Our government is stepping up its plans to search EVERYONE, ANYWHERE, whether you’re travelling by air, rail, ferry or bus.
Beginning this week and almost four years since writers warned Americans that our government wants to search people on trains, its finally become a reality!
The Baltimore Sun reported Amtrak will begin searching all passengers: “Passengers failing to consent to security procedures will be denied access to trains.”
What does this mean for anyone taking a government train (Amtrak)? It means EVERYONE will be subjected to airline style boarding procedures. In Europe, you won’t find pre-boarding ticket checks on any international intercity train line except Eurostar (between London and Paris, for border control purposes). By importing the security theater of air travel, DHS, sorry I mean Amtrak will treat EVERYONE like a suspected terrorist!
Just who will be conducting these security procedures? Why, Amtrak employees and police of course. If an Amtrak employee questions you, its because they’re trained to suspect EVERYONE.
Since 2010 Amtrak’s’ Blue Campaign‘ has been used as an excuse to identify suspected human traffickers.
Men — traveling with children will be subject to enhanced scrutiny. Perhaps Amtrak’s employees will engage children in conversation or demand a statement of their relationship status with the accompanying adults.
On July 25, 2012, DHS held an event to update stakeholders on recent activities and to provide a platform for participants to offer individual feedback regarding the department’s Blue Campaign efforts. (This is all about profit & surveillance)
Don’t be alarmed if you see men in tactical gear with an attack dog approaching you, it’s for your safety, wink, wink!
Those men in black fatigues are Amtrak’s police or “Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response” (VIPR) teams which conduct baggage searches and interrogate anyone. VIPER has a nice ring to it doesn’t it? Oops, sorry I meant VIPR no government snakes here, RIGHT?
Herron points out DHS deploys VIPR teams, which include agents in uniform and bomb-sniffing dogs and agents out of uniform, designed to blend in with passengers.
In 2011 the TSA news blog reported VIPR teams conducted 8,000 unwarranted searches of Americans on buses, trains, ferries and even highways!
Doing the math that means, since 2011 VIPR teams have conducted over 32,000+ unwarranted searches!
Just how bad are Amtrak’s VIPR teams? Click the following links to read more:
Amtrak/DHS is spying on passengers and letting police access records without warrants.
Amtrak’s B.S. ‘suspicious activity list’ where everyone’s a suspect
Amtrak’s’ VIPR teams question attorney who had a nuclear stress test at hospital.
VIPR searches are growing as our rights are shrinking.
DHS/Amtrak wants citizens to spy on innocent passengers:
“Citizens have to be the extra eyes and ears of public officials,” Herron said.
In other words, DHS/Amtrak wants Americans to spy on each other, you know since we’re all terrorists!
There are numerous private railroad police in America that will soon be searching Americans for no reason other than you MIGHT be a terrorist.
Private rail lines CSXT, BNSF, KCS, UP, and others maintain their own private police. The Amtrak Police is the largest with more than 450 sworn officers
FYI, railroad police even have ‘Council Charter Homeland Security Memberships’.
Private railroad police officers licensed in every state, have been accused of physical assaults, racial profiling and harassment according to lawsuits, interviews and court records. The records and interviews show that there have been numerous complaints and dozens of lawsuits filed against railroad police officers in recent years.
Railroad police are trained using the same standards as local police departments, right? WRONG!
Anyone who passes a background check can become a train cop and then go on to train SWAT teams nationwide!
Privately run ‘secret’ railroad police have trained 85 SWAT teams in 13 states!
America’s SWAT teams and police are being trained by privately run police who’s only requirement is to pass a background check! What kind of psychopath’s are training police officers and SWAT teams across America?
It’s unknown if railroad police officers receive any psychological testing. At least DHS run police departments force new cops to undergo some psychological testing, see below:
It’s not just national train police, it’s local commuter train police that are abusing our civil rights with immunity:
See Something, Say Something—Unless It’s MBTA Police Brutality:
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