With $100 million in federal taxpayer funds, the U.S. Secret Service has transformed the two cities playing host to the national political conventions into high-tech fortresses.
But there are still questions about whether the cities are prepared to handle the tens of thousands of protesters who are expected to flood into each city.
This week’s Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, and the Republican convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, which begins September 1, have been designated “national special security events,” which means the Secret Service is responsible for planning and implementing a security scheme for each city.
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“We’ve been preparing for 15 months and we feel very confident,” said Darrin Blackford, Secret Service spokesman.
Security, which oversees the Secret Service, 24-hour operations centers have been set up in each city to monitor the conventions and surrounding areas.
At the Denver joint operations center, the Secret Service will be able to communicate with at least 62 federal, state and local agencies involved in the security plan, ranging from the Department of Homeland Security to the local power utility.
“We need to have the highest level of security at these venues, but we try very hard and go to great length to make sure that these venues are as successful as possible,” said Eric Zahren, a spokesman for the Secret Service. “We don’t plan on shutting down the city. We want the city to do business and thrive throughout the event.”
The Secret Service is calling on a number of federal agencies to help with specific security tasks.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:10 am
$100 million in federal taxpayer funds….. now you see WHY were in such a deficit. These pricks have been ripping this country off for too long. I wonder how much of that 100 million was pocketed?
August 25th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Like I said, the police state is expensive. What a complete waste on money.
That $100,000,000 could have gone a long ways to help America, but instead it is spent to suppress civil rights and jail the population. Why does it cost #100,000,000 to pay people that are being paid anyway to do their jobs? The equipment they are buying will probably stay in place for martial law purposes or they already had it. Are they are expecting a war because they are hellbent on starting one? Looks like “security” has become the #1 business and very profitable, at our expense.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:45 am
This is their way, people.
Accept it.
If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of their damn kitchen.
This is the way of the world now.
You all know it.
Don’t go to these events, period.
Unless, of course, you love chaos, drama and abuse.
Anyone who attends these ‘events’ knowingly, deserves whatever happens.
There are consequences to taunting the elite evil ones.
August 25th, 2008 at 11:12 am
Just have your 911 was an inside job poster turned inside out, and you obama 08 on the outside before you get in, after securing a good spot, turn the obama poster outside to in and bust out the 911 was inside job.
Fuck Obama, he is a liar about getting the troops out of the middle east and on NAFTA.
August 25th, 2008 at 11:26 am
$100 million dollars in federal taxpayer funds!? Wait a minute. I thought 100% of American federal income tax went to the federal reserve.
The funniest bit is that truthers keep giving this money to the U.S. Government and then cry that the same government is trying to kill an/or enslave them. Well, they’re using your money to do it, nimrod.
August 25th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Over $2 trillion missing from the Pentagon, $100,000,000 is just another day or two in Iraq. Whoever controls these forces of this police state controls the puppet politicians of both parties. Either get used to it or prepare to do battle.
August 25th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Fox News reporters look like CIA and US Military because THEY ARE CIA and US Military.
These Fox News reporters are lucky that they escaped with their cameras and their lives. Hopefully, a time is coming when they will escape with neither.
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=160373
http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=160833
August 25th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Mossad/NSA trolls are posting on this Forum under my name in an effort to discredit me. But what those fascist trolls will never do is post links to my articles, which they despise.
http://english.pravda.ru/opini...../106172-0/
Indict all of the US government officials and their allies who planned and carried out the 9/11 attacks
A preponderance of evidence shows that the highest officials of the Bush Administration, in collusion with many other officials from the Pentagon, CIA, FBI, FEMA, NSA, NORAD, New York City officials, air-traffic contollers, airline executives, controlled demolitions experts, computer graphics technicians, media executives, and others together planned and committed the horrible attacks of 9/11/2001 against the Pentagon and the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. The 9/11 attacks were immediately blamed on some bogus ‘Arab highjackers’, a half dozen of whom were later confirmed to be still alive, and therefore innocent, after the 9/11 attacks.
The false-flag 9/11 attacks provided the excuse for the US government’s ‘War on Terrorism’, the chief purpose of which is for the USA to gain control of the lucrative oil fields of the Middle East. A secondary purpose is to increase the taxation of US citizens for Defense spending in support of the USA’s enormous Military/Industrial Complex, and a tertiary purpose is to establish justification of the enactment of Police State measures within the USA under the vast, far-reaching, and politically ambiguous umbrella of ‘Homeland Security’. When the rights of freedom of speech and assembly are curtailed for the citizens of the USA, the US government will be able to pursue its agenda of world domination without the domestic distraction of dissident opinions, protests, and demonstrations.
