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Title: DHS Secretary Napolitano announces two general aviation security enhancements
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News 6
URL Source: http://channel6newsonline.com/2010/ ... viation-security-enhancements/
Published: Jul 27, 2010
Author: BNO NEWS
Post Date: 2010-07-27 09:02:55 by bush_is_a_moonie
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Administrator John S. Pistole on Monday launched two major enhancements to general aviation security. “If You See Something, Say Something” national campaign was launched by the general aviation component of the DHS on Monday, as well as a streamlined system for vetting passengers and crew on general aviation aircraft entering and exiting the United States through a single, Department-wide process. The “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign is a simple and effective program to raise public awareness of indicators of terrorism, crime and other threats and emphasize the importance of reporting suspicious activity to the proper transportation and law enforcement authorities. The campaign was originally implemented by New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority and funded partially by $13 million from DHS' Transit Security Grant Program. The campaign represents the second major expansion of the program since July 1, when Secretary Napolitano announced the initiative’s first phase, for Amtrak. In the coming months, DHS will continue to expand the campaign nationally with public education materials, advertisements and other outreach tools to continue engaging travelers, businesses, community organizations and public and private sector employees to remain vigilant and play an active role in keeping the country safe. “This new component of ‘If You See Something, Say Something’ will enable general aviation passengers and crew to better recognize and report behaviors and indicators associated with new and evolving threats,” said Secretary Napolitano. “We are also transitioning to a streamlined system for vetting travelerts on general aviation flights to and from the United States to provide a single, electronic screening process while maintaining robust security standards.” As part of the campaign, DHS is asking the public to report suspicious general aviation activity to TSA’s hotline at 1-866-GA-SECURE. In addition, DHS will streamline the process for pre-screening passengers and crews entering and exiting the United States on general aviation aircraft by allowing pilots and operators of general aviation flights to submit a single manifest to the Electronic Advance Passenger Information System, which is the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) online tool for submitting general aviation data. The streamlined system is expected to take effect on the first of September. “As we saw in the Times Square attempted bombing, the public plays a key role in security,” said Administrator Pistole. “We ask that general aviation pilots and community members join us in helping to keep general aviation secure through ‘If You See Something, Say Something’ and by helping to develop new programs and initiatives, such as our new streamlined vetting system for international general aviation travel.” “Security has always been a top priority for the business aviation community, and these two new security enhancements reflect an understanding of how our industry operates, and also how government and industry can enhance security without sacrificing mobility,” said National Business Aviation Association President and CEO Ed Bolen. “We thank the TSA and DHS for working with industry on these measures, which will be fully effective and workable as a result of our collaboration.”
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Keeping Uncle Sam from spying on citizens During the first Gulf War, Greg Nojeim went to Washington National Airport to observe Arab Americans being pulled out of lines and put through security checks that weren't required of other passengers. The evidence he gathered was used by his employer, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, to sue Pan Am World Airways on allegations of racial profiling. Now an attorney with the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), he's still fighting attempts to use national security as a justification to violate people's constitutional rights and invade their privacy. Specifically, he analyzes proposed legislation, lobbies and testifies before Congress, and provides advice to companies and the government on civil liberties issues that arise in the technology world to protect the privacy of consumer activities and communications. "For about the last 15 years, my career has focused on the intersection of privacy, law enforcement and national security," Nojeim said. "When I started at the ACLU in 1995, it was just a few weeks after the Oklahoma City bombing. Wiretapping and government surveillance were at the center of my issue portfolio. And Congress has been focused on those issues for years." Nojeim is director of the Project on Freedom, Security, and Technology at the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit CDT. He has tackled government data mining, the Patriot Act, and wireless wiretapping, working to limit the threat that surveillance by officials and law enforcement poses to consumer privacy. He brought together a coalition of groups that worked to remove proposals from a 1996 antiterrorism law that would have given law enforcement increased wiretap authority to access records without court orders and broaden the type of records accessed. Nojeim is concerned about the ramifications of a government policy that allows officials to eavesdrop on citizens without proper justification. "Who wants to live in a world where the government can listen in on every communication without any evidence of crime?" he said. "The consequences of that are that people won't communicate freely and the country would be very different as a result. Imagine how your conversation with a close personal friend would change if you knew someone else was listening. That's what is at stake. That's what needs to be protected." Nojeim also is bothered by possible side effects from new measures designed to improve the country's ability to fend off cyberattacks, particularly a proposal to allow a government agency to access information held by companies--even if protected by a privacy statute--when the agency believes the information is relevant to cybersecurity. This means the government could use a broad cybersecurity justification and ask ISPs and other service providers to turn over private e-mails of citizens. Officials are normally restricted by certain conditions such as requirements to provide probable cause that a crime was committed or access is otherwise warranted. "I'm referring specifically to the Cybersecurity Act, which says that [the Department of] Commerce would become the new clearinghouse for cybersecurity information and that it could, in that role, gain access to that information notwithstanding any law," he said.
Every time I fly I see TSA agents being rude, condescending, very aggravating as well as being idiots in general. I wonder if this is something people are supposed to report.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. Perhaps people could report some illegal Mexicans working at the airport as suspicious.
I think I just found a new way to amuse myself on a Sunday Afternoon. Hang out at the airport, and tell screeners you saw someone with something weird. Especially if it's someone you cannot fricking stand. Oh the crap people could pull on our beloved failed leadership... Just by following the law.
It is better to be hated for what you are, than loved for what you are not. - Tommy The Mad Artist.
The government wants everyone to be a snitch.
The "snitch" idea of pitting grasseater against grasseater is a tried and true, very effective technique. The Bolsheviks and Stalinists honed it to absolute perfection (I like to give credit when credit is due) and they lasted in power for a good long time. The clowns running our gubment may not be as inventive as the Russian commies were, but our gubment drones are smart enough to recognize what evil control ideas work...no need to re-invent the wheel, eh...
"The creation of hate for a contrived external enemy has long been the psychological conditioning practiced by dictators to spur their subjects to still greater sacrifices." - J. Edgar Hoover The above quote is from A Study of Communism, written by Hoover in 1962, and he made the quote in reference to Red China warning the Chinese people about the "dangers of American imperialism". It seems that Americans are being asked, today, to sacrifice our rights for protection from "a contrived external enemy".
__________________________________________________________ could be better named as the "be scared, be very scared" campaign. It has been in effect here on our bus system for a while. My reading is that it is a PsyOp to make people more fearful not less.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
Dictatorships always need an "external enemy" in order to justify their suppression of their own people and to get them to go along with it. "One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
#2. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#0)
“If You See Something, Say Something”
Lord Acton
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace
#3. To: James Deffenbach (#2)
Every time I fly I see TSA agents being rude, condescending, very aggravating as well as being idiots in general. I wonder if this is something people are supposed to report.
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
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#6. To: Cynicom (#5)
The government wants everyone to be a snitch.
#7. To: Cynicom, scrapper2 (#5)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#8. To: bush_is_a_moonie (#0)
The “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign
#9. To: X-15 (#7)
It seems that Americans are being asked, today, to sacrifice our rights for protection from "a contrived external enemy".
"Oceana has always been at war with Eurasia." - George Orwell, "1984"
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