The notion of roving cameras snapping pictures of license plates conjures up television shows like Fox’s counter-terrorism series, “24.” It’s not just fantasy, though. Americans are already watched by a variety of security agencies using electronic surveillance technology, and in this post-9/11 world, there seems to be no turning back..
Privacy advocates, though, are not altogether comfortable with license plate numbers being electronically recorded by commercial operations.
While their views on the gathering this data may vary, privacy groups uniformly agree that the real issue is what happens to the photos after they are taken: how long they are stored and by whom; how secure the data is and whether it might be shared with third parties. Are the photographed license plate numbers matched against other lists, like credit scores or addresses?
Police in Louisiana’s Bossier Parish are training for an “end of the world” scenario, according to the Shreveport Times. The program is dubbed “Operation Exodus,” inspired in part from the Book of Exodus in the Bible.
Parish Sheriff Larry Deen told the newspaper the “buck stops” with him. “The liability stops with Larry Deen. I am the chief law enforcement officer in this parish, and it is incumbent upon me [to] protect all of the people in it,” the officer said, referring to himself in the third person.
Deen’s plan is to protect Bossier Parish’s vital resources, like food and gasoline, in the event of a catastrophic event, such as war or a terrorist attack. Deen said he had been thinking of the plan since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, reports Drew Pierson.
Under Deen’s plan, the police will use volunteers, supplemented with active public safety personnel, that will be dispatched to vital areas in Bossier to protect them from looters and rioters. Deen listed as examples grocery stores, gas stations, hospitals and other public meeting places.
The Communists in Sacramento have tried to ban flat screen tv’s, they tried to ban coal production, they tried to ban cholesterol in egg’s, they tried to ban the gasoline engine, they tried to ban a nice juicy steak.
They want everyone to ride a bike to work and live in a tent with windmills as the only source of power. Now they want to ban cussing for a week.These Communist Democrats just don’t read the Constitution do they ? But they just passed a law violating the 1st Amendment.
Why not click on the below above and give them a courtesy call.(Be polite keep your message short and within 4 letters I did Happy Trails)
JERSEY SHORE, NEW JERSEY - Police bomb squads from outside the area were summoned Thursday after authorities found explosive devices attached to two traffic signs in a rural area just north of here.
One street sign was damaged and another destroyed, but no injuries were reported, according to Independent Hose Co. Chief Brian Flook, who described it as a potentially dangerous situation. “If it would’ve gone off when somebody was driving by or standing at the signs or handling the devices, there was aluminum shrapnel that could have hit them,” Flook said. Flook was called to Dennison Road about 2 p.m. and was joined by state police who defused one of the explosive devices. The other sign detonated sometime earlier, which state police Trooper Matthew Sweet said could have been a week ago. Flook said an explosive chemical, unconfirmed as Tantalum, was placed inside a small jar attached to both signs.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Salt Lake International Airport official says a passenger dropped a hand gun that fired and injured a sky cap worker. Airport Operations Supervisor Dave Korzep says the passenger was loading luggage Thursday when the passenger dropped a semi-automatic hand gun on the pavement. Korzep says the gun discharged one round, and a bullet fragment hit a sky cap worker in the foot. He was treated at the scene for a minor wound.Korzep he doesn’t know if charges would be filed against the owner of the gun. He says guns can be shipped but they must be packaged properly and declared. The passenger, whose name wasn’t released, was taken into airport security custody for questioning.
Private American security guards working for the US military in Afghanistan removed hundreds of handguns and automatic weapons from stores intended for the exclusive use of the Afghan police and used them on drunken shooting rampages that killed two Afghan civilians and injured at least two more.
The guards included a former US Marine with a criminal record of assault and battery and a former soldier discharged from the US Army after testing positive for cocaine, Congress heard yesterday.
BERKELEY, CA (KGO) — Former President Bill Clinton brought his message of global citizenship to the Bay Area and asked the question: What exactly is “global citizenship?”
Clinton told a packed audience at Zellerbach Auditorium that the most important question is one that rarely got asked in his White House.