The Pentagon, CIA, FBI, and other agencies and officials of the US government have perpetrated many crimes, assassinations, and false-flag bombings and attacks against US citizens and US interests during the past fifty years, including, but by no means limited to, the State political assassinations of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Martin Luther King; the 1988 Berlin Disco bombing; the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing; and the anthrax letter attacks of October 2001. The US government and its allies also committed the Bali bombings of 2002 and 2005; the Madrid train bombings of 2004; the London 7/7/2005 bombings; and the recent spate of bombings in Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Bangalore, and at the Indian Embassy in Kabul during the summer of 2008.
Since the end of World War Two, fanatic right-wing ideologues with corporate connections have gradually gained complete control of the US military, the US intelligence agencies, the US government, and the USA’s ‘Mainstream Media’. Fascism in the USA is not merely a current threat posed by the Republican Administration of George W. Bush; it is an already-accomplished situation that has been many decades in the making. Fascism in the USA is actually a ‘done deal’.
The USA’s long descent into fascism cannot be halted or stopped merely by electing a member of the Democrat Party to the Presidency, or by electing a Democrat majority to Congress. The infiltration and control of the US government by right-wing extremists is far too advanced and complete — they manipulate our elected officials like puppets on a string, and a great many of our elected officials are themselves part of the fascist establishment. The right-wing takeover of the US government has been a gradual and very successful fascist coup that will not be reversed without a very serious and deadly struggle. Given the history of extreme and indiscriminate violence shown by the ruling junta of the USA, it appears quite obvious to me that restoring democracy to the USA would inevitably require a violent armed Revolution in which the American people are opposed against the forces of the US government and the US military.
As a US citizen and as a human being, I personally consider the killing of innocent people in foreign countries by the CIA, the US military, and their puppets in support of the economic interests of multinational US-based corporations to be totally immoral and intolerable, and I consider it my solemn duty to oppose US aggression and Imperialism in any way that I can. US government and Mass Media propaganda promote a climate in which the actions and activities of US troops abroad are regarded as beyond reproach, but there is nothing noble or ‘heroic’ about unprovoked military aggression and genocide against vulnerable and innocent foreign populations.
George W. Bush, George H. Bush, Jeb, Neil, and Marvin Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condaleezza Rice, Karl Rove, Wolfowitz, Perle, Powell, Armitage, Ashcroft, Abrams, Adelman, Feith, Bolton, Libby, Kissinger, Mueller, Tenet, Goss, Giuliani, Hayden, Chertoff, Baker, and many hundreds of other individuals working for the White House, CIA, FBI, FEMA, the Pentagon, NSA, NORAD, the airline industry, and the US news media together planned and executed the 9/11 attacks. All of the above-named and their accomplices need to be tried for Treason and Mass Murder, with the death penalty as the just and very necessary reward for their conviction of those crimes.
We need a Nuremberg-style trial for Treason and Mass Murder for all of the members of the US government, the US military, the US intelligence agencies, and their civilian accomplices in the airline industry and the news media who participated in the murderous crimes of 9/11. The death penalty should be applied to all of the principals and their accomplices, even if that means executing several hundred or even several thousand people, because crimes of this magnitude against the American people and the US Republic cannot go unpunished, and the punishment must be extreme to send a message that the American people will not tolerate such Treason — not now or in the future. If allowed to remain unpunished and at liberty, these individuals represent a grave threat to the safety and security of all Americans. If convicted of the heinous crimes of 9/11, the death penalty is the only way to ensure that they or their allies will not somehow manage to attack America and Americans again. The executions should be performed in public and be internationally televized for the entire world to witness.
I do realize that there are some very worthy reasons to oppose capital punishment in many situations. However, it is also quite apparent to me that any show of clemency that might be given to the US government perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks leaves open the possibility that they and their sympathizers could revive their subversion of American democracy and their violence toward peace-loving Americans. That is why I advocate a policy of capital punishment without any consideration of mercy, plea-bargaining, or probation for the US government perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks and their allies.
No one in or out of the US government should be exempt from prosecution and capital punishment for the Treasonous attacks of 9/11. The planners and participants in the 9/11 attacks within the US government and their accomplices must not be allowed to protect themselves behind the specious excuse of “National Security.” The true security and survival of our Republic depends entirely on this.
– Gregory F. Fegel
August 25th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
And hopefully “Christianity is Fascism” and his entire family is brutally raped and murdered soon.
