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Navy Vet Fired After Posting Photos Of DHS Trucks In Hotel Garage
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Mark Paffrath noticed something strange in the parking garage of the hotel he worked at. There were numerous vehicles from The Department of Homeland Security sitting in the parking. Paffrath took a couple of photos and posted them to his Facebook page.
Those posts landed him in hot water with Drury Plaza Hotel management. According to Argus News Now, the Navy veteran was called into a meeting and told to delete the posts. He complied, but unfortunately that did not satisfy his bosses. He was fired a couple of days later. After being let go, he re-posted the images to his Facebook page.
What were dozens of DHS vehicles doing parked in a garage Chesterfield, MO? Chesterfield is about 25 miles from Ferguson, where officials are planning for potential riots pending the decision of a grand jury about whether to charge officer Darren Williams in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown.
randys1
(16,286 posts)G_j
(40,367 posts)at least I was HOPING that would be their function.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)I was going to go with a whelk's chance in a supernova but odds are a hair better than that.
There have to be spots in Hell that are cold just to torture those that hate it as well as to needle the folks in the hottest locations in the pits.
randys1
(16,286 posts)If they arent, violence is guaranteed as the local police will incite
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)randys1
(16,286 posts)Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)The Skulls and Boner Squad!
heaven05
(18,124 posts)is more like it especially when they hook up with their KKK friends and buddies.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)of an unarmed human being, and someone needs to support the KKK in protecting Ferguson from angry citizens.
avebury
(10,952 posts)When Paffrath told Bohnert he never put the location of the vehicles on the photos or the video, Bohnert reportedly said all they have to do is click on your name and see where you work. Paffrath said Bohnert concluded their conversation by saying if you repost the photos and video you will have the federal government knocking on your door and you will be incarcerated.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/11/16/navy-veteran-points-out-unnerving-government-presence-not-far-from-ferguson-and-now-hes-looking-for-another-job/
I was wrongfully fired from Drury Plaza Chesterfield for posting a picture and short video of homeland security vehicles. I will use the money for lawyer fees and personal expenses. Thanks for your support.
http://www.gofundme.com/hdnalk
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http://www.argusnewsnow.com/story/2014/11/01/news/navy-veteran-fired-from-drury-plaza-hotel-for-posting-photos-of-homeland-security-vehicles-on-facebook/156.html
proverbialwisdom
(4,959 posts)nc4bo
(17,651 posts)So the real terrorists hid these vehicles in plain sight?!
Becareful Ferguson, they and other public officials know something the townsfolk don't.
KG
(28,751 posts)Pholus
(4,062 posts)But I can certainly not patronize Drury again. Kudos for the reposting of the photos though!
...I wonder who authorized all that?
- K&R
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)You knew that right?
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Running or not running I guess depends on how you define "running".
When HRC promoted the Conservatives Iraq War she either gave up her integrity or proved that she never had any. A vote for HRC is a vote for the Ruling Oligarchy.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)she said so
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Technically HRC isn't running either. But she doesn't have to I guess.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)bit to do another Rosewood along with their KKK buddies. That's why the trucks are there. Bet they'll end up bulldozing that end of town.
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mtngirl47
(988 posts)at the Drury Plaza Hotel that sits around and looks at their employee's Facebook pages?
Human Resources? Employee relations? Communications Manager?
They have put a camera in the hands of everybody...didn't "they" expect us to use them?
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)photo showing a plane firing MH17.
MattSh
(3,714 posts)I do believe I missed that one. Thanks!
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rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)And I mean H. Clinton-Sachs.
Egnever
(21,506 posts)Employees should not be posting pics of customers cars no matter who they are. Next time call a friend and have him do it.
Dumbshit 101
hueymahl
(2,495 posts)That sound is the point of the article flying right over your head.
Logical
(22,457 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)Cha
(297,180 posts)NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Lenomsky
(340 posts)Just askin' ..
Edit: Wouldn't the bloke link to the article if true?
Roy Rolling
(6,915 posts)If Brown had fired at Wilson and killed him he would have been arrested on the spot and the most-parroted phrase would be "let the courts decide."
