The lamestream media told you:
“The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world’s largest computer database of people’s physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the U.S. and abroad,” reports Ellen Nakashima for The Washington Post.
“Digital images of faces, fingerprints and palm patterns are already flowing into FBI systems in a climate-controlled secure basement here,” she writes. Soon the system will be able to spot “criminals and terrorists” and presumably anyone else by iris patterns, face shape, scars, and by your walking stride and speech patterns.
“Bigger. Faster. Better. That’s the bottom line,” says T.E. Bush III of the FBI Criminal Justice Info Services Division, of the system based in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
The article doesn’t say it, but tiny Clarksburg, WV (16K pop.), is where the FBI “NICS” gun background check computer is housed. That system (a set of buildings on a sprawling “campus”) was designed to be able to check any American from a single location.
It was built with $250 million a year for four years by former AG Janet Reno, under the guise of controlling gun sales. Although the pressure was on to “do something” about guns, the real reason appeared to be to finally fund a massive citizen tracker for the FBI (with more than $1 billion casually added recently in the NICS “Improvement” Act).
These reasons for the most massive real-time computer ID system ever conceived were ignored in public discussions, government press releases and “news” reports. The AP has still not connected the dots.
The Uninvited Ombudsman however, who didn’t even have that title at the time, sounded a faintly heard alarm that the NICS “gun” system was actually the framework for centralized FBI computer control of the entire population.
It makes perfect sense from a bureaucratic mindset, if you overlook the totalitarian potential. Eventually, if the NICS system says nix to you, you won’t be able to use your bank account, board aircraft or do anything that requires a card swipe. RFID chips will eliminate the need to even swipe a card since you’ll just be read at a distance as you pass by (and if you can’t be read a flag will go up).
Think of the convenience. You won’t even have to stop at cash registers (take a photo of those quaint devices while you still can), since all products can have RFID printed on the labels with metallic ink (replacing olden manual bar codes). All your purchases and bank info will be scanned by sensors at the exit, your status will be checked, and off you go. Very efficient — why would an honest person object to this brave new world… order.
According to the Post, employers can voluntarily register their workers in the system to keep an eye on them. “It is drawing criticism from those who worry that people’s bodies will become de facto ID cards,” Nakashima writes. Sarah Brady could not be reached for comment.
The Uninvited Ombudsman may have been wrong in claiming the system could track any U.S. citizen because, according to the Post, it can also track anyone “abroad,” implying the entire planet.
