Checkpoints, bag searches, snitch hotline, all personal items banned: Happy Independence Day!
Paul Joseph Watson
Bostonians will face airport security-style measures if they wish to attend the city’s major annual July 4 event, with virtually all personal items being banned along with mandatory checkpoints, snitch hotlines and bag searches, begging the question – what “freedoms” are they supposed to be celebrating?
After 4PM, revelers attending the annual Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular at the Charles River Esplanade will be banned from bringing in any personal items whatsoever besides chairs, tarps, and blankets. Before that time mandatory bag searches at several checkpoints will take place and items including coolers with wheels, pre-mixed beverages, glass containers, any sharp objects and liquid containers over two liters will be confiscated. Attendees will also be forced to pass through metal detectors.
“They will not be allowed to grill, and all blankets, tents, and other items must be carried in see-through bags. Boaters on the Charles will have to stay 100 feet from shore and 1,000 feet from the fireworks barge; docks between the Massachusetts Avenue and Longfellow bridges will be closed; and any vessel in the waters off the Esplanade will not be allowed to move after 7 p.m., including kayaks, dinghies, and other small craft,”reports the Boston Globe.
National Guard troops will also be on patrol, giving the event a martial law feel, and authorities have also worked with the Department of Homeland Security to set up a dedicated snitch line where citizens can report “suspicious activity”. Fireworks sellers across the country have also been told to keep an eye out for buyers who “raise suspicion” by making suspicious political comments.
The security measures, introduced in the wake of April’s Marathon bombings, are so stifling that some who planned to attend the party have given up on July 4 altogether.
Bostonian Debra Glidden labeled the measures “outrageous,” telling the Globe, “If we can’t bring backpacks, it’s just not worth the hassle, I’d need a large bag to carry sweatshirts, drinks, snacks, sunscreen, cellphones, etc. I can’t imagine what someone with a child in diapers would do.”
Steve Cimbrelo has attended the Esplanade celebrations since he was a child but won’t be in attendance this year.
“They’re going overboard with security, I don’t know how you can go there for 12 hours bringing next to nothing,” said Cimbrelo, adding that the rules were “an ironic way to celebrate our independence.”
A myriad of other security precautions will also be in place.
– Numerous road closures around the venue which will prevent access to pedestrians or vehicular traffic.
– A “significant amount” of both uniformed and plain-clothes officers throughout the public transit system,” presumably including TSA agents, will perform extra patrols.
– An array of new surveillance cameras will provide “a set of eyes on a constant basis”.
– Double the usual number of police officers will be on patrol.
However, Boston is not the only city that will see draconian, un-American security procedures ruin what is supposed to be a celebration of liberty.
As Anthony Gucciardi details, “fireworks, drinks, grills, pets, sports, and just about everything else” have all been banned by the City of Lakewood in Ohio via a city ordinance which will also see police “conducting searches of bags and coolers for reasons of public safety.”
Similar measures will also be in place for anyone visiting the National Mall in Washington DC, where previous wooden fencing has been upgraded to chain-link fencing, which presumably will help attendees warm to the whole “prison” vibe.
All backpacks and other bags have also been banned in Atlanta.
If the terrorists’ goal is to extinguish freedom in America then July 4 is a perfect showcase of the fact that the terrorists have won.
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars
The destruction of America in a false “war on terrorism” is almost complete. The terrorists known as the DHS the FBI and the US Government via the MEDIA have succeeded in destroying almost every facet of what made America great. Even unto our social institutions.
If you cannot see these things then you are cognitive dissonant sheeple.
How many terrorist attacks have not been instigated by government organizations? Supported by government organizations? Had government involvement?
FBI =18 18 terror incidents the FBI set up paid for and recruited the idiots the took credit for foiling them. WTF?
Who caught those that were not?
Shoe bomber – caught by passengers.
Underwear bomber- caught by bystanders AND he was assisted by the authorities to get on the plane to the Unites States.
Timothy McVeigh – numerous unexploded bombs were found in the FBI building that could not have been put there by Timothy. Hmmm. Made with Israeli components. Hmmm . . .
Aurora Colorado – The shooter was drugged. Two assault weapons were found as well as two gas masks and witnesses reported two shooters. Hmmmm and the shooter was given $25 thousand by the US Government with which he purchased the weapons. Hmmmm
Sandy Hook? WTF too many things wrong with that. Emergency vehicles blocked in, no witnesses as to bodies being taken out, crises actors involved, 3 “operatives” caught in the woods. A bushmaster rifle supposedly used in the attack found in the trunk. There is so much more. Only fools buy the story anymore.
Boston – Tsarnaev brothers seen live one naked then a few moments later run over and dead. The other shot in the throat while completely unarmed. Watertown placed into martial law and hundreds of homes searched when the Young Tsarnaev is found by a local hiding in his boat. The boy is shot never having been a threat and WTF the US Government supposedly was warned by Russian authorities that the older brother was a problem. But let us not forget that THERE WERE government operatives carrying live explosives as part of a drill taking place within inches of the event. And yes of course CRISES actors too.
And Barack Obama has the balls to tell me that if I do not trust him that we are going to have problems? Buddy we already have problems.
Like why did you authorize, and now proven, completely faked birth certificate to be placed on the official White House web site and claim it was real and perfectly legal? Why have you paid millions to avoid the birth certificate issue? Why are professors at Columbia University stating that they doubt if you ever went to their College? Why are you using a social security number of a dead man, also proven in a court of law?
Yes we have some problems and I am not one of them but you have allowed the criminal corporation called the DHS to list me and all military veterans as terrorists when YOU are the one authorizing drone strikes across the planet killing thousands of innocents calling them “collateral”. Where is the problem here.
Sadly you DO NOT have the balls to discuss these things in front of the US population on live television instead you act as a dictator determining who lives and dies with your private kill list. No due process. You are not a god you are a slimy politician with delusions of grandeur.
Funny thing is, I would not be saying any of this if you had simply kept your mouth shut. You called me a terrorist. You told college students to “pay no attention” to conspiracies yet all of the above is readily available. You told me to trust you when there is absolutely no reason to trust you.
You lied to the American people before your election, you lied in your campaign promises, you have lied hundreds of times in the media, and you lied to the people from the rose garden saying that 90% of the people supported your gun bill. Really? How stupid are you?
Hey I know you want me dead because I tell the truth and you are afraid just like George Bush that the people will learn and understand the truth. I am not stupid. I am also not afraid. I spent 22 years in the military ready at any moment to die for my country.
This little post in a back water Chinese owned internet blog is no real threat to you. But the people of America waking up are and you plan genocide along with your criminal associates just to make us even more controllable.
I pray this trip through life teaches you all the lessons you need. I pray it ends appropriately under the laws of common sense and you leave this life as an example to other petty dictators while taking those who supported you with you.
Your attacks against religion in the Unites States are unacceptable and un-Constitutional.
Live and let live. Let the real Creator sort it all out.