Propaganda Matrix – by Paul Joseph Watson
The Department of Homeland Security is set to activate a national license plate tracking system that will be shared with law enforcement, allowing DHS officers to take photos of any license plate using their smartphone and upload it to a database which will include a “hot list” of “target vehicles”.
The details are included in a PDF attachment uploaded yesterday to the Federal Business Opportunities website under a solicitation entitled “National License Plate Recognition Database.”
The system will “track vehicle license plate numbers that pass through cameras or are voluntarily entered into the system from a variety of sources (access control systems, asset recovery specialists, etc.) and uploaded to share with law enforcement” in order to help locate “criminal aliens and absconders.”
In other countries that have activated license plate tracking networks, such as the United Kingdom, political activists have been targeted by having their vehicles added to a “hotlist” after attending protests. One example led to a man being questioned under anti-terror laws after he traveled to take part in an anti-war demonstration.
As the image above illustrates, the cameras are also used by local governments in Australia to keep records of people who violate parking restrictions. Critics of the system in Australia have condemned it as “a Pandora’s box for abuse of power, mistakes and illegal disclosure,” stressing that the technology allows authorities to record “your number plate at a certain time and location,” allowing police to “compile an extraordinary amount of data about you. This includes your name, address, contact details, driving history and licence status.”
“Innocent people are increasingly being treated with suspicion due to the tiny chance that some offence may be committed,” writes David Jancik.
The DHS’ database will allow authorities “to determine where and when the vehicle has traveled,” using data compiled “from a variety of sources nationwide,” including “metropolitan areas” within the United States, suggesting the system may be linked in with regular surveillance cameras as it is in the UK.
The system will also allow DHS officials to take a picture of any license plate via their smartphone, upload it to the database and immediately receive an alert if the plate is on the watchlist.
“The NLPR data service should provide details on clarity of photos provided. The Government would prefer a close-up of the plate and a zoomed out image of the vehicle,” states the solicitation.
The system must also have the capability to “flag license plates and conduct searches anonymously so that other law enforcement agencies may not have access.”
Given rampant concerns that the Department of Homeland Security, which is ostensibly introducing this system in the name of catching illegal aliens, is in fact an increasingly bloated federal bureaucracy designed to target the American people, the notion of the DHS enjoying access to a fully integrated nationwide license plate tracking grid is chilling, especially given the fact that the agency has funded reports which characterize “liberty lovers” as potential terrorists.
The DHS also recently awarded the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority $7 million dollars to outfit its buses with high tech 360 degree surveillance cameras. The federal agency is simultaneously supporting the rollout of ‘Intellistreets’ lighting systems that double as surveillance hubs which can record conversations.
“Do not kid yourself. This is tracking of an individual that can be accessed at a whim,” writes James Smith. “Yearly, officers are terminated for accessing the LEDS/NCIC database for looking into the histories of ex-lovers, future spouses, and potential sons/daughters-in-law. And with license plate tracking toy (not a tool), they will know where you are, as long as you have driven into the cross hairs of this new weapon for tyranny.”
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Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
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As I have said before, they want skynet, where every movement is watched, everything you do goes into a database. They want to monitor EVERYTHING, and eliminate all dissidents. Like me!!
Let em try Missy! They certainly cannot get us all, and there’s more of us I’m sure, than them.
We ARE the many dots, the government is but the tiny dot! This puts it in proper perspective.
You are correct, but they do want it all monitored , especially in the larger metropolitan areas, they will have more trouble in the rural areas. Just look at Google Earth, I can look at my house and read the stickers on the back of my jeep in my driveway. They have that, now pics of my license plate so as I drive around town or on the interstates they will know exactly where I went, what stores I went to, the houses I visited, etc. They log every key stroke from our keyboards, they listen to all phone calls, read all emails, track all purchases, etc. Now they are going to have facial recognition cameras, too. They will be able to follow someone 24 hours a day/7days a week, know what we did, who we interacted with, where we went, what kind of things we like, our affiliations, our purchases, they will and are tracking everything. Take I-10 (interstate) their is Louisiana DOD website where you can look at all of the cameras they have, I-10 is tracked completely in Louisiana.
There is no purpose in getting your plate number when legally parked or in your own driveway..so I say whenever you park , casually cover up your plate with ..
Snow..( lord knows theres enough of this crap around lately)
a Notebook..(hey some kid put that there)
a Towel or article of cloth closed up in your trunk laying over the face of the plate ..(hey it must have fell out when I took my golf bag out)
many ideas..at least for when the vehicle is not in motion..although I have used the snow idea on my trucks step bumper every chance I get
QUESTION: IS THIS THE WORLD THAT GOD HAD INTENDED?
pepper, this is not the world that God intended, satan is the prince and the power of the air, he wants his own kingdom and that is what they are trying to do, set up satan’s kingdom here on earth.
keep paying taxes and keep your cars ‘registered’. All that money you spend to be spied on is working.