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Anti Federalist
02-04-2012, 07:19 AM
The Super Bowl's 'Security'

by Becky Akers

http://lewrockwell.com/akers/akers176.html

Football fans, beware. "Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano joined NFL and other officials in warning that security for Sunday's game at Lucas Oil Stadium would be significantly heightened…" Whoa! Seems professional games have become so dangerous you’d better stay home this year.

And it isn’t just the Super Bowl. Those big, brawny guys at the NFL’s headquarters are so terrified that they "partnered" months ago with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to protect themselves.

What’s the threat?

You.

Oh, and your kids, too: the "family friendly" NFL ordered all 32 of its clubs last fall to grope every customer entering a stadium, whatever his age, regardless of her condition.

Why are you and John Jr. such a menace? Because on the theory of "deep pockets," corrupt courts have enabled anyone injured to sue not the entity responsible for his harm but the wealthiest one within a 25-mile radius. If an unofficial terrorist attacked one of the NFL’s games, litigious fans could bankrupt the League. (On the other hand, official terrorists may assault fans repeatedly and with impunity, as Sunday proves.)

So in 2009, Our Rulers granted the NFL immunity from such lawsuits in exchange for cooperating with the DHS. Naturally, both parties pretend that molesting you before admitting you to your over-priced seat is a selfless act on their part, purely for your benefit -- despite the studies linking sexual assault with depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and even suicide. But we all know who’s really profiting: the DHS extends its police-state further into our lives while the NFL protects itself from socialism masquerading as justice.

Nor has its conquest of the NFL contented the DHS. It’s also enlisted "Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, [and] the U.S. Open Tennis Championships (USTA)" as "partners" in its "’See Something, Say Something’ public awareness campaign," just as it did the NFL. From there, it’s a short step to frisking those fans, too.

Some of the NFL’s members valiantly sugarcoat the offense against fans. According to the New York Jets, "…[A]ll guests will be subject to a courteous pat-down screening upon entry by Safety Services staff of the same gender. ... Persons that refuse to be patted down … will not be admitted." Nice try, but "guests" paying megabucks aren’t prisoners, nor should they be abused as such.

Yet the NFL has been confusing customers with criminals since 2005, when it claimed to ESPN that molesting selected "guests" would "provide an essential layer of security in an age of constant terrorism threats."

Yeah, right. Personnel usually searched folks suspected of smuggling stuff the NFL’s concessionaires sold and only from the waist up. But not many terrorists tape explosives to their chests while trying to look suspicious.


So the NFL moved the goalposts. For months now, it’s been groping customers above the waist and from knees to ankles. How long before it makes a pass at the end zone as well?

We’ve seen this graduated approach before. The TSA pawed passengers’ arms and legs at airports for years. Then, in 2010, it stole second base, too.

Indeed, the TSA seems to be coaching the NFL. The League parrots the same excuse as the TSA: "Someone somewhere might try something sometime, which gives us a pass to manhandle everybody." Though of course, it doesn’t say it that plainly. Instead, it swiped not only the TSA’s procedures but the jargon that sanitizes this sexual assault: "The enhanced security procedures … will further increase the safety of fans but will require some additional time," a spokesman for the NFL contends.

"Some additional time"? The TSA claims to paw only 3% of passengers, not 100% -- and its lines are the stuff of nightmares. It recently began psychologically searching everyone who passed through its checkpoints at Boston’s Logan Airport, interrogating victims for 30 seconds apiece. These "chat-downs" caused delays of four hours.

Meanwhile, both the NFL and the Super Bowl grossly inconvenience and even more grossly insult "guests" over … nothing.

That’s right: nothing. Mr.-sorry, Mistress Janet immediately denied any menace to the Super Bowl despite pawing patrons; so did the NFL when dictating its new policy: "the ‘enhanced security procedures’ are not a result of any specific threat, but the league is ‘always refining and improving’ security."

Oh, they’re refining and improving, all right. Not only do the sheeple no longer object to this totalitarianism, they expect and even accept it. "I don't particularly like it," one woman from Maryland explained, "but if it's for our safety I'm used to it. I'm used to getting pat down already when you go to the Redskins stadium."

Touchdown for Leviathan.

flightlesskiwi
02-04-2012, 07:52 AM
Hasn't this chick seen "The Sum of All Fears"??

