Is there any doubt at all that when Janet Napolitano and Co. sat down and formulated the recent policy to backscatter x-ray and patdown airline passengers that an ideal model would have seen the American public enthusiastically compliant? Put another way, if Big Sis and her bureaucratic automatons wanted a debate they would have asked Congress to mull it over.
Let us make no mistake about it; radiate and fondle first, ask questions later, is a bureaucracy’s modus operandi. Testaments to this fact are found on every line of the Federal Register’s staggering 70,000 plus pages of yearly rules and regulations amassed by the arbitrary decisions of an alphabet soup of government agencies. If anyone thought sifting through a Wikileaks dump or reading over 2500 pages of HR 3590 i.e. Obama Care was daunting I’d suggest an aspirin regimen and a few Five Hour Energies to chase before attempting to tackle this legal juggernaut. Bills have been introduced that would force Congress to vote on these laws individually, thus mitigating their volume, and be held accountable for their promulgation, but appropriately they have never enjoyed an up or down vote.
These agencies stand outside the Constitution and as our de facto fourth branch of government – unelected, entrenched, and relentless. Bi-partisan in the most nefarious way, transcending administration after administration and retaining the modern day status of oracles these agencies (recently doubled in size by the passage of HR 3590) have effectively usurped all three branches of government. They enjoy undue autonomy legislating, judging, and enforcing virtually anything they please. For Congress they are sometimes a political whipping boy other times a trophy. For the Courts they alleviate bottle necking and are deferred to for “technical expertise.” For the Executive and its countless Czars they are, in aggregate, the iron hand of American democracy, a zombie relic, built over the years by countless executive orders and maintained under constant deference by Congress.
These agencies stand outside the Constitution and as our de facto fourth branch of government – unelected, entrenched, and relentless. Bi-partisan in the most nefarious way, transcending administration after administration and retaining the modern day status of oracles these agencies (recently doubled in size by the passage of HR 3590) have effectively usurped all three branches of government. They enjoy undue autonomy legislating, judging, and enforcing virtually anything they please. For Congress they are sometimes a political whipping boy other times a trophy. For the Courts they alleviate bottle necking and are deferred to for “technical expertise.” For the Executive and its countless Czars they are, in aggregate, the iron hand of American democracy, a zombie relic, built over the years by countless executive orders and maintained under constant deference by Congress.
For those of you unfamiliar with Thomas Hobbes perhaps Transformer’s Devastator is a better metaphor for what has increasingly come into view. What was once out of reach and buried in the monotonous layers of government white papers, internal memos, the Federal Register, and obscure declassified documents is now easily accessible and out in the open. The foreign and domestic arms of American governance have clasped around the people. The byproducts of our “Global Force for Good” and its military adventures over seas are being used literally in our own backyard. The seamless connections from the military industrial complex buttressed by a private amalgam of domestic defense contractors to their ties and influence on these domestic agencies is simple to trace and easy to understand.
You couldn’t write this stuff any better than how it is unfolding… Pre-crime software is being used in Baltimore, Philidelphia, and DC, multi-million dollar insect spies are an order away from swarming all over the US, the very same military spy blimps ordered by our military “for use overseas” will be used against/for us very soon here at home laden with field-tested military technology that will scan 3000 license plates per hour, see at night, are easily retrofitted with facial recognition cameras, and will tie into hundreds if not thousands of external cameras in a real-time virtual “crime” network.
The information gathered is capable of being stored and shared with threat fusion centers (admittedly ran without Congressional oversight) easily disseminated to DC or what will be, for all intents and purposes, NSA West, a 1.5 million square foot Cyber Security Center that might even make the Pentagon blush. Do we want to become like England, where this type of surveillance is soon to become commonplace? Has Orwell’s clairvoyant Nineteen Eighty Four become just another benighted warning?
Airport patdowns were just the beginning! Homeland Security (DHS) and its Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR) teams have rolled out in “pilot” programs industrial grade radiation units for use on America’s highways, backscatter x-ray vans have been sold in the US able to “image vehicles and their contents” as well as “penetrate clothing”, a veritable Google Van on steroids. Mobile interrogation trailers saturated with Future Attribute Screening Technology (FAST) developed in cooperation with “industry leaders” for headline events are on standby, portable DNA scanners are in beta testing and are able to identify a human being in under an hour.
Our young ones aren’t safe either, the government has been successfully sued for taking and cataloging newborn DNA, the only problem is that it’s essentially legal to do since the “Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act” was singed into law. Incidently this passed unrecorded by voice vote in the House and unanimously in the Senate, also unrecorded. Sometimes even when Congress does vote they make sure it is a secret!
If DHS doesn’t stop you in the airport or on the streets, they have invaded Walmarts all over the country with thousands of government-sponsored screens inundating a routine grocery run with their exhausting “See Something Say Something” campaign. In another nauseating example of "agency initiative" was in 2007 when Congress revealed DHS created, without approval, the National Applications Office (NAO) charged with turning spy satellites on the US. Recently, in a totally unrelated vein, the US and Germany (US occupied territory) under the popular guise of an innocuous “commercial program” are planning on deploying multiple billion dollar spy satellites in 2012 and 2013. One has to wonder why the US would need another set of cutting edge multibillion dollar spy satellites since they have already launched into space “the largest [spy] satellite in the world” and plan on sending more.
I was going to include more on internet kill switches, internet IDs, and how the US Air Force has been soliciting persona software management in order to operate an army of fake virtual people replete with their own IP address, hair color, significant others, but most importantly opinion. Yes, they're planning for a potential clandestine campaign to “manufacture consensus” or to be used for “cognitive infiltration.” These you’ll have to look up on your own!
This barrage of information is just a smattering of what we encounter on a weekly if not daily basis and is almost too much to cover and Purple Serf and Free Humanity need your help. It would be like sand through our fingers if it wasn’t for archival technology and hyperlinks. Many of us have started to report on what is going on ourselves, turned off our TVs and along with it the obnoxious graphics, $1000 suits, and 10,000watt smiles that used to represent legitimacy and which still propagandize and compartmentalize our information. This is only the first step – admitting and we have a problem and talking about it.
This barrage of information is just a smattering of what we encounter on a weekly if not daily basis and is almost too much to cover and Purple Serf and Free Humanity need your help. It would be like sand through our fingers if it wasn’t for archival technology and hyperlinks. Many of us have started to report on what is going on ourselves, turned off our TVs and along with it the obnoxious graphics, $1000 suits, and 10,000watt smiles that used to represent legitimacy and which still propagandize and compartmentalize our information. This is only the first step – admitting and we have a problem and talking about it.
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