Warrantless Domestic Car X-Rays By Nat'l Guard for Counternarcotics!

orangescrewpen

orangescrewpen

Bluelighter
Joined
Mar 4, 2010
Messages
200
Location
California
War on Drugs: Part One
Reported by: Kristin Lowman
Email: [email protected]
Videographer: G. Finley
Editor: G. Finley
Last Update: 7/07 11:04 am

Fox23 News

War on Drugs

The New York National Guard has been a part of missions across the world, but they also have a very important one right here at home.
Its to keep drugs off of local streets, their technology and training is free to local police departments and agencies, no one has been turned away.

Dust and desert are the images most equate with the New York National Guard, on the front lines in the middle east, fighting the war on terror.
These images are pictures of another fight, a fight here at home.

Col. Alden Saddlemire says, "our people are committed to fight. Its a domestic fight they firmly believe in."

The NY National Guard's Counterdrug task force, providing not only the people, but the equipment law enforcement may need to make drug arrests, seizures.

SSG. Brian Gillis says, "we can go on the scene and sniff or take a swab with this and it can tell you what it is."

Using ionization, counterdrug's machines can detect chemicals, explosives, narcotics on money, weapons, even fabric.
A simple swab can tell you if that surface had contact with those substances.

A simple sweep of an undercarriage or a scan of a car can help find drugs or weapons being brought into the capital region. While the undervehicle inspection system looks for traps or voids where anything could be taped or bolted in, the mobile vehicle inspection system takes it one step further.

Gillis says, "its basically an x-ray. If you zoom in you can see the rifle laid across the bottom."

With a warrant, a department can request a scan. Then, with the swing of an arm, gamma rays outline the car and its skeleton.
Gillis says, "we scan anything a department might want to look at and try to identify anything they might want to check into further. That way they don't have to rip apart the car to find something."

The Schenectady Police Department just one agency that has called in the guard for help.
In 2009, a driver was arrested, his car brought to the station and scanned after an officer smelled marijuana coming from the car.
No drugs were found, but that traffic stop and scan part of an investigation against the suspect.

Asst. Chief Brian Kilcullen with the Schenectady Police Department says, "our investigation continued for almost another year. He was eventually taken into custody on federal drug charges. It is a great resource. Its available at no cost to us and its a big help to us."

Counterdrug also helps departments from the air. National Guard Aircraft helping with observation, tracking, and finding illegal growing operations.

Link: http://www.fox23news.com/news/custo...on-Drugs-Part-One/v_FIsrVrCUuqFzYFnTH2AQ.cspx
 
The Smoking Man said:
How long until they start having vans drive by that monitor conversations going on in our homes?
Click to expand...

You can bet that they are already doing it. You wouldnt believe the stuff they aleady do. A lot of it is under the guise of the Patriot Act. Believe me, they listen to our cell phones and use gps to find us even if you are just a low level drug user. I know it for a fact. We have no privacy rights anymore.:X
 
The only people killing America is our federal gov't.

THE NATIONAL GUARD HAS NO AUTHORITY ON OUR SOIL UNLESS MARSHALL LAW IS DECLARED!

Why aren't our sheriff's protecting their jurisdictions?
 
static_mind said:
A GPS is passive, it doesn't transmit anything. A mobile phone GPS maybe. Just saying
Click to expand...

Yes, a mobile gps. If you are making a plan on your cell phone meeting someone, send your phone in a different direction than yours. just saying....
 
With the patriot act we allow them to use our phones as GPS and Listen to what you say..... and such...

This country isn't free what so fucking ever.....
It will only get worse in the future.... unless these sheep fucking take the wool of their eyes.....
The government will find a way to take control of the internet...
They already control other froms of media....They want the people in the blind.... they don't like the anonymous aspects of the internet
 
seep said:
God they must be bored. If I were a cop assigned to cell-phone surveillance I think I'd go postal.
Click to expand...
maybe it would be like Other Peoples' Lives and they'd have sympathy and empathy for our situations after hearing our conversations

or not :)
 
Unbreakable said:
With the patriot act we allow them to use our phones as GPS and Listen to what you say..... and such...

This country isn't free what so fucking ever.....
It will only get worse in the future.... unless these sheep fucking take the wool of their eyes.....
The government will find a way to take control of the internet...
They already control other froms of media....They want the people in the blind.... they don't like the anonymous aspects of the internet
Click to expand...

Yea, I guess we allow it, but it was supposed to be used for terrorism and suspected terrorism and it was supposed to sunset, but Obama extended it. Nobody really gets it!!! It is real. I laughed at an agent once and said "you can find me and know that I have a couple bags in my pocket, but you can't find 19 Highjackers????!!! You guys are lame."

I know it is going to get worse, makes me wanna pull a Ruby Ridge.
 
"Terrorism" is a tactic used by the United States Government. I don't think the PATRIOT Act did anything to quell the US military's terrorist activities overseas.
 
