I think most everyone agrees that all this is nothing more than security theatrics, I am starting to wonder about that though.
The American people, us, accepted The Patriot Act with barely a whimper. I'm starting to think this is more of a government thing to see just how far they can go in controlling the population as a whole.
As far as this latest incident, San Diego is a cash strapped city due to all of the preposterous government employee salaries and pensions that were "negotiated" by the various public employee unions over the years. The only people they had to "negotiate" with were public employee, on behalf of public employees.
As a result of this, San Diego's law enforcement units have now been recruited to raise the city's coffers any way they can. Citations are way up, arrests that can bring a monetary return are way up. That is why the harbor police jumped on to this incident, for the possible fines.
Traffic checkpoints are common in San Diego and surrounding cities, anything to raise money.
We even have a water police unit that patrols our streets looking for water wasters to cite. Watering must be done based on even and odd address numbers, specific times of the morning or late evening only, and on specific days. They have significantly stepped up enforcement during the rainy season, in hopes that people will think we are not rationing water. They made it as confusing as possible because they see it as a cash cow.
The citizens of San Diego have not let out one peep of disapproval, it's full steam ahead. Money, money, money.....
John