Come on!!!!! We should be thankful this stuff gets stopped before it can get started.




/s

onlyrp
02-04-2012, 01:44 PM
going? a vast minority of the people get their hands on tickets, and all know the dangers of a crowd, so yeah, normal people wouldn't go.

noneedtoaggress
02-04-2012, 02:04 PM
Hasn't this chick seen "The Sum of All Fears"??

Come on!!!!! We should be thankful this stuff gets stopped before it can get started.




/s

http://www.impawards.com/2002/posters/sum_of_all_fears.jpg

WAIT..

WAIT... I'm getting something...

Breaking News: It's okay guys they found it in the couch cushions.

onlyrp
02-04-2012, 02:07 PM
Hasn't this chick seen "The Sum of All Fears"??

Come on!!!!! We should be thankful this stuff gets stopped before it can get started.




/s

is that the Ben Affleck movie that accuses Israel for having nuclear bombs, or that neo-fascists want US & Russia to fight each other?

flightlesskiwi
02-04-2012, 02:12 PM
is that the Ben Affleck movie that accuses Israel for having nuclear bombs, or that neo-fascists want US & Russia to fight each other?

no, it's the one where that guy who works for that place likes that girl who works in that place and there's this other guy who speaks this language and kills people and this one leader guy who everyone thinks is crazy but isn't..

and stuff blows up and people are scared.

but it works out in the end.. because they find it in the couch cushions.

KCIndy
02-04-2012, 02:18 PM
I don't like crowds, so I wouldn't have gone anyway... but with the Draconian - Orwellian, actually - "security" that has been enacted in recent years, I wouldn't get within ten miles of the joint if I could help it.

The article doesn't mention it, but Super Bowl security is using full body scanners as well:

http://www.nesn.com/2012/02/massive-body-scanners-highlight-tight-security-measures-for-super-bowl-xlvi.html

And welcome to the age of Thought Crime:

http://www.indystar.com/article/20120202/NEWS11/202020371/Federal-officials-Security-precautions-Super-Bowl-2012-unprecedented-


From the minute they get on a plane, visitors to Indianapolis should expect to be watched, sniffed and pawed as security around the Super Bowl XLVI host city tightens.

Air marshals will be on flights, and bloodhounds will roam the airport. Cameras line the streets, and helicopters hover in the sky. Cops at every corner; security at every stop.

Federal officials said the precautions amount to "unprecedented" security for a Super Bowl. Yet, they said, more help is needed -- from the public.

"If you see something, say something," U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said at a news conference Wednesday in Indianapolis. "We have seen time and time again that the public itself is our best protection."

Jingles
02-04-2012, 02:19 PM
I'm so happy that I'm not a sports fan.

Son of Detroit
02-04-2012, 02:25 PM
I'd love to be able to go to a superbowl. Too expensive though.

flightlesskiwi
02-04-2012, 02:25 PM
i wonder if the Patriots made good old Janet N. an honorary linebacker.... makes sense all around...


I don't like crowds, so I wouldn't have gone anyway... but with the Draconian - Orwellian, actually - "security" that has been enacted in recent years, I wouldn't get within ten miles of the joint if I could help it.

The article doesn't mention it, but Super Bowl security is using full body scanners as well:

http://www.nesn.com/2012/02/massive-body-scanners-highlight-tight-security-measures-for-super-bowl-xlvi.html

And welcome to the age of Thought Crime:

http://www.indystar.com/article/20120202/NEWS11/202020371/Federal-officials-Security-precautions-Super-Bowl-2012-unprecedented-

KCIndy
02-04-2012, 02:30 PM
Oh, yeah. I forgot to mention the use of aerial reconnaissance, facial recognition technology, and the fact that everyone there is being recorded for posterity:

http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/super_bowl_xlvi/security-cameras-trained-on-super-bowl-crowds-from-street-sky


The 1,000 public safety officials out on the streets aren't the only eyes watching you. Four police helicopters watch from the air. And you may be surprised just how much they can see.

"They can see what kind of tie I'm wearing. It's that type of video,” said Frank Straub, Indianapolis public safety director. “They're shooting that video back to our public safety compound as well as to the joint operations center."

Cameras posted on Georgia Street also record the crowds during the day and through the night.

Teams of officers watch the video on large monitors 24 hours a day at the new high tech regional operations center. If police are looking for someone specific, computer software takes over the search.

