Place bets… how long till I leave NYC?
Posted on February 3rd, 2008 by bile Categories and Tags: Uncategorized, Atlantic Avenue, Emergency Service Unit, fascism, freedom, Herald Square, liberty, Manhattan, New York, New York City, New York City police, Pennsylvania Station, police, Police Department, police state, Rockefeller Center, Ron Paul, terrorism, Times Square, your rightsIn the first counterterrorism strategy of its kind in the nation, roving teams of New York City police officers armed with automatic rifles and accompanied by bomb-sniffing dogs will patrol the city’s subway system daily, beginning next month, officials said on Friday.
Under a tactical plan called Operation Torch, the officers will board trains and patrol platforms, focusing on sites like Pennsylvania Station, Herald Square, Columbus Circle, Rockefeller Center and Times Square in Manhattan, and Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn.
Officials said the operation would begin in March.
Financing for the program will be funneled to the Police Department and will come from a pool of up to $30 million taken from $153.2 million in new federal transit grants to the state.
Each team in the operation will comprise a bomb-sniffing dog and six officers: a dog handler and a sergeant and four officers from the Emergency Service Unit who will be outfitted in heavy, bullet-resistant vests and Kevlar helmets and will carry automatic weapons, either an M-4 rifle or an MP5 submachine gun.
I may need to step up my idea for handing out fliers about the police state and the 4th Amendment. As if this will work. As if they couldn’t get on the train at some other random stop like they could now? When will people start realizing we are living in a police state?
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February 4th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Over the past few years, the NYTimes has published two of my letters to the editor. I only occasionally send something in, so I’d say my success rate is somewhere around 20%. (Small sample size, but hey.) It’s worth the five minutes to do so if you haven’t already.
As for me, I’m waiting for the dogs at the toll booths. Or armored HumVees (made in South Africa, because they have ‘experience’ in police stating) patrolling the nations pay roads.
February 4th, 2008 at 9:32 am
(Arg, missed the 10 minute edit window)
I wonder what the probability of random searches finding terrorists would be. Wikipedia states that the daily ridership was over 5 million in September 2006. (Not including PATH, NJTranit, or MetroNorth.) You must have better odds playing scratch off tickets. If you really want to demonstrate civil disobedience, start wearing your own kevlar vest to work. I wonder how quickly you’ll be pulled aside and questioned.
February 4th, 2008 at 9:34 am
The dogs and detectors at the airports are pretty close. They have dogs at time at the turnstiles on the subways. There are immigration check points around the country 50+ miles inside the boarder in cases. In some cities in the southwest they have checkpoints on all highways leading out of some major cities. You have psyops more than once a week in Manhattan in the least where hundreds of cops patrol around the Wall St and Times Square area.
I’m not sure I need any more than a man in para-military gear holding an MP5 standing at the bottom of the steps while I try to catch a train.
February 4th, 2008 at 9:38 am
I’ve already considered it. I thought putting "NYPD, Please don’t shoot me." or the like would help get me noticed. I think handing out fliers 30 feet from them would work too. I apparently need a permit to do so inside the terminal… I’ve not yet looked into what is involved in obtaining it however.
April 26th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
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