http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10260/1088164-454.stm
Oh look A perfect example of "Homeland Security gone wrong"
Spying on the taxpayer during legal protests and creating a data base of who attends.
It doesn't matter what kind of protests, because the circus was included in the list of hot spots to monitor.
And here's the best part: the taxpayer is footing the bill for his own persecution.
Believe it or not.
If you talk back, they take your name
Nazi Germany
Think about it.
The most interesting thing for me is though,once again Israel is involved in a taking of a piece of the Home Land Security pie.
The questions for all of us to really seriously ponder upon should actually be this:
Are the city and State I live in engaged in that very same kind of contract,
And how many other States out there actually do.
Friday, September 17, 2010
By Tom Barnes, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
HARRISBURG -- The former Special Forces colonel who has headed the state Office of Homeland Security for four years and who now finds himself at the center of a firestorm over an anti-terrorism contract is missing in action.
James F. Powers Jr. has basically gone underground since Tuesday, when Gov. Ed Rendell denounced a $103,000 no-bid contract that Mr. Powers had given to the Institute of Terrorism Research and Response, which has offices in Philadelphia and Israel.
The state news release in June 2006 said Mr. Powers' job would include coordinating the state's homeland security efforts with state agencies, counties, nine regional counter-terrorism forces and local municipalities.
Mr. Powers told the newspaper he entered into the deal with the Terrorism Institute because "my concern is public safety." He said there had been about "five or 10" incidents related to Pennsylvania's growing natural gas industry, including one where someone supposedly fired a shotgun at a tank of natural gas in Venango County.
Mr. Rendell said Tuesday that he wasn't aware of specifics about any other such violent incidents related to the gas industry. He said he was "appalled" and "terribly embarrassed" by the monitoring of lawful protests that the Terrorism Institute had done for the state.
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