"We are using facial recognition technologies, so if there is someone we are looking for in the crowd, we can identify them by facial characteristics and move a team in, whether it is a uniform team or an undercover team," said Straub.

donnay
02-04-2012, 02:54 PM
I keep on thinking I am going to wake up from this nightmare...

liberty2897
02-04-2012, 03:28 PM
The comment regarding aerial reconnaissance made me think of this 30-year old song from JP. Back when it was released (1982), it seemed like it might be possible ...someday...


From the album Screaming for Vengeance.
Lyrics:
Up here in space
Im looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do

You think youve private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
Im watching all the time

Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye

Always in focus
You cant feel my stare
I zoom into you
You dont know Im there

I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove

Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye

Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
Theres nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows

Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean

Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye

Protected. detective. electric eye

onlyrp
02-04-2012, 03:29 PM
no, it's the one where that guy who works for that place likes that girl who works in that place and there's this other guy who speaks this language and kills people and this one leader guy who everyone thinks is crazy but isn't..

and stuff blows up and people are scared.

but it works out in the end.. because they find it in the couch cushions.

ok, i'll have to watch it again, thanks.

gunnysmith
02-04-2012, 03:45 PM
Bread and circuses to soothe the hungry masses.

NidStyles
02-04-2012, 04:42 PM
This why I won't even turn any "pro-sport" on the TV. I don't even want to give them the ratings. Nothing but fascists.

Cowlesy
02-04-2012, 04:44 PM
When the Cleveland Browns are in it, I am there.

Shouldn't be long now.

VBRonPaulFan
02-04-2012, 04:53 PM
professional sports hasn't been about the fans for at least 2 decades. stuff like this shouldn't surprise anyone, especially if it helps the team make a few extra bucks.

phill4paul
02-04-2012, 05:04 PM
Who needs camaras???

TSA Trains Super Bowl Hot Dog Sellers To Spot Terrorists

http://www.infowars.com/tsa-trains-super-bowl-hot-dog-sellers-to-spot-terrorists/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prT1E_S__jM

donnay
02-04-2012, 05:10 PM
Who needs camaras???

TSA Trains Super Bowl Hot Dog Sellers To Spot Terrorists

http://www.infowars.com/tsa-trains-super-bowl-hot-dog-sellers-to-spot-terrorists/


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prT1E_S__jM

Beware of the weenie snatchers!

playpianoking
02-04-2012, 05:25 PM
"TSA trains Super Bowl vendors to spot terror threats"



http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/04/tsa-trains-super-bowl-vendors-to-spot-terror-threats/?test=latestnews

thoughtomator
02-04-2012, 05:28 PM
Beware of the weenie snitchers!

FIFY

phill4paul
02-04-2012, 05:35 PM
Beware of the weenie snatchers!



Originally Posted by donnay
Beware of the weenie snitchers!


FIFY

LOL!

Danke
02-04-2012, 09:12 PM
I'd like go 'cause I have nothing to hide as the previous posters, but I rather enjoy my own 10' screen, inexpensive beer and home theater sound with instant replays vs. siting in a stadium and standing in line to pee.

GeorgiaAvenger
02-04-2012, 09:18 PM
Football>Liberty

I am partly serious, lol

NidStyles
02-04-2012, 09:21 PM
So Concealed Carry is illegal at the Super Bowl then? If so i wouldn't go on that premise alone, not that I even have an interest in football in the first place. Have you guys seen the price of those tickets?

Lishy
02-04-2012, 09:24 PM
Politics are more important than chasing a ball.

seraphson
02-04-2012, 09:32 PM
I'm so happy that I'm not a sports fan.

This.
I'm perfectly fine that Derek Jeter has a $220 million career salary (after all, the fans that pay $10 for one 8oz. beer are kind of enough to contribute) to swing a stick and run in circles.
But to go through all this bull to watch Team A go against Team B, no thanks.

Danke
02-04-2012, 09:38 PM
Politics are more important than chasing a ball.

Not tomorrow.

phill4paul
02-04-2012, 09:40 PM
I'd like go 'cause I have nothing to hide as the previous posters, but I rather enjoy my own 10' screen, inexpensive beer and home theater sound with instant replays vs. siting in a stadium and standing in line to pee.

