Washington, D.C. – Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the expansion of the Department’s national “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign to hundreds of Walmart stores across the country – launching a new partnership between DHS and Walmart to help the American public play an active role in ensuring the safety and security of our nation.
“Homeland security starts with hometown security, and each of us plays a critical role in keeping our country and communities safe,” said Secretary Napolitano. “I applaud Walmart for joining the ‘If You See Something, Say Something’ campaign. This partnership will help millions of shoppers across the nation identify and report indicators of terrorism, crime and other threats to law enforcement authorities.”
The “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign—originally implemented by New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority and funded, in part, by $13 million from DHS’ Transit Security Grant Program—is a simple and effective program to engage the public and key frontline employees to identify and report indicators of terrorism, crime and other threats to the proper transportation and law enforcement authorities.
More than 230 Walmart stores nationwide launched the “If You See Something, Say Something” campaign today, with a total of 588 Walmart stores in 27 states joining in the coming weeks. A short video message will play at select checkout locations to remind shoppers to contact local law enforcement to report suspicious activity.
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Partnering with the Department of Homeland Security, which costs very little, may be Wal-Mart’s clever way of minimizing the negative publicity it is getting from the following AP news dispatch:
“The Supreme Court said Monday [today] it will consider whether to keep alive the largest employment discrimination lawsuit in U.S. history, a case that claims Wal-Mart pays women less than men and promotes women less frequently.
The justices stepped into a dispute that could involve billions of dollars in back pay for 500,000 to 1.5 million women who work or once worked at Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest private employer.”
So now Big Sis Incompetano is shopping at WalMart which up until recently was considered evil for not being unionized.
#1 – that story is good news for WalMart.
Anyone have any idea what point Mark thought he was making here? Is partnering with Wal-Mart to combat terrorism somehow a mark of either incompetence or the creation of a police state (I’m pretty sure Wal-Mart is a private company and that unless otherwise deputized their greeters don’t have police powers. Yet.)? Is it hypocritical to think that Wal-Mart should be less aggressive in combating unionization but also that they could help keep people from getting blown up? I’m lost here.
4, you sure sound lost! This Regime as well as just about any socialist lib has been at WalMart’s throat for ages because they werent unionized (which is part of why they are CHEAPER to shop at!).
Let’s say that’s true. (Some evidence that the Obama administration has done anything to try to unionize a single Wal-Mart would be nice, but let’s pretend that you’re not imagining that there’s been a campaign by the government against Wal-Mart.) Does that have anything whatsoever to do with this story?
mosheemes2:
Please. Everything is part of the sinister plot Obama and his evil, socialist, muslim buddies have to take over the world, take away all of our rights and freedoms, and enslave us all to their new International Socialist Muslim Evil Empire (ISMEE). Sheesh, don’t you listen to Glen Beck?