Residents of Leesburg, Florida were shocked to see their local Social Security office turned into a random Homeland Security checkpoint Tuesday morning, as DHS officers armed with semiautomatic rifles and accompanied by sniffer dogs checked identifications of locals.
“With their blue and white SUVs circled around the Main Street office, at least one official was posted on the door with a semiautomatic rifle, randomly checking identifications. And other officers, some with K-9s, sifted through the building,” reports the Daily Commercial.
The activity was part of Operation Shield, an unannounced drill conducted by the DHS’ Federal Protective Service centered around “detecting the presence of unauthorized persons and potentially disruptive or dangerous activities.”
Thomas Milligan, district manager for the Social Security Administration office, said staff were not informed their offices were about to be stormed by armed FPS officers. DHS officials refused to answer questions asked by local media and left with no explanation at noon.
WTF?
A social security office in Leesburg, FL!!?? Really, WTF!!??
I mean, if the program (Operation Shield) has any legitimacy, it could show up at certain places that intel indicates could be high priority targets, but a social security office in Leesburg, Florida? A city of 20,000 people in north central Florida?
To me, that only means that the people running the show at DHS are either incompetent or just starting to test the waters for real trouble. Either way, it's bad.
Feel safer yet?
To echo Craig Cavanaugh's most recent comment on this blog, what to do about it? I don't know, but I really don't want to wait anymore to see how this develops. I really don't know what to do.
via Economicpolicyjournal.com, via infowars.com,
and I just noticed is also posted at Mayberry's blog: http://keepitsimplesurvival.wordpress.com/
Perhaps if that old man grabbed that Brownshirts M4 and crammed it up his ass that would be a good start...but we know that's not going to happen.
ReplyDeleteI guess the only "good" answer to this particular might have been if the 20 or so seniors in line would have said "Fuck you, were not going to show you our ID"
This administration is totally F'd up. They have the Justice Department going after states that want to make voters show ID to vote, while at the same time making my grandma show her ID to get her SS check.