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Good for you! That’s why it’s important for you to continue the fight to protect our first amendment rights.

Don’t flatter yourself…. You have your story all wrong. Get it straight next time

Carl,

What is inaccurate about the story? Here are the facts as I listed them.

1. Wackenhut guards have been caught sleeping on duty.

2. Wackenhut is being investigated for overbilling taxpayers millions of dollars.

3. A Wackenhut security guard violated my First Amendment rights last May at the Metro Mover.

4. I posted a video yesterday of a protest in front of FPL headquarters.

5. Wackenhut CEO Gary Sanders resigned within hours after the video was posted.

You and I both know that Gary Sanders has more pressing problems on his hands right now than to resign over a video.

But then again, I have no idea what is going through his mind.

All I know are the facts, which I just listed for you.

And you and I both know, Carlos, that this video was just the last event in a LONG list of other ones putting the heat on Wackenhut. Clearly, they are feeling it.

[...] By Geniusofdespair Posted in January 9th, 2008 by admin in Florida News No Tags You can go see YouTube of FP&L Juno Beach Protest over Sleeping Wackenhut guards at nuke plant on Carlos Mille…. Apparently Carlos, an Eye on Miami reader, has a blog about his arrest for taking photographs of [...]

Carlos Miller, Wackenhut Killer…

best comment I’ve seen:

machine3 wrote:
I realize it’s probably a Germanic name, but “Wackenhut” sounds like a guard shack where you touch yourself.

at the Houston Chronicle – http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/5443404.html

Enhager,

Which probably explains why they tend to sleep on duty.

Nonee,

Stick around, man. It’s going to get fun around here.

>> As a Florida resident, I really did not appreciate the fact that sleeping Wackenhut guards were being paid to protect FPL’s Turkey Point nuclear facility.

Do you also fail to appreciate it when firefighters are PAID TO SLEEP every night in almost every major city in the United States?

>> 1. Wackenhut guards have been caught sleeping on duty.

Show me a major security company that hasn’t. I personally woke up a Department of Defense police officer at a guard post on a military base. I know MPs and SPs that have woken up fellow guards at nuclear sites. This is an industry problem.

At Turkey Point, the guards that were asleep were part of a reaction force — not gate guards, not camera operators, not supervisors. Their job was to sit in that room and be ready to respond to an attack on the plant; like firefighters ready to roll when they get a call.

Public safety was not threatened.

I’m not revealing anything that’s not obvious to an educated layperson without an axe to grind.

>> 2. Wackenhut is being investigated for overbilling taxpayers millions of dollars.

True. Given the political ties between the Democratic Party, SEIU and local governments, I’m somehow not surprised. Where’s the love for the public employee contract administrators who weren’t auditing the accounts? All of a sudden it’s news, now that SEIU has decided that its path to the 21st century is over Wackenhut’s dead body.

>> 3. A Wackenhut security guard violated my First Amendment rights last May at the Metro Mover.

1) Prove it. Did you have a ticket to ride? The facilities are for riders not commercial photography. (As you point out, noncommercial photography is protected.)

2) TSA violates my civil rights every time I walk through a checkpoint. Why did you stop taking photos? If I were you, I’d have kept clicking and enjoyed winning my lawsuit for battery if he laid a finger on me.

3) Metro violated your rights, if they were in fact violated. (You should get a copy of Metro’s anti-photo policy, that would actually be useful.) The guard was just doing his job.

>> 4. I posted a video yesterday of a protest in front of FPL headquarters.

Cute, and thank you. I wonder if they were on paid time, and from who?

>> 5. Wackenhut CEO Gary Sanders resigned within hours after the video was posted.

Yawn. Misleading at best. Correlation is not causation.

You may be a great rabble-rouser, and a good photographer, but take care that you don’t also need to become a lawyer too.

