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Sunday, February 25, 2007

The End of Privacy, The Beginning of An Orwellian Police State

In the US, the UK, and other Western countries, we have been secretly moving towards a police state. Privacy is a thing of the past. There are CCTV (Closed-Circuit Television) cameras everywhere, all new cars have GPS (Global Positioning Satellite) "anti-theft" tracking systems in them, and our cell phones have GPS tracking. The logs for phone calls are saved for years by Telecom companies. Companies have sprung up offering a small fee to give anybody your landline or cell phone records. They are advertising this to spouses who think their partners are cheating on them. Companies are monitoring their employees movements while at work to see how long their lunch breaks are, or to tell if delivery workers are using company-paid time to do errands. Some companies monitor data in the trucks such as the speed and even acceleration of their truck drivers. Every e-mail sent is saved and kept by internet providers.

In Britain, all license plates of any car driving on a major highway is scanned and run alongside databases of registered vehicles and wanted criminals. Now google has announced that they have plans to listen into your living room. They claim to have developed technology that will be able to audio record anything going on in the room your computer is in, so that they can hear the television to see what sort of shows you listen to and what ads you are already being exposed to. More and more corporations are putting RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) chips in their products. RFID chips are so small that you can't see them, but they are being put in clothing, beauty supplies, cereal boxes, EVERYTHING! Corporations want to trace the real time location of any consumer product ever manufactured, bought, sold, or stolen. The government is even considering putting them in money to prevent tax fraud, black markets, and to keep an electronic trail of EVERYTHING.

Governments are already using RFID. In London, weekly and monthly subway and train passes have chips in them that can trace and record their journey. I've heard that the New NYS Issued drivers-licenses are the same. We can't live without the government monitoring our every move, transaction, and thought.

By May 2008, all states have to issue "National ID" cards to citizens with some sort of biological proof on the cards (fingerprint, biometric data) that the name and picture on the card is who we say we are. Anyone without the card will not be permitted to board an airplane, Amtrak train, open a bank account, or enter a Federal building. Is this Nazi Germany? Airports are implements biometric face-scanning technologies that can scan lobby areas and waiting lines for terrorists. Sea World and some other entertainment parks have implemented biometric hand scans mandatory for all of its customers to enter the park.

The next step is microchipping everyone. No, I'm serious. A company called Applied Digital Solutions has created implant able microchips for humans. All over mainstream news, right after 9-11, they publicized a volunteer family who said they wanted to be microchipped because they feel safer. First it was pets, now Alzheimer’s patients, then prisoners (so we know where they are when they escape), next the entire population. No one will be able to buy or sell without the chip. The threat of immigrants taking away jobs, or terrorists being in the country is the excuse they are using for National ID cards, and they will use them for getting you to accept the microchip.

Hundreds of hospitals are already implanting the chip in people to have immediate access to emergency patients’ medical records. Even some club owners are using implantable microchips for their customers - to avoid need for checking IDs or paying in cash. Pretty soon, they will introduce them for supermarkets under the appeal you won't ever have to wait in line for groceries ever again. Police went to grocery stores and asked them to take part in a voluntary program to take customers fingerprints if they pay by check, with a shopper’s card, or credit/debit card. The Defense Department developed finger scanning devices for shoppers to use, and then transferred them to private companies to make it look like they aren't behind it.
Right now microchips are voluntary, but they could soon become mandatory if people don't wake up and fight back. All we need is maybe one or two more "terrorist" attacks orchestrated by our own government but blamed on a foreign "enemy" and people will fall for it. Orwell would be having ceizures in his grave if he were alive today and knew the direction we are headed.

For more info, go to google video or Youtube and search for "Microchip" "National ID Cards and RFID Chips" "The Cashless Society" and see www.infowars.com and www.planetprison.com. The most powerful movie about this is called America: Freedom to Fascism which you can watch online for free at google video and you can purchase a copy HERE.