Keith,
Maybe the watchdogs haven't affected your daily routine.... yet. Think about
every conversation or GPS tracking you've had during the past few days. Can
any of that come back and bite you in the butt? An honest statement about
someone that would hurt someone's feelings perhaps? Authorities can get
nitpicky when they want to harass people. Will your car report that you've
driven at 55mph in a 35mph zone at 3AM? Maybe you discussed private
information at a business lunch. Nothing cloak and dagger, just routine life
that can affect you at a later date. Drones and paparazzi have made our
private areas open to public interpretation.
There are reasons why we have locks on our doors and drapes on our windows, not
necessarily to hide what we say and do, but simply because we want personal
protection and privacy. We are conditioned (willingly paying extortion) with
those stupid club cards to buy groceries and our credit cards itemize
everything we purchase. We are constantly watched and recorded. Our language
is being dumbed down to mean anything... embrace... reach out... vetted... they
mean nothing in the context they are used. Embrace... include, grudgingly do,
accept, love, tolerate? Reach out... by extending one's arms, whispering,
telephone, email, snail mail, carrier pigeon? Vetted... investigated,
approved, investigated and not approved, took the dog to the doggie doctor?
“I know you think you understand what you thought I said but I'm not sure you
realize that what you heard is not what I meant”
Just because you think I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get me.
Mustang
From: Keith In Tampa <[email protected]>
To: politicalforum <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: Fwd: Saint or Sinner, Government Eyes Are Watching Every Move You
Make: NMA E-Newsletter #380
I can honestly say that the NSA, Google, and all other eavesdropping/Spyware
hasn't affected my daily routine or life in any significant way or manner......
On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 3:32 PM, geoffrey theist <[email protected]> wrote:
So what are we to do shut up, hide and live in fear like bunch of rats?i
believe we still have a first amendment and a constitution I guess if you
support that you're anti government. We have a pretty secluded yard but I make
it point at least when its warm to turn my ass up towards the Google satellite
and say hello. I like Google OK but I wish they'd stay out of my neighborhood
with their creepy spy shit. It's best to just live your and act like they're
not there. Maybe they'll get bored and piss off........
On Apr 24, 2016 2:03 PM, "Travis" <[email protected]> wrote:
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Saint or Sinner, Government Eyes Are Watching Every Move You Make: NMA
E-Newsletter #380 By John W. Whitehead, President, The Rutherford Institute
Government eyes are watching you.
They see your every move: what you read, how much you spend, where you go, with
whom you interact, when you wake up in the morning, what you’re watching on
television and reading on the internet.
Every move you make is being monitored, mined for data, crunched, and tabulated
in order to form a picture of who you are, what makes you tick, and how best to
control you when and if it becomes necessary to bring you in line.
Simply by liking or sharing this article on Facebook or retweeting it on
Twitter, you’re most likely flagging yourself as a potential renegade,
revolutionary or anti-government extremist—a.k.a. terrorist.
Yet whether or not you like or share this particular article, simply by reading
it or any other articles related to government wrongdoing, surveillance, police
misconduct or civil liberties is enough to get you categorized as a particular
kind of person with particular kinds of interests that reflect a particular
kind of mindset that might just lead you to engage in a particular kinds of
activities.
Chances are, as the Washington Post reports, you have already been assigned a
color-coded threat score—green, yellow or red—so police are forewarned about
your potential inclination to be a troublemaker depending on whether you’ve had
a career in the military, posted a comment perceived as threatening on
Facebook, suffer from a particular medical condition, or know someone who knows
someone who might have committed a crime.
In other words, you might already be flagged as potentially anti-government in
a government database somewhere—Main Core, for example—that identifies and
tracks individuals who aren’t inclined to march in lockstep to the police
state’s dictates.
The government has the know-how.
As The Intercept recently reported, the FBI, CIA, NSA and other government
agencies are increasingly investing in and relying on corporate surveillance
technologies that can mine constitutionally protected speech on social media
platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram in order to identify
potential extremists and predict who might engage in future acts of
anti-government behavior.
Now all it needs is the data, which more than 90% of young adults and 65% of
American adults are happy to provide.
When the government sees all and knows all and has an abundance of laws to
render even the most seemingly upstanding citizen a criminal and lawbreaker,
then the old adage that you’ve got nothing to worry about if you’ve got nothing
to hide no longer applies.