“Most of the time I was in politics we debated three things: What are you going to do, who is going to do it, public or private sector, and how much money you going to spend on it,” Clinton said.
According to Clinton, the most important question of the 21st century is the fourth question — “How?”
Have you ever wondered what happened to the fifty six men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the fifty six fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.
What kind of men were they?
Twenty four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well death would be the cost if captured.
ATHENS—Tens of thousands of Greeks took to the streets Wednesday as much of the country went on a 24-hour strike against government austerity measures..
A small group of youths threw Molotov cocktails at police, who responded with tear gas. However, the 20,000 people who filed through downtown Athens—a relatively large crowd for a Greek strike—mostly limited themselves to chanting anti-government slogans.
One person was killed and another was taken to the hospital in a shooting and crash at Luke Air Force Base in U.S. state of Arizona on Tuesday, local media reported.
The incident occurred at 11 p.m. local time Monday night in the city of Litchfield Park, Arizona, and investigators were still on the scene hours later, Fox News quoted Capt. Gonzales, spokesman at Luke Air Force Base, as saying.
Two men attempted to drive through the Base gate with their reported stolen car, and drove directly at a security officer who wanted to stop them peacefully by setting up a road block, according to the spokesman.
The security officer was then forced to fire at the car and made it crash. One person in the car was dead at the scene, and the other was seriously injured and taken to the hospital, said the report.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness
The founding document of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, states that governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.” Today, however, just 21% of voters nationwide believe that the federal government enjoys the consent of the governed.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 61% disagree and say the government does not have the necessary consent. Eighteen percent (18%) of voters are not sure.
However, 63% of the Political Class think the government has the consent of the governed, but only six percent (6%) of those with Mainstream views agree.
WASHINGTON (AP): Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists who are U.S. citizens or live in the country legally and plot against the U.S. are just as big of a concern as international terrorists.
She says that when she started as secretary a year ago, the focus was largely on international terrorists who want to harm U.S. interests. But in the past year, more of the violent extremism that has been seen overseas is showing up in the U.S.
She says officials need to drill down and analyze the factors that make a young person, raised in the U.S., migrate to extremist beliefs and actions.
Napolitano was speaking to governors who are in Washington for their annual conference.
Tracy residents will now have to pay every time they call 9-1-1 for a medical emergency.
But there are a couple of options. Residents can pay a $48 voluntary fee for the year which allows them to call 9-1-1 as many times as necessary.
Or, there’s the option of not signing up for the annual fee. Instead, they will be charged $300 if they make a call for help.
“A $300 fee and you don’t even want to be thinking about that when somebody is in need of assistance,” said Tracy resident Greg Bidlack.
Residents will soon receive the form in the mail where they’ll be able to make their selection. No date has been set for when the charges will go into effect.
WASHINGTON (AP): Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says terrorists who are U.S. citizens or live in the country legally and plot against the U.S. are just as big of a concern as international terrorists.
She says that when she started as secretary a year ago, the focus was largely on international terrorists who want to harm U.S. interests. But in the past year, more of the violent extremism that has been seen overseas is showing up in the U.S.
She says officials need to drill down and analyze the factors that make a young person, raised in the U.S., migrate to extremist beliefs and actions.
Napolitano was speaking to governors who are in Washington for their annual conference.
YOU ARE INVITED TO THE GRAND BILLBOARD SIGN OPENING ON HIGHWAY 98 NEAR EDGEWOOD IN NAVARRE FL. MARCH 2010. Bring your camera’s
I would like to introduce you to the HUGE billboard sign going up on Highway 98 in March. Below is the statement they will make.
DEPORT B. HUSSEIN OBAMA .FIRE CHARLIE CRIST
I am sure Comrade Charlie will and Comrade Obama will run this through their legal teams because they have not read the Constitution then come after me. I had a bounty on my head in Egypt by Al Quaeda. What’s another one.
I fear nothing.Bring it on !! I am waiting. Happy Trails.
Source: Nicole Santa Cruz The Los Angeles Times Arizonans drive long distances on their highways, and they like to do it fast.
