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EU Plans Massive Surveillance Panopticon That Would Monitor “Abnormal Behavior”
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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, September 21, 2009
The European Union is developing a 21st century panopticon, a beast surveillance system that critics describe as “Orwellian,” “sinister,” and “positively chilling,” that would collate data from numerous sources, including surveillance cameras and personal computers, in order to detect “abnormal behavior” across the entire continent.
In a broader sense, this is part of the move towards creating a pan-European federal police force, where information and powers are shared as part of a centralized system. It is also a giant step towards the creation of a European CIA tasked not with keeping tabs on foreign enemies, but spying on its own population.
The surveillance system, known as Project Indect, promises to collect information by way of “continuous monitoring” of “web sites, discussion forums, usenet groups, file servers, p2p networks [and] individual computer systems”. It will also use CCTV feeds and other surveillance methods to develop models of “suspicious behavior” by analyzing the pitch of people’s voices (suggesting that private conversations will be recorded) as well as “the way their bodies move”.
Its main objective will be the “automatic detection of threats and abnormal behavior or violence”.
This is Echelon on steroids, a new version of the decades old NSA-run program that has already been spying on citizens for years, updated and expanded for the technological applications of the early 21st century. In 1999, the Australian government admitted that they were part of an NSA-led global intercept and surveillance grid in alliance with the US and Britain that could listen to “every international telephone call, fax, e-mail, or radio transmission,” on the planet. Project Indect is merely a new incarnation of the same beast surveillance system.
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Open Europe analyst Stephen Booth described the project as “Orwellian” and a “huge invasion of privacy,” noting that European citizens’ own taxes will go towards a program that treats them all as guilty until proven innocent.
“Profiling whole populations instead of monitoring individual suspects is a sinister step in any society,” added Shami Chakrabarti, the director of human rights group Liberty.
“It’s dangerous enough at national level, but on a Europe-wide scale the idea becomes positively chilling,” she said.
Project Indect is a huge lurch forward in the agenda to construct a mammoth surveillance pen within which the population of the entire planet is imprisoned.
The methods being employed to do this are a technologically advanced throwback to social theorist Jeremy Bentham’s 1785 concept of The Panopticon, a specially constructed prison building designed “to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has called the “sentiment of an invisible omniscience.”
Bentham described the Panopticon as “a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example.”
The notion that the individual does not know when they are being watched by the authorities is key in achieving the ultimate goal, to keep the population in a constant state of subjugation, unease and fear, leading them to self-regulate their own behavior.
According to Danish Institute for Human Rights researcher Peter Scharff, the Panopticon was intended to promote “self-regulation that was to be provoked by the constant surveillance”. The concept was eventually incorporated into many prisons that continue today as “podular” designs, which also maximizes the amount of people that can be controlled by one person. The fact that authorities are building societal prisons around us all today using the same basic methods of control is enough to send a chill down anyone’s spine and remind us once again that freedom is a myth.
This has nothing to do with catching criminals – as recent figures in the UK have proven, CCTV cameras have virtually no impact on crime whatsoever. This is all about letting the slaves know who their bosses are, it’s a psychological mind game set up to distinguish and reinforce the master-servant relationship between the state and the individual.
The endgame is to convince the individual that to express their freedom in public, to engage in any kind of protest or merely to question the power structure that surrounds them, is a “suspicious” act detrimental to society and that negative consequences will follow for any slave who dares to step outside of this invisible yet oppressive jail cell.
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September 21st, 2009 at 8:54 am
We’re screwed….
Mike Philbin Reply:
September 21st, 2009 at 10:26 am
…that’s probably abnormal behaviour right there.
EU-Lex Reply:
September 21st, 2009 at 10:36 am
Ireland! Damn it, say NO.
rudibr Reply:
September 21st, 2009 at 12:17 pm
This sounds like a great idea. Finally Ill have my own unnamed fan club of surveilance operators checking me out everytime I make a joke on politics or mention satan and elite on the same sentence.
NOLISBONTREATY Reply:
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Good luck Ireland on next vote of NO to Lisbon Treaty. This panopticon will be hidden in it somewhere. Why are most other EU countries not holding referendums on this … good on the Irish. You bet Bush’s anti terrorism laws have this already included. Note how many times politicians mention ‘the new world order’ !!
bren Reply:
September 23rd, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Im Irish and I WILL be voting NO AGAIN!!!!!
Justin Thought Reply:
September 21st, 2009 at 10:44 am
Why, why, why? Why do they want so much information about us, the people? Billions of dollars are spent, on traffic cams, pedestrian cams, inventorying our bags at airports, collecting DNA swabs on flimsy reasoning, tracking our purchases, monitoring our bank accounts; the list goes on and on; then the investment in software and computers to put all this information together and store it, but we have to ask the telling question, why do they want SO MUCH information about us?
I’m open to suggestions.
Age of Empire Reply:
September 21st, 2009 at 11:26 am
It’s probably an obssession like if you’re playing a video game…Age of empire or something like his, you may want to install the patch that gives you more detail on your population
Justin Thought Reply:
September 21st, 2009 at 11:58 am
So we become their video game? I don’t remember signing the permission form.
In my opinion, this is a form of voyeurism. Here’s the definition of voyeurism from Dictionary.com:
1. A person who derives sexual gratification from observing the naked bodies or sexual acts of others, especially from a secret vantage point.
2. An obsessive observer of sordid or sensational subjects.
Voyeurism, #2, placed on steroids, and institutionalized.
