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The Manhattan Project: New York’s High Tech Panopticon
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Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
April 28, 2008
“By 2015, New York’s financial district will be wrapped in a thick web of security. The aim: Make a potential terrorist attack as difficult as possible to execute,” writes Noah Shachtman for Wired.
It’s something we best pay attention to, as this “thick web of security” will eventually reach Everytown, U.S.A. New York, following London, is America’s beta test site for all kinds of police state technology, including:
Helicopters in the sky with high-powered cameras, “looking for unusual activity.” Noah Shachtman does not tell us what this “unusual activity” might be, but let us hazard a guess: al-Qaeda guys in turbans, mounted on donkeys, casing Manhattan for targets. Minus that, the NYPD can use their big cameras to ferret out pot smokers and prostitutes, or as in the case of Britain, people who litter or engaged in what is considered anti-social behavior — determined by the state, of course.
Armed SWAT Teams. These will be a “highly visible deterrent,” in other words, if you live or work on Manhattan, get used to Darth Vader storm troopers in black prowling around, looking for Osama. Get accustomed to heavily armed men in black ski masks. It’s for your safety.
Intel Units. Now these will most certainly let all know they live in East Germany, circa the 1980s, when the Stasi ruled the roost. “A team of 500 intelligence analysts under the direction of an ex-CIA official IDs and tracks suspects in the five boroughs and abroad,” writes Shachtman. “It is backed up by plainclothes undercover cops.” Get that “ex-CIA” part. Because once you join the agency you’re married for life. Not long ago, CIA anything in domestic affairs was not only frowned upon, it was illegal. But then the CIA has not followed its charter from day one.
License plate scanners, mounted in “roving vehicles and at stationary locations.” Capable of running every plate number that passes quite easily and sorting the captured information through massive databases, this technology will come in handy once martial law is declared. If you’re on the “no-drive” list, one of the above mentioned SWAT units will be dispatched pronto after you hit the road. In the meantime, it will be used to generate revenue from people who don’t like to pay parking tickets.
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Networked Cameras. Has a real Orwellian telescreen feel about it. “A smart array of 3,000 public and private surveillance cameras will watch for suspicious activity and known suspects and will trigger alerts.” Note how public and private merge here. Once again, in lieu of martial law, this “smart array” will come in handy for revenue generation, as “suspicious” (or profitable) activity will be monitored and the above mentioned SWAT unit will be called into action against speeders, smokers in no-smoking zones (soon to be the entire country), people drinking alcoholic beverages in public, gun owners (possession of a handgun is illegal in New York City), prostitution, indecency, public drug use, etc. Anything and everything to get people in the system and into the prison industrial complex.
Street barriers, even “automatic blockades that can seal off additional streets and tunnels on command.” Imagine the lockdown possibilities. Sort of like Escape from New York.
The subways will be studded with “smart cameras, intelligent video, intrusion detectors, and perimeter sensors” that will diligently and tirelessly “monitor commuters,” especially those who may belong to the blond hair, blue eye wing of al-Qaeda.
Private Cell Network. “A custom, government-only wireless network will blanket the city, providing dedicated communications and data transfer.” Dedicated? No doubt a dedicated hacker or two will be able to crack this puppy wide open in a couple hours. Of course, anybody who tries will be with al-Qaeda and if caught sent to Gitmo or renditioned to an undisclosed location in the third world.
The NYPD will play with their new and grossly expensive “Manhattan Project” toys from a “state-of-the-art NYPD control hub at 55 Broadway (and a secret backup location)” and “police will be able to monitor and control security systems,” that is to say snoop on any car or person on the island. You can bet retired Stasi agents are envious, as they had to rely on thousands of informants to ferret out enemies of the state.
Finally, from here on out, every new building on Manhattan “will be vetted for safety by the NYPD,” that is to say they will get copies of the blueprints. “Surveillance cameras and even heating and AC controls will be accessible remotely on the police network.” In other words, in a few years, the cops will be able to watch you for “suspicious activity” no matter where you go, even in the toilet like they do in schools over in Britain. I wonder if this “electronic blueprint” plan applies to apartment and condo buildings.
Indeed, New York has launched an ambitious panopticon plan, one the rest of the country will soon enough follow, maybe on an accelerated schedule after the next “terrorist event” we keep hearing about, promised by our rulers and their complaisant media machine.
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April 28th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
Let them do what they must. They’ve already lost….before they began! Praise Jah Jehovah!
April 28th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Agreed. We have warnings….they won’t. Praise Jesus.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:37 pm
There is supposed to be a lot of racial unrest due to the acquittal of the 3 police officers who shot and killed Sean Bell (50 shots fired) after he and 2 friends left a strip club where they were celebrating Mr. Bell’s bachelor party on the early morning of his wedding day.
