radiation monitors and other devices will act as a deterrent in the nation’s busiest travel hubs.

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TSA's VIPR Teams Now Conducting 'Suspicionless Searches' at Train Stations

Recently LA local news picked up on how 25 TSA VIPR teams have been rotating through train stations, including Union Station, since last summer. The reason the story is getting play again is because TSA announced plans to deploy 12 more teams across the country over the coming months. So people naturally wanted to know what the existing teams have been doing all of this time.

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The Metastasis of the Police State (Boston edition)

Here in Boston, the metastasis of the police state is in full bloom. Every night on my commute home out of Boston's Back Bay train station there are legions of militarized cops checking bags, scanning bags and walking their friendly German shepards right up to you.

Recently, however, I've noted two changes. First, they frequently have a blue shirted TSA Agent with them. And second, the police have gone from wearing blue uniforms, to black uniforms and are now almost all exclusively wearing green army fatigues. I'm not sure what the significance is other than to psychologically condition the cattle to accept another form of domination on their way to the slaughterhouse.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

As one who has spent a lot of time on the T in Boston no matter what weapons TSA brings they will be underarmed.

 

[ray d]

This will only stop when we stop it by the use of arms.

 

[ghunter]

Try Spelling the Alphabet now wants to fondle little kids at the train station. Do we need to pay our taxes for this when perfectly good perverts will do it for free?