“We learned today that shortly before the shooting a Homeland Security employee visited the West Roads Mall to talk with officials about the mall’s security,” reports Charles Gibson for ABC News (see video). www.truthnews.us/?p=1170 “Airports and sports arenas have tightened security considerably since 9/11, but malls have been reluctant to do so.”

“It is clear that at least five if not six training exercises were in operation in the days leading up to and on the morning of 9/11,” write Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones. “This meant that NORAD radar screens showed as many as 22 hijacked airliners at the same time. NORAD had been briefed that this was part of the exercise drill and therefore normal reactive procedure was forestalled and delayed.”

These exercises included Operation Northern Vigilance, the biowarfare exercise Tripod, Operation Vigilant Guardian, Operation Northern Guardian, and Operation Vigilant Warrior. Of course, such exercises, including simulated airliner hijackings and flying planes into the twin towers.

As Alex Jones reported in May, 2004, FEMA had arrived in New York on September 10th to set up a command post located at Pier 29 under the auspices of a “biowarfare exercise” (Tripod) scheduled for September 12, a fact revealed to Dan Rather by Tom Kenney of FEMA’s National Urban Search and Rescue Team.

For some odd reason, a Google News search does not return a repeat of the ABC News admission that a Ministry employee was at the mall the same day as the massacre.

However, comrade Chertoff, in remarks after the event, admitted that the Ministry had an employee at the West Roads Mall prior to the incident, although the corporate media did not find this worthy of mention.

“We also have our protective security advisors who go and visit various facilities. We actually had one, by coincidence, at the mall in question at the time of the incident, discussing reaction to IEDs and what you can do to prevent or reduce your vulnerability to IEDs. We had, again, given over $45,000 to this particular mall as part of a Buffer Zone Protection Plan, which resulted in allowing them to build entrance bollards, portable barriers, and communication systems.”

In other words, the Ministry sent a message in spades: malls, not unlike airports, are to become Gestapo zones. Prior to the shooting, the FBI prepared the ground by issuing a spurious warning about al-Qaeda, the documented CIA intelligence asset, striking malls in Los Angeles and Chicago.

“It’s not a reflection that there’s some specific imminent threat,” Chertoff continued. “And of course, the story out of Omaha is not a terrorism-related story. It’s similar to the tragedy we saw in Virginia Tech. We do live in an open society and there are people who are mentally disturbed who will sometimes take violent action. Obviously, the malls are almost all owned by private parties, so a lot of the responsibility for security lies with the private companies that own and operate the malls, and of course local government and local police play a major role as well.”

If Chertoff and the Ministry have their way, however, our “open society” will become decidedly less so as cops — and even firemen and paramedics — are trained to recognize those who harbor “discontent” for the state, training “developed by the International Council of Shopping Centers, a trade group, and the Homeland Security Policy Institute at George Washington University at a cost of $2 million. It is the first standardized anti-terrorism curriculum written for the nation’s estimated 20,000 mall security guards,” as the Washington Post reported back in January.

In New York, they are ahead of the curve, according to the National Terror Alert website.

“New York law enforcement officers have implemented a model program that enlists” John and Jane Doe “in watching for possible terrorist activity during the busy holiday shopping season.” It is called “Operation Safeguard,” a coordinated effort “meant to thwart a potential terrorist attack through a public education campaign, as well as create an unannounced presence at local malls and the roads that feed them during the busiest shopping season of the year.”

In other words, heavily militarized cops will scare the dickens out of shoppers, same as New York’s Intelligence Division is “in the business of scaring people,” as Popular Mechanics recently reported.

It is all about getting us accustomed to a heavy-handed police state, here to protect us, of course, so along as we do not demonstrate “discontent” or complain about its Gestapo tactics.

A few more mall incidents by deranged teenagers cranked up on pharm drugs – and maybe even a well-placed terrorist event – and the American people will be begging for surprise SWAT raids at the local mall and Ministry trained rentacops hallucinating Osama behind every concourse potted plant.

