The Ultimate in Security for 21st Century American Patriots
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of the life & writings of Benjamin Franklin
“People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”
― Emma Goldman
Press Release - (Snark)
"August 2024, The Gates, Obama, Trump, Chertoff Group (GOTCG) unveiled a new security device today, some calling it the "ultimate in American style security". The device is intended to provide all Americans with unparalleled security in this world of danger and violence.
-Don't know who your neighbor is? This will assure you when you do see them outside that they've been certified to physically move within our society.
-Not sure about your co-workers? This new device will ensure they're approved for society participation before they leave their homes.
-Afraid to go to the Malls or to Concerts? Be scared no more, with these new GOTCG security devices, it will be impossible for un-verified individuals to attend, because they won't be able to leave their homes.
The device is called the Enhanced National Security Liberty Approval and Verification Entrance Device (ENSLAVED). It is designed to easily fit on the outer part of any house, apartment or other dwelling and building doorways with the ability to conduct a full body scan, facial recognition and DNA analysis of every human or other living animal prior to entering and exiting the house, apartment, dwelling or building.
The first roll out will be in select neighborhoods in every state capital in the United States to symbolize the unity toward government security measures to keep us safe, as well as selected neighborhoods and business districts in New York City, to symbolize the triumph of the American people over the terrorists that struck us on that fatal day, 9/11/01. Current national plans will be revised and finalized after the initial rollout in preparation for the total implementation of The Ultimate American Security System across this great country."
Do you think they're going to stop at this?
"CBS warned that if the LA Metro installs body scanners next year, commuters won’t be able to opt-out.
According to an article in the LA Times, the LA Metro has begun piloting biometric body scanners that send short-wave radio frequencies through commuters’ bodies to search for bombs and weapons.
A ‘pilot program’ is really a government euphemism for gauging the public’s response to another intrusive police search."
Or this?
"UK commuters will be identified by using either a palm vein scanner or facial recognition.
The palm vein scanner uses an infrared sensor to capture the pattern of blood vessels in your hand. At the moment, Cubic envisages that a rider would go to a station to register their palm print and link it to their payment account. Then, when they put their hand on the scanner before a journey, the scanner will recognize their palm and charge their account. “The point being you could use your hand rather than your oyster card as a token to access the system,” Cubic strategy manager David Roat says.
The facial recognition system would work in a similar way to the palm vein scanner: You register your face as your ticket, then cameras and infrared sensors at the gate detect you when you pass through and charge your payment account. The use of infrared sensors means the system couldn’t be fooled by a 2D image."
Or this?
"According to an article in The Guardian, the start-up company Evolv Technology (financed by Bill Gates) is pilot testing high-speed body scanners at the Los Angeles’s Union Station, Union Station in D.C., and the Denver international airport.
Evolv has taken a page right out of the TSA playbook citing safety concerns and fears of terror to justify their usage.
Evolv CEO Michael Ellonbogen said, “I think we need to change our entire take on physical security and knit it into the flow of our daily lives”.
“It’s an unfortunate trend, but physical security is morphing and the problem is worsening”, said Lux Capital’s Bilal."
https://www.activistpost.com/2017/09/train-stations-use-facial-recogniti...
Where and when do you think they're going to stop? It's the same with the military industrial complex and the endless development of new weapons, new ways to kill, and new ways to destroy the planet. It's the same with wealth inequality where nearly ALL of the wealth is now going to the top One Percent. When is all this going to stop? When are the killing machines and the security devices going to be enough? What comes after trillionaire?
Of course the answer is never, or at least not while humans inhabit this planet, not unless those with the "intelligence and courage" can step up and stop them. But those are questions everyone concerned about liberty and freedom, about life itself, should be asking now.
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We tried to warn them. We tried very hard
When the tsa was created after the convenient 9/11 attacks, I hoped that people would boycott flying until they were removed. Nope. They were needed for our safety.
After each new restriction came out, I thought that this would get people to stop flying. Nope.
And since it was such a great success, scanners were taken on the road and people now line up like sheep if they want to see a ball game, a concert or go places where there are big crowds such as Times Square on New Year's Eve or anywhere else.
Now the body scanners at subways, train stations and gawd only knows where else.
This same thing happened when we learned that Bush was spying on us. Instead of the Bush administration being held accountable for it, congress voted to make what had been illegal for over 250 years legal.,Instead of people being angry about it, they just shrugged and said that they didn't have anything to hide.
