The US Air Force has launched its latest drone, one with nine cameras capable of viewing everything going on in a town at once. The Gorgon Stare drone, which is being deployed in Afghanistan, is able to relay the info to multiple ground units so they don't have to hunt for the "enemy". I can see how this system could be used domestically to quell "dissidents"... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/01/AR2011010102690.html
Good bye freedom. But as I have come to learn. Sheeple don't really like freedom. Although they claim they do and will scream loudly saying they want their freedom. But in the end, it's just a lot of hot air. Freedom is the last thing 90% of the people in occident really want.
I can see how this system could be used domestically to quell "dissidents"... So could Sherman tanks. So could M-1 rifles. So could bazookas and scud missiles and hand grenades. Hell, so could tactical nukes. What's your point? All you can see is what you're looking for.
Dissidents in the u.s.,that like an oxymoron. If they want to find people here they just ask the family and friends, they will gladly rat on ya. I was even asked at a check cashing machine, "What is your mothers maiden name". How the hell would they know my mothers maiden name? The powers that be have all they need on us in the damn social security number. a drone is more like a babysetter, because we the people gave up years ago. all of the former "americans" are hold up in the woods and laying low in the hedges.
Perhaps the collective "meh" attitude of the general population is the big enabler in any potential erosion of privacy and freedom we're supposing that we have in the first place. Anyone who would move to marginalize and ridicule efforts to be vigilant are playing as effective cogs in the propaganda machine that seeks to keep the general population distracted if not napping. "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." -- Thomas Jefferson The problem here is that it's only the establishment that remains vigilant. The sleeping sheep are being easily played against one another.
I like your analogy. Let's pursue it a bit further... So if the people are the "sheep" and government is the "shepherd" (who was sleeping peacefully on 9/11 and during Katrina), then who is the wolf? Paranoid Possibilities in our gov't's vivid imagination... Osama Bin Laden (10 years and billions wasted) Middle East Terrorists (we've created 1000xs more than we've killed) Wackos (like the ones in Waco) Pedophiles (like the Mormons who marry 12 yr olds) Radicals (like the grandmas who come out to protest) Marijuana (grannies medicine) Satan! (yes most in our gov't believe in Satan, talk about voodoo politics!) But shouldn't the shepherd be protecting us all from: Predatory Banksters Foreclosure Unemployment Overpriced health care and medicine Endless Wars that accomplish nothing Corrupt Politicians Fraudsters Environmental Destruction and Pollution Dependence on foreign energy sources Endless debt burdening our children and their children Once upon a time our government protected us from these easily preventable crises, but no more apparently. Far more Americans have been victimized by these issues than by "terrorism" of any kind. Our government doesn't need any Spy Eye in the Sky to protect the American people. It just needs to look at itself and how little it cares for the little guy. But it's now the "little guy" that the government fears. People like you and me. Cause we are the ones that give them their power and legitimacy, and we can take it back anytime we feel like it. And they know that. So we are the wolf, no? And the shepherd only really cares about himself. The sheep are there to be fleeced and slaughtered, exploited as any dumb inferior animal should, right? Beware the wolves in sheeps clothes...they're getting very hungry and angry, too.
The problem here is that it is those same predatory "banksters", pharmaceutical giants, polluting and profiteering oil giants, and the like have infiltrated the government and effectively using policy to ensure that the maximum amount of money is directed at them and foreign policy ensures their access to needed resources the be perverted into profits while the elaborate puppet show entitled "cleaning up government and bringing it back to the people" is used to distract and divide via bipartisan debate theater and helper pundits like Rachel Maddow, Sean Hannity, Keith Olbermann and Rush Limbaugh who ensure that the general public does not unite against those who are defrauding it and who do not seem above liquidating a portion pursuant to its military and economic agendas. Any rhetoric that includes notions of government protection and service sidesteps the apparently truthful premise that the shepherd in this instance couldn't be less interested in actually standing up for our interests... enabled in no small part by our collective unwillingness/inability to stand up for ourselves. We have willingly ceded the job of shepherd to the wolves.
Yes, I've been coming to the conclusion that the one thing that unites the media, regardless of political persuasion, is the determination to keep the country divided. It's one thing for there to be a focus before the "election cycle" on divergent political views. But the election cycle never stops anymore, and all politics is divisive now. It just never ends. Perfect example, they're still attacking Obama over his birth certificate. It's like they need to attack something to keep people in opposition, even if there is little to oppose at the moment! Divide and conquer works great domestically! Question: How long before the Gorgon Stare is Staring at YOU? Or is it already?
How long? Well- from one standpoint, if I'm made a priority for surveillance then I must be doing something right... because it may well prove to be a personal mission for me to raise awareness in regular folks in how their overlords are keeping them distracted, divided, and easily controlled. If I'm at all effective I will be seen as a problem. Good.
1863 Martial Law is declared by President Lincoln on April 24th, 1863, with General Orders No. 100; under martial law authority, Congress and President Lincoln institute continuous martial law by ordering the states (people) either conscribe troops and or provide money in support of the North or be recognized as enemies of the nation; this martial law Act of Congress is still in effect today. This martial law authority gives the President (with or without Congress) the dictatorial authority to do anything that can be done by government in accord with the Constitution of the United States of America. This conscription act remains in effect to this very day and is the foundation of Presidential Executive Orders authority; it was magnified in 1917 with The Trading with the Enemy Act (Public Law 65-91, 65th Congress, Session I, Chapters 105, 106, October 6, 1917). and again in 1933 with the Emergency War Powers Act, which is ratified and enhanced almost every year to this date by Congress. Today these Acts address the people of the United States themselves as their enemy. 1917 In 1917, Corp. U.S. enters W.W. I and passes their Trading with the Enemies Act. 1918 In 1918, President Wilson is reelected by the Electoral College but their election is required to be confirmed by the constitutionally set Senate; where the new Corp. U.S. only Senators were allowed to participate in the Electoral College vote confirmation the only authority that could possibly have been used for electoral confirmation was corporate only. Therefore, President Wilson was not confirmed into office for his second term as President of the United States of America and was only seated in the Corp. U.S. Presidential capacity. Therefore the original jurisdiction government's seats were vacated because the people didn't seat any original jurisdiction government officers. It is important to note here that President Wilson retained his capacity as Commander in Chief of the military. Many people wonder about this fact imagining that such a capacity is bound to the President of the nation; however, When John Adams was President he assigned George Washington to the capacity of Commander in Chief of the military in preparation for an impending war with France. During this period, Mr. Adams became quite concerned because Mr. Washington became quite ill and passed on his acting military authority through his lead General Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Adams was concerned that if war did break out Mr. Hamilton would use that authority to create a military dictatorship of the nation. Mr. Adams averted the war through diplomacy and the title of Commander in Chief was returned to him. (See: John Adams, by David McCullough, this book covers Mr. Adams concerns over this matter quite well. Mr. Adams was a fascinating man.) 1933 In 1933, Corp. U.S. is bankrupt, they force a banking holiday to exchange money backed Federal Reserve Notes with “legal tender” Federal Reserve Notes the Trading with the Enemies Act is adjusted to recognize the people of the United States as enemies of Corp. U.S.
Wired.com informs of a $211 million giant Zeppelin that floats at 3,000 feet altitude. It will gather data over a 36 Sq mile area. The blimp is equiped with Gorgon stare technology. The drone has to land after an hour or so. The Zepplin stays aloft for a week http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/01/all-seeing-blimp/#more-37871 :window: