Big Sis Wants Behavior Scanners At Sports Events, Malls
DHS seeks to read ?malintent? at interrogation checkpoints
Image: US Mission Geneva
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com <SUP>[2]</SUP>
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano admitted yesterday that body scanners would eventually find their way into U.S. public transportation, trains and boats, but Big Sis is already beta-testing technology that goes even further, by forcing Americans to undergo a behavioral interrogation before they are allowed to enter sports events, rock concerts and shopping malls.
?I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime. So, what do we need to be doing to strengthen our protections there??
said Napolitano <SUP>[3]</SUP>, indicating that naked body scanners and invasive pat downs will eventually become a necessity in order to merely catch the subway or ride a bus.
Indeed, mobile body scanners have already hit the streets <SUP>[4]</SUP>, with ?more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents? having been sold to government agencies,? reports Forbes <SUP>[5]</SUP>.
American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold many of the devices to U.S. law enforcement agencies, who are already using them on the streets for ?security? purposes.
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However, body and vehicle scanners are just one tool authorities plan to implement on a widespread basis as part of our deepening decline into a hi-tech militarized police state.
Homeland Security is already implementing technology to be enforced at ?security events? which purportedly reads ?malintent? on behalf of an individual who passes through a checkpoint. The video below explains how ?Future Attribute Screening Technology? (FAST) checkpoints will conduct ?physiological? and ?behavioral? tests in order to weed out suspected terrorists and criminals.
Big Sis wants to know if there are any evil thoughts inside your head before they allow you to go about your business.
The clip shows individuals who attend ?security events? being led into trailers before they are interrogated as to whether they are terrorists while lie detector-style computer programs analyze their physiological responses. The subjects are asked about their whereabouts, and if they are attempting to smuggle bombs or recording devices into the ?expo,? proving that the technology is intended to be used at public events and not just airports. Individuals who do not satisfy the first lie detector-style test are then asked ?additional questions?.
Americans will be mandated to prove to the government that they are well-behaved slaves before they are allowed to do anything.
?The best thing about FAST is its portability,?
points out Howard Portnoy <SUP>[7]</SUP>. ?If the Big Sis has a mind, they can park an MMR (mobile miner reader?my own acronym) outside the local mall, the petting zoo ? you name it, and the government will be there to tap into your brainwaves and find out whether you?re naughty or nice.?
The use of such technology is not only a complete violation of the Fourth Amendment, it also eviscerates the notion of innocent until proven guilty, and therefore totally undermines everything America stands for. Given the widespread abuse witnessed in the first year alone after the roll out of airport body scanners, Americans need to boycott the companies producing these systems and also resist their deployment at every turn.
Big Sis has made it clear that everything we see in the airport, from invasive groping to body scanners to iris scans, is eventually destined to be rolled out on the streets. When this happens, people who thought they could avoid such treatment by simply refusing to fly will instead discover that their apathy has greased the skids for a total surveillance society that outstrips anything they read about in George Orwell?s 1984 or saw in movies like Minority Report.
DHS seeks to read ?malintent? at interrogation checkpoints
Image: US Mission Geneva
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com <SUP>[2]</SUP>
<SUP></SUP>
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano admitted yesterday that body scanners would eventually find their way into U.S. public transportation, trains and boats, but Big Sis is already beta-testing technology that goes even further, by forcing Americans to undergo a behavioral interrogation before they are allowed to enter sports events, rock concerts and shopping malls.
?I think the tighter we get on aviation, we have to also be thinking now about going on to mass transit or to trains or maritime. So, what do we need to be doing to strengthen our protections there??
said Napolitano <SUP>[3]</SUP>, indicating that naked body scanners and invasive pat downs will eventually become a necessity in order to merely catch the subway or ride a bus.
Indeed, mobile body scanners have already hit the streets <SUP>[4]</SUP>, with ?more than 500 backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in vans that can be driven past neighboring vehicles to see their contents? having been sold to government agencies,? reports Forbes <SUP>[5]</SUP>.
American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Massachusetts, has sold many of the devices to U.S. law enforcement agencies, who are already using them on the streets for ?security? purposes.
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However, body and vehicle scanners are just one tool authorities plan to implement on a widespread basis as part of our deepening decline into a hi-tech militarized police state.
Homeland Security is already implementing technology to be enforced at ?security events? which purportedly reads ?malintent? on behalf of an individual who passes through a checkpoint. The video below explains how ?Future Attribute Screening Technology? (FAST) checkpoints will conduct ?physiological? and ?behavioral? tests in order to weed out suspected terrorists and criminals.
Big Sis wants to know if there are any evil thoughts inside your head before they allow you to go about your business.
The clip shows individuals who attend ?security events? being led into trailers before they are interrogated as to whether they are terrorists while lie detector-style computer programs analyze their physiological responses. The subjects are asked about their whereabouts, and if they are attempting to smuggle bombs or recording devices into the ?expo,? proving that the technology is intended to be used at public events and not just airports. Individuals who do not satisfy the first lie detector-style test are then asked ?additional questions?.
Americans will be mandated to prove to the government that they are well-behaved slaves before they are allowed to do anything.
?The best thing about FAST is its portability,?
points out Howard Portnoy <SUP>[7]</SUP>. ?If the Big Sis has a mind, they can park an MMR (mobile miner reader?my own acronym) outside the local mall, the petting zoo ? you name it, and the government will be there to tap into your brainwaves and find out whether you?re naughty or nice.?
The use of such technology is not only a complete violation of the Fourth Amendment, it also eviscerates the notion of innocent until proven guilty, and therefore totally undermines everything America stands for. Given the widespread abuse witnessed in the first year alone after the roll out of airport body scanners, Americans need to boycott the companies producing these systems and also resist their deployment at every turn.
Big Sis has made it clear that everything we see in the airport, from invasive groping to body scanners to iris scans, is eventually destined to be rolled out on the streets. When this happens, people who thought they could avoid such treatment by simply refusing to fly will instead discover that their apathy has greased the skids for a total surveillance society that outstrips anything they read about in George Orwell?s 1984 or saw in movies like Minority Report.
