The TSA’s VIPR program: Mission leap, not mission creep
• dailycaller.com by Bob BarrNot content with hassling air passengers at airports across the country, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is now implementing plans to stop vehicles traveling America’s highways and byways, in the hope of finding terrorists and other
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/98114.html
They've been doing this for years. Though we know from experience that the government couldn't find a terrorist if one took flying lessons or entered the country and over-sttayed a visa, stopping folks at random locations is nothing new. (Therre is seldom anyone more surprised than a "cop" when some sort of "illicit" person or product is discovered at a roadblock.)
Let's face it, 9/11 is the new scapegoat for every violation of anything, by some comic book government agency or functionary...Before all this, it was computers; and; before that it was just about anything to do with some drug-related item or incident - real or imagined.
I suspect that, for the TSA, an isolated traffic stop offers an improved potential for copping a feel or otherwise sexually or physically or verbally abusing folks.
Nobody should be surprised. Everyone ought to be pissed. This is just another on the ever-growing KMA list.