How long until people willingly line up to get chipped with RFIDs so the government can know their every move?
To think that people are upset about people not standing up for the national anthem that ends with these words....The. Home. of. the. Brave...and the Land. of. the. Free
Sigh
It's too bad that people like me who did boycott flying, going to baseball games (which I had been going to since I was 4 and my grandfather started taking me to watch the Ogden A's) and protesting against every enthronement on my civil rights.
We sure did. And remember when they trotted out
the Department of "Homeland Security". We were like, "hey, wake up!"
Hell, most people would get the Mark of the Beast at this point, it appears. After this flag deal, I've concluded the biggest enemy is us.
I have to agree with you that we are the enemy
because the people who were upset when DHS was created and then they kept piling on and passed the patriot act, then the military commission act and then everything else they did, those same people are now the ones who have fallen off the deep end.
Read this article and see how far they have fallen. This is what they are now pushing. What's the saying? What is old will become new again if one waits long enough.
The new McCarthyism and the suppression of political dissent
Did you catch this?
Maybe this is when people say ENOUGH!? Is there any hope left for seeing people say "no, we aren't going to keep taking it"?
@snoopydawg
Yup, and how do you verify each of these payments as legitimate, identify double-charges or missed sale items not/incorrectly entered into the system while still at the store, without an immediate paper trail or perhaps lacking any actual humans involved even to talk to? And I'd also figure that anyone who can hack into this and can work out a way to loop in your picture could have a field day draining the accounts of billions of people...
And criminal banksters can alter electronic records to match anything they want, with backing from criminal government officials/agencies and no more recourse for the victims than for many of those who have had their houses stolen, in some cases without ever even having held a mortgage with a particular thieving bank.
Although, if we can't smile on drivers licenses because it fouls up facial recognition, what happens when an expression change, heavy and extreme make-up or a bandage covering an injury is present? Multiple tries? What about glitches? Blue screens? Especially with any notion of quality control, consumer or other protection considered a thing of the past, with only maximized profits considered.
Commerce - including toll-roads - then completely shuts down any time the Internet/power shuts down, with no ability to pay in any cashless society, massively adding to disaster in any catastrophe involving the loss of either, and the rates of these will massively increase, as they are already beginning to.
Only those with private helicopters/planes would be able to freely vacate any large region stricken by disaster...
That will certainly help to 'reduce the surplus population', as Scrooge might have said, before coming to understand that his own self-interest lay in the existence of humanity in both senses. But that positive transformation ain't going to happen here...
This is an obvious ploy to take control over their own finances from people, thereby taking control over the population - and allowing predatory banking systems to access all of their customers money any time their scams crash and leave them short, as was 'legalized' in the US by Obama.
Look at the disaster caused in India, successfully starving and savaging the Poors and small business, in a partial shift, away from (was it one denomination of bill?) personal possession and control of their own money?
There's no other reason than the intensified suppression, control and looting of the people for this, apart from the plan of using robotics for labour/military and entirely doing away with any need of The Disposables at all by Those Who Matter.
The shrugged-off results seen in India indicate the direction intended. As I believe many of us already know, the cover for such as this forming a major purpose for the intensification of the imposition of divisory mind-closing scare-tactic propaganda and censorship...
I'd have laughed off any such suggestion as this, not all that terribly long ago - as 'right-wing' lunacy, due to mind-closing propaganda I'd entirely failed to consider as such. But the remains of a free internet still remained for me, at the time, which will soon not be the case for anyone else.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
The Bush administration also got away with torture
and again, people shrugged because they were told that those people wanted to kill us. Now there are millions of people who have lost their homes, countries and their way of life and too damn many of us want to keep them out of this country because they are afraid of them doing harm to them.
People really are clueless about what we have done and are doing to people all over the world.
After the 9/11 event, people really did ask why it happened. Even if it wasn't a false flag event, why can't people see why this could have happened to us?
Big Al
August 2024 press release? GOTCIG?
I didn't understand that.
Otherwise, the other posts are crystal clear.
We are all without privacy as to person, place, movement very soon.
I envision scanning and credit card info at the door of the grocery store soon.
Real soon.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Sorry, I'll edit. That part is snark, a make believe
scenario in 2024. One I'm probably underestimating.
@Big Al I read it as a typo,
I read it as a typo, not snark, which indicates the degree of my cynicism and despair!
