A TASTE OF WHAT'S TO COME

GREETINGS,

  IN TRYING TO HOLD HER PLACE AS THE #1 POWER OF THIS FADING WORLD,AMERICA IS SUFFERING FROM CHASTISEMENT.WITH HER DOLLAR NO LONGER LOOKED UPON AS A STABLE CURRENCY SHE CAN NO LONGER GIVE AWAY PRINTED PAPER IN PLACE OF GINUINE VALUE.THIS FORCES HER TO PRIORITIES WHICH POLICY IS FIRST.THIS CAUSES HER TO FOCUS MORE ON TRYING TO KEEP HER MOST IMPORTANT VALUES FROM FALLING FIRST.

  WITH TUITION RISING,FOOD PRICES SOARING, PETROL AT UNHEARD OF PRICES,BASIC NECESSATIES NO LONGER AFFORDABLE ..AMERICA IS IN DEEP TROUBLE.THIS HAS FORCED THOSE WHO ONCE ENJOYED PRIVALLIGE AND THOUGHT THAT THEY WERE BETTER THAN THE LOWER CLASS ON THE ECONOMIC SOCIAL LADDER IN AMERICA,TO RESORT TO THE SAME THING AS A COMMON CRIMINAL.

  TODAY WE ARE WITNESSING THE BREAKDOWN OF AMERICAN CIVIL SOCIETY.IT IS JUST BEGINNING TO PICKUP STEAM.THIS DECAY IS GROWING AND SPREADING AS FAST AS A WILDFIRE AND WILL SOON ENGULF HER IN HER ENTIRETY. THIS IS JUDGMENT.THIS IS DIVINE CHASTISEMENT. THIS IS THE HAND OF GOD IN PERSON CAUSING THE PEOPLE TO SWOON IN CONFUSION TO DESTROY AMERICA……THIS IS AMERICA TODAY;”

By JENNIFER LEVITZ

Thieves are swiping tractor-trailers filled with goods, triggering a spike in cargo theft on the nation’s highways.

Over five days last month, an 18-wheeler carrying 710 cartons of consumer electronics was stolen from a Pennsylvania rest stop, a 53-foot-long rig packed with 43,000 pounds of paper was ripped off in Ottawa, Ill., and a 40-foot-long truck filled with reclining armchairs went missing in Atlanta.

Truckloads containing $487 million of goods were stolen in the U.S. in 2009, a 67% increase over the $290 million worth of products swiped a year earlier. Thieves stole 859 truckloads in 2009, up from 767 loads in 2008 and 672 in 2007, according to FreightWatch International, an Austin, Texas-based supply-chain security firm that maintains a database of thefts that several government agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, look to for trends.

“In the past two months, we’ve just seen such an increase that it’s to the point where criminals are just wreaking havoc,” said Sandor Lengyel, a detective sergeant and squad leader in New Jersey State Police’s cargo-theft unit. “They’ll pretty much steal anything.” Cargo thieves ripped off $28 million in goods in New Jersey in 2009, an 87% spike from the $15 million stolen in 2008, he said.

Law-enforcement authorities in Illinois, California and Pennsylvania are among several agencies and industry groups also reporting a spike.

Chubb Corp., a major insurer based in Warren, N.J., said that its own insurance claims and data from other sources show 725 cargo thefts in 2009, up 6.6% from 680 in 2008, and up 23% from 592 cargo thefts recorded for 2007. Chubb estimates the 2009 thefts amounted to $435 million of products.

The latest wave of thefts is different from a run of tractor-trailer hijackings that occurred in the 1960s, when organized-crime rings forced drivers out at gunpoint and took their trucks. According to industry officials and police, the current thefts are generally nonviolent and typically happen at rest stops when the driver is away from the truck and eating or showering.

While organized-crime rings may be involved, “we are seeing a lot more amateurs get into this,” said Sgt. Sid Belk, of the California Highway Patrol. Cargo bandits made off with $29 million of goods in 2009 in Southern California, up 67% from $17.4 million in 2008, according to the highway patrol.

