Our government is a joke. Our politicians are a joke. DHS is a joke. All the security measures that have cost trillions since 9/11 are a joke. Are you safer today than you were on September 10, 2001? Was it worth the cost in dollars, liberty, and freedom to have the appearance of safety and security? Despite all of the technology and corporate fascist government solutions, an idiot on a jet ski can breach a $100 million security system without even knowing he was doing it. Pitiful.
Jet ski intruder evades multi-million dollar JFK Airport security system
The 31-year-old resident of Queens, N.Y. abandoned his watercraft, and swam towards distant lights, climbing over an 8-foot tall perimeter security fence, and crossing active runway 4L and intersecting runway 31L, the longest at the airport.
He was finally taken into custody and arrested for criminal trespass after asking a Delta Air Lines ramp worker for help near Gate 10 of Terminal 3, as reported on Monday, August 13, 2012 by WXIA-TV, The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC News, the New Jersey Herald, and other global news agencies.
The airport intrusion took place last Friday, August 10, 2012 at about 7:45 p.m. EDT, just before sunset.
The exhausted man, who was wearing only swim trunks and a bright yellow life jacket, went undetected through several layers of high-tech security devices installed by Raytheon Company of Waltham, Mass., a major U.S. defense contractor. The sophisticated and costly system included motion detectors and closed-circuit cameras comprising the airport’s Perimeter Intrusion Detection System (PIDS).
Casillo was arrested and charged with trespassing by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) police. His attorney defended his actions, saying that his client “had a rough time of it, and was just glad to be alive.” His girlfriend, Deanna Cowan, was more critical, saying to the New York Post, “They were trying to see who had the fastest jet skis, like idiots.” Apparently Casillo lost that race, and became separated from his friends, but managed to save his life.
Even more alarmed was Charles Schumer, the senior United States Senator from New York, who told ABC-TV, “We’re dealing with safety here. God forbid a terrorist should get onto a runway of an airport.”
Those were also the thoughts of police officials, who echoed public sentiment that the airport authority had wasted millions of tax dollars on failed technology.
Among those faulting the electronic sensors was Robert Egbert, a spokesman for Port Authority’s Police Benevolent Association. He called for a full probe of the whole system, saying “The union is demanding an inspector’s general investigation into the failed Perimeter Intrusion Detection System, the cost over-runs and the relationship between the Port Authority and Raytheon, the vendor.”
Raytheon probably has the most to lose in this embarrassing incident. A spokesperson for the company said that they are cooperating with the Port Authority.
Others see Casillo as something of a whistle blower who shattered a false sense of security by easily defeating a detection apparatus that was considered fail-safe. It’s a modern version of “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” a Danish folktale about an invisible garment that everyone but a child were afraid to admit didn’t exist.
As Nicholas Casale, a retired detective with the NYPD, and former deputy security director for counter terrorism for the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority put it, “I think he should be given dinner and a bottle of champagne for showing us our faults.”
Before that happens, Casillo has to appear in court to settle the criminal charges filed against him.
This case recalls a previous one on March 6, 2006 at JFK Airport, in which an elderly man drove his car onto a runway through two security gates. He made it to an active runway where an Air France aircraft was preparing to land. The intruder drove around for approximately 23 minutes before being stopped.
I was wondering when this article would make it on to TBP. It so perfectly illustrates the point of many articles you have posted, Admin.
They could delete DHS, TSA, NSA and CIA and the security of the US citizens would not decrease in the slightest.
In fact, I daresay that quality of life would increase dramatically.
When Jet skiing is outlawed, only outlaws will ride jet skis.
There should be a 72 hour background check on all persons wishing to purchase a Jet Ski.
In FloriDUH, I used to live on the same lake as jet ski terrorists. I did not call the dhs, TSA, r the FBI on the critters. Just roll up giant balls of chicken wire laden with fishing line, and the skis spent more time in the shop than on the lake.
For all you NSA, dhs, et grub meant trolls out there monitoring this site,your sniffer ware is slowing down this sight and making it very slow, captain obvious.
Also’ anything posted by me is total bullshit and for entertainment purposes only. So shove it up your asses, spooks!
