What Next From The Department Of Homeland Security?

(Hat tip to Bob Mack for the graphic and the link below)

Look at how the Department of Homeland Security is overreaching its original parameters:

The Department of Homeland Security’s ICE has launched a major crackdown on websites enabling copyright infringement or selling counterfeits of trademarked goods. In just the past few days ICE has seized at least 12 domains, TorrentFreak reports.

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...[T]he sites were seized before the site’s owner heard any charges or had the chance to submit any counter evidence in court. The owners of the sites had their property seized without being allowed to defend themselves.

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In the aftermath of 9-11, when the creation of DHS was being debated, would your opinion have been swayed if you knew that, within just a few years, the proposed agency would be seizing websites peddling fake purses? Did you imagine that the proposed agency would soon demand to take naked photographs of randomly-selected U.S. citizens? Or, insist on its authority to physically grope children?

Now, ask yourself this: What will the Agency be doing 10 years from now? Or, 20? In a little more than half a decade, DHS has morphed from protecting us from terrorists to protecting us from fake merchandise. Who is going to protect us from DHS?

Immediately following 9/11, I cheered the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security. Most Americans felt the same way.

But just think of the department's powers now in the hands of an administration which is ever trying to grab more power.

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What If This Happened To Your Child?

As one in my late 50s, I'm able to tolerate most any kind of examination of my body. That said, I think that the TSA has gone way over the line, particularly in the following video:


From the person who filmed the above video:

Lets get the facts straight first. Before the video started the boy went through a metal detector and didn't set it off but was selected for a pat down. The boy was shy so the TSA couldn't complete the full pat on the young boy. The father tried several times to just hold the boys arms out for the TSA agent but i guess it didn't end up being enough for the guy. I was about 30 ft away so i couldn't hear their conversation if there was any. The enraged father pulled his son shirt off and gave it to the TSA agent to search, thats when this video begins.

At Infidel Bloggers Alliance, Midnight Rider said the following:

America is becoming so cowed by government intrusiveness and invasion of our lives that we no longer even defend our children from what is tantamount to assualt, and sexual sssault at that. Afraid of what they might do. We're not even recognizing it as wrong. Numbed down and dumbed down to thinking THIS is the new normal and it's ok even though unsavory.

Thus far, Obama has deemed the TSA procedures necessary.

I say: Give the TSA a pass on doing this kind of thing for a few years, and many young people won't know that anything else was ever the norm.

Here's some snarky truth from Pastorius: we're having to endure all this

for the pleasure of living with all the nice Moderate Muslims we get the joy of sharing our lives with here in the USA.

So what do we do? Not take family vacations by air anymore? Not attend family funerals or other family gatherings in distant states or travel with our families to overseas destinations?

And what about this incident, in which a TSA search left the passenger soaked in urine? Again, the TSA was way over the line. Will the ADA step in on that case?

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Our Porous Southern Border

More at Creeping Sharia.

The phrase "Asking for it" springs to mind.

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Molly Norris Vs. Jorge Luis Aguirre

Silverfiddle of Western Hero makes an excellent point in this post:

The FBI cannot protect an American citizen [Molly Norris] from Muslim murderers, but it grants asylum to a foreigner [Jorge Luis Aguirre] threatened by drug gangs.

Read Silverfiddle's entire post HERE.

My post about Molly Norris is HERE.

America has come to a sorry pass under the Obama administration.

Obama protests objections to the Ground Zero Mosque, condemns burning the Koran, yet remains silent about an American journalist's being forced into hiding by practitioners of the religion of peace.

Surreal.

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Infiltration

Please make time to watch the video in this posting.

Via Infidel Bloggers Alliance:

Islamic Infiltration - Part 2 from Morgan Wright on Vimeo.

Bill Whittle Investigates, Part 2: A former FBI special agent discusses how our government has looked the other way as an Islamic insurrection mounts within our borders. Watch and comment here: http://pjtv.com/v/2934

Note the following:

In 2010, there no longer is mandatory counter-terrorism training at the FBI.

While many of us are scrambling to stay afloat in our ailing economy, "the inevitable," as outlined in the above video, is moving forward.

It is NOT paranoia to recognize and deal with the threat of Islamic infiltration. Rather, it IS stupidity that will have no good outcome when a nation is undermined from within.

Whether Obama is a Moslem or merely an Islamophile, the end result will be the same,i.e., the furtherance of the Islamic-supremacy agenda and undermining our national security so that "the inevitable" must indeed occur.

Meanwhile, Obama is making sure that the Gitmo prisoners have certain amenities:

President Obama has not fulfilled his pledge to close the detainee prison at Guantanamo Bay, but he has brought Skype, Playstation3 and "life skills" classes to the detainees at the island facility.

While the 181 men being held in the prison wait to learn their fates after the administration fell through on its January 2010 deadline to move them out, 90 percent now live in a communal environment that includes Skype, the online video chat service, and access to a 17,000-book library.

That's up from 40 percent of detainees a year ago....

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