I was in NYC today to meet Ron Paul at the Borders Book Store on the corner of Broadway right near Wall Street, about a block away from this “proposed hub”. I was expecting to see some of this unrest in the city and an overly militarized police force waiting for it. I did not. I saw a few cops on the subway walking casually in their normal police attire, just as I did 32 years ago when I first moved there while in college. I did not see anyone getting angry on the subway or on the street. I looked around for all these CCTV cameras I keep hearing about… I couldn’t find any. A class of 12-13 yr old students were getting a tour of the area right near the Stock Exchange, all snapping photos along with gaggles of European tourists with camera’s flashing. No cops within view, not even at the Congressman’s book signing.
When I returned from the city (I live just outside on the west bank of the Hudson) only on the local NY public station was there any mention of the travesty of justice that had just taken place, and the young black men and women interviewed were organizing themselves in a very peaceful manner and looking forward to an investigation by the Justice Department and countless civil suits in wrongful death.
If all this militarization is taking place in Manhattan, it must be on paper, because in terms of financing and the low recruitment #’s of the force (starting pay for a NYC cop is $25K!!!) I just don’t see that much happening.
Wired magazine operates out of SF, California, not NYC. I wonder when the last time the author of the article was in NY.
What I would like to see is those snoop technologies being used in the CEO/CFO offices and boardrooms of all the big investment banks and shareholding banks of the FED…. that is if they are really going to exist or just be on paper, where most presently are.
April 28th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
What planet are they from in thinking that cameras are going to protect them from death?
Guilty of murder themselves, and paranoia/fear prevails!
April 28th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
Fuck this Orwellian shit. Kill the elite and thier stormtroopers- solve the problem.
April 28th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
im with ya gabe ……. viva la revolucion!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 28th, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Man, this civil war is palpable. I am not talking ‘revolution’ here. I hate that word, because all revolutions are tools of the elite, communist, american, sexual, french… they all have the stink of the inbreds. I mean, civil war. We’re being attacked. We are on the defense. None of us are naturally aggressive, but we are going to have to fight.
April 29th, 2008 at 1:50 am
…Ah-bdi…Show me a hero , I’ll show you a tragedy !!! It makes for lots and…bdi… lots of good Karma though , If you’re fighting the right…b…bdi…battle !!! ( and lots of trips to the 28 hellish planets , if you are on the wrong side of the…bdi…fence !!! )
April 29th, 2008 at 1:52 am
Not just New York but here in V.A. too there are cameras on almost every street corner here
Civil war sounds like the only option even if i don`t like violence.
April 29th, 2008 at 2:13 am
@ #1 and #2:
………….sigh…
I usually don’t ever even bother with people like you, but your posts were among the first things I read when I woke up this morning…
People like you are contributing nothing to change when you’re just sitting there and observing the world around you with your clouded eyes, and praise various fantasy creatures.
Nothing will ever come of it, except misery and more ignorance.
It really is sad.
And I feel sorry for you.
April 29th, 2008 at 5:20 am
WHAR could possibly be of any VALUE to decent sensible people— in Mew Jerk Shitty? It is no more than a Gangster Jew Whorehouse…EXODUS to the country and let the Militant Monkey Fags have their Homosexual Gorilla Playground!
April 29th, 2008 at 5:22 am
Big brother, lol. Last week we had a riot in Montreal (16 police car trashed). It was a little Seatle, these car were left in a hot spot with no police hoping they will get burn. But something happened, small brother showed up. Every citizen with a cell phone or camera started to take picture and sent everything to the media and the police.
Big Bro 0
Small Bro 1
April 29th, 2008 at 5:35 am
So this will stop Airliners from smashing into tall buildings will it ????
April 29th, 2008 at 6:48 am
It’s our own fault. We passively permit this to happen. We have no one else to blame for this but ourselves. Until we are willing to admit that; the bitching and complaining will never be reverted into taking ACTION. Well, this is the USA…land of the dumb, home of the slaves.
April 29th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Why don’t they try getting the criminals out of the white house first before calling every single American a suspect? Guilty until you’re told otherwise.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Remember last week I posted the story about ? Toronto drug squad police were outright busted in a report where an FBI sting as well as other documentations PROVED the officers were deeply involved in all forms of crime outright. Last week the crown threw the case out siting the prosecution waited too long to present the case. Many wondered why the prosecution took so long and if it was done on purpose. The crown (Funny enough) remained silent and seemed to take the blame and charges of laziness against them……..until……
Crown complained of lack of Toronto police support in drug squad case
Last Updated: Monday, April 28, 2008 | 9:36 AM ET
The Crown prosecutor in a collapsed corruption case against members of the Toronto police drug squad wrote letters in which he complained of a lack of support from the police department and at one point threatened to abandon the case, CBC News has learned.