Obviously millions more need to be spent to upgrade JFK’s airport security. And while the governement’s at it, billions more should be spent to upgrade security at the tens of thousands of other government buildings and sites across this country and in the world. If one of these installations is underprotected, they all must be.
For you who so love the State, feel fortunate that Daniel Casillo skied into the picture when he did. More government spending, more people working for the government, and more security… we’ll surely be able to thank Danny for that. Let’s hope his reward is more than a few moments of notoriety, an arrest record, and the anxiety that goes with being prosecuted for embarassing Big Brother.
hahahaha!!! My brother flies in and out of JFK all the time (he’s a pilot for AA) and he will tell you that the security is a total joke. The baggage cars go right by this chain link fence on the perimeter and you can just toss whatever you want into the cars.
Also that the “rampies”, those guys that haul the baggage in and out of the plane, are 1/2 step up from your average resident of the 30 Blocks, most of them are stoned all the time and they are also batshit crazy. (They are exempt from drug testing, lol.)
So now we are going to have Seal Teams patrolling any waterway that abuts an airport??????
This story is as good as the one where the drunk tourist passed out in Roome and went ’round and ’round the baggege belt in Rome before anybody noticed.
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Jet skis eat shit.
But how about this Russian Akula-class sub, eh? TWO of them were patrolling UNDETECTED off the East Coast, for a WHOLE MONTH!!
(I believe it was the guy on the jet ski who broke this story.)
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1204523/Russian-subs-spotted-U-S-coast-time-15-years-bringing-echoes-Cold-War-despite-Kremlin-claims-patrols-routine.html
Oh, and a 30 yr old Russian sub prowled the Gulf of Mexico undetected for a month!
http://freebeacon.com/silent-running/
I don’t believe any of this MSM bullshit. It’s all just excuses agitate the sheeple that they need to spend moar on the police state. The airport story really smells. Why didn’t he just catch a cab ride home?
Now i feel unsafe.
“They could delete DHS, TSA, NSA and CIA and the security of the US citizens would not decrease in the slightest.”
—-TPC
NSA and CIA are not security agencies. They do not exist to protect you, and their employees are neither armed nor trained to do so. They exist to collect foreign intelligence.
@SSS
Okay, I gather you know something about this stuff.
So, NSA and CIA do not exist to protect us? Then why do we fund them? I assume you mean the don’t exist to *directly* protect us. But if that isn’t the ultimate purpose, what is?
If I had to answer that, in my ignorance, I’d say they serve powers that really don’t have Americans’ interest at heart at all.
Lots of good material on youtube:
Philip Agee (CIA), William Binney (NSA), Michael Levine(DEA), Ray McGovern (CIA), John Perkins (CIA), Michael Scheuer (CIA), Bob Stockwell (CIA)
And Bill and Kathy Christison (CIA)
And let’s not forget Gary Webb, not a gov employee. Exposed CIA involvement in crack dealing and died of suicide, supposedly, two shots to the head. I don’t follow Rense, but they’ve got some good material on this.
Aren’t these the same people so many are afraid are about to spring martial law on the country? Imagine the Keystone Kops clamping down on freedom in America. Can you imagine F Troop setting up check points on city streets to control the population. I’m trying to keep a straight face…
GJH says: “@SSS: Okay, I gather you know something about this stuff.” Meaning the CIA.
Yes, I have some knowledge of CIA operations. The CIA exists to support foreign policy objectives, meaning (largely) gathering information on foreign governments which do not have our best interests at heart.
All this distills to three words: plans and intentions. The president sets the agenda for the CIA through his foreign policy. If the president determines that Country X is the biggest threat, then the CIA will focus its resources on that threat.
As to your specifics of former CIA employees who have run off the reservation. Two responses.
Philip Agee was a traitor. Pure and simple. He was responsible for the deaths of both American and British intelligence officers because he identified them by name, and they were later assassinated. He died a few years ago in Cuba. If I had a say about Agee, he would have died a horrible death decades ago.