But since the Grand Canyon State began enforcing speed limits with roadside cameras, motorists are raging against the machines: They have blocked out the lenses with Post-it notes or Silly String. During the Christmas holidays, they covered the cameras with boxes, complete with wrapping paper.One dissenting citizen went after a camera with a pick ax. Arizona is the only state to implement “photo enforcement,” as it’s known, on major highways and is one of 12 states and 52 communities, plus the District of Columbia, with speed cameras, according to the nonprofit Insurance Institute for Highway Safety.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man with an expired student pilot license allegedly stole a single-engine plane from a small airfield near San Diego, flew it north and made an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport early Friday, authorities said.
Skye E. Turner had to abort his first landing attempt because he was coming in too fast, Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Ian Gregor said. He landed the Cirrus SR22 safely on his second attempt at about 3 a.m. Firefighters and airport police were waiting on the tarmac.
The incident came a day after a Texas man with a grudge against the Internal Revenue Service slammed his small plane into an Austin office building that housed nearly 200 IRS employees. The pilot, Andrew Joseph Stack III, and one person inside the building were killed in an attack that highlighted the lack of security at small airfields.
The debate between whether or not unions are partially responsible for the mess America is in will likely go on for decades to come. But it is becoming more and more clear that union members don’t understand the basic economics of the current fiscal crisis in America.
Albany Police Officers Union President Chris Mesley says that, regardless of the faltering economy, a no-raise new contract is unacceptable. And to hell with the public.
“I’m not running a popularity contest here,” Mesley said. “If I’m the bad guy to the average citizen . . . and their taxes have go up to cover my raise, I’m very sorry about that, but I have to look out for myself and my membership.“
Mesley added: “As the president of the local, I will not accept ‘zeroes.’ If that means . . . ticking off some taxpayers, then so be it.
It’s comments like these, coming from the head of a police union, that will drive most Americans to rebuff any proposed assistance for union pensions, benefits and salaries.
Non-union Americans have seen their retirement plans decimated, wages cut and jobs incinerated. Similar to Mr. Mesley’s view of the taxpayer, the taxpayer could care less if union members lose their jobs or pensions because they are unwilling to negotiate fair settlements with governments or private industry. The American taxpayer is fed up with strong arm tactics and overpaid government employees.
Man Says Actions Intended To Send Message To Banks
MOSCOW, Ohio –
Like many people, Terry Hoskins has had troubles with his bank. But his solution to foreclosure might be unique.
Hoskins said he’s been in a struggle with RiverHills Bank over his Clermont County home for nearly a decade, a struggle that was coming to an end as the bank began foreclosure proceedings on his $350,000 home.
“When I see I owe $160,000 on a home valued at $350,000, and someone decides they want to take it – no, I wasn’t going to stand for that, so I took it down,” Hoskins said.
If you’re reading this, you’re no doubt asking yourself, “Why did this have to happen?” The simple truth is that it is complicated and has been coming for a long time. The writing process, started many months ago, was intended to be therapy in the face of the looming realization that there isn’t enough therapy in the world that can fix what is really broken. Needless to say, this rant could fill volumes with example after example if I would let it. I find the process of writing it frustrating, tedious, and probably pointless… especially given my gross inability to gracefully articulate my thoughts in light of the storm raging in my head. Exactly what is therapeutic about that I’m not sure, but desperate times call for desperate measures.
We are all taught as children that without laws there would be no society, only anarchy. Sadly, starting at early ages we in this country have been brainwashed to believe that, in return for our dedication and service, our government stands for justice for all. We are further brainwashed to believe that there is freedom in this place, and that we should be ready to lay our lives down for the noble principals represented by its founding fathers. Remember? One of these was “no taxation without representation”. I have spent the total years of my adulthood unlearning that crap from only a few years of my childhood. These days anyone who really stands up for that principal is promptly labeled a “crackpot”, traitor and worse.
