Streetlights to have surveillance devices installed

Drudge Report ^ | 10-26-11 | Paul Joseph Watson

[hfr]

Just a precis: Drudge has a link to inforwars dot com's article on intellistreets, a hi tech surveillance system installed in streetlights. The assertion is that homeland security is paying to have these installed on city streets. There is also a link to the company website: http://www.intellistreets.com/Videos/English/IntelliStreetsEnglish.html

[hfr]

My concern, beside the obvious one of possibly overbearing government snooping, is where does the money come from? Deficit spending no doubt. And where does the authority come from? I, to paraphrase someone else, cannot undertake to lay my finger upon that article of the Constitution that authorizes this sort of thing - other than the fact it is given plausible color by the twisting of things in the way bureacrats do when they have an agenda.

[Navy Patriot]

The government must need revenue from those that don't sort their trash or park over 72 hours.

Certainly they won't be used to catch or deport illegal aliens, their votes are too valuable.

[SpaceBar]

We are all British now.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Big Bro and Big Sis will be in your bedroom next or are they there already? These wannabe dictators want to be in charge of you 24/7; cradle to grave. Kiss your now limited freedom goodbye.

[Noumenon]

Target practice.

[mountainlion]

They are at intersections on the interstates also. I was changing interstates and had a surprise flash. It had to be a camera taking a picture.

[SouthTexas]

Have BB gun, will travel. ;)

[DManA]

They are really pretty neat technology that could save money. Unfortunately everything the government touches they corrupt.

[sten]

cameras are one thing

a laser focused on glass can ‘hear’ everything inside

a laser could easily be placed within these ‘street lights’

[Navy Patriot]

Big Bro and Big Sis will be in your bedroom next or are they there already?

I have a Smart Grid meter so they are in every room, they even watch me from my big screen TV.

Come January 1, they are going to turn it off because it is larger than 60 inches. All enemies of green will be treated thus.

[Joe Boucher]

Sooo,
Instead of plinking groundhogs, squirrels and road sings, it’s street lamp time?

[OB1kNOb]

[newheart]

My concern, beside the obvious one of possibly overbearing government snooping, is where does the money come from?

Next question: Who owns IntelliStreets?

[Buckeye McFrog]

Over the past few years when they called a time out and you went to the fridge to grab another beer while IBM ran one of their “Let’s Build a Smarter Planet” ads...

.....THIS is what they were talking about.

[newheart]

To answer my own question:

IntelliStreets is a product of Illuminating Concepts. IC is owned by a guy named Ron Harwood.

This next part should come as no surprise to anyone:

HARWOOD, RONALD

FARMINGTON HILLS,MI 48336 Owner/ILLUMINATING CONCEPTS

6/29/2011 $5,000 to Democratic Senatorial Campaign Cmte

3/18/2011 $2,500 to Stabenow, Debbie (D., Senator, Michigan)

3/18/2011 $2,500 to Stabenow, Debbie

6/30/2011 $2,000 to Peters, Gary (D., Michigan 9th District)

6/30/2011 $500 to Peters, Gary

6/27/2011 $500 to Peters, Gary

Source: OpenSecrets.org

[NCDave]

[NorthStarStateConservative]

Make sure to use an air rifle. A lot of these cities also have gunshot detectors in their surveillance equip.

[Neidermeyer]

[QT3.14]

Nat Geographic channel had a program last night about that
very subject along with the new tech being used or due in the near future.

[QT3.14]

Oh but they howled during the Bush years re Patriot Act, etc. Now they are for it.