Now let’s move on to your citation of Bill and Kathy Christison. Big deal. They were retired pro-Palestinian CIA analysts who disagreed with U.S. policy vis a vis Israel. They used their CIA employment to talk to other pro-Palestinian groups about the U.S.’s pro-Israel policy. What’s your point here, GJH? A retired government employee disagrees with something that his or her government is doing? Wow. What a news flash.
Your turn. And then things will get really nasty.
@SSS, two points, nothing to get particularly nasty over, though have at if you’d like.
The first point was to ask the question I asked. Your answer–they gather info on the plans and intentions of foreign entities that the President determines are a high priority. So I’m guessing the distinction you made, that they’re not there to protect, is a bit of hair splitting, as the ultimate purpose of such intelligence gathering ought to be to protect the US from attacks and generally promote US interests, if we were all one big happy family.
Again, a sincere question: do they really only gather intelligence, or do they sometimes take a more active role in events? I find the Gary Webb case to be quite disturbing, for instance. Or, say, the Iranian coup of 1953. It would seem they have been involved in plenty of other coups and assassinations, as well as shady fund-raising activities.
As an aside, Jesse Ventura would contest your statement that they gather only foreign info. He says they sat him down for questioning when he became gov of Minn.
My second, and main, point, was to voice my skepticism about what these folks do for us. IF we can believe they always serve the president, that’s still problematic, given the Prez isn’t there to serve us. But we don’t really get to know what they’re up to, do we? We just have to accept what’s told us. I’m not into that. It’s just one more aspect of the concentration of power into a few hands.
I’m not saying there aren’t honorable people in the CIA. I think there are, though the one person I ever knew who was (I never reveal IDs), was among the worst of people I’ve known.
GJH
I admire you’re efforts!!
But …. “fools go where angels fear to tread”.
Trying to get SSS to admit the CIA is flawed is like asking the Pope to admit Mary wasn’t a perpetual virgin. The data is as plain as the nose on his face … but he has too much invested in his beliefs to ever change his mind.
From the article:
“Raytheon probably has the most to lose in this embarrassing incident.”
I sincerely doubt that! I am more than certain that the taxpayers have the most to lose and I’m sure as hell not talking in terms of security!
I_S
Jesse Ventura is an idiot. He claims that he met with 23 CIA agents shortly after he became governor. Jesus Christ. The CIA doesn’t even put 23 people on a debriefing of a high ranking defector, and I know that for a cold, hard fact. From the Minnesota Public Radio News website, March, 2008:
“CIA operations primarily focus on the collection and analysis of information about foreign threats to the United States. Domestic matters fall into the jurisdiction of the FBI.
Former Republican U.S. Sen. Dave Durenberger is questioning Ventura’s claims. Durenberger, who spent eight years on the Senate intellegence committee, says he never heard of CIA operatives in state governments or agents grilling new governors.
“I cannot think of a reason why either the details of, or his personal experiences with how he got elected would do anything for understanding threats to the United States and to our national security policy presented by foreign agents,” he said. “It doesn’t jibe. Unless Jesse had another life that he either wrote about in this book or has yet to disclose to us prior to becoming our governor. It sort of like blows even my imagination to think of how this could be a reality.”
Domestic and foreign intelligence collection activities were sorted out TWO FUCKING GENERATIONS AGO, GJH. FBI here. CIA over there. The FBI has two divisions devoted to counter-intelligence and counter-espionage. Bottom line: if it’s happening inside the U.S., the FBI is totally in charge of the operation or investigation, whether or not it involves a U.S. citizen or a foreign national, or any combination of the two. Get it?
“Trying to get SSS to admit the CIA is flawed is like asking the Pope to admit Mary wasn’t a perpetual virgin. The data is as plain as the nose on his face … but he has too much invested in his beliefs to ever change his mind.”
—-FBD
That’s a stupid, unfounded assertion. I’m well aware of the flaws of the CIA. More than you or anyone else will ever know. Show me just one instance where I defended the CIA against the indefensible. Just one.
The Guatamala Coup
The CIA’s involvement in the overthrow or disruption of sovereign nations is indefensible.
You won’t even admit the CIA does this. That’s what I’m talking about.
FBD – Thanks, haven’t been around long enough to know SSS that well.