Thieves “sit and wait and watch, and when the driver goes in to take a shower, that’s when they steal the trucks,” said Special Agent John Cannon, head of the Georgia’s Bureau of Investigation’s cargo-theft squad, which was launched in 2009. He believes that thefts of consumer goods in particular are “directly related to the economy; people are stealing things that they can get rid of quickly, and consumers are looking for a deal.”

Thieves often know what cargo a truck is hauling because they will follow trucks from a plant, according to police.

Thieves drive the whole tractor-trailer away or hitch up to an unattended trailer, as truckers sometimes leave a trailer in a drop lot and drive off in just the tractor for an errand. Typically when stolen, the tractor portion is found close to the site of the theft. The empty trailer is usually found miles away, abandoned, and often repainted or reworked in an effort to disguise the stolen truck.

Cargo theft represents a big concern and cost for trucking and other freight haulers, says J.J. Coughlin, chairman of the SouthWest Transportation Security Council, a nonprofit industry group that represents more than 200 freight-shipping companies. The council estimates that the average loss in each theft is $350,000—and that is just the load inside the truck. “Sometimes you lose that too,” he said of the tractor-trailer. Typically, though, the tractor-trailer is found miles away. “We find that thieves target the loads,” he said.

Mr. Coughlin said that in an effort to combat the problem, freight shippers have been meeting more with police departments. The shippers have also been pushing owners of truck stops and drop lots to provide better security. “That is easier said than done,” he said.

Also, in the past two years, the freight shippers have banded together to try to come up with solutions, such as sharing information about what kinds of loads are most stolen so that when those goods are shipped, everyone in the supply chain can be alerted to pay extra attention.

California, Florida, Texas, Georgia, Illinois and New Jersey are the top states for number of cargo thefts, according to FreightWatch. The crooks are targeting such things as electronics, food and beverages, clothing, pharmaceuticals and cigarettes.

The thefts can also threaten consumer safety. In February 2009, an unattended refrigerated truck loaded with $11 million of insulin made by Danish drug concern Novo Nordisk A/S was ripped off in Conover, N.C., while the driver was in a truck stop, according to Sgt. Shane Moore, of the Conover police department.

After the theft, the Food and Drug Administration and Novo Nordisk put out a news release, alerted the health-care industry, and advised pharmacies to inspect inventories, said Sean Clements, a company spokesman. Still, some of the stolen vials wound up in the hands of diabetics, several of whom showed up at medical centers in Kentucky and Texas over the summer sickened because the insulin was inactive, said Karen Riley, an FDA spokeswoman.

The FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations is looking into how the drugs were given to patients. Mr. Clements said the stolen insulin did not get to patients through Novo Nordisk’s normal distribution. He said the “safety of our patients is of paramount concern,” and that the company is working with investigators, and has taken steps to improve security.

Electronics were the target of a thief who struck near midnight on Jan. 13 at a minimart in Hazleton, Pa., two hours north of Philadelphia. A trucker hauling $500,000 of electronics to an Amazon.com Inc. distribution center left his trailer parked there while he made another delivery elsewhere, said Trooper Charles Everdale III, of the Pennsylvania’s State Police auto-theft task force. When the trucker returned the trailer was gone, the trooper said. He said the partially empty trailer turned up in recent days in Palm Beach, Fla. Amazon declined to comment.

In the pharmaceutical industry, “most everyone has had some type of cargo theft” with a spike in “high-value loads” stolen over the last two years, said Chuck Forsaith, the director of supply-chain security for a unit of Purdue Pharma LP, a privately held pharmaceutical company in Stamford, Conn., and also director of the Pharma Cargo Security Coalition, an industry group.

Write to Jennifer Levitz at jennifer.levitz@wsj.com

Corrections & Amplifications
Novo Nordisk A/S is a Danish drug concern. A previous version of this article incorrectly said it was Dutch.”

