Welcome to Land of TrapWire The NYPD is starting to look like a flashy, forensic crime TV show thanks to a new super computer system unveiled Wednesday near Wall St. The Domain Awareness System designed by the NYPD and Microsoft Corp. uses data from a network of cameras, radiation detectors, license plate readers and crime reports, officials said. “We’re not your mom and pop police department anymore,” Mayor Bloomberg crowed. “We are in the next century. We are leading the pack.” Most Americans may read this and think that they do not have anything to worry about since they do not live in New York City. Well, if you are thinking that right now you would be dead wrong. A new nationwide network of spy cameras is being rolled out all across the United States. This surveillance grid is reportedly going to cover every major U.S. city and every major “high value target” in the country. TrapWire has been implemented in most major American cities at selected high value targets (HVTs) and has appeared abroad as well. The iWatch monitoring system adopted by the Los Angeles Police Department (pdf) works in conjunction with TrapWire, as does the District of Columbia and the “See Something, Say Something” program conducted by law enforcement in New York City, which had 500 surveillance cameras linked to the system in 2010. Private properties including Las Vegas, Nevada casinos have subscribed to the system. The State of Texas reportedly spent half a million dollars with an additional annual licensing fee of $150,000 to employ TrapWire, and the Pentagon and other military facilities have allegedly signed on as well. The truth is that no surveillance system on earth could possibly keep us 100% safe. Bad things are always going to happen, and no amount of surveillance is going to prevent that. Sadly, in recent years a whole bunch of polls and surveys have found that a majority of Americans are willing to sacrifice liberty for more security. Perhaps that is why more Americans are not objecting to the horrible abuse that is happening at U.S. airports. Recently, a woman down in Florida was pulled over by a police car for rolling through a stop sign. What happened next is something out of a horror movie…. The cop then placed Tarantino in the back of the squad car, where she allegedly sat for two hours. When backup arrived, Tarantino was strip searched on the side of the road, where passing motorists could see everything. Then, in a gruesome twist, a female officer “forcibly removed” a tampon from Tarantino.
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:53:08 +0000
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