True believers will be true believers. But for the rest of us, it’s good to question and to educate ourselves the best we can about what the secretive praetorian agencies are doing, and whether they truly serve our interests.
Fortunately some CIA folks agree with this point. Ex-CIA Robert D. Steele’s Amazon review of ‘Legacy of Ashes’ and ‘Inside the Company’ are useful, for instance.
SSS – Yeah, I get it, that’s the party line. What’s the reality? How do we know? Whose word do we take for it?
Yeah, Ventura could be lying. But from what I’ve heard so far I trust him more than most public figures.
I’m just learning, so I won’t debate details. But in principle, how do you reconcile the existence of secretive, unaccountable agencies like the CIA, NSA, etc. with the real American Dream, as laid out in the Constitution?
A couple word from the Robert D. Steele book review mentioned above:
“US Government a Ship of Fools, with immoral Presidents asking incompetent spies to be equally immoral, while pathetically inept Members of Congress stood idly by, the occasional commission notwithstanding.
Good people trapped in a very bad system where the pathologies of power nurture ideological fantasy and treason against the Republic.”
Steele’s reviews I mentioned above:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1CVV3PAJ2F3QR/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=038551445X&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=#wasThisHelpful
http://www.amazon.com/review/R2WH0A1LV62EBW/ref=cm_cr_pr_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=055326012X&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=#wasThisHelpful
“The CIA’s involvement in the overthrow or disruption of sovereign nations is indefensible. You won’t even admit the CIA does this. That’s what I’m talking about.”
—-FBD
WTF? When did I ever deny that the CIA was involved in coups in Guatemala and Iran or the Bay of Pigs operation. Of course it was. What I did point out, ad naseum to Admin and others, that those activities were sanctioned by Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. And I also detailed the HISTORICAL CONTEXT in which those activities occurred. As in The Cold War. You do remember The Cold War, don’t you, FBD?
You can armchair quarterback history all you want, FBD, and huffingly announce your holier-than-thou attitude that those events were indefensible. In the meantime, I’ll continue to deal with reality and “the way it was.”
““They could delete DHS, TSA, NSA and CIA and the security of the US citizens would not decrease in the slightest.”
—-TPC
NSA and CIA are not security agencies. They do not exist to protect you, and their employees are neither armed nor trained to do so. They exist to collect foreign intelligence.
” – SSS
Just because they are not trained or armed to directly protect me from threats does not make them any less of a “security agency.”
The foreign intel they collect, and the machivellian schemes they concoct are all intended to safeguard the United States from threats.
That sounds like security to me.
PS: Is it just me, or does “Jet Ski Terrorist” sound like the name of a bad punk song.
SSS
OK, if you say so. But, I’m keeping my eye on you from here on out.
“SSS – Yeah, I get it, that’s the party line. What’s the reality? How do we know? Whose word do we take for it?”
—-GJH
Mine. I was in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations aka The Clandestine Service for 20 years, and I had a Top Secret SCI (Special Compartmentalized Intelligence) security clearance the entire time AND a Top Secret clearance from the FBI. I know how things work.
“I’m keeping my eye on you from here on out.”
—-FBD @ SSS
Ditto.
@ThePessimisticChemist
Massively oversimplifying, here’s the difference in simple terms.
NSA is advisory, backroom people. They look everywhere. They have no authority to do anything other than to listen and report back. Maybe the odd bit of tampering to electronic records.
FBI is enforcement and they only look at internal and potentially internal threats that cross state boundaries in the USA. They have guns, badges, and everything, though tend to be quite well trained and have higher than average ‘ethics’ for LEOs.
CIA is a mix of advisory and enforcement that is purely external to the USA.
NSA spooks in general look like generic office workers or the geeks that they are.
FBI agents in general look either like paramilitaries, or the “Agent Cooper” look from “Twin Peaks”
CIA spooks are more variable. They’re either very, very obvious for when a ‘message’ wants to be sent (James Bond from the movies is one of those types – not even worth anything but the most basic legend), or look like natives but with better toys, or are corporate drones in multinationals.
(Yes, SSS, I’m way, way, way oversimplifying. shush)