We can only pray.
August 25th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Gregory, please stop spamming this message board with your self-important, self-promotion. You’re an awful writer (technically and otherwise), it’s all non-sensical propaganda.
Please, go play with your little friends who might appreciate the crap you spew.
August 25th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
Glerg, shut the fuck up man!
-Gregory F. Fegel
August 25th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
It really pisses off the Zionist trolls when I post links to my articles, and even more so the articles themselves.
August 25th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
No, Greg, I think they rightfully think it’s crap. Mmmmmk, Mr. Self-importance.
August 25th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Post away friend. It is, after all, a free world unlike a fascist world where you would be shot…by someone…just for posting that crap. As it is, I wouldn’t mind anyway because that stuff you post defeats itself. I’d actually rather you DID post it for message board posterity. The people here need to know what kind of idiots…on all sides…we’re dealing with.
Please, keep posting.
Thank you.
Zionist T. Troll
August 25th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Please don’t feed the trolls.
Remember you can only rationalize things with rational people.
And online comment boards, are rather like riots, the rational people flee, and or get swept up in the moment.
I’m interested to see what happens, as the DNC unfolds, i wish for the best, but i’m pessimistic i think a few heads are going to get bashed in, and its never the people who’s heads who should be bashed that get bashed.
Actually i have no interest in watching what goes on inside, I think what happens outside says a lot more about our country, then politicians playing to their bases. And putting on a show.
August 25th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Gregory Fegel, why are you such a tool?
August 25th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
$100 million dollars in federal taxpayer funds!? Wait a minute. I thought 100% of American federal income tax went to the federal reserve.
The funniest bit is that truthers keep giving this money to the U.S. Government and then cry that the same government is trying to kill an/or enslave them. Well, they’re using your money to do it, nimrod.
August 25th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Alex…you were right all along. I’m sorry.
August 25th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Although he goes by many names (and he often hijacks others’ names), there is one poster on here who can always be recognized by his sick desire to see the families of gentiles raped and murdered. This being a typical Zionist fetish, he is easily identifiable as such. But don’t suppose he is anything as dangerous as Mossad. He is just some sick, pathetic, racist Jew who has no life and comes here daily to let it all hang out; to show his true bloodthirsty Zionist colors.
Please ignore this baby murdering Jew. He and his will be getting theirs real soon.
August 25th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
“Although he goes by many names (and he often hijacks others’ names), there is one poster on here who can always be recognized by his sick desire to see the families of gentiles raped and murdered. This being a typical Zionist fetish, he is easily identifiable as such. But don’t suppose he is anything as dangerous as Mossad. He is just some sick, pathetic, racist Jew who has no life and comes here daily to let it all hang out; to show his true bloodthirsty Zionist colors.
Please ignore this baby murdering Jew. He and his will be getting theirs real soon.”
Yes. And he goes by the name of Gregory Fegel (real or not).
August 25th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
DO NOT TRUST THE JEW ZIONIST BABY KILLING GREGORY FEGEL. HE WILL GET HIS VERRRRRRRRRRRY SOON.
August 25th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
one dumbass wrote …..
The funniest bit is that truthers keep giving this money to the U.S. Government and then cry that the same government is trying to kill an/or enslave them. Well, they’re using your money to do it, nimrod……
hey “nimrod” last i checked, you dont PAY taxes … they TAKE them, right out of your pay, before you even get to see your money, isnt that right?
Or am i thinking of a different country, on a different planet where its working class citizens get brutally ASS RAPED? While the uber-rich elite enjoy $1000 plate dinners. Just like any Neocon Nazi will tell you before they screw you “Its all in your head, youre imagining this. Dont be unamerican and disobey, now bend over farther, bitch”
August 25th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
Quotation by what a human waste;
“they TAKE them, right out of your pay, before you even get to see your money”
AND YOU LET THEM!! You work for corporate America and you let the Government take tax money. You are either too stupid or too cowardly to stop them…probably both. How are you going to “take back the country” when you’re too much of a pussy to stop working for coporate America and let the Government take your income?
Indeed, what a human waste you are.
