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http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/10556103/

to me this smacks of red team foolery.
btw, his initials are "TSA"
when was the last time you were allowed to fly after having a grenade confiscated and being "admonished"?

Fort Bragg, N.C. — A Fort Bragg soldier charged with having explosives in his
carry-on luggage at a Texas airport was stopped earlier at Fayetteville Regional
Airport when security screeners found a military grenade in his bag, according
to the FBI.
Trey Scott Atwater,(TSA) 30, was stopped at security at the Midland International
Airport in Texas on Saturday after a Transportation Security Administration
officer spotted a suspicious item in a carry-on bag during X-ray screening.
According to an FBI affidavit in the case, the material was C-4 plastic
explosive. Officers found no detonator, meaning there was no way to ignite the
explosive.
Atwater flew out of Fayetteville on Christmas Eve, and security there detained
him after finding a military smoke grenade in the bag, the FBI affidavit states.
TSA agents in Fayetteville didn't see any C-4 in the bag at the time, according
to the affidavit, and they allowed Atwater to continue on the flight to Midland
after confiscating the grenade and admonishing him.
Despite that incident, Atwater told FBI agents that he didn't know the
explosives were in the bag, which he said he brought home from Afghanistan last
April, according to the affidavit.
An instructor at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School at Fort Bragg,
Atwater said his 7th Special Forces Group team routinely carried at least two
blocks of C-4 on any operation, the affidavit states. Since he was a demolitions
expert, he often carried more, he told investigators.
Yet, he said, he hadn't used the bag since returning from deployment and only
grabbed it from the garage of his Hope Mills home to carry children's items on a
family trip to Texas over the holidays, the affidavit states. He expressed
surprise that the C-4 was found inside.
Atwater was being held at the Midland County jail on a charge of trying to bring
explosives onto an airplane.
Army officials say he is likely to face military discipline, in addition to the
federal charge.

"Atwater?"
His name is..."Atwater?" Just heard it on National Propaganda Radio.

Uh, this is the evening of the Republican Caucus vote in Iowa, the beginning of the US presidential (s)election season.

Know who Lee Atwater was? His reputation as a RACIST dirty manipulating deceiver (or 'bombthrower') for the Republican Party?
No coincidence.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater

Atwater on the Southern Strategy

As a member of the Reagan administration in 1981, Atwater gave an anonymous interview to political scientist Alexander P. Lamis. Part of this interview was printed in Lamis' book The Two-Party South, then reprinted in Southern Politics in the 1990s with Atwater's name revealed. Bob Herbert reported on the interview in the 6 October 2005 edition of the New York Times. Atwater talked about the GOP's Southern Strategy and Ronald Reagan's version of it:

Atwater: As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry S. Dent, Sr. and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act would have been a central part of keeping the South. Now [the new Southern Strategy of Ronald Reagan] doesn't have to do that. All you have to do to keep the South is for Reagan to run in place on the issues he's campaigned on since 1964 and that's fiscal conservatism, balancing the budget, cut taxes, you know, the whole cluster.

Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?

Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "Nigger, nigger."[6][7]

And if you still don't see keyword hijacking as a real perception management trick, you're blind.

Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:And if you still don't see keyword hijacking as a real perception management trick, you're blind.

And if you don't see a horse's head yer an ass.

EDIT: Sorry Hugh. Yer right. They are literally BRAGGing at us about their wagging the doggie in our faces... giving him the initials TSA for goodness sakes.

http://www.statesman.com/opinion/its-ti ... tArticle=y

It's time to give troops a pass at airports
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey HutchisonPublished: 6:06 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011


With the holiday season upon us, many Americans are traveling through crowded airports. For our service men and women who are deployed overseas, reuniting with loved ones for the holidays probably has been their first thought each morning and the last thought each night. Many of these troops are traveling to or from multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.

As I travel back and forth from Texas to Washington, I have seen our military men and women in uniform waiting patiently in long airport security lines, watching as they must remove their combat boots, worn on the front lines of Afghanistan.

