OK...Welcome to the Beautiful state of Florida. We hve beaches and great food.  We have terrific seafood and The Scott Gestapo.  What did you say?  I said ,we have....you get the drift.  I was sitting in a diner this morning enjoying the Gulf breeze, a cup of coffee and picked up the paper as I gazed over the Citrus Times.  I have a bit of a flu bug so I decided instead of having my coffee outside on the beautiful little diner outside portion , I might want to go inside and listen to the oldies, read the paper and just chill from trying to pay the bills, get my little daughter to school and do my best to have a stress free day before DaNang, Angelajean and me start putting our format together with the Kos Radio show.   The headline read.....Well here, you read it and tell me we are not now offically standing on the edge of a Fascist Germany police state.  The reason I mentioned Vetlife with Vetwife soon to premier on Kos Radio with two more Kossack inputs..is because we will have to make this a top priority to hear from Flordia and veterans everywhere to stop this assault on the very consitituion they
fought and are fighting, and sacraficing for ...every day.  This and other intrusions will take me and other people like me right up on their radar screen.  They say it won't ...But it will.  We are outspoken and free thinkers.  I do hope Alan Grayson got a ccopy of the morning paper

Coming on the heels of September 11th..this little state has decided to make us all safer.  The ACLU doesn't feel that way.  I don't feel that way and doubt you do.
Jump below the fold and see what is coming to Florida Billboards, adertisements and public service announcements within in a few weeks.  FLA-SAFE.

Here is the article:

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/...

Portion of the article but not the paper I read it in..Read it and weep for your country and your Freedoms.

TALLAHASSEE — Just in time for the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, Florida officials launched a campaign encouraging citizens to report suspicious activity.

Gov. Rick Scott, joined by FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey and U.S. Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Betsy Markey, announced the "If You See Something, Say Something" campaign Thursday. "As we draw closer to the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, there is no better time to remember the many lives lost that day a decade ago, and to remind citizens of the need to remain vigilant," Scott said.

"If it's going to be a system that's going to allow people to demonstrate their biases, then I think it could be destructive and cause tension in the community. And such a thing will not benefit anyone," Imam Siddiq Abdullah of the Islamic Center of South Florida in West Palm Beach said.

The state will promote the campaign on television, radio and billboards, and urge residents to report suspicious activity to a hot line, (855) FLA-SAFE, (352-7233) said Bailey, who is also chairman of the Domestic Security Oversight Council.

Ahhhh.....another,,We are here from the Scott office and here to protect you..Right?
Guess what..I talked to people in the diner and they were blaming liberals?  Go figure.

ACLU of Florida Executive Director Howard Simon blasted what he called an unreliable, "turn in your neighbor" program.

Such a Conservative organization//How can liberals be blames for this nonsense..
These People Want government when they want it..PERIOD

"Instead of turning up actual, reliable tips, this blunt approach pits neighbor against neighbor and citizen against citizen and increases suspicion and mistrust rather than building cooperation and understanding," Simon said.

But Bailey insisted the program, created by the New York City Transportation Authority in 2002, targets behavior, not people. "When it comes to suspicious activity, it's not a particular type of person you're going to be looking for, but behavior," he said.

Tips received through the hot line and FDLE's website, www.fdle.state.fl.us, will be sent to the Florida Fusion Center in Tallahassee, where analysts will decide whether the information is legitimate.

Tips that are found not valid will be purged within 90 days, according to the center's privacy policy. Tips of uncertain validity will be kept up to two years before being purged. Once a tip is validated, the information can be shared with other law enforcement agencies.

Individuals may never know if their names are in the database - that information is exempt from public scrutiny.

But according to the policy, the Fusion Center will not seek or keep information about individuals "solely on the basis of their religious, political, or social views or activities; their participation in a particular noncriminal organization or lawful event; or their race, ethnicity, citizenship, place of origin, age, disability, gender, or sexual orientation." The center can keep information if it relates to efforts to "detect, anticipate, or prevent criminal activity."

The Department of Homeland Security launched the If You See Something effort on a national level last year. The effort also has the support of businesses including Wal-Mart and sports organizations including the NBA, NFL and NCAA. Several other states, including New Jersey, Minnesota and Colorado, have similar initiatives.