Since it has been four months already without the police/DA acting, the injustice is already carved in stone. Guilty or innocent, they have already guaranteed pissed off citizenry by such two-faced applications of criminal justice, refusing to operate as quickly had the shooter been Michael Brown and the victim been Wilson.
TRoN33
(769 posts)Federal police aren't going to there to protect citizens from Ferguson policemen. It has to take national guards to actually protect Ferguson citizens like they did for union protesters in Detroit back in 1920-30's.
valerief
(53,235 posts)brooklynite
(94,513 posts)Seriously, ask yourself how you would react if the same story appeared in Free Republic. This comes across as a crappy Y2K conspiracy. What exactly is it you imaging DHS is going to do in Ferguson? There are no Federal facilities there, so FPS have no jurisdiction. And if you imagine that DHS's evil minions are going to be in the background cracking down on civil liberties, wouldn't they be smart enough to use unmarked vehicles?
And let's remember one more thing. If you imagine DHS doing anything here, please substitute "President Obama". He's in charge of the Executive Branch, he appoints the DHS Secretary. So which evil plot are you ready to leave at his door?
nb - other than as an emotional trigger, why is the fact that a hotel employee is a "Navy Vet" at all relevant.
valerief
(53,235 posts)VA_Jill
(9,966 posts)A POLICE riot! Even if they have to start it!
Wella
(1,827 posts)That doesn't bode well.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)brooklynite
(94,513 posts)...which is definitely not the kind I lived in for five years in the 70s.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)They can track my cell phone and online communication.
They can spy on me without a warrant.
They can search my home and person without a warrant.
They can seize my property and use it for their own purposes without due process.
They can use the powers of the state to harass me at work and at home.
They can ruin me financially through trivial criminal and civil action.
They can imprison me on false charges, like was done to Gov. Don Siegelman and Secret Service agent Abraham Bolden.
They can even, should I be classified an Enemy, have me vaporized by drone or stuffed into cement shoes by gangsters, without a warrant.
How is that not a Police State?
"Friendly Fascism" is how Bertrand Gross put it in 1980. The professor served FDR and the New Deal Democrats and is remembered today for his work to reduce poverty. Among his accomplishments, he helped author the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act. Later he taught at CUNY and Wayne State University in Detroit, where he founded the Center for Urban Studies.
Friendly Fascism
The New Face of Power in America
by Bertram Gross
South End Press, 1980, paper
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Friendly_Fascism_BGross.html
INTRO EXCERPT...
Friendly fascism portrays two conflicting trends in the United States and other countries of the so-called "free world."
The first is a slow and powerful drift toward greater concentration of power and wealth in a repressive Big Business-Big Government partnership. This drift leads down the road toward a new and subtly manipulative form of corporatist serfdom. The phrase "friendly fascism" helps distinguish this possible future from the patently vicious corporatism of classic fascism in the past of Germany, Italy and Japan. It also contrasts with the friendly present of the dependent fascisms propped up by the U.S. government in El Salvador, Haiti, Argentina, Chile, South Korea, the Philippines and elsewhere.
The other is a slower and less powerful tendency for individuals and groups to seek greater participation in decisions affecting themselves and others. This trend goes beyond mere reaction to authoritarianism. It transcends the activities of progressive groups or movements and their use of formal democratic machinery. It is nourished by establishment promises-too often rendered false-of more human rights, civil rights and civil liberties. It is embodied in larger values of community, sharing, cooperation, service to others and basic morality as contrasted with crass materialism and dog-eat-dog competition. It affects power relations in the household, workplace, community, school, church, synagogue, and even the labyrinths of private and public bureaucracies. It could lead toward a truer democracy-and for this reason is bitterly fought...
These contradictory trends are woven fine into the fabric of highly industrialized capitalism. The unfolding logic of friendly fascist corporatism is rooted in "capitalist society's transnational growth and the groping responses to mounting crises in a dwindling capitalist world". Mind management and sophisticated repression become more attractive to would-be oligarchs when too many people try to convert democratic promises into reality. On the other hand, the alternative logic of true democracy is rooted in "humankind's long history of resistance to unjustified privilege" and in spontaneous or organized "reaction (other than fright or apathy) to concentrated power...and inequality, injustice or coercion".
A few years ago too many people closed their eyes to the indicators of the first tendency.