Gregory F. Fegel (the real one)
August 25th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
You are all so pathetic. You all keep paying taxes to a government you claim murdered 3,000 of your own countrymen on 9-11 and you are actually stupid enough to believe that you are the frontmen in some kind of revolution. LMFAO! You are just the mindless slaves of Alex Jones. I pray to see all of your families raped and murdered very soon. Dummies! You are all so pathetic. You all keep paying taxes to a government you claim murdered 3,000 of your own countrymen on 9-11 and you are actually stupid enough to believe that you are the frontmen in some kind of revolution. LMFAO! You are just the mindless slaves of Alex Jones. I pray to see all of your families raped and murdered very soon. Idiots! You are all so pathetic. You all keep paying taxes to a government you claim murdered 3,000 of your own countrymen on 9-11 and you are actually stupid enough to believe that you are the frontmen in some kind of revolution. LMFAO! You are just the mindless slaves of Alex Jones. I pray to see all of your families raped and murdered very soon. Caca Heads!You are all so pathetic. You all keep paying taxes to a government you claim murdered 3,000 of your own countrymen on 9-11 and you are actually stupid enough to believe that you are the frontmen in some kind of revolution. LMFAO! You are just the mindless slaves of Alex Jones. I pray to see all of your families raped and murdered very soon. Pussies!
Good impersonation, eh?
Get some new material, you Neo-con/Zionist leech.
August 25th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Yes, Fake Gregory, you are spot-on. You ask them why they continue to work for corporate America and give a significant portion of their income to a “evil, murderous” government and they say “because we have to.”
LMAO!! Yeah, they’re going to “take back the country”.
Gregory F. Fegel (the real one)
August 25th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
I am so self-important I have to post under the same name over and over! LISTEN TO ME!!!
August 25th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
LOL!
“what a human waste” gives money to the U.S. Government to kill and/or enslave him, and he calls OTHER PEOPLE dumbass.
LMAO!
August 25th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Looking at all the lame ass fighting occuring in comments like those above (I won’t point out who’s right and who’s wrong, I don’t give a shit). The essence is that you fight each other, instead of removing the real crooks! Divide and Conquer! They’ve done it good actually.
Meanwhile in the US and some other western countries, we fight each other. We fight the jews, we fight the nazis, we fight the gay, the blacks, the whites, we fight you, we fight me. Stupid, makes me sad really.
I think it’s time you american people got your heads out of your neighbours butt, it doesn’t belong there! Remove your god damned crooked leaders and regain some glory by taking responsability!
If you think you live in the best country in the world and you are better than the rest, well… fine… rott in your own backyard. But if you manage to raise above all the corruption, raise above all conflicts and share your love and knowledge you will truly be a great people and country admired by many.
I’m from Norway and when I grew up we had jokes about our fellow neighbours, the Swedes. Now you are the joke, a bad one.
I’ve got no disrespect of your countrymen, I got cousins in the states and several friends and I know you are just like me and the Swedes… you are only to proud of your country and your addiction to staying on top that you fail to acknowledge the facts, that your goverment is corrupt beyond recognition, your central intelligence is just like gestapo and you are about to enter some rough seas… and you may manage to take the world down the drain with you…. Thank you very much, you must be proud of yourself!
Alex Jones is a great man, he’s stubborness and total lack of fear is to be respected. Even if you don’t agree with his statements you should hate him or disrespect him in any way.
The problem with the western world (most of the world actually) is that people don’t THINK! They do as they are told, they just do ‘their job’. The problem is that when people are ‘just doing their job’ (cops, feds, politicians) is that they stop using their head, they stop to THINK!
Where do you want the world to go? How would you want the world to be looking in 50 years from now? How do you want your grandchildren to be raised in a society? What if your grandchild is a drugaddict, how would you have helped him? With fines and penalities? What if your grandchild got caught in a stolen car? How would you have tought him whats right and wrong? 10 years behind bars or some other sort of penalties? START THINKING PLEASE! And once you know how you want the world to be, you start working against that goal. You’ll have to choose your way of living based upon your values, money is just a carrot infront of the donkey!
Peace & Love, big kisses.
August 25th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
WARNING! BEWARE!
Gregory Fegel, Sniper and whatever name he decides to use, is an agent provacateur. Do not fall into his snare. We will this fight despite agent provacateur jew infiltrators like Gregory Fegel, Sniper, etc.
Stay strong and believe in the righteous might of Alex Jones.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
http://www.oregontruthalliance.org/node/472
To be an American citizen is very much like being the child of a wealthy and unscrupulous criminal ‘Godfather,’ who appears to be kind and generous to his own children at home, but is unflinchingly treacherous and murderous in conducting his family business, which is based on coercion, domination, exploitation, and violence. The average US citizen enjoys prosperity and relative freedom, but US prosperity derives in large part from the criminal xploitation of, and frequently the outright murder of, millions of innocent people in developing countries throughout the world. Most US citizens choose to remain in a perpetual state of denial regarding the criminal activities of their government, because they lack the courage and the character to learn and face the truth. An unquestioning acceptance of the values, motives, and goals of the US government by the majority of US citizens allows those citizens to be easily fooled and manipulated by the propaganda presented to them by the US government and by the US government-controlled ‘Mainstream Media.’
