Big Brother is now Mobile. . . .

New Mobile Van Security X-Ray Technology Raises Privacy Questions

 According to Meredith Jessup at the theblaze.com:

Modern technology may be working to keep us safe, but many wonder where the line between safety and privacy lands these days. New technology allows airport security screeners to peak under your clothes and the same x-ray technology is being used by new roving vehicles looking through the exteriors of vehicles and buildings. American Science & Engineering, a company based in Billerica, Mass., has reportedly sold U.S. and foreign government agencies hundreds of these backscatter x-ray scanners mounted in mobile vans.

While the biggest buyer of AS&E’s machines over the last seven years has been the Department of Defense for security operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, Joe Reiss, the company’s vice president of marketing, reports to Forbes that law enforcement agencies have also used the vehicles to investigate terrorist threats within the U.S.



This type of technology is far more advanced than anything that George Orwell was thinking when he wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four  back in 1949. . . ."Big Brother" is really watching you now. . . . .

Here's a few examples that was on the Glenn Beck program this week:

This "new" legislation would NOT require a search warrant or have to get get signed off by a judge:

1) The government can attach a GPS to your car to track your every move

2) They can use your Cell Phone to track your location

3) Feds pushing for backdoors to internet encryption. . . .Internet, Email, instant messaging, etc.

. . . .also the Department of Homeland Security is buying and using Predator Drones for surveillance within the United States.

Remember when the left was all up in arms over the "Patriot Act" that was passed after 9/11, which basically intercepted cell phone calls from outside the US. This new "x-ray" technology is far more advanced than what was conceived even back in 2001. In the right hands these "new" laws will go after the terrorist and could possibly prevent another terrorist attack, but can you imagine the horror if this technology gets into the wrong hands?

What has happend to our "Fourth Amendment rights" which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures? The amendment specifically requires search and arrest warrants be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause.

As I have previously wrote in this blog the US Census has GPS coordinates within 40 feet of your front door, so now the government knows exactly who and how many people are supposed to be in your residence. So what if they drive the "x-ray" van by your home and there are 25 people in your residence? Are you having a birthday party or a political gathering to overthrow the government?

Do you really want a van that can drive past your house and tell exactly how many people are inside, if you have a couple of shot guns in your closet or see that your trunk is filled with Christmas packages all without a warrant or any judicial oversight? When smaller versions are available will this technology be available to the local police?

Just look how innocent technology has encroached upon our freedoms. . . .Cities are now using "google earth" to see if you have an illegal shed or swimming pool in your back yard. All new cars are equipped with "black boxes" that record performance data, but this information can be used in court against you. It always begins innocent enough doesn’t it? Some new invention that will provide a "benefit" to society, but then it can easily be twisted to serve the needs of the govenment.

I have nothing to hide, but the government has no right to look without probable cause. Some people will say concerning privacy issues: "Well if you’re not doing anything wrong - then what's the problem" . . . .Here's the way I look at it - If they are watching "ME" today. . . .tomorrow they'll be watching "YOU". . .  

Can you imagine if the Germans had had this technology in WWII. . . .A lot more Jewish families would have been eliminated.

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To read the full article go to:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/new-x-ray-technology-raises-privacy-questions/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iABPKd0vFxQ