But events soon began to change perceptions.
The Ku Klux Klan and American Nazis crept out of the woodwork. An immoral minority of demagogues took to the airwaves. "Let me tell you something about the character of God," orated Jim Robison at a televised meeting personally endorsed by candidate Ronald Reagan. "If necessary, God would raise up a tyrant, a man who may not have the best ethics, to protect the freedom interests of the ethical and the godly." To protect Western oil companies, candidate Jimmy Carter proclaimed presidential willingness to send American troops into the Persian Gulf. Rosalyn Carter went further by telling an lowa campaign audience: "Jimmy is not afraid to declare war." Carter then proved himself unafraid to expand unemployment, presumably as an inflation cure, thereby reneging on his party's past full employment declarations.
CONTINUED...
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/RiseFall_Friend_Fascism_FF.html
The good professor painted an accurate picture of what was to come.
James Madison
EXCERPT...
Despite the sharp differences from classic fascism, there are also some basic similarities. In each, a powerful oligarchy operates outside of, as well as through, the state. Each subverts constitutional government. Each suppresses rising demands for wider participation in decision making, the enforcement and enlargement of human rights, and genuine democracy. Each uses informational control and ideological flimflam to get lower and middle-class support for plans to expand the capital and power of the oligarchy and provide suitable rewards for political, professional, scientific, and cultural supporters.
A major difference is that under friendly fascism Big Government would do less pillaging of, and more pillaging for, Big Business. With much more integration than ever before among transnational corporations, Big Business would run less risk of control by any one state and enjoy more subservience by many states. In turn, stronger government support of transnational corporations, such as the large group of American companies with major holdings in South Africa, requires the active fostering of all latent conflicts among those segments of the American population that may object to this kind of foreign venture. It requires an Establishment with lower levels so extensive that few people or groups can attain significant power outside it, so flexible that many (perhaps most) dissenters and would-be revolutionaries can be incorporated within it. Above all, friendly fascism in any First World country today would \ use sophisticated control technologies far beyond the ken of the classic fascists.
p177
Although American hegemony can scarcely return in its Truman-Eisenhower-Kennedy-Johnson form, this does not necessarily signify the end of the American Century. Nor does communist and socialist advance on some fronts mark American and capitalist retreat on all fronts. There are unmistakable tendencies toward a rather thoroughgoing reconstruction of the entire "Free World." Robert Osgood sees a transitional period of "limited readjustment" and "retrenchment without disengagement," after which America could establish a "more enduring rationale of global influence." Looking at foreign policy under the Nixon administration, Robert W. Tucker sees no intention to "dismantle the empire" but rather a continued commitment to the view that "America must still remain the principal guarantor of a global order now openly and without equivocation identified with the status quo." He describes America as a "settled imperial power shorn of much of the former exuberance." George Liska looks forward to a future in which Americans, having become more mature in the handling of global affairs, will at last be the leaders of a true empire.
CONTINUED...
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Specter_FriendlyFascism_FF.html
Regarding today's Police State:
The Criminal Police State can now:
Avoid punishment for murder
Lay Seige to American cities
Use FBI for terrorist attacks
Spy on all US citizens
Spy on and intimidate citizens
Brand anyone a terrorist
Ignore the Bill of Rights entirely
Illegally imprison American citizens
Assassinate Americans: 1 2
Loot taxpayer money for fat-cats
A capitalist cabal has seized political and economic power over the nation and now steals all elections by selecting candidates for both parties
In a free society:
Police agencies respond only to evidence of planned and actual criminal activity.
Police officers keep the peace; they do not investigate citizens and activities unless there is some reason to investigate.
Police do not investigate citizens' attitudes toward the central government, only their action.
Citizen dissent is lawful and police agencies do not investigate citizens' attitudes toward the criminal justice apparatus.
Those conditions no longer exist in the United States!
SOURCE: http://www.hermes-press.com/police_state.htm
So, that's why I think we're in a Police State. Otherwise, the candidate who promised to end wars for empire, stop domestic spying, prosecute Banksters, deliver universal health care, raise taxes on the rich and a whole lot would have done them after assuming office. Instead, it's been six years of more of the same old same sold cough.