A "Police Presence" On Buses Doesn't Make Me Feel Safe
It makes me afraid for our civil liberties. From "Reich Here, Reich now," posted by William Grigg on Lew Rockwell:
In a commercial republic -- or a reasonably free society of any description -- warfare of any kind should hardly be considered "routine." This is particularly true of military deployments in a modern urban environment and training that seems suspiciously well-suited to scenarios involving economic collapse and massive social unrest. Those blessed with a capacity for healthy cynicism would suspect that the purpose of such military exercises is to train the public, rather than Special Forces operators -- to acclimate the citizenry to the spectacle of helicopter gunships plying the skies above them.There is no ambiguity about the purpose of the TSA-supervised BUSSAFE initiative: It is geared entirely to the purpose of molding public opinion.
When heavily armed, black-clad figures began stalking bus and train stations in New Jersey on August 23, Transit Police Chief Christopher Trucillo explained that they hadn't been deployed in response any specific threat. The VIPR teams -- local police units supervised by agents from the Transportation Security Administration -- were intended "to increase uniform police visibility. ... Just to step on a bus and have somebody visually look in the bus, and have the folks on the bus see a police presence, and to give a sense of security to folks who use the bus daily."
been there before...
DDR in '83... in East Berlin there was a cop with an AK on every street corner. Several followed me around as a decadent western tourist looking in all the empty shop windows...
I think we are just getting to a point where people just don't remember, therefore they don't care. They cannot imagine what effect their disinterest has on the future... they don't think about it.
SwissArmyD at August 29, 2012 8:59 AM
I ride NJ trains and NYC subways every day. It's pretty common to see fully-decked-out SWAT cops on the PATH system (train between NJ and NY, run by Port Authority of NY and NJ and patrolled by PA cops).
I probably know more about safe firearm handling than most cops, and these SWAT cops do things that would have gotten me kicked out of any range I've ever shot at. I saw a cop holding his submachine gun and pointing it at someone's back while walking up the stairs. Sorry, you don't point guns at people, even with safety on, even with finger outside of trigger guard. Let it hang from the sling, it's not a puppy, it won't cry if you don't touch it.
The four rules of gun safety are non-negotiable, and all four are always in effect.
1) Treat every gun as if it's loaded.
2) Keep your finger off the trigger until the sights are on target (also known as booger-hook off the bang-switch).
3) Never point a gun at anything you aren't willing to shoot.
4) Be sure of your target and what's behind it.
Sorry for the rant, but this has been a sore point for me for years.
Mark HD at August 29, 2012 1:51 PM
I feel sorry for people who can't avoid this. It's one more effort to make people put up with more and more crap. Submit and obey. TSA has no business doing this or going into Greyhound bus stations and menacing the public.
Vic Kelley at August 29, 2012 3:18 PM
Quoting Jeff Cooper is never a rant, it is common sense.
The thing I find strange about the VIPR rollouts is the focus on states where there is a very limited CCW rules or locations that have restricted CCW carrier rules.
Weigh stations in Kentucky will not have many CCW licensees because many trucking companies restrict drivers from carrying.
Illinois has the most restrictive gun laws in the country.
New Jersey carry laws are next to Illinois. Bloombergia effectively has no carry laws.
D.C. is just as bad as Bloombergia.
Where is the TSA working?
Sheeple need to realize they are sheeple.
Jim P. at August 29, 2012 8:26 PM
>>Sorry for the rant, but this has been a sore point for me for years.
And the absolute truth. Well said.
Assholio at August 29, 2012 8:40 PM
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