In January, Ontario Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer threw out charges of conspiracy, theft and assault against members of a drug squad led by veteran officer John Schertzer. The charges were the result of a three-year, $8 million investigation by an RCMP-led special task force, which also included members of the Toronto and provincial forces.
The officers pleaded not guilty and have steadfastly maintained their innocence. None of the allegations made against them has been proven in court.
In his decision to stay the charges, Nordheimer ruled it took too long to bring the officers to trial and levelled scathing criticism at the Crown over what he called the “glacial” pace of the prosecution.
But correspondence from lead Crown prosecutor Milan Rupic to RCMP members on the task force suggests the case was undermined by a dysfunctional relationship between the Crown and the top brass of the Toronto Police Service.
In a March 2006 letter to RCMP Insp. Peter Goulet, Rupic wrote of ongoing delays by Toronto police in filling critical vacancies, leaving the special task force short of staff to do followup investigations and help prepare the volumes of evidence.
“I am puzzled by the delay of the TPS in re-staffing the STF [special task force],” Rupic wrote. “At some point very soon this spring we will reach a point where there simply will not be enough time for any new team to do what is necessary.”
He noted the disclosure brief for the case at the time the letter was written was “well in excess” of 200,000 pages.
“Frankly, I am skeptical that the TPS is capable of marshaling the necessary resources to do what is necessary on a case of this type,” he added.
Rupic goes on to say he was “dismayed” that an officer with no case management experience was selected to replace the outgoing detective-sergeant in charge of the team.
In another letter to Toronto police that was seen by two sources within the special task force, Rupic threatened to abandon the entire prosecution if police didn’t supply more officers to the case.
The Crown is appealing the Nordheimer decision and Ontario Attorney General Chris Bentley is reviewing the case to decide whether there should be a full public inquiry.
‘Maybe they wanted the case to go’
Jim Cassells, a Toronto officer who was part of the task force that investigated the drug squad, said that once they laid charges, he and his colleagues were shocked to watch their own supervisors thwart the Crown.
“It’s a fundamental responsibility of the police to support the Crown in prosecutions,” Cassells told CBC News.
“I can’t tell you how committed they [police] were. But the fact Mr. Rupic had to write correspondence and complain that he wasn’t getting the resources he felt was necessary, it begs the question: how committed were we?”
The letters from the Crown could indicate that some among senior police management didn’t want the charges to see the light of a courtroom, said Edward Sapiano, a criminal lawyer whose complaints years ago prompted the entire investigation.
“Maybe they wanted the case to go, to be thrown out,” Sapiano told CBC News.
“When we have the attorney general’s office writing, ‘Frankly, I am skeptical the Toronto Police Service is capable of doing its job,’ I mean, that suggests … not only grave concerns about what’s going at the Toronto Police Service, but it suggests that maybe they intended for the disclosure not to be delivered in time.”
Sapiano supports calls for a public inquiry into the case, saying it appears “the Canadian administration of justice was being attacked.”
“When those people who are charged with the responsibility of investigating crime, collecting evidence, turning it over to the prosecutorial authorities for them to do their job, when we have officers of the court dragging their feet like this, it is outrageous,” he said.
Crown also complained in earlier drug squad case
It’s not clear why the Crown never put any of this before the courts. Neither Crown prosecutors nor Toronto police would comment for this story.
It is not the first time a Crown prosecutor has complained of lack of support from Toronto police in prosecuting one of the force’s drug squad officers.
In 2006, senior Crown attorney John North, who prosecuted the corruption case against drug squad officer Robert Kelly, wrote in a letter that he was shocked to learn the officer didn’t lose his job despite pleading guilty to drug offences.
North was brought in to handle the corruption case after Toronto police investigators received a tip in 2001 that implicated five undercover drug squad officers in an alleged cocaine ring.
Kelly resigned in 2006 despite a court ruling that he could keep his job after pleading guilty to drug possession and admitting he was addicted to cocaine.
“When I was assigned to this case, I was under the impression that the Toronto police was really serious about properly dealing with those officers, whose criminal conduct created a dark cloud over the entire service,” North wrote in a letter obtained by CBC News at the time.
“At least in this respect, it appears I was very naive.”
So once again, there you go. Police CREATING the crime to justify the half of their job that’s real or not (all depends on them, THEY control it). There is REAL crime, but I always knew if they wanted to, they could stop ANYTHING.
