Super Bowl Snitches: TSA Trains Hot Dog Vendors & Parking Lot Attendants to Spot Terrorists, Help with Security
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on February 4, 2012
Hot dog vendors, bus drivers, and parking attendants will be looking for terrorists at the Super Bowl XLVI game
The TSA’s “First Observer Program” has trained 8,000 hot dog vendors, parking lot attendants, and shuttle bus drivers on how to spot terrorists at tomorrow’s Super Bowl XLVI game at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
Super Bowl Snitch Brigade — leave your hoodies at home.
Reported by Daily Mail, Super Bowl’s line of defence against terrorism? TSA trains HOTDOG VENDORS how to spot suspicious activity:
At Superbowl XLVI, hot dog vendors are also serving up a helping of ‘intel’ about potential terrorist attacks.
The Transportation Security Administration has trained 8,000 parking lot attendants, shuttle bus drivers volunteers — and yes, hot dog vendors — to spot suspicious activity at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis under its ‘First Observer’ program.
This is just the latest attempt by the Department of Homeland Security to recruit millions of informants across the country, who officials say can help spot potential terrorist activity.
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said the the hog dog informants and others are key to her ‘If You See Something, Say Something’ campaign, that encourages Americans to be vigilant about potential terrorist threats.
But others, like talk radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, say many of the things trainees are taught to look out for in the ‘First Observer’ program are mundane activities that many normal people do on a regular basis.
From InfoWars, TSA Trains Super Bowl Hot Dog Sellers To Spot Terrorists:
Despite acknowledging there are “no credible or specific threats” to the safety of the 2012 Super Bowl in Indianapolis on Sunday, the TSA is training thousands of fast food sellers and other vendors to spot terrorists under the “First Observer” program.
“TSA said over 8,000 stadium vendors, parking lot attendants, shuttle bus drivers, and other transportation professionals received the agency’s First Observer training for detecting and assessing indicators and planning tactics of potential terrorist activities,” reports Government Security News.
As we have previously reported, many of the behaviors characterized as potential signs of terrorism by the TSA in its training procedures are mundane activities performed by a majority of people, including using a video camera, talking to police officers, wearing hoodies, driving vans, writing on a piece of paper, and using a cell phone recording application.
The First Observer program has previously been used by the TSA on America’s highways, most recently in Tennessee for the purpose of “bothering truck drivers and passengers by subjecting their cargoes to exhaustive searches,” as former Congressman Bob Barr wrote back in November.
Drivers were also recruited to become snitches under the auspices of “See Something, Say Something,” as VIPR teams (Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response) worked with the Tennessee Highway Patrol to oversee a process that has been criticized as an alarming sign of internal checkpoints becoming commonplace in America.
From My Fox NY, No Full Body Scanners At Super Bowl:
MYFOXNY.COM – Fans attending the 2012 Super Bowl will not be required to go through full body x-ray scanners, as initially reported.
The clarification came from the TSA on Thursday afternoon.
WPRI reporter Matt Touchette had initially reported that Lucas Oil Stadium had “intense security which included full body scanners”. That report was then picked up by infowars.com .
The TSA Tweeted on Thursday afternoon: “TSA will not use body scanners for patrons coming to the Super Bowl at Lucas Oil Stadium.”
In a 1:49 p.m. update, Touchette posted , “We apologize for the mistake. Lucas oil stadium told me I had to quote, ‘go trough the body scanners’ before entering the stadium for the tour. Turns out they are in fact metal detectors. The post has been corrected.”
Homeland Security does say that pat downs and bag searches will be part of security procedures, which is common at U.S. sporting events.
Frank Straub, Indianapolis’ director of public safety has reportedly said that metal detectors, X-ray machines and cameras will be used throughout the stadium for security.
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