Posted on 08/28/2016 10:22:50 AM PDT by Carriage Hill
Small planes outfitted with video cameras have been flying over Baltimore since January, capturing activity on the streets below and relaying the footage to police to help them catch criminals.
The public knew nothing about it until this week when Bloomberg Businessweek ran a cover story about the trial program.
Airplane used to conduct wide area surveillance. Persistent Surveillance Systems The revelations triggered outrage from elected officials, defense lawyers and the American Civil Liberties Union, who said the program raised privacy concerns and could aggravate public distrust in a city that exploded in riots last year after the death of a man in police custody.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
“Id think that when your call is connected to a cell-tower, your location is identified.”
Not sure if it’s true, but I’ve read that your location can be identified even if your cell phone is powered “off”. Removing the battery is the only way to defeat the location tracking/ID.
What’s telling is the article talks about being used in other cities with no mention of use at the Mexican border. Imagine this technology at the border observing the hordes of illegals.
‘Small planes outfitted with video cameras ...’
Weird. Why not drones?
Why not, indeed.
Just chip us all and have us log in every hour on the hour for verification.
Snort, the BLM crowd think their oppressed now, just wait.
“The American Civil Liberties Union has criticized the use of devices like Range-R from L3 CyTerra, which uses “a highly sensitive Doppler motion detector” to see through most building materials up to 12 inches thick and can detect a person’s breathing from 50 feet away.”
But if an average citizen takes video of the police then THAT is a problem!!!
Judas Priest - Electric Eye
Up here in space
Im looking down on you
My lasers trace
Everything you do
You think youve private lives
Think nothing of the kind
There is no true escape
Im watching all the time
[Pre-Hook]
Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
[Hook]
Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye
[Verse 2]
Always in focus
You cant feel my stare
I zoom into you
You dont know Im there
I take a pride in probing all your secret moves
My tearless retina takes pictures that can prove
[Pre-Hook]
Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
[Hook]
Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye
[Guitar Solo]
[Verse 3]
Electric eye, in the sky
Feel my stare, always there
Theres nothing you can do about it
Develop and expose
I feed upon your every thought
And so my power grows
[Pre-Hook]
Im made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
[Hook]
Im elected electric spy
Im protected electric eye
[Outro]
Protected. Detective. Electric Eye
“But if an average citizen takes video of the police then THAT is a problem!!!”
When did that become a problem?
We’ve seen lots of that recently.
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This website came about because of people being harassed, arrested, beaten, and sometimes even shot & killed for pointing a camera at police:
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/
Whomever JP is, he’s right.
What is your opinion on purpose behind the blimp operation.
This is what the described the blimp as:
“An unmanned JLENS blimp has come unmoored at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, in Maryland near Baltimore. (Thats Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System, which explains why they use the acronym.) The blimpstechnically aerostats, which are helium balloons tethered to the groundare stationed at the Army facility, where they can detect cruise missiles, airplanes, drones, and vehicles on the ground, with a range of 340 m”
I’m guessing that it’s another part of SKYNET’s web, tracking everyone and everything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JLENS#Privacy.2C_weaponization.2C_and_weather_concerns
IIRC, there were also blimps over Baltimore doing persistent tracking.
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