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Monday, August 13, 2012

Welcome To America – The Corporate Police State

New York City is poised to become the surveillance capital of America. On Wednesday, city officials unveiled a massive new surveillance system that they say will “revolutionize law enforcement.” Its called The Domain Awareness System and it gathers information from thousands of video cameras mounted around the city - using maps, city records, arrest records, license plate readers, and 9-1-1 calls – bringing everything together in a centralized source to be reviewed by Police. The city is already monitoring live feeds from more than 3-thousand cameras – mostly in the financial district – but more cameras are expected to be added soon. This technology was developed for the city by Microsoft - and will be packaged and sold to other cities around our nation - with New York getting a cut of the profits. So, not only has domestic surveillance become a tool for the wealthy elite to suppress an American population that is growing more and more restless – but it’s also a tool to make a lot of money.

1 comment:

lmclain said...

Oh, how Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, John Adams, and George Washington, and the thousands of others of their time who risked everything they had in order to establish "a more perfect union". I can't believe that "we the people" have fallen so hard for the "the terrorists are coming!!" bullshit that THIS is now something we think is NECESSARY in the "land of the free". Who's idea of "freedom" is THIS? And WHO thinks THIS is the end of this kind of surveillance of innocent Americans?