The Panopticon: A Mass Surveillance Prison For Humanity

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The Panopticon: A Mass Surveillance Prison For Humanity

 

 

 

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/january2006/110106thepanopticon.htm

 

The Panopticon: A Mass Surveillance Prison For Humanity

Alex Jones & Paul Joseph Watson

 

 

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.