BIG BROTHER IS HERE, RIGHT NOW, TODAY!

I want everybody to run, don’t walk, to the library and check out a copy of “1984″ by George Orwell.  We are here, folks.  It’s happening, and one day you’ll wake up and wonder what the hell hit you when you can’t even leave your house without permission.

From Channel 5 in Nashville, TN

By Adam Ghassemi

PORTLAND, Tenn. – You’re probably used to seeing TSA’s signature blue uniforms at the airport, but now agents are hitting the interstates to fight terrorism with Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR).

“Where is a terrorist more apt to be found? Not these days on an airplane more likely on the interstate,” said Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons.

Tuesday Tennessee was first to deploy VIPR simultaneously at five weigh stations and two bus stations across the state.

Agents are recruiting truck drivers, like Rudy Gonzales, into the First Observer Highway Security Program to say something if they see something.

“Not only truck drivers, but cars, everybody should be aware of what’s going on, on the road,” said Gonzales.

It’s all meant to urge every driver to call authorities if they see something suspicious.

“Somebody sees something somewhere and we want them to be responsible citizens, report that and let us work it through our processes to abate the concern that they had when they saw something suspicious,” said Paul Armes, TSA Federal Security Director for Nashville International Airport.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol checked trucks at the weigh station with drug and bomb sniffing dogs during random inspections.

“The bottom line is this: if you see something suspicious say something about it,” Gibbons said Tuesday.

The random inspections really aren’t any more thorough than normal, according to Tennessee Highway Patrol Colonel Tracy Trott who says paying attention to details can make a difference. Trott pointed out it was an Oklahoma state trooper who stopped Timothy McVeigh for not having a license plate after the Oklahoma City bombing in the early 1990s.

Tuesday’s statewide “VIPR” operation isn’t in response to any particular threat, according to officials. (Bold and Italics from StopLASP.com)

Armes said intelligence indicates law enforcement should focus on the highways as well as the airports.

No threat, just going to start looking.  See, we’re the good guys, we just want you to be a responsible citizen and give us a call if you see something ‘suspicious’… 

And when you get a dime dropped on you because you cut somebody off in traffic?

And when your kids drop a dime because you make them be home by a certain time?

Or your neighbor’s dog is barking all night and you think that’s suspicious?

Once again, here at StopLASP we’re not against security nor safety.  But we are for Constitutional freedoms, like the 4th Amendment.  You don’t have to like what I do, but if it’s not illegal, I have a right to do it.

That includes flying airplanes.  If you see your hangar neighbor putting 55 gallon drums in his aircraft and filling them with avgas — there’s no STC for that and you should maybe ask a question or two and maybe make a phone call.  But if you fly out of an airport where the jump plane thinks he owns the pattern, being impolite isn’t against FARs either.

It’s a slippery slope and we are very, very close to it.  The world your children will grow up in could be extremely different if you don’t get involved.