Sometimes Big Sis just makes things too easy for us. When faced with a PR nightmare, what’s always the first plan of action? You guessed it, team up with everyone’s favorite purveyor of cheap Chinese merchandise!
Asking people to report possible “suspicious activity” to a Wal-Mart manager is about as compelling as the TSA’s attempt to make us safer by touching and/or looking at photos of our naughty bits.
In what appears to be a poor excuse for an SNL skit, Janet Napolitano asks every American “If You See Something, Say Something.”
Once again, on behalf of all Arizonans, we apologize to the entire country for letting Big Sis out of our sight.
CameraFRAUD.com - The Cameras are Coming Down 
This isn’t real, is it??
Oh hell, why would Walmart have a problem with this? They didn’t have any problems selling Chinese toys painted in lead. Walmart has good thing going with their friends in China.
Committee On Un-American Activities
The Hollywood Ten
Whittier, CA dumps red light cameras – no improvements in safety: http://www.whittierdailynews.com/news/ci_16794279
More displays of genius by the TSA http://www.theeastsidepatriot.com/2010/11/welcome-home-boys-tsa-interrogates-our.html
You have GOT to be kidding me! Who’s next, McDonald’s?
This is just corporate sponsorship of government programs. I just hope Napolitano felt very cheap after making this video, and went straight home and took a hot shower.
Homeland Security and Walmart Working Together. Funny how when you by booze at Walmart they swipe your license.
Just another reason to never step inside a WalMart.
I wonder if they have license plate recognition cameras at Walmart now.
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-12-06/us/washington.dhs.walmart_1_dhs-homeland-security-hometown-security?_s=PM:US
“The program has already partnered with the Mall of America, the American Hotel & Lodging Association, Amtrak, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, sports and general aviation industries, and other organizations across the country, DHS said.”
Walmart Interested In Wine Vending Machines
The machines require customers to swipe their driver’s license and even give a breathalyzer test before they can choose between more than 50 varieties of wine.
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2010/12/07/walmart-interested-in-wine-vending-machines/
“We don’t want you to have any drinks before getting drunk.”
HOUSTON – Mayor Annise Parker abruptly walked out of her own press conference at City Hall on Tuesday afternoon.
That came after reporters repeatedly questioned Parker about rumors she and some other council members are trying to create a majority gay council district in Houston.
http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/101207-mayor-parker-leaves-press-conference-amidst-rumors
Maybe TSA should just use cardboard cut outs to slow down suspicious activity
http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2010/12/09/20101209czech-cardboard-police-miniskirts.html
Mall of America Answers to the Federal Government Not the State
Where did all this paranoia come from? Sometimes it’s shocking to listen to these people act like America is such a dangerous place.
What they should be focusing on is selling less fried cheese curds and beer battered walleye. I’d say those are a bigger risk to the health and well being of people tooling around Mall of America.
Anyone who wants a good historical example of this nonsense should read about The Red Scare, The Cuban Missile Crisis & Cold War, The HUAC and the folly of the domino theory. Americans are always looking for a boogey man and threats are overblown by the mania of group think and irrational fear.
TSA is just a side show attempting to justify its own existence. They’ve proven incapable of doing real security because they’re staffed with inept front liners who have no knowledge of “intelligence” operations. I hate to say it, but Israel’s methods of monitoring passenger behavior with highly trained observers is mcuh more effective than anything we’ve ever tried in the United States.
The body scanners are just a product bought and sold by the same man who gained much off of the transaction. Even if they are all shut off and removed from airports tomorrow, he still cashed in, end of story.
Ron Paul is 100% right that the locking cockpit doors and guns accessible to the pilots are the only effective safety measures that have been instituted since 9/11. (btw they would have prevented all of the planes from being commandeered) Everything else is just an exercise in silly bureaucratic waste and showmanship.
TSA is the LeBron James of security. They’re big, they’re flashy, overpaid and get a lot of media attention but when it comes down to crunch time, they fold under the pressure.
TSA Workers are already creepy lot. Can you imagine their mutated offspring. Agghhh!
India Thursday termed as ‘unacceptable’ the ‘pat down’ search Indian ambassador Meera Shankar was subjected to in the US, the second time in three months, and said it will take up the issue with Washington.
‘I am rather surprised by the way the Indian ambassador to the US has been treated. This has happened for a second time in three months,’ External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna told reporters here.
‘Let me be frank, this is unacceptable to India. We are going to take it up with the government of US that such unpleasant incidents do not recur,’ said Krishna.
http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/717610/ht/India-to-protest-envoys-US-pat-down-search-wants-apology