Comments on: Big Brother’s Eyes In The Sky http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/08/17/big-brothers-eyes-in-the-sky/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:11:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Buck Naked Politics http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/08/17/big-brothers-eyes-in-the-sky/#comment-35376 Buck Naked Politics Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:15:39 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/08/17/big-brothers-eyes-in-the-sky/#comment-35376 <strong>Domestic Spying: Stretching Inches into Miles...</strong> Not content with the ability to secretly tap into Americans' emails and phone calls, the Bush Administration seeks to expand its domestic-spying powers:A program approved by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Hom... Domestic Spying: Stretching Inches into Miles…

Not content with the ability to secretly tap into Americans’ emails and phone calls, the Bush Administration seeks to expand its domestic-spying powers:A program approved by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Hom…

]]> By: Kaligula http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/08/17/big-brothers-eyes-in-the-sky/#comment-35196 Kaligula Sat, 18 Aug 2007 03:02:06 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/08/17/big-brothers-eyes-in-the-sky/#comment-35196 As Radley Balko has been documenting, Department of Homeland Security is handing out grants like candy for the paramilitarization of our police forces. It's the merging of a technological survellience state with a paramilitarized police force--fed by the fears and hysteria perpetual wars--that gives you a 1984 sytle Orwellian police state. Orwell didn't have it completely right, and he was off by 3 decades or so, but his basic premise was right on target. UCrawford, it's not the security cameras per se that's the issue, it's the next generation of security survellience systems, like those <a href="http://news.com.com/In+China%2C+a+high-tech+plan+to+track+people/2100-1028_3-6202080.html?tag=nefd.top" rel="nofollow">being currently implemented in China</a>, by US companies no less, that's the issue. These systems, tied to facial recognition software database mining systems or RFID-enabled ID cards, would enforce absolutely conformity to the state, otherwise you couldn't even venture out in public. If you are not carrying your RFID ID card and your face is not recognized by the system--when the system is programmed to zoom and try to identify anyone not carrying their ID card--the local paramilitarized police will then stop you and take you in for identification and questioning. You will be scanned and all that information--including the verbal questioning answers-- will inputed into the system. Conform or expect to be a target. How would any alternative parties like the Libertarian Party even exist in such a climate. how popular would any party be that advocated practices and beliefs that would result in you being target by the survellience state? As Radley Balko has been documenting, Department of Homeland Security is handing out grants like candy for the paramilitarization of our police forces.

It’s the merging of a technological survellience state with a paramilitarized police force–fed by the fears and hysteria perpetual wars–that gives you a 1984 sytle Orwellian police state. Orwell didn’t have it completely right, and he was off by 3 decades or so, but his basic premise was right on target.

UCrawford, it’s not the security cameras per se that’s the issue, it’s the next generation of security survellience systems, like those being currently implemented in China, by US companies no less, that’s the issue. These systems, tied to facial recognition software database mining systems or RFID-enabled ID cards, would enforce absolutely conformity to the state, otherwise you couldn’t even venture out in public. If you are not carrying your RFID ID card and your face is not recognized by the system–when the system is programmed to zoom and try to identify anyone not carrying their ID card–the local paramilitarized police will then stop you and take you in for identification and questioning. You will be scanned and all that information–including the verbal questioning answers– will inputed into the system.

Conform or expect to be a target. How would any alternative parties like the Libertarian Party even exist in such a climate. how popular would any party be that advocated practices and beliefs that would result in you being target by the survellience state?

]]> By: UCrawford http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/08/17/big-brothers-eyes-in-the-sky/#comment-35194 UCrawford Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:16:11 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/08/17/big-brothers-eyes-in-the-sky/#comment-35194 I've got no problems with city governments installing security cameras in public places if they feel it acts as an effective policing tool (and as long as they pay for it themselves with local taxes and keep it out of our homes and private businesses). The Feds and satellites becoming local law enforcement, however, are a different matter. Yet another horrible policy by the Bush administration...as if anyone should be surprised by that. I’ve got no problems with city governments installing security cameras in public places if they feel it acts as an effective policing tool (and as long as they pay for it themselves with local taxes and keep it out of our homes and private businesses). The Feds and satellites becoming local law enforcement, however, are a different matter. Yet another horrible policy by the Bush administration…as if anyone should be surprised by that.

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