NYPD Intelligence Division Officer: “We Are in the Business of Scaring People”
December 7th, 2007Seeing these fascist pigs standing around reminds me of the film, Michael Collins; where the IRA started walking up to British agents and shooting them where they slept and stood. (See: The Cairo Gang Assassinations.)
Obviously, I’m not suggesting that you should shoot these fascist pigs, because that would be a waste of your time and energy. The state will just mint more fascist pigs after it tortures and kills you for your effort.
For Americans, taking your money off the table harms the people who are behind all of this madness much more than shooting their minions.
Via: Popular Mechanics:
No one sees them coming. There are no flashing lights, no sirens. The black Suburban simply glides out of Fifth Avenue traffic and pulls into a no-parking zone in front of the Empire State Building. Moments later, four men spill out in combat helmets and heavy body armor: Two carry submachine guns; the others, snub-nosed shotguns.
Camera-toting tourists stop jabbering and stare at this intimidating new presence, their faces a mixture of curiosity and fear. Even jaded New Yorkers, many of whom work inside the midtown Manhattan landmark, look impressed.
A stone’s throw down the sidewalk, Abad Nieves watches the scene unfold. Nieves is a detective with the Intelligence Division of the New York Police Department (NYPD). Casually clad in slacks and a black leather jacket, he monitors the response of people loitering in the area. Is anyone making notes or videotaping? Does anyone seem especially startled by the out-of-the-blue appearance of a heavily armed NYPD squad?
On this day, Nieves doesn’t see anything overly suspicious, but he is pleased that the deployment created a strong impression. Known as a Hercules team, it makes multiple appearances around the city each day. The locations are chosen either in response to specific intelligence or simply to provide a show of force at high-profile sites.
“The response we usually get is, ‘Holy s—!'” Nieves says. “That’s the reaction we want. We are in the business of scaring people–we just want to scare the right people.”
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“Clearly, New York is way in front on this,” says Brian Michael Jenkins, a terrorism expert with the Rand Corp. “As the threat gets more diffused, we are going to have less of the kind of intelligence that can be picked up by the feds. We are dealing now with threats that are deliberately operating under the radar. Therefore, we have to aim the radar lower, to the local level.”
Another ominous sign that the big lock-down is on its way.
Yeah, good luck carrying out a Michael Collins-style decapitation stunner in this day.
My favorite part of the “Cairo Gang Assassinations” link is that 2 brits avoided being killed by spending the night in a brothel.
Rule #456 of being a foreign spy: always sleep with the local population.
Are they saying that the purpose of these “exercises” is to flush out the bad guys by monitoring crowd reactions? That’s not even remotely plausible (seriously, did I miss something?).
Popular mechanics is a government mouthpiece; it’s shameful.
So they want to scare people? They might consider wearing more appropriate uniforms:
http://www.sutlers.co.uk/acatalog/Gestapo.jpg