> At least 200 Wal-Mart stores will roll out security
> announcements within 24 hours, Wal-Mart spokesman Dan Fogleman
> said. By month’s end, 588 stores in 27 states will be participating
> in the program. A short video featuring Napolitano will appear on
> TV screens at select checkout lanes, asking Wal-Mart shoppers to
> contact local law enforcement to report suspicious activity.
>
> “If you see something suspicious in the parking lot or in the
> store, say something immediately,” Napolitano said in the video.
> “Report suspicious activity to your local police or sheriff. If you
> need help ask a Wal-Mart manager for assistance.”
via [instapaper.com](http://www.instapaper.com/text?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.msn.com%2Fid%2F40552073%2Fns%2Fus_news-security%2F&article=103153327)
Glad I never set foot in Wal-Mart.
So I guess I wasn’t wrong to suggest that our government might just want to expand the TSA’s reach beyond the airport. Give it a few years, if nut jobs like Napolitano get their way. We’ll be getting x-rayed and backscattered at the drive-thru at In-N-Out Burger.
Are we supposed to be stupid enough to think this has anything to do with stopping terrorism? Terrorists at Wal-Mart?
This is about driving us to stupidity with fear, plain and simple. Keep us looking at each other, and we stop looking at what they’re doing to us.
If you think it’s okay for your government to turn its citizens against one another in order to justify draconian, fascist nonsense like this, I seriously feel sorry for you.
