Security firm to hold zombie crisis scenario

How fitting in keeping with the context of Halloween.
I wonder how much the extra extravaganza cost the taxpayers?
Makeup sure isn't cheap anymore, let alone the cost of it's applicators for this type of get together.

“Zombieland” — has captured the attention and imagination of Brad Barker, president of the security firm HALO Corp.
Next month, his outfit will incorporate — no kidding — zombies into a disaster-crisis scenario at the company’s annual Counter-Terrorism Summit in San Diego, a five-day event providing hands-on training, realistic demonstrations, lectures and classes geared to more than 1,000 military personnel, law enforcement officials, medical experts, and state and federal government workers.

HALO will take over the 44-acre Paradise Point resort in the city’s popular Mission Bay and create a series of terrorist scenarios, with immersive Hollywood sets including a Middle Eastern village and a pirates’ haven. Retired Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden, a former CIA and National Security Agency director, and Mexico Interior Secretary Alejandro Poiré Romero will speak during the summit, which runs Oct. 30 to Nov. 2.

The zombies who roam the island will harass the troops, first-aid teams and medical responders participating, Barker said. HALO declined to detail the scenario just yet, saying only that the idea is to challenge authorities as they respond to extreme medical situations where people become crazed and violent, creating widespread fear and disorder.

Domestic use of aerial drones by law enforcement likely to prompt privacy debate

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You are now under constant surveillance citizen!
The real crapper about this deal is, not only is your right to privacy being compromised but so is your safety.
Drones don't mix well with air traffic at all, they cause plane wrecks.
So you have to wonder whose stupidity started this trend, and how long will it be before people die from it.
The key question here is, why are "we" Americans allowing ourselves to be treated as though we're an "occupied nation" that has been taken over by the leftovers of the military industrial complex.
The real kick in the ass is that you the taxpayer, are paying for the government grants that supply all of these leftovers to your local governments so that they can keep up the high surveillance of you.
Another key question is: When did "We" become the enemy and why?
Heads up my friends
A horror is a happening!
You just don't realize it yet.
But you will




AUSTIN - The suspect's house, just west of this city, sat on a hilltop at the end of a steep, exposed driveway. Agents with the Texas Department of Public Safety believed the man inside had a large stash of drugs and a cache of weapons, including high-caliber rifles.

Domestic use of aerial drones by law enforcement likely to prompt privacy debate
Drones on the home front
With Air Force's Gorgon Drone 'we can see everything'


As dawn broke, a SWAT team waiting to execute a search warrant wanted a last-minute aerial sweep of the property, in part to check for unseen dangers. But there was a problem: The department's aircraft section feared that if it put up a helicopter, the suspect might try to shoot it down.

So the Texas agents did what no state or local law enforcement agency had done before in a high-risk operation: They launched a drone. A bird-size device called a Wasp floated hundreds of feet into the sky and instantly beamed live video to agents on the ground. The SWAT team stormed the house and arrested the suspect.