So it’s rather comforting to see the Toronto police holding so close to the 4 rules to being a cop (as per the 7 police officers I’ve spoken with here on the site and elsewhere).
1. Avoid getting YOUR department sued!
2. Make money off the crime and criminals you stop!
3. Catch your partner’s mistakes (before the outside does)!
4. Serve and protect the citizens!
So they obviously got 1-3 covered……..screw no.4, who has time for that!!!
April 29th, 2008 at 11:32 am
CBC blog today,
How many ministers does it take to launch an ad campaign?
Monday, April 28, 2008 | 02:19 PM ET
Journalists don’t often have much opportunity these days to talk to three cabinet ministers at once.
That might explain why almost 20 reporters crammed into a tiny overheated room in a downtown Ottawa office tower this afternoon. They had all been told about an “important announcement regarding the National Anti-Drug Strategy” with Health Minister Tony Clement, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day.
Alas, today’s “important announcement” turned out to be the launch of a TV advertisement to help educate parents about street drugs.
If you’re experiencing deja vu, that’s exactly what the reporters were feeling as well.
Many had attended a remarkably similar news conference on March 5. The same group of cabinet ministers had launched a series of almost identical radio and newspaper ads.
In fact, if you close your eyes and listen to a group of kids rhyme off code names for dangerous street drugs, the TV ad is pretty much the same as the radio ad launched six weeks ago.
Some reporters became quite peeved. One yelled out that these ads aren’t new at all and asked Clement whether the Conservative government was trying to change the channel from its Elections Canada problems to the more comfortable topic of getting tough on crime.
Clement though, in his affable way, replied, “that would attribute to us a level of organization we can only aspire to.”
Wonder if they’ll teach parent with ads from TDot officers telling them about the various traps they set up?????
‘Maybe they wanted the case to go’
Jim Cassells, a Toronto officer who was part of the task force that investigated the drug squad, said that once they laid charges, he and his colleagues were shocked to watch their own supervisors thwart the Crown.
“I can’t tell you how committed they [police] were. But the fact Mr. Rupic had to write correspondence and complain that he wasn’t getting the resources he felt was necessary, it begs the question: how committed were we?”
The letters from the Crown could indicate that some among senior police management didn’t want the charges to see the light of a courtroom, said Edward Sapiano, a criminal lawyer whose complaints years ago prompted the entire investigation.
“Maybe they wanted the case to go, to be thrown out,” Sapiano told CBC News.
“When we have the attorney general’s office writing, ‘Frankly, I am skeptical the Toronto Police Service is capable of doing its job,’ I mean, that suggests … not only grave concerns about what’s going at the Toronto Police Service, but it suggests that maybe they intended for the disclosure not to be delivered in time.”
Sapiano supports calls for a public inquiry into the case, saying it appears “the Canadian administration of justice was being attacked’.
It is not the first time a Crown prosecutor has complained of lack of support from Toronto police in prosecuting one of the force’s drug squad officers.
In 2006, senior Crown attorney John North, who prosecuted the corruption case against drug squad officer Robert Kelly, wrote in a letter that he was shocked to learn the officer didn’t lose his job despite pleading guilty to drug offences.
North was brought in to handle the corruption case after Toronto police investigators received a tip in 2001 that implicated five undercover drug squad officers in an alleged cocaine ring.
Kelly resigned in 2006 despite a court ruling that he could keep his job after pleading guilty to drug possession and admitting he was addicted to cocaine.
“When I was assigned to this case, I was under the impression that the Toronto police was really serious about properly dealing with those officers, whose criminal conduct created a dark cloud over the entire service,” North wrote in a letter obtained by CBC News at the time.
“At least in this respect, it appears I was very naive.”
April 29th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
This will be one of the great highlights in history. The age when America fell. Hahahaa…because the passified citizens where dumb, cowardly and lazy….hahahaha
April 29th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
get in line sheeple ,follow the red line to the red door ,enter one at a time………
April 29th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
This is a town in South Texas called Rockport and all the businesses in the area have surveilance cameras directly linked to the local police department. I was traveling through there and stopped by a taco bell to get a bite to eat. As I was waiting for my food I heard a voice come over an intercom and it turned out to be the Rockport police department. The Taco Bell employee was required to wave at the surveilance camera to show that everything was ok. I was shocked. The employee seemed to not realize what was going on and acted like it was routine for the police to do this.
April 30th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
NWO Citizen- You ARE one of the lazy, dumb, passive Americans that you’re writing about you self-hating defeatist piece of diseased shit. SO SHUT THE FUCK UP AND DO SOMETHING.
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