Kurt Nimmo
Truth News
February 2, 2008

AP reports:

Teams of police officers armed with submachine guns and bomb-sniffing dogs will soon be patrolling the busiest parts of New York City subways as part of a major increase in regional security funding.

New York’s subways have long been considered a potential terror target; police already randomly check riders’ bags, and the tunnels and ventilation systems are searched for explosives. Hidden cameras register any suspicious action.

In other words, the Ministry of Homeland Security, in league with officials and cops in New York, want the people of the tri-state area to get accustomed to the presence of heavily armed goons, sort of like Hitler wanted the German people to get accustomed to Geheimes Staatspolizei-Amt, aka the Gestapo, breaking down doors and checking papers in search of “all tendencies dangerous to the state,” that it to say ferreting out all who disagree with the state, increasingly a specialty of police departments in New York, Colorado Springs, San Francisco and elsewhere.

Of course, since there is no al-Qaeda “presence” in the United States, that is unless you consider Muslims and Arabs at large card-carrying al-Qaeda members, as the neocon do, the only logical purpose of all this exorbitantly expensive “security” activity is to send a message to the American people, sort of like the message Ari Fleischer sent soon after September 11, 2001: the commoners best “watch what they say, watch what they do,” otherwise they may run afoul of a knuckle-dragger in black who likes to pepper spray babies and taser people who ask the wrong questions or do not submit readily enough when pulled over for minor traffic violations.

Chertoff said the new security grants would be divided to address the most significant vulnerabilities, as identified by federal and regional law-enforcement and anti-terrorism authorities.

Their collaboration to pinpoint security risks and take action is “a model for the entire country,” Chertoff said.

Got that? A model for the entire country. In short, expect automatic weapon toting goons in ninja black to be patrolling your neighborhood soon, and please remember that it is not about Osama or al-Qaeda, as the government now considers teenage taggers and run-of-the-mill petty criminals as terrorists. “The government is using its expanded authority under the far-reaching law to investigate suspected drug traffickers, white-collar criminals, blackmailers, child pornographers, money launderers, spies and even corrupt foreign leaders, federal officials said,” the New York Times reported in 2003.

”What the Justice Department has really done,” Elliot Mincberg, legal director for People for the American Way, said at the time,”is to get things put into the law that have been on prosecutors’ wish lists for years. They’ve used terrorism as a guise to expand law enforcement powers in areas that are totally unrelated to terrorism.”

But of course. However, it should be noted that the state really has no desire to arrest “white collar criminals,” especially those on Wall Street or the bankers that finance illegal drug importation operations. It is more interested fleecing the public over a dizzying array of lesser crimes and categorizing many of these crimes as terrorism simply increases the haul and interns more people in the prison-industrial complex, basically slave gulag run increasingly by private corporations.

It is sad to consider the fact many New Yorkers, sufficiently brainwashed by Fox News and CNN, find all of this necessary and submit to cops searching backpacks and “bomb sniffing” dogs shoving muzzles in their nether regions.

Docile and brainwashed Germans submitted to as much and look where it got them — digging charred spuds out of the saturation bombed rubble of Berlin. It looks like millions of Americans are headed down the same treacherous path, unable to learn from history.

Naturally, in order to learn form history, one has to first pick up a history book.

Not that most Americans can be bothered or even read one book every four or five years.