…Profiling. Profiling. Profiling.
US to step up security at hotels and malls
Breitbart
12/26/2010
The United States is stepping up security at “soft targets” like hotels and shopping malls, as well as trains and ports, as it counters the evolving Al-Qaeda threat, a top official said Sunday.
A year after a foiled plot to bomb a US-bound passenger plane, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told CNN’s “State of the Union” program that other places and modes of transportation must now be scrutinized.
“We look at so-called soft targets — the hotels, shopping malls, for example — all of which we have reached out to in the past year and have done a fair amount of training for their own employees,” Napolitano said.
Since an attempted bombing on a packed Saturday night in Times Square in May, New York, for example, has installed hundreds of security cameras as part of a plan to triple the number of cameras to 3,000.
In September, the city activated some 500 new surveillance cameras at its three busiest subway stations — Times Square, Penn Station and Grand Central.
“The overall message is everything is objectively better than it was a year ago, particularly in the aviation environment. But we’re also looking at addressing other areas,” Napolitano said…
Read the rest at Breitbart.
H/T GatewayPundit:
Any passenger who refuse the new TSA gropings may face $11,000 fines and possible arrest.
Next up… The Obama Administration is going to begin using their police state security techniques at malls and hotels.
You also have less freedom and privacy than you did a year ago, and the U.S. Constitution is virtually nullified, too, though that’s probably not the DHS “progress report” you were hoping for…~CAJ
Update: Merry Christmas from the TSA
Refusal to submit to pat down leads to handcuffing and arrest…Good work, TSA, because this 56 year old former rape victim looks a lot like a potential terrorist…
