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Department of Homeland Security 1, Previous-Generation Mini Cooper 0

Posted December 25, 2014 9:00 AM by dstrohl

Importation rules regarding vehicles are very specific: Only those over 25 years in age may be brought into the United States without compliance to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS). Bringing in vehicles less than 25 years old gets exponentially more complicated, which is why some importers bend the rules by swapping an earlier VIN on a later model automobile. Such was the case with this previous generation Mini Cooper, crushed in a New Jersey wrecking yard last week at the direction of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

As NJ.com reports, the Mini's destruction was carried out as part of "Operation Atlantic," a joint effort between the United States and the United Kingdom designed to rid the country of dangerous, illegal Minis and Land Rover Defenders built after 1988.

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12/25/2014 2:24 PM

As NJ.com reports, the Mini's destruction was carried out as part of "Operation Atlantic," a joint effort between the United States and the United Kingdom designed to rid the country of dangerous, illegal Minis and Land Rover Defenders built after 1988.

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12/26/2014 6:31 AM

Good thing everything was still in place from the "Cash For Clunkers" program.

It's also important to have state DHS chapters to teach our kids about global warming.

https://secure.in.gov/dhs/files/Global_Warming.pdf

Oh well...now that the world is peaceful and safe, I suppose we've got to keep them busy.

"The only thing we have to fear........is CO2!"

http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/mgmt/dhs-environmental-justice-strategy.pdf

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12/26/2014 9:13 AM

About 3 months ago I watched a 2007 documentary on Netflix, titled '9:11 In Plane Site' which brought to mind my thoughts in 2001 as to how an airliner crashing into the Pentagon could do so little damage. In 2001, I was busy with my own life and had little time to pursue questions. After watching this 'foil hat conspiracy video' I thought I might get "insight" from "engineers" so I asked for "engineers" input in CR4's general discussion as I could come up with no math or calculus formula that would put an airliner with a 150' wingspan through a 16' hole. I questioned the conflict between the 'engineering' simulations shown on media in 2001 and the local news coverage which showed the hole and roofline before the roof collapse. Lyn even 'witched' a bit of it and was concerned it was another attempt to discredit our current president. I asked for 'engineering' input, I received 'political' comment.

After pursuing further comment from around the world via internet, I think we have much more to fear than unsafe vehicles and climate change: IGNORANCE due to intelligence.

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12/26/2014 9:39 AM

I've seen that video, and many others. Youtube is rife with conspiracy theory videos, all pretty interesting...particularly the whistle blowers that have decided to speak publicly.

There is no rational way to make sense of the pentagon crash site, although, I don't know what it has to do with the "current" president.

Don't pay much attention to Lyn; if you even bring up the "grassy knoll" theory, he will swear that it is somehow a racist conspiracy against our current president.

Liberalism makes people whacky.

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12/26/2014 9:53 AM

Zionism combined with liberalism makes them disbelievers of facts, the conflict of intelligence that creates the danger, our current state of government. :)

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12/26/2014 10:55 AM

Politicians of all stripes have put considerable time and energy into figuring out the human psyche and how it can be manipulated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie

Another thing that makes no sense, is why career people from the CIA, FBI, etc., would destroy their careers and potentially put their lives at risk to expose some of this stuff.

Unless all of them have lost their minds, there's no good reason for them to fabricate these stories.

As this blog points out, government can also be totally stupid in their quest for control over us.

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01/12/2015 8:06 PM

DHS is concerned with "dangerous" minis but they don't worry about terrorists illegally entering across the southern border.

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01/13/2015 9:27 AM

Of course not, they're too busy selling M16's to the Mexican drug cartells to track the weapons shipments.

Guess what, those M16's get smuggled back into the US for the cartels to use against 'meddling cops.'

Great plan there, guys.

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01/13/2015 5:19 PM

That would almost be understandable. Unfortunately, they not only didn't track the weapons, but they never even bothered to write down the serial numbers, which were tracked back to the Arizona gun shops.

Basically what it amounted to, was that the Obama administration was complicit in the murders of US and Mexican citizens in order to scare people into allowing them to push forward an unconstitutional restriction on US gun ownership.

It was our first clue that they were a bunch of filthy and lawless Chicago criminals.

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01/13/2015 11:21 PM

Apparently this has been going on for a long time....watch Netflix Zeitgiest:The Movie...good tracking of where it started, where it's been, where it's headed.

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01/14/2015 6:34 AM

I'll do it.

I'm still immersed in Youtube documentaries on 9-11.

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01/14/2015 9:22 AM

HEY!

I take offense to that, we are NOT all filthy, lawless criminals in Chicago. Chicagoans are, in general, a polite and helpful lot. Yes, like any big city, we've got gangs, and 'racial/class strife' due to the separation of the neighborhoods by 'tax base' (aka, wealth, as the richer neighborhoods have higher property values, and produce more tax money for the city and county), but the people you meet walking along the arterial roads during the day are mostly honest, salt-of-the-earth 'good people,' even if they're stuck in a bad situation.

The only people who I would describe as 'filthy, lawless criminals' would be the politicians. Not even the organized crime bosses deserve that moniker, they're not 'lawless,' you can't organize things without laws defining the organization, and since they work to keep the 'freelance competition' out of their areas, in a sense, they're helping to reduce the total crime rate, simply by controlling the number of criminals permitted to 'work' a territory. (If you 'overfarm' an area, the people there will get desperate, and desperate people are unpredictable. They may even begin to 'push back' against the enforcers, causing casualties on both sides and increasing the 'cost of doing business' there.)

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01/14/2015 12:52 PM

No offense intended. It was strictly the lawless "political" criminals that I was referring to. They have reached a new low, and unfortunately, give the entire city a bad name.

The political criminals are the worst kind. The gangs and mafia types rarely go after civilians that are minding their own business, whereas the political crooks feed exclusively on innocent civilians.

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01/14/2015 1:12 PM

Thank you for the clarification.

After all, Al Capone never ordered anyone to be shot in the back unless they deserved it.

(Granted, you could 'deserve it' for something as trivial as using his nickname while he (or one of his 'lieutenants') was in earshot, or not being able to make one payment on a 'small business loan' because business has been bad for the past couple of months, but there were no documented cases of "Dat guy's got really bushy eyebrows, it's like he's wearing a mustache above his eyes, that's hilarious! Go shoot him in the back, Guido, I'm bored and I want to see if his death is as funny as those eyebrows." He never deliberately ordered innocents to be shot in the back. If they eded up shot in the back from a stray bullet from an unrelated altercation, "Oh well, that wasn't a smart place to stand just then. Sucks to be him.")

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01/14/2015 2:34 PM

Yep. There used be be a certain degree of honor among the gangters...not so with the politicians.

Did you ever worry about the Mafia listening in on your every communication, along with passing unconstitutional laws that could throw you in indefinite detention without being charged with a crime?

We're living in a banana republic dictatorship.

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01/14/2015 3:41 PM

If that's so, then where's my banana?

(I literally have no idea why I said that. it has the cadence of a snappy comeback, but it makes no sense. perhaps I've got too much blood in my caffeine system, time for more coffee to try and balance things out again.)

(Seriously kids, don't become a coffee addict, it's not as cool as it looks, and all the other addicts make fun of you, "What, couldn't get addicted to anything illegal, or harmful in the short term? What a wuss.")

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01/14/2015 4:10 PM

Everything in moderation...usually.

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