Posted on 01/27/2015 12:04:30 PM PST by Ray76
Over a year ago we brought you the story of Mr. Filippidis and his family, a Florida Driver who was pulled over by law enforcement in Maryland. The traffic stop would have been typical except for the fact the responding officer demanded, at random, Mr. Filippidis’s firearm.
Mr. Filippidis did not have his legally owned -CCW permitted- hand gun, it was home in Florida. Nor did Mr. Filippidis ever say he had a firearm – yet the officer was insistent Mr. Filippidis owned one, handcuffed Mr. Filippidis, and strip searched his vehicle on the side of the road.
Numerous Maryland state police arrived to assist in the search. They found nothing, because Mr. F was telling the truth. After two hours Mr. Filippidis and his family were allowed to continue their travels, but the entire process was unnerving.
Which prompted Mr. Filippidis to ask “how did a Maryland officer know I was a gun owner”? Which led to a severely awkward litany of obfuscations and explanations from Maryland that did not make sense.
Sensing more to the story, we began an official public records request inquiry to get to the bottom of the issue(s). What we found was a network of federally funded, but state operated, Maryland APLR (automatic license plate readers) which were tied into an intelligence hub (ie database) called MCAC (Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center).
The information within the MCAC database contains a litany of information, including CCW permits, which are data-mined from cooperative state/local/county agency LEO and alternate state controlled governmental databases throughout the country.
The data, essentially a portfolio of all contact a person has with any governmental regulatory agency, is then cross referenced into the vehicle registration (tag) of every licensed car in the system.
(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...
MCAC - sounds like an emetic.
See also:
Update: National License Plate Recognition Database: What It Is and Why It’s a Bad Idea
February 20, 2014
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3125105/posts
Citizenfour...
1984 is here.
Our federal government is a criminal operation.
Thanks Ray76.
See also:
National License Plate Recognition Database
General Services Administration ^ | Feb 12, 2014 | Department of Homeland Security
Posted on Thursday, February 13, 2014
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3122555/posts
so are almost all state govt’s....
Related to the FBO solicitation linked to above, the “paranoia” turns out to be spot on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj6H5KmUTQk&feature=youtube_gdata
Did he allow the cop to search his car? Some of the first words should have been “I do not submit to a search.” Make the cop get a warrant.
Before too long ALL CRIMES will be solved and not long after that no crimes will happen. And why would you need a gun if you live in a Utopia. /s
I still see Edward Snowden as a patriot. And his biggest fear has come true. The American people have accepted the federal government knowing everything about everyone.
I joined LinkedIn a few days ago for the soul purpose of trying to locate a long lost friend. Up pops a bunch of people I “may know” according to LinkedIn. One picture was a guy I was in the Navy with and haven’t had any contact since July 1970. How the hell did Linkedin “know” we knew each other? There are people popping up that I’ve never so much as emailed before. People I worked one day with. Apparently they’re mining our computers and our military history and everything else.
The solicitation is no longer at FBO. A copy is available here:
https://eff.com/fa/document/dhs-national-license-plate-reader-database-solicitation
Although the solicitation was terminated it is interesting to read, page 4 for instance.
I wonder if you can avoid this by registering a car through an LLC.
Yesterday, I applied for social security benefits on line. After I finished all the questions, I was asked to take a survey. One of the questions was, you got a new car a few years ago, click on your new car. It had 5 cars listed and one was my car. Now how does the Social Security Administration get this information?
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