Big Brother’s eye in the sky
One of the places where I like to go birding is the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve (say that fast five times, then have a margarita and say it fast just once):
As you can see from the map, it’s pretty close to the border with Mexico. That means that there might be a few spots where Mexican nationals (aka illegal aliens) might make it across the border and into the United States looking for seasonal work. No problem:
I went out of the Research Reserve and down to the southwester corner to find that “light pole” in the last spot accessible to the public:
Look back at that light pole and you can see nine lights and, at the very top, a video camera. Since there was a Border Patrol station nearby, I’m pretty sure this light pole is related to border activities.
However, this reminded me of the many malls and stores I patronize, those with dozens of cameras and video screens set up so any illegal or suspicious activities can be monitored.
Big Brother is here. Has been for many years, all in the name of safety for the general public. Another ten years and I predict all newborn children will have microchips implanted in their shoulders — maybe at the same time they get smallpox and other immunity shots, maybe at birth when they get names — so the government can keep track of its legal citizens and to provide them with citizenship benefits (voting), elderly benefits (Social Security and Medicare), etc. The government will provide incentives in the form of cash for all others to become microchipped.
Meow………. Ruff, ruff………..
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Posted on July 8, 2012, in Manmade, Opinion, Photos and tagged big brother, eye in the sky. Bookmark the permalink. 16 Comments.
Scary, but true. We’re coming to the point where we’ll be defined by a collection of data.
Yes Russel, we have arrived! Thank God we don’t have to wait for 2084! Take a minute to read this (although, since you camp out from time to time, you may have already perused it).
http://whoopiebrain.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=62&action=edit
Thanks for a scarey and realistic post.
Your link seems to be to a post that I can’t access because it’s an edit function.
Oh yeh? Oh yeh? So you think you know it all Mr. A.R.T.? Well l et me tell you something. OH CRAP. He is correct again. I did take the URL in edit mode. How foolish of me. I guess that is why they put the “sky” on the end of my surname. So here is the better link smarty pants.
http://whoopiebrain.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/the-town-tweeker/?preview=true&preview_id=62&preview_nonce=38315dffea
And then after the edit mode I gave you the preview mode. Lets try it one more time.
http://whoopiebrain.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/the-town-tweeker/
God, that Waldo is such a looser. But he is persistent.
If you linked over and read it already I hope it doesn’t scare the hell out of you the way it did me when I conceptualized it (or in everyday vernacular; “thought it up”). Thanks for reading, Wicked and Wierd Waldo.
interesting！
Scarey but true here in Australia too.
That’s maybe why I like the Botanic Gardens & Zoo in my inner city area – I can’t see any video cameras.
I like to think it’s at least safer on public transport with these video surveillance cameras installed. Groups of drunk or drug crazed young hooligans can often be identified and caught when they rob stores or attack people outside nightclubs and other venues as well as on late night trains.
My younger brother, who used to work for a telecommunications company, told me once that every phone call, internet message and even utility accounts in your name, mean that anyone can be tracked, overheard and monitored these days.
It would be nice to live in the mountains, live off the land and be self-sufficient without any ‘monitoring’, but then of course if you had an accident, you wouldn’t have access to hospitals etc.
I am back and I really enjoyed your blog. I do hope there will be no illegal visitors from Mexico. Keep us up to date.
I think its more likely than unlikely!! However I think it might take longer than 10 years.
Your not wrong Russell, in Revelation in the Bible it talks about this mark, if you don’t have it you won’t be able to buy or sell as you can see below. The concept you shared is spot on it is the forerunner of this mark or micro chip but of course there is more to it then man understands now and when they realise unless they are prepared it will be too late.
Revelation 13:15-17 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.(KJV)
Thanks for all the likes Russell, I hope you enjoyed camping out on our Blog.
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Interesting! Very interesting!
All in the name of safety. However it looks more like all in the name of control.I dont believe in their safety measures anymore. I bellieve in American citizens having the rights to protect themselves and not having the goverment pretend to do it for us. I will stop now because I could get a really good but really long rant going!
A very interesting and informative blog on border control and big brother on the Mexican border,I must admit the thought of microchipping humans is a scary thought, maybe it will automatically be a part of the birthing process in the future, long after I am gone from this earthly planet.
Thanks for an enjoyable read
Aussie Ian
I’d be willing to bet that as soon as the child gets a name, within minutes that child will also get a microchip. I, too, hope that it’s long after I am gone.
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