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The High-Tech Police State Begins at the Mall During Christmas

Kurt Nimmo

TruthNews

December 7, 2007

As should be expected, in the wake of the mall shooting in Omaha, our rulers, or rather their “experts,” are calling for our “beloved malls” to be turned into Gestapo zones same as our airports.

“Shopping centers, which are considered by security experts a ’soft’ target for terrorism, already implemented tighter security measures following the attacks of September 11, 2001,” reports AFP. “But American shoppers are reluctant to accept even measures that would force them to go through metal detectors or be frisked by guards to enter their beloved malls, said Malachy Kavanagh, spokesman for the International Council of Shopping Centers.”

Of course, they may very well change minds with a few more shootings by deranged teenagers cranked up on pharms or another “Pearl Harbor event” of the sort that ushered in the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act (or more accurately the decider-commander martial law act), and will no doubt ensure speedy approval of the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, or the Thought Crimes bill.

“While Shoppers who were surveyed in focus groups indicated they would rather not have to go through metal detectors, they appeared willing to accept them if the government raised the terror alert level,” Malachy Kavanagh averred. “Measures installed after September 11 include closer coordination with local police, the use of high-resolution cameras that can read car license plates in parking lots and the inspection of delivery trucks. Some malls even have bomb-sniffing dogs.”

All of this dovetails nicely with the latest FBI warning issued last month that al-Qaeda may strike during Christmas, unleashing horrific violence because they hate our freedom to shop and deck the halls.

“If you look back through the years, this is a tactic and practice of Al-Qaeda to express threats during the Christmas season,” FBI special agent Ross Rice said at the time, adding that the information had not been corroborated.

Indeed, completely uncorroborated threats, in fact pure and unadulterated nonsense, as the well-documented CIA created terrorist group, never sufficiently connected to the events of September 11, 2001, appears entirely impotent, more a Freddy Kruger cut-out designed to scare the little ones at Christmas than pose a sincere threat.

Even so, the Pentagon is on the case. “The Defense Department … has a system in place to support local law enforcement officials in case of a terror attack in a shopping center, said Paul McHale, the Pentagon’s assistant secretary for homeland defense,” never mind, once upon a time, there was something called Posse Comitatus as our ancestors realized allowing the military to commingle and even supplant local police was not a good idea.

In order to soften the hard edges of the prospect of combat soldiers at the mall, Mr. McHale told AFP such may not be necessary, at least not now. “But McHale, whose position was created to supervise the Pentagon’s homeland defense activities, said deploying heavily armed patrols was not the solution.”

“We cannot remain the kind of nation that we are, that we want to be, that we intend to be in terms of freedom, if we emphasize security by turning civilian gathering places into armed fortresses,” McHale said at a news conference on post 9/11 security on Thursday.

“The better approach is not to try to harden shopping malls, turn them into armed compounds with a security presence that is chilling in its very character,” he said.

“The better approach is to achieve that kind of defense … through the lawful collection of information that gives us advance warning that an attack may occur.”

In other words, say hello to the neighborhood snoop system, soon to become a vital component of the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act, flushing out al-Qaeda types high and low — or, at minimum, those of us who share a “discontent” with the government, now to be detected by the neighborhood fireman as he conducts inspections, no Fourth Amendment required in order to rifle through your books, videos, and underwear drawer looking for “hatred” directed against the government. In order to realize this enmity, the Ministry of Homeland Security is busy at work tutoring our fire-fighters and paramedics.

“These random acts of violence can strike anywhere — at schools, office buildings, post offices — anywhere law-abiding citizens are present,” Simon Property Group, which owns several US malls, said in a statement after the massacre. “Law enforcement and security prevention measures, no matter how good, cannot forestall a tragedy such as this from happening.”

Well, at least, not short of erecting a high-tech police state, an all-pervasive and all-knowing electronic Panopticon.

Unleash a few more “random” killers stupefied by mind-altering drugs and killing helpless women and children — preferably at the same time al-Qaeda strikes because they hate us for our freedom — and many of us will be begging for a police state, as Heinz Kissinger knew all too well when he declared for his masters, the Bilderbergers:

“Today Americans would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well being granted to them by their world government.”

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