Latest trends in Big Brother outstrip Orwell's worst nightmare
January 11 2006
The Panopticon is defined as a prison
so constructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times,
without being seen. This is an accurate description of the accelerating
movement by western governments to erect giant, powerful, all-pervading
mass surveillance, tracking and control grids that will keep all populations
firmly under the baleful and watchful gaze of Big Brother.
We are still debating the NSA listening
to foreign calls from the US when the NSA admitted twenty years ago that
they were listening to domestic US calls under the Echelon
program. This is de-classified and public but the media acts
like they don't know about it.
Why is there even a debate about if they
are tracking and tracing us when RFID transponders are going in cars nationwide
to follow our every movement?
This system
has already been partly implemented in Britain with barely
a whimper of dissent.
You can call your cell phone company,
ask them where you are and they will tell you down to a few feet. That is
a federal
operation that's hooked into the NSA right at this moment and
about to be hooked
into every major police department and squad car.
Your name, everything about you, what
you're doing, where you're going and the cop can punch in a few keys and
use your phone as an audio sensor.
Major cities such as Austin, Texas installed
gunshot detection microphones. The government assured us that they respect
our privacy but the very companies installing them bragged about how they
can listen to a kid on the street talking to his friend two hundred yards
away.
And now, from Rochester New York to Austin
Texas to Chicago, the government has announced
that they are being used as microphones and they will be used
to listen to us.
Consider today's
BBC report concerning CCTV surveillance systems in an area
of London which is planned to be expanded to include, just on its first
implementation, tens of thousands of other citizens in other areas.
The government funded program, called
ASBO TV, invites residents to pay £3.50 and have access to a TV channel
that enables them to monitor 400 different CCTV surveillance cameras and
report on suspicious or anti-social behavior, comparing suspects to an on-screen
rogues gallery.
This combined
with the government's encouragement for Londoners to report their neighbors
for suspicious activity, of which potential signs of terrorism
include owning a vehicle, living in a house or getting a refund on a credit
card, fuse the infrastructure of a classic total surveillance state, with
civilian tattle-tale squads forming the modern say Stasi. Meanwhile, posters
at bus terminals inform Londoners that they are 'secure
beneath the watchful eyes' of Big Brother.
The exact same program was announced for
the US years ago in the New
York Times. The difference is that in the US they plan to force
people to watch the system either over their computer or cable system. It
will be classified as 'public service' to pay for speeding tickets and eventually
as a mandatory function of your civil defense Homeland Security draft duties.
Starting at two hours a week and, if you
wish to be paid, upwards of twenty hours a week, you will monitor the cameras
for signs of terrorism and also, as admitted in the New
York Times piece, for crime.
The latest artificial intelligence systems,
for example DARPA's
gait analysis program, which made headlines in 2003 for claiming
to be able to identify terrorists by the way they walk, are not yet perfected
and the involvement of the general population gives Big Brother the added
advantage of pounding into people the feeling that their behavior is being
monitored at all times and that if they step out of line in any way they
will face the consequences. This in turn makes people self-regulate their
actions to the point where exercising even basic freedoms becomes a potential
precursor to being disappeared. In addition, using a method called the Delphi
Technique, the general public are more likely to support the
idea because they are hoodwinked into believing that they are involved in
it and are part of the power structure. Therefore they feel their time is
invested in the common security of everyone.
In effect, by an incessant demand that
people report any suspicious behavior, they’re creating terrorist
cadres that don’t exist to justify police state legislation under
the guise of protecting the public.
And they’re shifting the surveillance grid into
areas where its not mechanized, to become self-regulating.
Because if you pound it into people that everything
they’re doing is constantly being monitored, which is part of the
motivation behind the NSA spying furor, it has the effect of making the
people regulate their own behavior and have absolutely no confidence to
exercise their innate freedoms.
By announcing all this they’re shaping individual
behavior, which means that they don’t have to worry as much about
what slips past their surveillance grid, because people are cowering in
fear of speaking out or being active in any way.
And for the elite that self-regulatory little brother
syndrome is going to be ultimately more successful for them, because a dictatorship
by fiat rather than force is something that’s far easier to package
and sell to the wider population.
The government has been caught
using chemical and biological weapons on the American people
ad on the British people.
They cannot be trusted to do anything and they have no moral authority.
We have former and current Bush administration advisors advocating
torturing children. Statistically, governments have been found
to engage in more criminal activity than the general member of the public.
It is not because we have something to hide that we don't want this. It
is because we don't trust the government on the basis that history and common
sense shows that they do this to enslave and abuse populations. Corrupt
people want more power and control.
