I'll leave the media and the medical community to speculate about the impact the coronavirus will have on the nation's health, but how will the government's War on the Coronavirus impact our freedoms?
In an attempt to fight the epidemic, the government has given its surveillance state apparatus-which boasts the most expansive and sophisticated surveillance system in the world-free rein.
Here in the US, the government thus far has limited its coronavirus preparations to missives advising the public to stay calm, wash their hands, and cover their mouths when they cough and sneeze.
Don't go underestimating the government's ability to lock the nation down if the coronavirus turns into a pandemic, however.
The building blocks are already in place for such an eventuality: the surveillance networks, fusion centers and government contractors that already share information in real time; the government's massive biometric databases that can identify individuals based on genetic and biological markers; the militarized police, working in conjunction with federal agencies, ready and able to coordinate with the federal government when it's time to round up the targeted individuals; the courts that will sanction the government's methods, no matter how unlawful, as long as it's done in the name of national security; and the detention facilities, whether private prisons or FEMA internment camps, that have been built and are waiting to be filled.
By monitoring your movements with the use of license plate readers, surveillance cameras and other tracking devices, the government knows where you go.
Add pre-crime programs into the mix with government agencies and corporations working in tandem to determine who is a potential danger and spin a sticky spider-web of threat assessments, behavioral sensing warnings, flagged "Words," and "Suspicious" activity reports using automated eyes and ears, social media, behavior sensing software, and citizen spies, and you having the makings for a perfect dystopian nightmare.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/march/04/coronavirus-vs-the-mass-surveillance-state-which-poses-the-greater-threat/
In an attempt to fight the epidemic, the government has given its surveillance state apparatus-which boasts the most expansive and sophisticated surveillance system in the world-free rein.
Here in the US, the government thus far has limited its coronavirus preparations to missives advising the public to stay calm, wash their hands, and cover their mouths when they cough and sneeze.
Don't go underestimating the government's ability to lock the nation down if the coronavirus turns into a pandemic, however.
The building blocks are already in place for such an eventuality: the surveillance networks, fusion centers and government contractors that already share information in real time; the government's massive biometric databases that can identify individuals based on genetic and biological markers; the militarized police, working in conjunction with federal agencies, ready and able to coordinate with the federal government when it's time to round up the targeted individuals; the courts that will sanction the government's methods, no matter how unlawful, as long as it's done in the name of national security; and the detention facilities, whether private prisons or FEMA internment camps, that have been built and are waiting to be filled.
By monitoring your movements with the use of license plate readers, surveillance cameras and other tracking devices, the government knows where you go.
Add pre-crime programs into the mix with government agencies and corporations working in tandem to determine who is a potential danger and spin a sticky spider-web of threat assessments, behavioral sensing warnings, flagged "Words," and "Suspicious" activity reports using automated eyes and ears, social media, behavior sensing software, and citizen spies, and you having the makings for a perfect dystopian nightmare.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/march/04/coronavirus-vs-the-mass-surveillance-state-which-poses-the-greater-threat/
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