Update:
Report savages terrorism ‘fusion centers’ for high cost, low value
“In the new Senate report, investigators found that with the lack of oversight, fusion centers spent money wildly, including a San Diego fusion center that bought 55 flat-screen televisions at a cost of $75,000 to watch the news and display calendars.”
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Ever notice that the surveillance society, fusion centers, war on terror crime fighting tactics, license plate scanners, monitoring of e-mails and text messages, tracking of cell phones, use of drones, etc. seems to fail at stopping hardcore bad guys?
The federal government must have magic crime fighting powers to stop terrorists. The magic powers don’t work on crimes like bank robbery or drug trafficking.
It appears the federal government has been extremely successful in preventing major post 911 domestic terror strikes.
If the federal government has the crime fighting skills to wipe out all major terror strikes since 911- why wouldn’t they use those skills to shut down other categories of violent crimes?
Why does the federal government maintain a Homeland Security police state that can’t keep heroin and cocaine from entering the US?
The people who move heroin & cocaine into N. America do so free of screening, scanning, pat downs, special IDs, inspection of personal items, etc.
SOURCES: U.S. NATIONAL DRUG INTELLIGENCE CENTER REPORT 2011, THE U.S. NATIONAL SEIZURE SYSTEM, AND THE JUSTICE IN MEXICO PROJECT
Fusion centers unable to slow down these bad guys:
Suspects On The Loose After ‘Take Over Style Robbery’ At The McDonald’s
Lone madman shuts down Mount Rainier National Park & ties up 200 law officers for 24 hours.
Park remains closed for almost a week– madman not found until after he succumbed to the forces of nature- not a shootout with the good guys.
Josh Powell blows up house & kids
41-year-old Peter Keller-
Victims shot to death prior to North Bend house fire
60+ rounds fired in four Seattle drive-by shootings
Planned Parenthood bomber
Boy, 5, brings heroin for show and tell
In a general sense- are fusion centers able to stop mass shootings, serial killings, or drug trafficking?
‘Uptick’ in heroin use seen on North Olympic Peninsula
War on Drugs Hasn’t Stemmed Flow Into U.S.
Urban Shield SWAT event- Preventing Terrorism Aim Of Operation ‘Urban Shield’
Preventing Terrorism?
It will be easy to spot an attempted strike. Expect the bad guys to be sloppy- the packages they send will look like they were put together by drunken 3rd graders, or Wile E Coyote.
If all the bank robbers in North America decided to become terrorists instead- how would the Dept. of Homeland Security stop them?
Buzz around in gunboats and helicopters?
NORAD/US Air Force radar?
Scramble fighter jets?
Inspect cargo shipments at US port cities?
Internal Suspicionless checkpoints and roadblocks?
Related:
Working to prevent another 911
How are terrorists kept out while heroin comes in?
Possibly of interest:
Port Angeles Border Patrol Mysteries
Photo- Amphibious landing- Blaine Sector