A government engaging in escalating criminal
actions and becoming more and more secretive should not be watching and
tracking us as if we're all criminals. The same goes for CCTV surveillance.
That's not freedom. Would you let a convicted murderer and pedophile watch
your child 24/7?
The often peddled mantra of 'why should
you care if you have nothing to hide?' is manifestly ridiculous in light
of the fact that we have a government that has everything to hide and yet
we're the ones under suspicion.
We are told
by the government to make our lives completely transparent or go to jail
while the government itself becomes more secretive than ever before.
Why should they know everything about us when they
won't tell us anything about them?
Would you walk up to a gang of criminals and give them
your credit card and PIN number?
The British government told us that the ID card would
make our information more secure. Blair said this would protect, not infringe
our liberties. And how did they propose paying for it? By selling
the information of 44 million British citizens to private companies.
How secure is that?
High level dictators will put in thousands
of viceroys and minions who will all set up their own petty little empires
in your neighborhood and make your life a living hell.
This control grid is being implemented
not just so it is there in place but so they can abuse us further. The more
we put up with and become acclimatized to it, even more control will be
layered on top. This control grid is being constructed so they can enforce
mandatory psychological testing and drugging, now a proposed federal law,
to be done nationwide under the New
Freedom initiative. It is so they can enforce conscription
and the national draft, it is so they can enforce their feudal land grabs
under zoning laws.
They did not ask us if we wanted any of
this. They install the surveillance grid and then claim that we agreed to
it. They were erecting license plate readers in Indiana six years ago and
now they are going in nationwide. London
is already fully covered with an automatic tracking and taxation
camera control grid.
Small towns in Florida were already running
scans on cars three years ago and that program has vastly
expanded across the country. They put the system in place and
then announce it. Notice how they put the cameras in first and stated that
they were just for traffic. Then they announce that
squad cars were going to be hooked into the cameras and now
it's happening.
They did not ask us, but retroactively,
when we do hear about it in polls, almost everybody is against it but they
just don't care. In Texas we beat the law that would have put RFID tags
in inspection stickers, after polls showed a 95 per cent plus opposition
to the plan. And what happens? The Texas
Department of Transportation announce that they are going to
put two million in this year without even asking. The law was defeated but
they are just going to go ahead and do it anyway because they are criminals.
There are no ifs, ands and buts about
it. We have criminals announcing that they are watching us and that they
want to institute yet more expansive and wide ranging systems of surveillance.
GPS
surveillance systems in cars are about to become mandatory
and are in all new cars as standard. The British government has announced
a taxation by mile program that will track every car on every British road.
The exact same systems are going in the UK, the US, Germany and western
Europe, betraying the organized global design of this movement.
They have told us that our digital cable
boxes and TIVO
systems are recording what we watch to create psychological
algorithms which are stored on government databases. These systems track
what we watch, for exactly how long we watch it, and what our psychological
score is based on those factors.
Imagine having millions of your choices
over the years stored on centralized government databases. It's already
happening.
Similarly, supermarket loyalty cards hold
the same data and Walmart
in league with the Defense Department has ordered all major
supermarket chains to switch from barcode to RFID tracking so that every
purchase you make emits a radio frequency from the store shelf, to your
home, to the landfill.
The introduction of the national ID card
and blanket surveillance and recognition systems in the UK and US is one
step further towards the mandatory implantation of ID chips in all citizens.
Does this sound outlandish? Implantable chip technology has been in existence
for a decade and discussions on ID chipping humans is in the news regularly.
Tommy Thompson, the former Health and Human Services Secretary in the Bush
administration, promised
to have a chip implanted and is now
touring the country lauding the virtues of ID chips. During
the the confirmation hearings for John Roberts Jr., George W. Bush's nominee
for Supreme Court chief justice, Roberts was
questioned by Senator Joseph R. Biden on whether he would rule
against a mandatory implantable microchip to track American citizens.
No matter how diabolical and unbelievable
it appears to the rational thinking person, the government's
of the west are doing it.
Cameras
in school bathrooms, security
blimps in major cities watching us as we step out of the door.
Surveillance systems used
on insurgents in Iraq are here.
This is systematic. They built the electrically
wired cage around us and then they turned it on. The state is doing all
this for the moment when they take your pension funds, private property,
and guns because you won't be able to resist. Big Brother will be two steps
ahead at all times and there will be nowhere to hide.
A once free people are being totally enslaved
and they have no idea as it brazenly unfolds in front of their very eyes.