I think the vast majority of Americans would agree that our military men and women make sacrifices for our nation every day. The least we can do is make their lives — and the lives of their family members — easier when they travel on official orders around the country they defend. Our nation's military have earned the right from a grateful nation to go to the front of the line.

That's why I introduced The Trust Our Troops Act, a bill that would require the Transportation Security Administration to work with the Department of Defense to develop a program to expedite security screening procedures for our military personnel and their families who accompany them.

After I spoke on the floor of the Senate about this legislation, I was stopped in the hall by a young man who just happened to be in the Senate Gallery that evening during my remarks. As an Army Special Forces sergeant, he told me about his own experience at airport screening while in uniform carrying a military radio as part of official courier duty between bases. TSA agents took his radio apart to test for explosives. Such examples occur every day to our men and women in uniform at airports across our nation. That's what drove me to introduce this legislation.

The Trust Our Troops Act has bipartisan support and is co-sponsored by Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Richard Burr, R-N.C. It passed the Senate unanimously. The House of Representatives is expected to pass our legislation soon.

And although, the bill will not affect this year's holiday travel season, it will require the TSA and Defense Department to work together to implement a more common-sense process for military personnel's travel.

Members of our military and their families, traveling on orders and in uniform, will benefit from these new rules. It will also expedite the process for all air travelers.

In a time of increasing fiscal constraints, the establishment of procedures to expedite the screening of a pool of travelers who are certainly our most "trusted travelers" will better allow TSA to focus its attention on areas of real threat.

More than 1.4 million brave men and women make up our nation's armed forces. While many of these servicemen and women will be traveling through our airports over the next few weeks for long-awaited reunions with their families, still many others will be deployed in harm's way during the holidays. We are grateful to each of them as we enjoy our time with our loved ones at this special time of year.

Hutchison is the senior senator from Texas; www.hutchison.senate.gov.

Yeah, creating a supposedly "trusted" class ... what a juxtaposition.

elfismiles wrote:Yeah, creating a supposedly "trusted" class ... what a juxtaposition.

A trusted class of people who've been mindfucked in basic training, harmed by drugs, combat and atrocity, many of whom feel completely abandoned, used, betrayed, misunderstood. Fully immersed in a culture of violence, weaponry, and humanity at its worst.

Thank you for your service. Walk on through!

he said, he hadn't used the bag since returning from deployment and only
grabbed it from the garage of his Hope Mills home to carry children's items on a
family trip to Texas over the holidays, the affidavit states. He expressed
surprise that the C-4 was found inside.

hmm.. leaving aside the TSA-Atwater KWHs, no doubt carefully scripted elements of this Christmas episode of Spook Playhouse, I'd say the more sinister purpose of that touching tale is to grease the skids for the Hutchinson legislation, and the purpose of that is to take us one step closer to domestic military "occupation," another KWH everybody scoffed at.

The point in other words is to enable deployment of our gigantic military apparatus right here in the US, thus guaranteeing a comfortable living for the MIC and terrifying us peeps, who are forced to pay for it, just like the Irish in the 16th and subsequent centuries, when Europe's largest standing army, euphemistically known as "the Irish garrison," in reality a voracious and corrupt British force numbering in the thousands, plus additional thousands of dependents and attendants, were all lodged, fed, and involuntarily paid by the very citizens they terrorized. Convenient arrangement.

elfismiles wrote:

Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:And if you still don't see keyword hijacking as a real perception management trick, you're blind.

And if you don't see a horse's head yer an ass.

The Trust Our Troops Act has bipartisan support and is co-sponsored by Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Richard Burr, R-N.C. It passed the Senate unanimously.

I can smell the shit from a mile way. Which animal it comes from exactly i'm not sure. Probably some bull shit.

Pele'sDaughter wrote:http://www.statesman.com/opinion/its-time-to-give-troops-a-pass-at-2039835.html?printArticle=y

It's time to give troops a pass at airports
U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey HutchisonPublished: 6:06 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011

Hutchison is the senior senator from Texas; http://www.hutchison.senate.gov.

The sad thing is that her likely successor has more fascistic proclivities than her or Rick Perry.


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