Hotel guests recruited with Homeland Security TV spots

[The Northerner]

The Department of Homeland Security is recruiting hotel guests to join the fight against terrorism.

Starting today, the welcome screens on 1.2 million hotel television sets in Marriott, Hilton, Sheraton, Holiday Inn and other hotels in the USA will show a short public service announcement from DHS. The 15-second spot encourages viewers to be vigilant and call law enforcement if they witness something suspicious during their travels.

During the PSA, which starts with a woman exiting a yellow taxi in front of a train station, a narrator says, "Maybe you see something suspicious. Can you be sure? If you see something, say something to authorities."

The PSA, which will be interspersed with other messages on the welcome screen, will be the same in all 5,400 hotels that LodgeNet serves. It ends by telling viewers to contact "local authorities."

Read more: http://travel.usatoday.com/hotels/story/2011-11-02/Hotel-guests-recruited-with-Homeland-Security-TV-spots/51032602/1?loc=interstitialskip

[hobbit709]

1. I can think of several regimes in the past which wanted citizens to be snitches.

[ixion]

2. More Nazi BS from the totally un-American DHS

how completely typical of them. :grr:

[CoffeeCat]

3. This literally sounds like something from...

..the movie "V For Vendetta".

This makes people paranoid and it pits people against people.

We don't need to be told by our government to report something suspicious. People
do that anyway.

These videos are designed to divide us and to make people suspicious of their fellow
citizens.

It's disgusting.

The hotels that enable this filth are on my boycott list.

[valerief]

4. Friggin fascists. nt