FBI wants businesses watching for customers paying with cash

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FBI wants businesses watching for customers paying with cash
Government calls buying 'night flashlights,' making 'extreme religious statements' indicators of terrorism
Posted: August 12, 2011
11:00 pm Eastern

By Bob Unruh
© 2011 WND

Just days after the White House announced a community-based approach to combating terrorism in the United States, the FBI and other agencies are asking managers of surplus stores to spy on their customers, watching whether they pay in cash, make "extreme" religious statements or purchase products such as waterproof matches.

And the request from the government also is going to gun shops, fertilizer suppliers, motels and hotels, authorities say.

Earlier this month, the Obama administration announced a new plan titled "Empowering local partners to prevent violent extremism in the United States." In it, Obama wrote, "Communities – especially Muslim American communities whose children, families and neighbors are being targeted for recruitment by al-Qaida – are often best positioned to take the lead because they know their communities best."

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One of the apparent elements of the White House strategy is a series of brochures being handed out to farm supply stories, gun shops, military surplus stores and even hotels and motels. The brochures ask proprietors, clerks and others to watch out for "potential indicators" of terrorism, including "paying with cash," having a "missing hand/fingers," making "extreme religious statements coupled with comments that are violent or appear to condone violence" and making bulk purchases of "Meals Ready to Eat" or "night flashlights."

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He pointed out to WND the irony that the government, through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, specifically advises citizens to collect "ready-to-eat canned meats, fruits and vegetables" as well as "flashlight and extra batteries" and "matches in a waterproof container."

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[TVDOC]

What exactly is a "night flashlight"......?

Further any Boy Scout knows how to make waterproof matches.........(HINT:  buy canning wax at any supermarket, melt it, and dip the heads of wooden matches in it....viola!).

Sounds sorta like the good old days of  Democrat paranoia during the Clinton years, when  he directed the resources of the FBI, et al, to chasing every perceived militia group in the country at the expense of the real threat that was gathering elsewhere.

Not that there isn't an internal threat from Muslim extremists, however it doesn't seem likely that flashlights, MRE's and matches (or cash purchases for that matter) are a useful way to identify them.......

Only in Barry's warped worldview.

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[CG6468]

A night flashlight is one that won't work in the daytime. It's useful on the south side of Chicago.

[thundley4]

I pay for everything with cash.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Welcome to the Union of Soviet Socialist States, comrade.

 

[Airwolf]

I suggest that we all stock up on canned foods and shotguns.

[formerlurker]

"Can I get me a hunting license here?"