I bought a truck yesterday. While having my credit checked, the business manager started talking about our loss of privacy, gps trackers, camera...and then he said Experian had been hacked a couple of days ago. I haven't read a thing about it.
Chat about FEMA camps ensued. Not from some right wing perspective, but from a man genuinely worried about his family and his customers.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
MAGA
Mesmerizing
American
Groupthink
Assimilation
Incremental Police State is now in progress and L.A. is Number One!
Second L.A. County Jail death in two days:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-inmate-death-20170928-story....
And vehicular homicide is ok if you are a cop:
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lapd-out-of-custody-20170929...
"They'll say we're disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war." Howard Zinn
@Meteor Man
Just wondering, regarding that dead inmate - in a situation involving a fight with another inmate, would pepper spray (also likely affecting the victim and others in the area) or a taser be more likely? And considering the horror story about the inmate so horribly scalded to death in a 'special' shower, I wonder about that, too...
A fascist/police state creates a terrible state of affairs for those living within it...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Traffic cameras
I recently moved to the city (Vancouver, WA) from a rural area, and I am having a very hard time getting used to the traffic cameras. They are everywhere.
Multiple cameras at every intersection, peering at you from every possible angle and recording everything. In some places, the cameras are on long poles canted halfway across four-lane roads. As far as I know, they haven't embedded cameras in the pavement, so as to view vehicle undercarriages, but sooner or later they're bound to get to that.
I'm a good driver, have never caused an accident, two or three moving violations during 47 years as a driver. Like most long-time drivers, I drive instinctively. Yet I am hyperaware while driving here, to the point of paranoia. (Except, as the saying goes, is it paranoia if they really are watching you?)
Just as I reach an intersection, the light changes to yellow. Using good judgment from decades of driving, I decide it's too late to stop safely, so I keep going through the intersection. In another place and time, that would be no big deal. Just an ordinary part of driving. But instead of being focused on the traffic in the intersection, I have one eye on the light, hoping it doesn't change to red before I get clear.
These are your normal kinds of driving situations that I've handled naturally every day and then forgotten, and now I am super-conscious of every doggone thing I do in the car, wondering if I'm going to open my mailbox one day and have a pile of traffic tickets pour out.
In this great Pacific NW nanny state, they recently passed a law prohibiting drivers from eating or drinking while behind the wheel. Even if you're waiting at a red light and it's 8 AM and you're trying to wake up, nope, get your mitts off that coffee mug. Keep both hands on the wheel at all times.
During the heat waves we had this summer, I'd pull up at a red light and reach for my bottle of water. I'd think, those cameras, they're going to see me doing something illegal, they're going to catch me *gasp* drinking water while driving! Then I'd think, f#ck 'em. It's 100 degrees outside. And I'd take a swig of water.
I'm writing this in a humorous manner, but honestly, it's not funny. When I'm driving, I catch myself frowning a lot. I feel the weight of constant surveillance, and the pressure of wondering whether I'm doing something "wrong" that will be noted somewhere, with unknown possible consequences for me.
In the past, I've driven a lot in connection with business, and I've enjoyed driving. No more. And I really don't like that fact.
The worst part is that no one else seems to care. When I'm sitting at a red light, with all of those technological eyes staring at me, I wonder, what are the other drivers feeling and thinking about being constantly watched? I don't think it's within their awareness. They're so used to it, they don't even notice the cameras anymore, and if they do, it's just another part of the scenery. It doesn't seem to bother them, at least not on a conscious level.
(The subconscious level is far different, but most people are not tuned into their subconscious selves. Nowadays, most folks are actively suppressing their awareness, because if they didn't, the reality of their lives would horrify them.)
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
Talk about distractions...
Soon kids will not be allowed in cars without two adults present. One to drive and one to mind the kids.
I looked for a snark tag. Didn't see one. Is this for real? If it is, you know the snowflakes and stupid people will not object. The response, "if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide". Totally oblivious to what will constitute wrong after all the machinery is in place.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
It's an actual law
It's not snark. The law is a real thing. It started out as a law against distracted driving due to electronic devices, because so many people are texting and watching videos (!) while driving.
The state of WA, as it often does, got carried away with the authoritarian rule-making, and extended it to cover non-electronic distracted driving. The law doesn't specifically mention eating or drinking. Those are things that have been suggested by law enforcement when asked to clarify the law. They're not supposed to be primary offenses. In other wprds, LEO is not supposed to pull you over just for eating while driving, but rather if they think it's "distracting" you.