We now find ourselves in the unenviable position of being monitored, managed
and controlled by our technology, which answers not to us but to our government
and corporate rulers.
Consider that on any given day, the average American going about his daily
business will be monitored, surveilled, spied on and tracked in more than 20
different ways, by both government and corporate eyes and ears. As I point out
in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, this doesn’t
even begin to touch on the corporate trackers that monitor your purchases, web
browsing, Facebook posts and other activities taking place in the cyber sphere.
For example, police have been using Stingray devices mounted on their cruisers
to intercept cell phone calls and text messages without court-issued search
warrants.
Doppler radar devices, which can detect human breathing and movement within a
home, are already being employed by the police to deliver arrest warrants and
are being challenged in court.
License plate readers, made possible through funding by the Department of
Homeland Security, can record up to 1800 license plates per minute. Moreover,
these surveillance cameras can also photograph those inside a moving car. The
Drug Enforcement Administration has been using the cameras in conjunction with
facial recognition software to build a “vehicle surveillance database” of the
nation’s cars, drivers and passengers.
Sidewalk and “public space” cameras are blanketing small and large towns alike
with government-funded and monitored surveillance cameras. It’s all part of a
public-private partnership that gives government officials access to all manner
of surveillance cameras, on sidewalks, on buildings, on buses, even those
installed on private property.
Couple these surveillance cameras with facial recognition and behavior-sensing
technology and you have the makings of “pre-crime” cameras, which scan your
mannerisms, compare you to pre-set parameters for “normal” behavior, and alert
the police if you trigger any computerized alarms as being “suspicious.”
State and federal law enforcement agencies are pushing to expand their
biometric and DNA databases by requiring that anyone accused of a misdemeanor
have their DNA collected and catalogued. However, technology is already
available that allows the government to collect biometrics such as fingerprints
from a distance, without a person’s cooperation or knowledge. One system can
actually scan and identify a fingerprint from nearly 20 feet away.
It’s a sure bet that anything the government welcomes (and funds) too
enthusiastically is bound to be a Trojan horse full of nasty, invasive
surprises. Case in point: police body cameras. Hailed as the easy fix solution
to police abuses, these body cameras—made possible by funding from the
Department of Justice—will turn police officers into roving surveillance
cameras. Of course, if you try to request access to that footage, you’ll find
yourself being led a merry and costly chase through miles of red tape,
bureaucratic footmen and unhelpful courts.
The “internet of things”—the growing number of “smart” household appliances and
electronic devices connected to the internet and capable of interacting with
each other and being controlled remotely—relinquishes ultimate control of and
access to your home to the government and its corporate partners.
Then again, the government doesn’t really need to spy on you using your smart
TV when the FBI can remotely activate the microphone on your cellphone and
record your conversations. The FBI can also do the same thing to laptop
computers.
Drones, which are taking to the skies en masse, are the converging point for
all of the weapons and technology already available to law enforcement agencies.
Technology has upped the stakes dramatically.
All of these technologies add up to a society in which there’s little room for
indiscretions, imperfections, or acts of independence—especially not when the
government can listen in on your phone calls, monitor your driving habits,
track your movements, scrutinize your purchases and peer through the walls of
your home.
In such an environment, you’re either a paragon of virtue, or you’re a criminal.
This is the creepy, calculating yet diabolical genius of the American police
state: the very technology we hailed as revolutionary and liberating has become
our prison, jailer, probation officer, Big Brother and Father Knows Best all
rolled into one.
Thus, to be an individual today, to not conform, to have even a shred of
privacy, and to live beyond the reach of the government’s roaming eyes and
technological spies, one must not only be a rebel but rebel.
As Philip K. Dick, the visionary who gave us Minority Report and Blade Runner,
advised:
If, as it seems, we are in the process of becoming a totalitarian society in
which the state apparatus is all-powerful, the ethics most important for the
survival of the true, free, human individual would be: cheat, lie, evade, fake
it, be elsewhere, forge documents, build improved electronic gadgets in your
garage that’ll outwit the gadgets used by the authorities.
There is no gray area any longer.
(Reproduced with permission. The unabridged version of this commentary appears
here.)
John W. Whitehead is president of The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil
liberties organization based in Virginia that is committed to protecting the
constitutional freedoms of every American and the integral human rights of all
people through its extensive legal and educational programs. The Institute
provides its legal services at no charge to those whose constitutional and
human rights have been threatened or violated.
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