Hey, kids! How would you like your local law enforcement, at the behest of our foreign corporate overlords, to brand you as a terrorist threat? Here are some quick and easy "suspicious activities" you can do to make yourself the envy of all your jihadi friends:
- "Photography, observation, or surveillance of facilities, buildings, or ritical infrastructure and key resources": take pictures of roads, pumping stations, big pipeline storage depots, or TransCanada personnel (what resource is more key than one's people?), and you, too, could be a terrorist!
- "Eliciting information beyond curiosity about a facility's or building's purpose, operations, or security": Curiosity kills the cat and the creepy eco-terrorist. Keep your questions to yourself, and let corporations do what they want.
- "Material acquisition or storage of unusual quantities of materials": And how many of you have unusual quantities of ammunition and MREs in your Black Hills bunkers? Heck, how many of you bought more pickles and beans than you really need at Sam's Club last weekend?
TransCanada, a foreign corporation, is advising your law enforcement officials, via suspicious Homeland Security Fusion Centers, to keep an eye out for the above activities, for fear that Constitutionally protected activities by American citizens could hinder their pipeline profits. Pay attention: while right-wing criers distract us with fabricated scandals about the IRS challenging your ability to violate non-profit tax code, corporations are pushing your police to limit your ability to seek information and goods and speak up against injustice. You tell me which is the greater threat to your liberty.
Guilty of all the above except there is no way they can know how many pickles I canned last fall is there?
Why, Bret! I was thinking of you when I wrote this. Did you buy your pickle jars with a credit card? Actually, I'll be they can reverse-calculate realtive home canning by looking at groceries bought and spotting discrepancies between household size and purchases.
How long until SD Revenue decides to tax value of garden produce? That makes about as much sense as taxing books and magazines.
So if someone is taking all kinds of pictures, and stockpiling explosives we shouldn't be concerned?
So if someone is taking all kinds of pictures, and stockpiling explosives we shouldn't be concerned?
So by using the term " we " one could naturally assume you are an employee of TransCanada ?
Wait...what??? "Material acquisition or storage of unusual quantities of materials" Certainly they aren't talking about Glen Beck and buying gold from an online site that is under criminal review...is he?
No! TransCanada is talking about my mother! She has been stockpiling material forever. From thrift shops, rummage sales and clearance items at fabric stores. Then she and other "Norwegian" women congregate in basements and manufacture items to be shipped to third world countries...hiding behind the mask of charity.
I called TransCanada immediately and told them of this nefarious behavior. They told me that wasn't the material they were talking about...even though they were suspicious of the weak coffee they served in those basements.
The materials they were talking about were more along the lines of guns and ammo. Gunpowder that could be bought under the guise of reloading your own ammo. They were also concerned about large quantities of fertilizer and diesel fuel.
Glad they pointed that out so I could stop the surveillance of the church basement women. Although I am keeping an eye out for these people who celebrate and worship a foreign holiday...ever heard of Syttendae Mai comrade? It's like a freedom festival with lutefisk and lefse.
Wait...what??? A Canadian firm wants us Floyd R. Turbo 'Mericans to keep an eye out for people who buy and stockpile guns, ammo, fertilizer and diesel?
Hoping some heads explode...just a figure of speech...at the NRA and all freedom loving, Gadson Flag waving patriots all over South Dakota!
No...
Sorry. In the immortal words of Gilda Radner's, Emily Litella character on SNL...never mind.
New headline reads "TransCanada Mandates Background Checks on Guns, Gunpowder, Diesel and Fertilizer"
That's it. Coming soon to a state capital near you...Canadian inspired laws for the United States of America on limiting "materials" by private citizens.
GOP votes in favor of Canadian interests in regulating firearms, ammo and gunpowder. In a follow up act Congress authorizes NSA wiretaps on Lutheran Norwegian women who stockpile material to send to 3rd world countries.
I heard one tourist at Mount Rushmore say "I'll give you my camera when you pry it from my cold, dead hands."
For my GOP friends who don't see the obvious hypocrisy...Get a Brain Morans.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/images/blpic-moran.htm
So .... we nostalgic Dakotans whose great-great-great grandparents homesteaded here and cleared and tilled the land and made it bloom every spring can't take photos as TransCanada changes the landscape forever?
This is what environmental eco-threats look like:
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/06/18/2167151/every-plant-and-tree-died-huge-alberta-pipeline-spill-raises-safety-questions-as-keystone-decision-looms/
tip o' the glacier, jana:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/earth-insight/2013/jun/14/climate-change-energy-shocks-nsa-prism
expect us.
Bill Janklow had all photos of stock dams, conservation dams, etc and maps removed from access. No telling when somebody might blow up a mudhole.
Speaking of which, GF&P used to publish a brochure on how to use explosives to blow potholes our of river bottoms to make sure ducks had water. I doubt that brochure is still available however.
A few years ago, some tourists were held for questioning because they had been seen taking pictures of more than one Missouri River dam.