  MESSENGER ELIJAH MUHAMMAD STATES (FALL OF AMERICA;CHAPTER 34,”THE JUDGMENT OF AMERICA”):

“The great dreadful days of the Lord have now come to America — the land and people who worship evil and indecency. Robbery, murder, rape, famine and deceit are the order of the day in America.

 If there is anything like a God of Righteousness — if there is anything like a God of Truth

— should not He raise himself up and take His place and put an end to such evil as is now going on in America?

 People cannot walk the streets of America today without subjecting themselves to robbery, murder or rape. America is a wicked land…everyone is against the other.

 Righteousness, justice and freedom are despised and fought against regardless to the clear knowledge of God’s hourly punishment and destruction of America by his divine plague of storms. But this is as it is written of America in the Book of Revelations, in the Bible…’they continue their evil way and did blaspheme the God Who has power over the plagues. They hated the name of Allah, the Great Mahdi…they hated the name of His Messenger…but nevertheless that does not stop the judgment and the destruction of America.

 Look at the wicked devils in Alabama. They are against us while we are trying to be at peace with them, but there is no peace in them. We have done nothing to them. They are against us just because of the idea that we are Muslims and Black people.

 The white man has had his way of ruling the Black people for so long that he thinks that he still has the power to do so while in reality the white man has come to the end of his time of power to rule the Black people.

 Regardless to Allah’s (God’s) Retaliation to the white man for his evil acts done to the Black man, the white man still keeps inviting the retaliation of Allah (God). The white man must remember that he cannot win today over Allah (God) and His Servant, for He has power over the fraction of an atom.

 The judgment of America. Judgment has come to you America. Woe to you who seek to fight against Allah (God) and against His aim and purpose. Woe to you America. Allah (God) has made you blind to His judgment and therefore you are committing suicide. He has made you blind on purpose…to give you the full dose of His wrath, for when a man does not know the danger of fire, then he can fall headlong into it.

 America has mistreated the Black man for four hundred years and she does not think that there is ever a God Who will accept her Black slave and return on her head the injustice done to her Black slave.

 This is the day and time in which America could benefit from what Allah (God) has revealed to me and from the work that I am doing among my Black people…turning them from doing evil into righteousness. As it is written in the Bible, “Babylon could have been healed;” and there was a possible chance for her healing, if she had not gone to the extreme by making fun of the God of the Jews and their temple in Jerusalem and belittling the power of the God of the Jews, to retaliate.

 The Bible prophesies of the plagues that would come upon America — and these plagues are falling on America now, and yet she will not repent. For America continues to kill and deprive the Black once-slave of righteousness and justice. Even though the Black slave wants to go from America, she wants to hold on to him and America does not want to let her Black once-slave go. America holds the Black once-slave for a prey.

 Woe to America. Her day has arrived. She would not heed the warning. I begged her to let us be separated from her on a little territory and a state to ourselves and to let us be responsible for our own survival, only to get out from under her injustice; but she refused. So it was with Pharaoh in the time of Moses. God went down to Egypt to make Israel and her enemies, the Egyptians, an example for a future people so that this may serve as a sign of what we see going on in America today.

 The four (4) Great Judgments that Allah (God) promises to destroy America with are now coming upon her…hail, snow, drought, earthquake. Allah (God) has reserved His treasures of snow and ice to be used against the wicked country America in the day of battle and war. These are some of Allah’s (God’s) weapons, the storms that we see going on.

 The white man of America is not blind and ignorant. He has known these prophecies of his doom for a long time before we knew it, for the white man translated the Bible and he knows what he put in his translation of that which was written in the Bible.