But this isn’t a new phenomena, here’s an excerpt from a book written in 1964:
John D. McDonald – The Quick Red Fox
You trade the kiddies and fireside and regular promotions and appointment to the house committee or the greens committee for a few, a very few, clear clean moments of a savage satisfaction akin to joy. And maybe in the process you keep a little essential privacy. Our dear Uncle owns over 23,000 polygraphs, lie detectors. God alone knows how many industry owns. Not satisfied anymore with giving you the whole series of Multiphasic Personality Inventory tests, they want to make damn well certain you are not merely giving them the answers you think they want. They want to nail you into your permanent box right now, brother. Get in and lie still, and forty years from now we’ll bury you.
I get this crazy feeling. Every once in a while I get it. I get the feeling that this is the last time in history when the offbeats like me will have a chance to live free in the nooks and crannies of the huge and rigid structure of an increasingly codified society. Fifty years from now I would be hunted down in the street. They would drill little holes in my skull and make me sensible and reliable and adjusted.
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I couldn’t have said it better.
rudibr Reply:
September 21st, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Im not sure, but it might have something to do with the crazy satanic power-hungry psichotic elite and their undying commitment to total control and manipulation of mankind.
Herrmann Goering Reply:
September 21st, 2009 at 1:08 pm
to paraphrase the Goldilocks story, “the better to fuck you all, my dear”. “Who is able to make war with the beast?” says the biblical prophecy. I knew it couldn’t arise in a day, so here we are, step by sickening step.
Red Dawn 09 Reply:
September 21st, 2009 at 11:37 am
They can only get away with this if we allow them to. Alot of people have been wakeing up lately. We seen that with the 3 million marching on D.C. For solid information on swine flu, police state and other hot topics click my name. Video’s,movies,blog’s,games and text for those who still enjoy reading. Site updated daily. Newly awakened patriots welcome.
September 21st, 2009 at 8:55 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV200XHDyHE
rick Reply:
September 21st, 2009 at 9:02 am
thanks for wasting 40 seconds of my life…
September 21st, 2009 at 9:02 am
This is completely whacked, to put it lightly.
September 21st, 2009 at 9:11 am
Kindly define ‘abnormal’. Huh. I really didn’t think you could. It’s a poor turnout for all of us then.
John Henke Reply:
September 21st, 2009 at 10:03 am
Abnormal behavior will be stuff like smashing these damned cameras with a bat.
But, come to think of it, with the way things are going, that will become normal behavior won’t it?
rudibr Reply:
September 21st, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Abnormal, as in not normal, as in they define what normal and acceptable is. Its perfectly justifiable.
September 21st, 2009 at 9:17 am
Monitor this.
TX Reply:
September 21st, 2009 at 10:01 am
Those exact words came to my mind when I read this, Spiritblade.
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September 21st, 2009 at 9:28 am
Half the SHEEPLE will think this is a good idea – and if they don’t, HARD LUCK. Supression for the sake of CONTROL. May crack a few crimes, maybe prevent a few too – BUT THE ‘COST’ is TYRANNY!
September 21st, 2009 at 9:29 am
So this camera can identify behaviors that the programmer’s categorize as “threats”. They probably have them in the computers already then. Smell me?
September 21st, 2009 at 10:05 am
Pray for low orbit nuclear blast.
Kill all satellites! Kill all computers!
September 21st, 2009 at 10:26 am
I agree with John, what would be stopping us from bashing these cameras? There are millions of us. If we ever came together enough to fully realize our strength as a whole, there would be no way these people could stop us.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:28 am
I wonder, at one point, the European majority are gonna have JUST HAD ENOUGH of all this corporate mind-grab stuff and decide what THEY DON’T WANT screwing around with their daily (functional) lives.
That day is not far off, the more the majority LEARN.
September 21st, 2009 at 10:37 am
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September 21st, 2009 at 11:05 am
Fuck em..I already have a God. “thou shalt have no God before me” Keep the commandments and fear him onely.
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September 21st, 2009 at 11:58 am
JESUS IS GOD
he was god always will be god
September 21st, 2009 at 11:39 am
The thing people need to realise is the bullshit we put up with is the bullshit we tolerate.
We all need to learn to stop letting the government push us around with thier constant
media propaganda and start saying no. They will never pull this one off if the people stand up.
So come on everybody, Tell the social controllers to go to Hell.
P.S The Answer To 1984 Is 1776 Death To The New World Order.
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September 21st, 2009 at 11:58 am
Can you say “Big Brother?” Not that it hasn’t been happening, but I am surprised to see them being so obvious about it! Its usually traffic cameras, or building security cameras. They make no pretext with this one. Maybe the European masses have been conditioned to a point where they are not going to care in big enough numbers to make a difference.
Be ready, be vigilant, our time is coming!
“No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.” — General Douglas MacArthur
September 21st, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Hi guys,
you’re probably too busy to watch what’s going on in Europe, but I’d like to point you to a new uprising political party in Germany called “Piratenpartei” (’pirate party’) … that’s the first time nerds and normal people joined together to make an impact on what we consider bad politics.
Our national election day is approaching (27th of September) and conservatives (CDU) are agressively pushing forward to get more public video surveillance etc. Our minister of the interiour (Schaeuble) is proposing to remove the parliaments control of our agencies, and so on, and so on — because “we Germans aren’t trusted anymore when it comes to crosscountry agency coopertion due to this parliament control stuff being in place”…
Watch closely what’s going on in Europe, as it will influence the pace of things in the US!
Klarmachen zum Aendern! (Prepare for Change!)
September 21st, 2009 at 2:42 pm
I say we allow this to happen without obstrution. We need the powers that be to keep piling more of these personal intrusions onto the people. It will be them who causes the revolutuon to break out, not us.
Not only that, but I welcome the newer techno-gadgetry to come on the scene as that gives us an opportunity to copy it and use it against ‘them’. In the end, they are only casuing their own demise. The numbers are on our side in the coming fight.