NY National Guard Involved In Mass Arrests Of U.S. Citizens
Troops assisted in over 2,000 arrests last year alone as America sinks into total martial law

080710top2.jpg


Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Thursday, July 8, 2010

It has emerged that the New York National Guard is assisting in the arrests of thousands of American citizens as part of the “drug war,” while at the same time the U.S. government itself orders troops in Afghanistan to guard the poppy fields as heroin floods American streets, in yet another shining example of how the United States is under a state of de facto martial law.

Yesterday we reported on how the New York National Guard is working with local law enforcement authorities to perform sophisticated scans of vehicles entering the New York area looking for guns and drugs, a program celebrated by local new station Fox 23, who today ran a part two on the Guard’s activities in the region.

The news clip lauds the fact that the National Guard are conducting surveillance flights over the area “looking for marijuana” using infrared cameras.

video

“The New York National Guard assisted in more than 2,000 arrests last year, and had almost $150 million in drug, property, and weapon seizures,” states the report.

The entire justification behind the use of National Guard units in scanning vehicles, making arrests, and going into schools to brainwash kids into thinking its normal to have men in military fatigues toting machine guns walking around American streets providing “security” is that they are keeping drugs off the streets.

But while military assets are being used to track down pot-smoking teenagers in New York, the U.S. government itself is ordering troops in Afghanistan to guard the poppy fields, allowing tons of heroin to flood onto American streets. Opium production has exploded since the invasion of Afghanistan, as the CIA regains control of a much cherished source for its global narcotics trafficking operations.

Gary Webb’s Dark Alliance and other revelations from the Iran-Contra Affair, Vietnam-Laos-Cambodia and beyond all point to the sad fact that those in power in the United States, including the CIA, have driven the drug trade, not slowed or stopped it.

Indeed, in September 2008 it emerged that a Gulfstream II private jet that crash-landed in eastern Mexico carrying 3.3 tons of cocaine had previously been used for CIA “rendition” flights.

The use of National Guard units in arresting American citizens and patrolling the streets is part of the acclimation process to make Americans accept the sight of military assets engaging in domestic law enforcement as a routine occurrence. In rolling out this program under the pretext of the war on drugs, authorities are attempting to perform a slick end run around Posse Comitatus, which would normally make it illegal for the military to conduct such operations.

In the past, scenes of troops ordering citizens around were widely denounced as being characteristic of an authoritarian, backward, dictatorial country under a state of martial law. America was seen as the leading light of the world because its people were free from this tyranny. Now that American is under a de facto state of martial law, such scenes are becoming commonplace.

The fact that many of these Guard troops are returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, where they are part of an occupying force trained to round up and detain the host population in prison camps for the most minor of infractions is also a shocking facet to this story.

As we highlighted yesterday, National Guard units are now being deployed for things like traffic control in places like Kingman Arizona, and providing security at sports events like the Kentucky Derby.

As we reported in 2008, U.S. troops returning from Iraq are now occupying America, running checkpoints and training to deal with “civil unrest and crowd control” under the auspices of a Northcom program that by 2011 will have no less than 20,000 active duty troops deployed inside America to “help” state and local officials during times of emergency.

We have documented numerous instances of troops and National Guard personnel being used to perform law enforcement duties which are transparently outside the purview of the Guard’s supposed role to respond to national emergencies and therefore completely illegal.

In January 2009, soldiers from the Lynchburg-based 1st Battalion, 116th Brigade Combat Team, were used to conduct personal searches at checkpoints in Washington DC for the inauguration of Barack Obama.

In March of that same year, we reported on U.S. Army troops dispatched to patrol the streets of Samson, Alabama, after a murder spree.

On April 6, we reported on a DHS, federal, state, Air Force, and local law enforcement checkpoint in Tennessee. On April 3, Infowars was instrumental in the cancellation of a seatbelt checkpoint that was to be conducted in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security and the 251st Military Police in Bolivar, Tennessee.

In December 2008, we reported on the Marine Corps Air and Ground Combat Center dispatching troops to work with police on checkpoints in in San Bernardino County, California.

On April 22 2009, we reported the deployment of 400 National Guard Combat Support Battalion troops to “maintain public order” at the Boston Marathon.

In June 2008, Infowars posted an article by D. H. Williams of the Daily Newscaster reporting the deployment of 2,300 Marines in the city of Indianapolis under the direction of FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.

We also reported a story on April 22 2009 covering the assault of a local television news team by an irate police officer in El Paso, Texas. A video taken by the news videographer shows uniformed soldiers working with police officers at the scene of a car accident.

If we accept the seamless integration of troops into law enforcement then America as the “land of the free” will cease to exist for good, to be replaced by an oppressive Sovietized police state with an overlay of 21st century technology designed to monitor and control our every movement. This is only made more alarming by the fact that the National Guard are now training with foreign troops to take on American “terrorists” as part of this integration process.

View source article for embedded video and supporting links.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/ny-national-guard-involved-in-mass-arrests-of-u-s-citizens.html
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top