Hey Justaguy,

Wackenhut, owned by British G4S, has forced Security officers to work excessive hours – six and seven straight days o f 12 hour shifts to boost their profit margins at the expense of national security performance and public safety- but you’ll have to grab the economics lesson elsewhere.

So sleeping guards at nuclear power plants like Turkey point pose no threat to public safety, eh ? I guess readiness doesn’t matter? Especially post 9-11? Why are these superfluous guards armed to the teeth and donning flap jackets as they snooze? Why even have window dressing security forces at nuclear power plant sites at all – that is, if their rem sleep while on duty is inconsequential to public safety.

I guess I should have breathed a sigh of relief when that news crew was greeted by a single Wackenhut guard at the Turkey Point front gate? You know, the guard who was carrying an M16 rifle? With no clip in the gun?

No sweat that at FPL’s St. Lucie Power plant, an audit found that Wackenhut security management took short cuts during patrols?

No red flag that a number of new fuel containers were transported into the protected area of St. Lucie on a flatbed truck escorted by Wackenhut security and the containers were parked outside of the radiologically controlled fences and were left unattended until plant operations management was ready to unload them?

No security breech when inspectors discovered that the containers were only sealed on one side, and had not been searched prior to entry into the plant, and that none of the previous fuel container shipments had been searched either?

Your conspiracy theory notwithstanding – (Democratic Party, SEIU, Local Goverments, the Kitchen Sink) at the end of the day Wackenhut owns its security performance or lack thereof. After all Wackenhut’s the one under criminal investigation for overbilling Miami-Dades taxpayers millions and it was Wackenhut’s Miami headquarters that was recently raided by Miami Dade and federal investigators… Not to mention recent headlines coming out of Nashville…

On Gary Sanders “resignation”. Connect the dots.

Carlos – Too bad America’s paying foreign owned Wackenhut for a false sense of security. Let’s not allow Wackenhut to rip us off our First Amendment Rights to boot.

u sure youre a “journalist”? leave that stuff to the big boys, keep prayin that youll one day be an internet celebrity

Thanks for sharing

I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links:

That had nothing to do with it!.. Wackenhut discontinued the contract at Juno Beach Bbecause FPL wanted to pay less!!!!!……

Well, when you are forced to work 40 plus hours and then some due to man power issues and you need the stay employed you tend to bend the rules.

The yahoo that filmed the whole thing was a young wanna-be cop type that was tying to make an impression that he was the man of the place and that since no one accepted him as the “only one who knew things” he had an axe to grind.

Every company in this country at one time has trampled on someones rights now and then. The media is a double edged sword, if they any of you where a story they wold have that camera up your ass and you would be screaming foul.

You were not there, nether was the media.

THE SENIOR GUARDS decided to go to revolution against these agencies because they have preyed so maliciously against the common working guards for a long time. The out of work guards have cleared their agenda-and intend to back this movement fully-making CEO’S to take flight, and exposing these horrible policies and mean-spirited practices-for all to see! It is applicable to all these big agencies-they use the same abusive format. The U.S. GOVERNMENT should realize, we intend also to go after these bankers that have ruined the economy and expose and finger their corruption. I SAY,”HANG THEM ALL BY THE YARD-IRONS”! CARLOS IS RIGHT-”NOW THEY W-I-L-L FEAR US! A LONG TIME IN COMING,SAY I!

remember this-the INTERNET is as powerful as a sword-this pen draws blood and ruins lives-but it is perfect for a revolutionary cause! These corporate clowns knew their time of domination was drawing to a close-they fear us-they should! The revolutionary forefathers of the country thought that the government should fear the populace–that is why we have armaments. If the corruption isn’t cleaned up-we take verbal target practice-and if they persist-real target practice.It goes without saying,”THE STATUS- QUO HAS GO!” NO JOKE-guys like SANDERS know all the horses are riding down hard on the trail-they all fold and run when the old ghosts come back to haunt them! Ehe rest of the little weenies are just butt-sucking corporate shills in pants that are soooooo wet at this point!