You would stand in line to pee?

noneedtoaggress
02-04-2012, 09:43 PM
Politics are more important than chasing a ball.

//

http://fitsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/graham-gay.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IjIVsbPvzSI/TuaPeGiwl3I/AAAAAAAACvY/nNuykXK_mMY/s1600/lindsey-graham-scsen.jpg

Danke
02-04-2012, 09:54 PM
You would stand in line to pee?

Last time I peed on the guy's leg in front of me in line, I got the shit knocked out of me, so ya. Do you know a secret place in a stadium to pee and not get tased? Or are you one of those Depends wearers?

Anti Federalist
02-05-2012, 06:40 AM
I'd like go 'cause I have nothing to hide as the previous posters, but I rather enjoy my own 10' screen, inexpensive beer and home theater sound with instant replays vs. siting in a stadium and standing in line to pee.


Last time I peed on the guy's leg in front of me in line, I got the shit knocked out of me, so ya. Do you know a secret place in a stadium to pee and not get tased? Or are you one of those Depends wearers?

Shit...

noneedtoaggress
02-08-2012, 02:09 PM
Yet another reason:

http://s16.postimage.org/hkblkgl1v/401547_10150513598236012_108369671011_9191107_10.j pg

donnay
02-08-2012, 02:27 PM
Inside the sniper's nest at this past Super Bowl.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2012/02/31ac2f1b5632ef1aea29b7eaaf1807a7.jpg

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2012/02/e4504f117450d9be2398bd5540f794ad.jpg

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2012/02/acfed91b59399a67db71e4f13579bd7f.jpg

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2012/02/514687c7cd935a5a8f981b0c2284a96c.jpg

This Looks Like A Fortified Sniper’s Nest At The Super Bowl
Some photos with no backstory are making the rounds, showing what appears to be an Indianapolis police sniper checking out his post in the rafters of Lucas Oil Stadium in the hours or days before the Super Bowl, a post that would be manned when the game began. Yes, we know there's nothing surprising about trained marksmen working the biggest sporting event of the year. We also know it's pretty damn cool to see what the Super Bowl snipers are working with.

http://deadspin.com/5883203/this-looks-like-a-fortified-snipers-nest-at-the-super-bowl

noneedtoaggress
02-08-2012, 03:19 PM
Is there a suppressor on the end of that rifle?

Sola_Fide
02-08-2012, 03:39 PM
Inside the sniper's nest at this past Super Bowl.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2012/02/31ac2f1b5632ef1aea29b7eaaf1807a7.jpg

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2012/02/e4504f117450d9be2398bd5540f794ad.jpg

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2012/02/acfed91b59399a67db71e4f13579bd7f.jpg

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/11/2012/02/514687c7cd935a5a8f981b0c2284a96c.jpg

This Looks Like A Fortified Sniper’s Nest At The Super Bowl
Some photos with no backstory are making the rounds, showing what appears to be an Indianapolis police sniper checking out his post in the rafters of Lucas Oil Stadium in the hours or days before the Super Bowl, a post that would be manned when the game began. Yes, we know there's nothing surprising about trained marksmen working the biggest sporting event of the year. We also know it's pretty damn cool to see what the Super Bowl snipers are working with.

http://deadspin.com/5883203/this-looks-like-a-fortified-snipers-nest-at-the-super-bowl

wow

flightlesskiwi
02-08-2012, 04:57 PM
wow

+1

and

*vomit*

as someone who actually looks around and tries to have good situational awareness, i guess this is a reminder to look up more often.

also reminds me of my vietnam veteran (LRRP) father's meme when i was growing up: "shut the drapes before it gets dark and you turn on the lights. you never know who's sitting across that field with a sniper rifle, watching you move from room to room." :eek:

Anti Federalist
02-04-2018, 09:57 AM
Stupor Bowel Blimp

enhanced_deficit
02-04-2018, 10:05 AM
It could be bad for corporate profits if human rights/civil rights activists took knees today.

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/09/25/ap_17269053749033_wide-3bb19363e5acc96653fd8eb83f5e1080d152685e-s900-c85.jpg

Jan2017
02-04-2018, 10:07 AM
Heck of a venue this year - glass ceiling.

and you can order your beer from an "app" sitting in your seat . . . don't know if drones deliver it though.

Raginfridus
02-04-2018, 10:55 AM
Games and bread