LinkedIn lists one Wilfred Blood as SekTek president.
He looks somewhat melanin-challenged.
Posted on 10/10/2013 1:18:41 PM PDT by BigEdLB
Armed private security guards are on the job to keep the public away from Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, and one even threatened to arrest a political activist if he stepped on the sidewalk beside the iconic building where the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were debated and adopted.
“You will be arrested,” said one of the hired guards to activist Craig Bergman as a video team filmed his stop at the downtown historical center.
In the video, Bergman asks a National Park Service ranger who was paying for the rented cops, and was told, “You are.” The badge on the private guards read “SecTec,” a Virginia-based security company that operates around the nation. A source said that SecTec often is used for the Hall's security. Their webpage includes Independence Hall as a client.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Start carrying protest signs and video cameras - if possible use protest signs they do not want in the news - when enforcing your rights at these tourist areas/parks.
42 USC § 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/42/1983
Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State or Territory or the District of Columbia, subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within the jurisdiction thereof to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution and laws, shall be liable to the party injured in an action at law, suit in equity, or other proper proceeding for redress, except that in any action brought against a judicial officer for an act or omission taken in such officer’s judicial capacity, injunctive relief shall not be granted unless a declaratory decree was violated or declaratory relief was unavailable. For the purposes of this section, any Act of Congress applicable exclusively to the District of Columbia shall be considered to be a statute of the District of Columbia.
This Kind of civil disobedience is arguably protected protest speech.
Bill Blood is the CEO according to BusinessWeek.
They are spending more dough shutting things down they say they can’t pay for then if they ignored the funding bill altogether. next time someone threatens a shutdown someone else needs to ask if we can afford it. This just shows how much of a farce the whole thing is.
Each day I wake up saying “:Clown Prince nobama and his commie loser minions can’t get any lower...and they do! I do hope nobama’s prison stay is a long one. He is raping Freedom.
My understanding is, the furloughed employees are going to get paid anyway, once a CR is passed. Therefore, it would have been cheaper to un-furlough enough NPS guys to keep the citizens away.
Also, ZeroCare is underway despite the CR supposedly cutting off power for the servers.
So, the CR is just theater!
And the only meaningful remedy requires a majority of the House and two thirds of the Senate!
Link to private pig web site: http://www.sectek.com/
SecTek was founded in 1992 as a SBA 8(a) small disadvantaged business.
Minority owner of record IIRC
http://www.smallbusinessstatus.org/resources-and-links/affiliation-illustrations-from-sba-cases
SecTek, Inc. (2003)
Key Facts: SecTek was the successful bidder on a General Services Administration contract that had been set aside for small businesses. The contract was for the provision of security guard services. SecTek had a teaming agreement with Wackenhut (a large company), and in the proposal, there was a logo on every page identifying the bidder as “SecTek-Wackenhut.” The offer also referred to the companies as if they were a single entity and did not divide contract responsibilities. Not surprisingly, the SBA found that there was a joint venture and that it was ineligible for the set-aside.
Importance: When a teaming agreement fails to set out discrete tasks for each company, it is likely to be labeled a joint venture. In its proposal, the prime contractor must demonstrate control over both the bidding process and the performance of the contract.
Congress needs to investigate the Park Service for actions they have taken under orders from above to “make life as difficult for people as we can”.
1. What is really going on in this administrations reaction to “the shutdown” - which is vastly different from any prior “government shutdown.” Comparisons should be made.
2. Who gave what orders to Park Service employees (and now contractors)?
3. What has been spent to implement this punitive shutdown, compared to maintaining operations of the facilities? This is just another example. WW2 memorial, Mt. Vernon, other DC Mall open air areas, outlooks for Mt. Rushmore... This is ridiculous.
Thanks!
LinkedIn lists one Wilfred Blood as SekTek president.
He looks somewhat melanin-challenged.
The blowfish in the middle is just trying to emulate his boss, CEO Bill Blood.
Http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=4523908
This makes me physically ill. Where will it end?
I was thinking the same thing.
If I was still living there I’d just walk over and start looking through the windows for Nicholas Cage.
What about the Liberty Bell?
Every law has these hidden words tacked on the end:
“or we’ll shoot you”.
He also needs to be asked - “are you willing to shoot someone who goes to look at the Liberty Bell?”
In a way, this is good. People need to understand the inherent malignance of government.
Paybacks are a bitch.
These idiots have arrest authority?
The guy on the left and the gal on the right have a look on their faces as if to say, “Why did I ever take this crappy job?”
The guy in the middle thinks he’s a badass, but if an armed citizen came after him he’d probably run away screaming like a frightened little girl.
It’s time to turn over Independence Hall and The Liberty Bell to a private, patriotic foundation.
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