Just read this article. I find it hard to believe that our rights have diminished so much in the past 30 years – starting with Reagan and abetted by too many Democrats. I hope it ends sooner rather than later – we don’t need more deaths on the streets of our cities fighting for freedom that is ours by right, divine right if you please.
Best to you Lorenzo. Keep up the good work.
Jim
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Big brother’ lamp posts can hear, see and bark ‘Obey!’ at you Reply
by Vince • Police State/Civil Liberties
From RT.com
Street lights that can spy installed in some American cities
America welcomes a new brand of smart street lightning systems: energy-efficient, long-lasting, complete with LED screens to show ads. They can also spy on citizens in a way George Orwell would not have imagined in his worst nightmare.
With a price tag of $3,000+ apiece, according to an ABC report, the street lights are now being rolled out in Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh, and may soon mushroom all across the country.
Part of the Intellistreets systems made by the company Illuminating Concepts, they have a number of “homeland security applications” attached.
Each has a microprocessor “essentially similar to an iPhone,” capable of wireless communication. Each can capture images and count people for the police through a digital camera, record conversations of passers-by and even give voice commands thanks to a built-in speaker.
Ron Harwood, president and founder of Illuminating Concepts, says he eyed the creation of such a system after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Hurricane Katrina disaster. He is “working with Homeland Security” to deliver his dream of making people “more informed and safer.”
“The system represents Big Brother on steroids,” commented the website InfoWars.com, which sees Intellistreets as a major threat to privacy.
Heron Said,
May 17, 2012 @ 7:45 am
Just read this article. I find it hard to believe that our rights have diminished so much in the past 30 years – starting with Reagan and abetted by too many Democrats. I hope it ends sooner rather than later – we don’t need more deaths on the streets of our cities fighting for freedom that is ours by right, divine right if you please.
Best to you Lorenzo. Keep up the good work.
Jim
—–
Big brother’ lamp posts can hear, see and bark ‘Obey!’ at you Reply
by Vince • Police State/Civil Liberties
From RT.com
Street lights that can spy installed in some American cities
America welcomes a new brand of smart street lightning systems: energy-efficient, long-lasting, complete with LED screens to show ads. They can also spy on citizens in a way George Orwell would not have imagined in his worst nightmare.
With a price tag of $3,000+ apiece, according to an ABC report, the street lights are now being rolled out in Detroit, Chicago and Pittsburgh, and may soon mushroom all across the country.
Part of the Intellistreets systems made by the company Illuminating Concepts, they have a number of “homeland security applications” attached.
Each has a microprocessor “essentially similar to an iPhone,” capable of wireless communication. Each can capture images and count people for the police through a digital camera, record conversations of passers-by and even give voice commands thanks to a built-in speaker.
Ron Harwood, president and founder of Illuminating Concepts, says he eyed the creation of such a system after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Hurricane Katrina disaster. He is “working with Homeland Security” to deliver his dream of making people “more informed and safer.”
“The system represents Big Brother on steroids,” commented the website InfoWars.com, which sees Intellistreets as a major threat to privacy.