Wednesday, November 26, 2008

India Terror Prevented and People Should be Chipped

India Terrorism Prevented and People Should be Chipped.

India experienced coordinated terrorist attacks. The Terrorists must have made extensive use of Communication and Transportation resources. But nobody was looking and nobody was listening.

In India this may be a matter of pure Governmental Poverty, or perhaps Official Incompetence and laziness in the Intelligence and Police Communities. Or there may be some misguided Respect for Privacy Rights.

Well Edmund Burke, or was it Winston Churchill who had said “Privacy is the Darkness where Evil lurks”.

As in America, all phone calls, all emails, all computer traffic can be put under surveillance. Yes, it must be terribly expensive. All this communication traffic must be scanned for Code, that is, are speech patterns and narrative ‘real’ or artificial, and if ‘real’ is the content non-threatening. Logs must be kept of who is talking to whom, and who cares about what. On the Visual Surveillance side, a great deal of Computer Bandwidth is necessary, not only to store the vast amounts of visual imagery, but also in the Computer Capacity necessary to analyze and catalogue the Core Information – everyone’s comings and goings, habits, patterns, and especially in detecting when any group of known associates break out of their established patterns, as in the case of launching a Terrorist Attack.

All this Technology already exists. Simply ask about the Secret behind the Surge Strategy in Iraq. A few soldiers on the ground did not make all the difference. The progress made in Iraq was all about New Surveillance Technologies and advances in Computer Cataloging Technologies – whereby billions of bites of Data can be compressed and reduced to small packets of important and useable information. Surprisingly, it all sources back to all the Search Engine advances. Google is the Father of the New Big Brother. The Search for the Brave New World is over.

In addition, Modern Civilized States can take even further care, by insisting that every Citizen or Resident wear a short range Radio Transponder, to establish Identity, what we would call a Chip. Yes, I have heard rumors of Multi-Spectrum Photo Scanning, even from Satellites that can effectively ‘fingerprint’ Identities and thus positively track individuals from moment to moment, day by day without any such Chip. But the Bandwidth required to record and analyze such necessarily complex information must be prohibitively expensive. It would be so much more simple if everybody just ‘beeped’ a unique personal code and their position continuously recorded. Cameras could be used to identify Non-Chipped people walking or driving around, and Police could instantly be alerted to their presence.

This would be bad for Criminals. For instance, if anybody is mugged in a dark alley, then simply by consulting the Records it could be easily determined who was in that particular Alley at the time of the Illegal Infraction. Equally, on the other side of it, the Innocent could greatly benefit. How often do we hear the cry from the Jails and the Prisons of “It was not me!” “I didn’t do it”. Yes, so often people (victims and witnesses) miss-identify suspects… when both the Evening and the Suspect are dark, so to speak, nobody can be sure of what is really seen, and victims and corroborating witnesses assume that the Police are arresting suspects for good reasons and feel pressures not nullify the hard work of the Police by expressing such seemingly counterproductive doubts just when arrests can be made. So it is that the System sometimes strikes at Crime blindly, but only because it is kept in the Dark. But with Chip Tracking and Chip Identification every Innocent Person automatically will have an official alibi. This is especially good for people who live alone, who, under the Old Regime can be accused of anything, done anytime, done anywhere, because, until cats can talk, they would never be able to assert an alibi. In our Modern Societies where it is so often incumbent upon us to prove our own innocence, the Chip should be welcomed with open arms and dancing in the streets.

However, Privacy Fanatics might suppose that the World will break out in Bloody Protest before submitting to Identity Chipping, but it could very well be welcomed by most people when the benefits for themselves are pointed out. But I do realize that Popular Media Propaganda for close to a hundred years now have been heavily on the side of Criminality, Anarchy and Privacy. It seems that many of the People with the Most to Hide are very wealthy and have connections in Publishing, Movies, TV and Radio. We have been bombarded with totally Artificial Scenarios of how bad it would be if the Truth were Known about Things. We have been left to suppose that Governments would Naturally hold Goodness and Purity against us, and would persecute and prosecute us for merely being good and decent Human Beings and for minding our own businesses. The real fact of the Matter is that the Worst Criminal Elements have put forward this intensive Propaganda Campaign in order to maintain their Massive Criminal Enterprises in the Dark, maintaining Privacy as the First and Foremost Right within Liberal Democracy. But we should wake up to the Deceptions and Impositions and announce to ourselves and the World that finally there will be Light.

The Technology is already here. We can choose now to chase the Criminals and the Terrorists out of the Darkness of Institutionalized Privacy Rights.

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