Posted on 08/04/2013 6:02:37 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
Obama wants all Americans to now report voluntarily to the government regarding any foreign travel. The program is currently voluntary, but the word on the Hill is there are those who are suggesting this should be mandatory to protect Americans of course. The program is called STEP “Smart Traveler Enrollment Program.”
Today, most Americans are willfully blind. They refuse to connect the dots and think the government would never do anything really to harm the people. This is not about harming or protecting anyone. Look at Benghazi. They asked for help and it was not sent in for political reasons. Then there is the NSA seizing all our phone records, the post office photographing everything mailed, and the IRS targeting people for political reasons and that is just the surface. With all this surveillance we must ask – WHY were they unable to stop two kids and the Boston Bombings when Russia warned them about them? Yet people are willing to surrender everything that made America worthwhile to be safe when these people are hunting money not terrorists. The new STEP program is to track people and where they are going for money. I was personally returning from London over 4th of July. I changed the ticket at the last minute from JFK New York to Philadelphia. When I landed, there were two IRS Agents waiting for me. They wanted to know why I changed my ticket because they had a sting operation in NYC looking for American living overseas not paying taxes but return to visit family. Congress now wants it so anyone who resigns their citizenship can never return even for a funeral because they see everyone simply as property of the state to be taxes. We are no longer individual endowed with rights from God – but from Congress.
When you look at every law that is being passed from confiscating the assets of any foreign bank or broker who does not report on what they are doing with an American, Barbara Boxer’s Highway Bill that allows the revocation of your passport if the government even “thinks” you owe it $50,000 in taxes, Lindsey Graham’s championing the indefinite detention of American citizens without charges, trial, or lawyers, civil unrest military exercises on cities, Homeland Security buying 2700 tanks and 1.6 million hollow-point bullets designed to kill on impact that are illegal in war, yet neither the press nor the majority see anything wrong here nor do they see a pattern. It is very scary indeed.
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I’m not saying we should comply, but I am quite certain they know the who, when, and where concerning all foreign traveling US Citizens.
Yes, they certainly know if you have bought plane tickets to a foreign country. However, currently, you didn't have to ask them permission. We're getting to that.
Seig heil. Der fuhrer.
” I am quite certain they know the who, when, and where concerning all foreign traveling US Citizens.”
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Yes and no....They know where I am only because my SS is direct deposited into my Philippine bank, but when I was living in central Europe, they would have no clue as to my location, until I signed up for my SS.
Once you land in another country, they have no way to track your travels there, or to another country, unless you leave a paper-trail.
Anyone disputing America is on the verge of a dictatorship.
And it’s all perfectly OK because - as you know - the decision to travel to a foreign country is entirely voluntary.
There are still a handful of freepers with their lips superglued to our government’s ass.
The government is just a benevolent all seeing eye that keeps us safe don’tcha know.
"of the people, by the people. for the people.
Really?!
Ya think?!
“Anyone disputing America is on the verge of a dictatorship.”
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Not a dictatorship, but certainly a socialist state, as in the old USSR. You are now in the USSA.
Oh sure, for now its ‘voluntary’
for now...
Eventually it becomes form to fil out..
then it because a REQUEST form, that everyone is required to have
Then you are asking for PERMISSION to leave
Pretty soon, we WILL build that border fence. Just like the one in East Berlin - to keep people IN.
oh i think not
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don’t add you to the list...
Nope.
It’s amazing to watch this country go to what we fought against for so long.
‘Their people’
Ein volk, ein Reich.......
Jawohl!
Gfy
I went to friggin Mexico recently and the nice agent on the American side scanned my passport upon re-entry.
Can you guess what country I just visited?
Effin need to be whacked with a clue by four?
Get out of my life!!!!
A-holes....
The problem with border fences is: the same thing that keeps people out also keeps people in.
Impeachment File on Benghazi Coward “B. Hussein Obama,” formerly known as Barry Soetoro, currently a Legal Citizen of the Sovereign Nation of Indonesia.
A 6-minute YouTube video by yours truly and Mark P. Ferri, about the loss of freedom in America.
BookMark.
Dear Lord, please, give us strength.
Tatt
Wonder if we are going to be forced to beg permission to enter this "new" USSA each time we go to the store, etc.
Would not surprise me at all!
Wassa big deal?
Even in Nazi-occupied Casablanca all you needed to exit the country were Letters of Transit.
There it is! Exactly...”We didn’t love freedom enough.”
Big Brother needs our cooperation.
Are they going to making us pay them back for our public education before we can get a passport? Like the old Soviets did.
I really shouldn’t watch such disturbing videos so late at night! That was very creepy and so very frustrating.
I will do my best to spread it around.
Darn right Americans travelling abroad will get no protection or services if there is terrorism, STEP or not. We were in London on 9/11. We went to the American Embassy and showed our passports to the door guard and asked if we could enter to inquire about getting home [flights were on hold] or if there was an info sheet on that he could get for us. The answer was no and no, leave now.
I believe this all started with Prohibition.
The state shall have sole decision on what medicines you will be allowed to take!
Don't like it? Armed thugs will kick in your door, shoot your dog, shoot your family, shoot you, steal all your possessions, and enslave you.
Either We are Free, or We are Their Property!
Can't have it both ways folks! Freedom or Slavery!
And we’ll Heil! Heil! Right in Der Fuhrer’s face!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTDXuJVojN4
DHS did not buy 2700 tanks.
Democide: Socialism, Tyranny, Guns and Freedom 
Don't forget your unpaid Obamacare fees.
Sorry comrade, you may not leave the USSA.
Sheesh. I’ll post to you since you’ve been around here for a while.
I know of this program as in a former position I travelled to the ME frequently. It allows fliers to avoid Passport Control by scanning their passport in a machine. The STEP travellers scan their passports in a machine and walk right through while others wait in long lines for a passport control officer.
IMO, it’s just a pre-registration and pre-clearance of travellers. There is an application form, a $100 application fee and a mandatory interview. The only reason I didn’t go through with it was my interview was 100 mi.s away during a work day.
Of greater concern is ‘flagging’ passports for stupid, non-federal legal issues (civil, adjudicated, etc.) which can get a person detained while they sort out why you’re tagged, that you’re not a fugitive, etc. It’s abusive and intrusive.
Utterly chilling. It’s one thing to ‘know’ this history, to read about it etc. and quite another to have it presented in a tight 5 minute video. Well done.
I hope you continue to do many many more. Thanks for the link.
Homeland Security actually ordered some 1.2 billion bullets over five years. I don’t know how many of them are hollow-points.
The USSA, My Big Fat Greek Country, is becoming a debt-drowned police state!
PING!
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