A pilot furious with the Internal Revenue Service crashed his small plane into an Austin, Texas, office building where nearly 200 federal tax employees work on Thursday, igniting a raging fire that sent massive plumes of thick, black smoke rising from the seven-story structure.
Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo said the incident was a single act by a sole individual, who appeared to be targeting the federal building. He refused to classify it as terrorism.
“I call it a cowardly, criminal act and there was no excuse for it,” Acevedo said at a news conference. The FBI identified the pliot as Joseph Stack, a 53-year-old software engineer. Stack was confirmed dead, but his body has not yet been recovered.
Colombia’s FARC guerrillas have allegedly purchased at least seven anti-aircraft missiles that experts say could threaten U.S.-provided helicopters essential to the South American country’s fight against the rebels.
Peruvian prosecutors detailed the purchases when they charged a dozen people in December with buying hundreds of weapons from crooked Peruvian security force officials and delivering them to an arms buyer for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.
The missiles could complicate Colombia’s decades-old civil war, where the military has made strong gains in recent years by deploying a fleet of U.S.-provided transport and attack helicopters for swift raids on FARC targets.
ATHENS (Reuters) - A bomb exploded on Tuesday outside the Athens offices of JP Morgan, the second largest U.S. bank by assets, causing minor damage and no injuries, police and the company said.
The explosion is the latest in a series of blasts that have rocked the country since the police killing of a teenager in December 2008 sparked the country’s worst riots in decades.
“It was a time-bomb outside JP Morgan’s offices at the second floor of an Athens building,” said a police official who declined to be named.
“The explosion damaged the door, furniture, computers and smashed some windows,” the official added.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — It took two hours for a Santa Cruz bomb squad to detonate a pipe bomb that was brought to a Central Fire station on Monday. The device was discovered at about 10 a.m. along the beach near Central Fire Station No. 1 on 17th Avenue and was detonated at about 1 p.m.The people who discovered the explosive immediately took it to the fire department after finding it.When firefighters saw the device they immediately contacted the sheriff’s department and evacuated the building.A portion of 17th Avenue was also blocked off to traffic and some nearby homes and businesses were also evacuated.”If you see anything suspicious like that, good Lord, do not pick things up like that,” said Owen Miller, of the Central Fire Department. “You want to find a phone use someone’s phone call it in and let us handle the device.”The pipe bomb was described as PVC piping about a foot in length and capped at both ends.All roads were reopened and the evacuation was lifted as of 2 p.m.
PHILADELPHIA — A US Airways flight has been taken to a remote location after a bomb threat was reported at Philadelphia International Airport.Airport spokesman Mark Pesce (PESH) says there are no passengers on board.Pesce says the threat was reported around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and the flight was taken to a remote location.He says he doesn’t know where the plane was headed or how the threat came in.Messages left with US Airways by The Associated Press were not immediately returned.
Arson investigators are seeking details about a pipe bomb found on a San Fernando Valley community college campus.The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department says a man brought the bomb into the Pierce College Sheriff’s Station and told deputies he found it by a pond on the campus.The area was evacuated until arson and explosives experts could defuse the device, which was determined to be live.Sheriff’s officials say the device was not believed to be connected with a threat against a specific person.Pierce College was closed for the Presidents Day holiday Monday, so no faculty or students were present.
CLEARWATER BEACH — Clearwater police are trying to find who is responsible for setting off two homemade acid bombs at two beach restaurants on Monday.
First, a small acid bomb exploded in a garbage can at the entrance to Frenchy’s Rockaway Grill, 7 Rockaway St.
A short time later, a similar device exploded underneath the deck of Palm Pavilion Restaurant at 10 Bay Esplanade Ave. Several people were sitting on the deck when the device exploded, Clearwater police said.
No injuries were reported in the incidents, which happened between 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. But detectives are concerned because the devices were located in public places, said Clearwater police spokeswoman Beth Watts.
Clearwater police ask anyone with information to call the department’s tip line at (727) 562-4422. Or, to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-873-8477. Tips can also be submitted online at www.crimestoppersofpinellas.org, or by texting TIP144 and a message to 274637.
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