 The judgment of America. All love and respect of the wicked has gone from them. They do not love each other nor respect each other. They have pulled off their clothes and disgraced themselves. This is also a plague. You see some of the white people rehearsing the cave days of their fathers, and they are not ashamed to do so. They come out with long, straggly hair as their fathers did in the days of the cave. This is Allah (God) forcing the white man to bear Him Witness that they were really once the cave man. Yet a few foolish, unlearned Black People follow the white man. It is a shame to pull off their clothes and grow hair down their back and over their face. By misleading the Black man into following the way of the white man’s cave days, the white man is again telling the world how he has deceived the Black man and is now making the Black man manifest that he is too weak to seek his own.

 For nearly forty years I have been preaching to the Black man in America that we should accept our own; and instead of the Black man going to the decent side of his own, he goes back seeking traditional Africa, and the way they did in jungle life and the way you see in some uncivilized parts of Africa today. They are not using barber’s shears, and razors to keep themselves looking dignified as a civilized people should look. The Black man in America accepts the jungle life, thinking that they would get the love of Black Africa. Black brother and Black sister, wearing savage dress and hair-styles will not get you the love of Africa. The dignified people of Africa are either Muslim or educated Christians. But Africa today does not want Christianity. Do not think that you will get a home in Africa after this war if you are Christian. To get a home in Africa after the war, you will have to be Muslim.

 The Judgment of America. She is made manifest. As it is written in the Bible, (Revelation), “She is a cage of every unclean and hateful bird” (every unclean and hateful human being.)

 America, America your day has come for the evil done to your Black slave. America you cannot repay that evil with another evil of trying to tempt the Black slave by offering them your white women. That does not help you in this day, but it does condemn you as being a double-crosser…that you will even offer your Black once-slave your girls and women to do with them as they please, if they will just follow you.

 The judgment of America. “Babylon could have been healed but she was not healed.”

 America is just beginning to experience sorrow, mourning, grief and distrust from the anger of God and man.

 According to both the Holy Qur’an and the Bible, there will be plenty more of the same. In these two books, one can easily find everything foretold that is happening today. The time will grow so troublesome that (according to the Holy Qur’an) children will become gray headed, and (according to the Bible) great heart failure will become a disease upon the people, who have the anger of God (the American people).

 The fourth beast in the Revelations of John in the Bible — and of which Daniel describes as a very dreadful and well armed beast, whose workings are that of death upon the weak — refers to America. She has no respect for the poor and the unfortunate.

 Daniel’s description of the ribs between the teeth of the beast is in reference to this ill-treatment, subjection, and ruthless behavior by the devil to our people.

 This America ladens the poor with heavy sentences — long prison terms — and refuses to let the prisoners go free. This is due to her heartlessness and lack of compassion for the Black man of America.

 This beast (white man) lies in wait around the Black man’s homes and prowls the streets at night in wait for an excuse to wreak his ruthlessness on his poor prey (the Black man). If the Black man raises a hand to protect and defend himself, he is shot dead, and is unable to defend himself against false charges.

 This beast keeps our people in sorrow and unhappiness by depriving them of equal opportunities. The Black man’s wages are calculated by white wicked accountants, preventing the so-called Negro from saving by skyrocketing (in the view of the poor) the prices of the necessities of life.

 This white beast prosecutes, imprisons and kills those who preach freedom and justice for the poor so-called Negroes. The white man does not want the so-called Negroes to leave America; but she will not divide the spoils of America (the country which she has taken by the force of arms and killing its aboriginal owners, the Indians) with them.

 This beast sets up evil and indecency to be idolized as a God. She disguises good for evil and she covers the earth with filth, making it fascinating so that men will bow down and worship evil for good. She sets brother against brother for her joy; then she kills both of them.

 Woe to America, the murderer and deceiver of the people. The God of Justice and Truth has pronounced a judgment against thee — and by no means will you escape. You have made mockery of Him, God, and His people and His word, the truth.

 You have been judged and found wanting to the so-called American Negroes, the lost and now found members of the aboriginal Black nation of the earth.

Come, unite with Allah, and me. Go to your own. You won’t have to go anywhere if you only will unite with your own. Heaven awaits you wherever you may be.”

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