Posted on 04/27/2025 5:51:38 AM PDT by Twotone
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The dashboard let out a debilitating shriek, as we drive away from the airport. The driver explained that the shriek is emitted by “the system” when he drives out of the “sector” of the airport.
...as we slowed to a stop before a red light, that “the system” fines him automatically if he does not stop - if he dares to drive through on a yellow light. He also explained that it records us “for safety.” He seemed to catch himself as I was asking if all of this surveillance was intrusive. He had started to agree but then, remembering, it seemed to me, that he too was being recorded, the driver said slowly and clearly that it’s a really good system, because it “keeps insurance costs down.”
I thought of the fact that the major media in Canada is state-funded, and I could imagine the introduction of this kind of continual surveillance as being rolled out with the justification that it is designed to “keep insurance costs down.”
I could not tell if this was a private company bugging his car to keep their drivers in line, or a government/insurance obligation.
...in in March of 2025, the Canadian government added ten additional “internet of things” forms of tracking or surveillance to citizens’ automobiles, including smartphone- based biometrics, in a pilot program “to deter theft”; these are a set of technologies which will also track citizens’ vehicles. The new forms of trackers include:
“Smartphone-based security using biometrics and proximity detection;
Locking devices using artificial intelligence (AI) monitoring;
A system to replace a vehicle’s starter relay;
Fingerprint authentication;
AI-powered steering wheel locks;
Sensors with gesture recognition;
A smart key fob protector; and
Miniaturized devices that could disable vehicle components should theft be detected.”
(Excerpt) Read more at naomiwolf.substack.com ...
This is a very long column, so I didn't post the entire thing, but well worth the time. The Orwellian things that are happening in Canada & the UK are almost unbelievable.
A good summation of the challenges out there the case being made against the Tate Brothers in the UK is indeed not one of physical harm but of ‘emotional distress’.
Five years ago, this would have been a Babylon Bee article!
Her first two sentences perfectly capture the existential tone of her article. The imagery is vivid and amusing in a 1984 kind of way “A debilitating shriek!”.
Sounds like an American Liberal after last year’s Election.
The Powers That Be have chosen dystopia for us.
Tate brothers raped a 14 year old girl.
Very worthwhile read.
I have been toying with closing my tdbank account.
Pain but time to do so.
Australia, Canada, Britain - No longer the free nations they once were. The UK will be muslim soon. China will take over Australia. Canada will be a totalitarian state with no nationality
Thank you for posting. Naomi Wolf is an odd fish. I wonder if she, at least, reaches the other side.
I expect her to have things all figured out - once they’re over. She didn’t know why she had Freedom and she doesn’t know why she’s losing it.
I think many freedom-loving people are still oblivious to what’s going on & what the danger is. One of my sister’s remarked to me, “Why can’t people just trust the government?” Yes, she was very liberal & this was many years ago. She died in 2014. I think she’d understand NOW why you can’t trust “government.” But too many still trust that it works for our good, & not for their power.
“Why can’t people just trust the government?”
Ask an Indian.
““A debilitating shriek!”.”
Straight out of “Harrison Bergeron”.
Where’s the beef the solid proof or this just more Ukraine-style propaganda?
I’m not here to emulate the language of the Tate Brothers their demeanor but those things should not be criminalized IMHO.
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