When asked about how the law will be applied, the answer is, it's discretionary, up to law enforcement to apply in each situation as they see fit.
It's clear as mud, confusing to both the public and law enforcement personnel, with the potential for misuse. I believe it may be unconstitutional, if "unconstitutional" is still a thing nowadays.
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
@Centaurea The cameras are
The cameras are everywhere.
What is just wild and crazy about the law against eating and drinking while driving is that it got by the fast food industry.
I can't imagine sitting in a parking lot to drink my soft drink, trying to figure out how to get to my destination on time.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
As far as I can tell,
As far as I can tell, no one in the public knew that the non-electronic distracted driving law was going to apply to food and drink (non-alcoholic) until after it was passed. Then everyone started to scratch their heads, wondering what exactly was prohibited under the new law.
Various law enforcement agencies stated that eating and drinking were included among activities that could be seen as distracting the driver. Some LEO representatives admitted they couldn't say for sure how the law would be applied, so to be on the safe side, drivers should not consume food and drink in their cars, not even while stopped for red lights.
I notice that LE is now backing off somewhat. I wonder if the fast food folks are starting to make waves behind the scenes. I can't imagine Starbucks would be happy about it. In the meantime, we still don't know what we can and can't do.
The words that come to mind are "vague", "overbroad", and having an impermissibly chilling effect on the exercise of our civil rights.
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
Law of Unforeseen Consequences strikes again!
Every time these bastards try to "legislate morality" or "keep us safe from ourselves", they overreach and find out that they have prohibited much, much more than they meant to.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
@Centaurea
Perhaps they've trained themselves to be careful of the Thought Police on auto? Repressive surveillance societies create an entirely different 'norm' which works as much on fear as anything else, so that ultimately people police themselves/each other and avoid even thinking about dissent.
We can see that now in those hysterically/'pragmatically' parroting such as the 'Russian!!! EVERYTHING!!!'Big Lie propaganda, despite it being utterly ludicrous and appearing as a parody to anyone not somehow taken in by it.
But the strain is there, even when unconscious, and will widely help destroy individual mental and physical health, as well as society.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Feeling the strain
I am feeling it acutely. I wonder if this is how the "canary in the coal mine" feels?
"Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep ... Don't go back to sleep."
~Rumi
"If you want revolution, be it."
~Caitlin Johnstone
It is just a game
set in 2035, but after an alien invasion and occupation, people for food and security live under the rule and they have towers like lamp posts that scan people as they walk on the streets, and check points that stop cars, and I think to myself, replace the aliens with the DHS black uniform troopers, make it a Human occupation, I mean they have checkpoints along US highways now asking to see poeople's frigging I.D.s and papers.they will make the bio-scanners at the rails out of the way so as to not be noticed by the rail riders."Oh so harmless right?"
Very intrusive
Potentially a real 2035 just replace those guys with DHS uniforms.
So long, and thanks for all the fish
@Lenzabi
Somebody here had posted a link to (if I recall correctly) a Reddit 'Conspiracy' forum; one of the threads was about some mysterious towers with what looked rather like loudspeakers erected all over NY, for which it was said that no official explanation was being provided. People seemed to be considering that they might have some security function, one being that of their being some sort of detector of any nuclear explosives carried into the city, which struck me as seeming unlikely. People-scanners/trackers might be more likely, if the story and the quotes within about these towers is accurate. And apparently they appeared after toll booths came down, according to one rather... iffy... (endtimer, lol, but sometimes scraps of fact can turn up in unexpected places, so, dunno) site so perhaps that's a scanner move toward that cashless society. I've no idea, obviously, but we are dealing with psychopathic individuals who like to base their 'philosophy' on fictional characters and their world plans on dystopian fiction, so the possibilities can range well into lunacy...
So, what ever happened to all of those protesting 'Constitutional gun rights activists' - did the NRA funding dry up? Are they now employed in waving the 'respect'-the-US-flag-as-everything-and-to-hell-with-people's-lives-and-rights' propaganda lines?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
@Ellen North
Ellen, I couldn't say for sure, but the tops of the scanner towers in this game world do rotate, as they scan and have a wide enough arc to avoid detection. If the said towers were a way to avoid old tollbooths, and scan for payments, what is to stop them also scanning the people inside? Then again, it does seem at times that Orwell's' 1984 was not seen by TPTB as a warning, but a as training manual.
So long, and thanks for all the fish