Monday, May 10, 2010

Well, OK, I'm sure they'd never LIE, right?

Right?

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sure...

Anonymous said...

Remember, kids. They at their most vulnerable when they are on the ground. We are everywhere.

Dennis308 said...

LOL
Our gubment would NEVER lie.

Dennis
III
Texas

Dedicated_Dad said...

Of COURSE they wouldn't.

Dear Reader and all his many minions... er... helpers love each and every hoi-po... er... citizen -- and anyone who suggests otherwise is a racist, homophobic knuckle-dragging, tea-bagging sub-human.

/moonbat

While at the linked site, I followed a "related" link and saw this: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/05/nycs-terror-spotting-spycams-stuck-in-traffic/

Read it -- ESPECIALLY the section talking about license-plate readers.

I've been saying - ever since cams began appearing at intersections - that it's just a matter of time before they start using them to track people.

THINK: If every cam-equipped intersection you pass through was to write your license-plate # (and all related info) to a database, then it would be easy to know within a couple of blocks of wherever you went.

Add to this the facial-recognition capabilities hinted at in the article - mature technology that's been in use for more than a decade - and they can track YOU on the street after you leave your vehicle.

Use a credit or debit card? Ha!

The bottom line is that even in my one-horse town, there are cams on the street -- we truly have become a surveillance-state.

Now here's the - to me - most terrifying part: Suppose -- by pure, 100% coincidence -- you happen to end up within a few dozen yards of Mohammed abu-Durka-Durka, who is under intense surveillance by non-existent Alphabet Agencies.

The computers, told to find any possible associates/co-conspirators, cross-reference all of his known, recorded positions and look for patterns of interactions with other recorded lic.-plate and facial data.

Guess who gets a 3AM wake-up visit by jackbooted wannabe-ninja storm-troopers?

Still hanging with me? I knew 'ya could!

Something else I've been saying for many years: I'll take my chances with abu-Durka-Durka, the TERRORISTS that worry me all wear officially-sanctioned .gov uniforms.

Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

DD

Anonymous said...

"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."--Otto von Bismarck

MALTHUS

Bad Cyborg said...

King Air 200 with all those antennas on it must be a STONE BITCH to fly. Hate to think what all those things sticking out into the air stream must do to stability.

I wouldn't balk at using assets like that if they only did it to catch real terrorist. Course I trust 'em to do that like I trust 'em to do anything in my favor - NOT!

W W Woodward said...

The government does not exist to protect us ... anymore.

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