PAPAL LOCKDOWN

The total lock down of Philadelphia began yesterday. The socialist, left wing, rockstar pope arrives in the U.S. today, causing mass gridlock, lost economic productivity, and another opportunity for our Orwellian police surveillance state to flex its muscles and treat its citizens like cattle and sheep. It started with the lock down of Boston a couple years ago as the all-powerful State took a giant shit on the Fourth Amendment as they hunted down two teenage utensil bomb terrorists. The DHS thugs have continued to militarize Barney Fife police forces around the country. Every man, woman and child is treated like a terrorist when going to a god damn baseball or football game. As reported by Marketwatch, the pope will inconvenience millions in three large US cities over the next six days.

Pope Francis’ historical six-day visit to the U.S. will bring some of the tightest security in Washington, D.C., New York and Philadelphia this week. Pope Francis, 78, will arrive from Cuba at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on Tuesday, Sept. 22. He’ll then meet with President Barack Obama, be honored in a parade on the National Mall in Washington that’s expected to draw more than 200,000 people, hold mass and address a joint session of Congress. The pope will then travel to New York by plane,where he’ll address the United Nations, parade through Central Park and hold mass at Madison Square Garden. He will then fly from JFK airport to Philadelphia. On Sunday morning, he’ll visit a prison and later that afternoon will lead a mass that is expected to draw as many as one million people. He’ll head back to Rome on Sunday. Sept. 27.

The Secret Service, who can’t keep idiots from jumping the White House fence and getting in to see Obama, are in charge of keeping the pope safe from the thousands of terrorists roaming the streets of the US who want to kill him. This is really an inconvenience for the top notch secret service agents because it cuts into their time banging whores and allowing planes to land on the White House lawn. Of course, we’ve already had the “terrorist plot foiled” bullshit story released to the media to prove they are keeping us safe. They are now scrapping the the bottom of the barrel with 15 year olds posting on facebook.

The Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson designated the visit of Pope Francis to be a National Special Security Event (NSSE), which means the same level of security as a presidential inauguration or the Olympics or the Super Bowl. U.S. Secret Service director Joseph Clancy traveled to Italy in June to meet with Vatican security personnel to prepare for the pope’s visit and to study the pope’s habits and patterns when he goes out in public. Already the Secret Service said it had disrupted one plot by a 15-year-old boy in Philadelphia to launch an “ISIS-inspired” attack with firearms and explosives during Pope Francis’ visit, though no active steps for the plot had begun before it was detected and the boy was arrested.

The visit to Philadelphia is proving to be a holy clusterfuck. It will be virtually impossible to enter or leave Philadelphia from Friday through Monday. My employer, the biggest in Phila, happens to be within the no travel zone. It had to close on Friday. There are thousands of hourly employees who will not get paid. These are the “poor” who the pope cares so much about. The Schuylkill Expressway, the major route into and out of Philly to the western suburbs, will be closed from Friday night until Monday morning. The Ben Franklin bridge from New Jersey will be closed. The amount of lost wages and productivity will be huge. I guess we can just expect bigger lines at the local food bank next week.

Cars started being towed yesterday from hundreds of streets. A city that is gridlocked on a normal day, will supposedly have over 1 million additional people. An event that should have generated added business for restaurants, retailers, and other small businesses is being run by government drones in a way guaranteed to lose money for these businesses. These small restaurants and other businesses have to close, because their workers can’t get back into the city once they leave. Food deliveries will be impossible. You need government issued passes to enter certain zones. You needed to win a lottery to get tickets to use public transportation. And then of course, you will be molested, prodded and felt up by police state thugs as you are herded through gates and corralled like sheep. The great socialist pontiff will pontificate his global warming, anti-capitalism message to these sheep, as they willingly subjugate themselves to the dictates of their surveillance state shepherds.

The famous white-painted “Popemobile,” of which an armored SUV version was put in service after an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1981, will be used by the Secret Service. As the Secret Service is the lead agency in all three cities, people will need a ticket to the various private events in each city, and each public appearance will have many restrictions, such as no backpacks, no selfie sticks, no balloons, no packages or glass and metal containers. Want to carry a welcome sign? It can’t be on a stick, the Secret Service warns. Expect long airport-like security lines for magnetic screening if you plan to attend the parade in Washington or want to check out New York’s Central Park event on Friday, Sept. 25, the agency warns.

The pope came to Phila in 1979. The city wasn’t locked down in any way. People came to the city and watched him drive by in his pope mobile. There was probably some police overtime as they were needed for extra crowd control. There were no bomb squads, military level presence, sharpshooters on rooftops, secret service running the show, or fear mongering by the government. The ignorant masses are too ignorant to realize they are being treated like sheep by the government. DHS has to act like their presence makes you safer. This is how they rationalize their $800 billion budget. It’s fitting that this is happening in Phila where Ben Franklin spoke his immortal words:

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

This week is another nail in the coffin of liberty. The ridiculously over-hyped danger from phantom terrorists has convinced the willfully ignorant masses to sacrifice our freedoms and liberties for some perceived safety. The government is nothing but a hammer, and you are nothing but a nail to them. So, if you are stupid enough to venture into a papal zone this week, enjoy being treated like a terrorist and getting molested by a government drone. At least it isn’t a priest.

While the airspace in and around Washington is already tightly controlled by the Federal Aviation Administration with “no-fly zones,” the Secret Service has also promised a “no-drone zone” in Washington, New York and Philadelphia for the pope’s visit, and warns drone operators they’ll face arrest and criminal charges if they don’t obey it. Rooftop events in Washington will also be discouraged, according to the Secret Service. The Secret Service has gotten better about warning businesses about specific disruptions and street closures, Agouridis added, and “become more precise without compromising security.”

Amtrak also warns that its Acela high-speed rail trains and others along the “Power Corridor” between New York, Philadelphia and Washington are expected to be packed with hundreds of Catholic Church officials, cardinals and bishops as well as mass attendees. Amtrak says it will run a weekday schedule when the pope is in Philadelphia, along with extra trains over the weekend beginning Sept. 26 with help from equipment from local commuter rail lines. Riders can expect plenty of police presence at stations and aboard trains and bomb-sniffing dogs. “Additional station personnel and ambassadors will be on hand to assist, but passengers should expect long lines and crowded conditions,” said Craig Schulz, an Amtrak spokesman, in an Aug. 21 statement.