August 25th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
I didn’t make them that way. God did.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Right on Godfather, tell it like it is! Those Jew nigger bastard Alex Jones cocksucking stupider nigger lovers.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
I think Alex Jones is a nigger loving, spick loving, Jew loving Nazi ball licker.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
All niggers, spics, jews and anybody not white should get raped and die a tortuous death.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
http://www.eaec.org
August 25th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Gregory Fegel is already just like God in Israel. Everyone is saying that Fegel is the Mossiach. The Temple in Jerusalem is to be rededicated to Gregory Fegel. Right now Jews everywhere want to be like Fegel, to imitate Him, to be Him, but that is not what my brother Rabbis and I are discussing. Right now the question among us Rabbis is “Is it blasphemy to speak His name, and should we call therefore just call Him G.F.?
August 25th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
My wife is pregnant and she wanted to name the baby ‘Fegel’, but thank G-d I was able to persuade her to settle for ‘Gregory’. This ‘Fegel is the Mossiach’ hysteria is getting out of hand — especially here in Tel Aviv.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
Q: How many Jews does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: None. They just tell a Christian to do it for them.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Wow, this Gregory Fegel/Sniper/Jew Agent Provacateur guy is a real credit to his family and his race.
August 25th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Leech, you are one sedentary peice of shit aren’t you? How much do you weigh?
Why are you such a prick? Is it because of the bullies or the neglectful parenting?
By the way, I’m not Gregory Fegel, you tard.
August 25th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
At the international ‘Is Fegel the Mossiach?’ Conference in Jerusalem last week, one of my fellow Rabbis said to me, “Chaim, if we Rabbis actually come out and name Gregory Fegel as the Mossiach, what are all the Christians throughout the world going to think? The Christians in the USA control Israel’s purse strings, Chaim — I’m really worried about this.”
“Don’t worry, David,” I told him. “We’ll just tell them the truth. Gregory Fegel is Irish.”
August 25th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
watch “RING OF POWER” on red ice creations dot com,that is RING OF POWER on redicecreations.com and you will see the real lickity splickity about the Jews and the Christians and the Chesters who control from behind the scenes. it goes deeper than you know man, if you have not seen RING OF POWER, then you are being played like an X-Box-III in a jailhouse dayroom. Just watch the movie, THEN lets see if you feel the same. Or are you afraid you’ll see something you cant deal with?
August 25th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
watch “RING OF POWER” on red ice creations dot com,that is RING OF POWER on redicecreations.com and you will see the real lickity splickity about the Jews and the Christians and the Chesters who control from behind the scenes. it goes deeper than you know man, if you have not seen RING OF POWER, then you are being played like an X-Box-III in a jailhouse dayroom. Just watch the movie, THEN lets see if you feel the same. Or are you afraid you’ll see something you cant deal with? huh?
August 25th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Leech, I’m just someone who HATES racists. Whether they call themselves Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, Zionists, whatever.
Anyone that thinks it’s impossible for Jews to behave like Nazis just needs to take an honest look at Isreal. It’s very telling that most people who get their news from the main stream media have no idea that Israel is one of the world’s top violators of international law as well as of human rights.
As for you. Anyone who would stoop to wishing violent death and rape upon people is automatically a scumbag. So if you are a Zionist Jew who says such things it only proves me right. Zionism is just another faction of hate. And you, Leech, do not deserve to call yourself human, no matter how great of a grammarian you are.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
It’s an issue that has to be dealt with and there are many to take. I’m volinteering on a crew for access staiton they schedule regeularly called the Law and you; have know idea of what kind of fluff show it is currently. Might take few shows to aclamate before the hardone’s are asked. Been enjoyin rightlflawradio.com for a while. It almost sounds too easy some of the jepordies police place themselve in everyday. Not nice to change policy and not have law to back it up.
August 25th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Sniper Fegel has a bad day.
August 26th, 2008 at 12:55 am
I hope all niggers and spics die!!
August 26th, 2008 at 1:10 am
Q: How many Jews does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Two. One to screw it in, and the other to bend over and recieve it.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Here in Haifa we can get you girls or boys, any nationality, any complexion, any age. Do what ever you want with them; we don’t care. Nothing will be traced back to us.