FBI Demands Tattoo Shops Rat On Customers

FBI Demands Tattoo Shops Rat On Customers

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
October 30, 2009

Are you in the market for a patriotic tattoo, maybe the Gadsden flag? Forget about it. Unless you want the local tattoo artist to inform on you.

The FBI, in league with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (part of the Department of Justice), has launched a program that harks back to East Germany’s Stasi.

In Philadelphia, the FBI has instructed tattoo shops to rat out their customers if they demand privacy, insist on paying with cash, engage in “suspicious behavior,” make “anti-US” comments, or request tattoos that are “extremist symbols.”

According to the MIAC report, the Gadsden flag is a “militia symbol.” The Department of Homeland Security’s Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment report characterizes militias as “white supremacists,” domestic terrorists and a threat to the president. MIAC is part of the federal “fusion” effort now underway around the country.

It is not merely “extremist symbols.” In addition, the FBI literature instructs tattoo shops to be on the look-out for people who change hair color, style of dress, or shave beards between visits. Suspicious people also include those with missing fingers or hands, chemical burns, strange orders or bright colored stains on clothing.

Read the handout below for more absurd “extremist” indicators according to the FBI.

dosent really look like a "demand" to me...

"Make racist or extreme religious statements coupled with comments that are violent,or appear to condone violence"

Those silly white supremacist don't mean no harm to nobody! Sheesh...

When I was in the military I made good friends with a few tattoo artists and shops, my brother is a tattoo artist and has owned a few shops, I can totally see them participating in this endeavor.... Riiiiight.

A man decides to shave in between tattoos and ends up on the terrorist watch list. What a waste of tax payer money.

or if he decides not to shave

And to think that we taxpayers are footing the bill for the salaries of the bureaucrats that come up with this crap.

Originally Posted by Gun Geek

When I was in the military I made good friends with a few tattoo artists and shops, my brother is a tattoo artist and has owned a few shops, I can totally see them participating in this endeavor.... Riiiiight.

That was my exact thought.

I'm sure any decent tattoo artist put this in the same file I'd put a dress code memo that landed on my desk back in the days of yore (when I was gainfully employed).

If you actually read the thing, it looks more like something that muslim terroristes do, especially the shaving thing, before an op.

First post on this board, woo hoo!

Anyway, I got a tattoo recently. I had a SIG 226 in an OWB holster on me the whole time (4 hours). The artist was showing me his Bushmaster 6.8 AR before he started, he is very pro 2A, has an NRA sticker on his equipment, and a Gadsden Flag decal on his truck.

I don't think he is snitching on anyone.

I does seem to be aimed at muslims.