Homeland Security Detects Terrorist Threats by Reading Your Mind

"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both."
Benjamin Franklin

The Department of Homeland Security is the largest restructuring of the federal government since 1947. The increased responsibilities and powers involve the combining of the following entities: the United States Coast Guard, the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, the Secret Service, the Border Patrol, the Civil Air Patrol, and many other executive branches. In all, over 100 government departments are combined in effort to ensure America's safety.
Homeland Security Threatens Civil Liberty

Yet our safety may come at a cost. The following are actions made by our government....to protect us.

The Real ID Act of 2005 is a law used to impose security measures and regulations for driver's license and state IDs. The following will be implemented:

• Establishing new national standards for state-issued driver licenses and non-driver identification cards.
• Waiving laws that interfere with construction of physical barriers at the borders.
• Updating and tightening the laws on application for asylum and deportation of aliens for terrorist activity.
• Introducing rules covering "delivery bonds" (rather like bail bonds but for aliens who have been released pending hearings).
• Funding some reports and pilot projects related to border security.
• Changing visa limits for temporary workers, nurses, and Australian citizens.
  

Homeland security - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There are many reasons to not support this legislation. You can read more about the Real ID Act, and how it will restrict our freedom here: Real ID Act 2005.


Homeland Security is also working on an EMD Safety Bracelet. This bracelet not only serves as airport identification, it acts as a taser. If you misbehave it will zap you. Here's what it will do:

• Take the place of an airline boarding pass

• Contain personal information about the traveler

• Be able to monitor the whereabouts of each passenger and his/her luggage

• Shock the wearer on command, completely immobilizing him/her for several minutes
(Want some torture with your peanuts? - Washington Times - Politics)

"EMD" stands for Electro-Muscular Shock Device. We would be required to wear this unit until the plane lands. This letter from the Department of Homeland Security shows great interest in using this technology to "temporarily restrain large amounts of people."

Should government force us to wear shock bracelets to board an airplane?

Do as big brother says; it's for your own good.

Finally there are the Biometric Identification Systems. These simply record our physiological data and use it as a security measure. Retinal eye scans, fingerprints, and facial features are placed into a database to use as identification.
Biometric Identification & Homeland Security: Biometrics Pros and Cons

However, there is a chance this technology will not promote our safety.

In 2006, Barry Steinhardt, director of the technology and liberty project at the American Civil Liberties Union, said that, "The provide one-stop shopping for terrorists who want to single out Americans for kidnapping or worse." (Amy Zalman, P.h.D, About.com)

There is also the chance of ID theft and the violation of privacy with biometric technology.

Then again, safety is more important than privacy. Is it not?

"........Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror......."
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In 2005 the Real ID Act, or as it began H.R. 415 and later H.R. 418, was passed in the House of Representatives. The Real ID Act will grant additional power to the monster known as Homeland Security (I will examine H.R 5005 in increments in the future). Basically highly detailed information about American citizens such as social security number, physical characteristics, etc. will be compiled into a data base. How is this different from a driver's license? Without the Real Act identification, citizens will be unable to open a bank account, ride an airplane, train, bus, or enter a federal building. In other words, our current methods of identification will become obsolete. To do things we ALREADY DO, we'll have to comply and get the Real ID. Each state will be required to link it's motor vehicle database with all other states. The DMV will become agents of the federal government. http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.r.00418:

By the way, the cost is estimated around $80 to 100 million of state funds.

The new ID card will cost more than driver's licenses. More revenue for the government, I suppose.

The bill was initially voted down. Then it was added onto the 2005 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Defense, the Global War on Terror and Tsunami Relief. What congressperson would vote against money for our soldiers and tsunami relief?

Naturally the states could refuse to play ball. However, its citizens could not receive social security or travel. Non compliance could keep state citizens from obtaining jobs.

Here's a list of states opposing the Real Act: Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma. South Carolina, Tennessee, and Washington have joined Maine and Utah. Unfortunately these are non-binding resolutions and not the law. The decision is left to our governors (Wikipedia).

Governors such as Sonny Perdue. People whom believe the solution to a drought is to beg an all-powerful white man that lives in the sky.......for rain. Nice. Don't forget your knee pads Sonny. At least he believes in SOME degree of liberty. (He's against the Real ID Act, but won't allow Georgians to buy adult beverages on Sunday.)

Speaking of theists, here's what Mike Huckabee said September 26, 2007. At least he got one of his positions right.

"There have been some things in this particular administration that have been troubling to me. I'm certainly a 10th Amendment guy. I'm a federalist at heart. I think Jefferson was right and Hamilton was wrong. And at times this administration seems to have become Hamiltonian and not Jeffersonian. For example, with REAL ID, that's a huge mistake. It's putting a burden on a state that should not be the state's function, which is to provide the frontline of national security defense at the hands of a DMV worker at a state office. That's absurd. And then not funding it. That's a real problem. If you're going to have federal program then the feds ought to pay for it." (www.news.yahoo.com)

Similar resolutions are pending in Alaska, Arizona, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming (Wikipedia).

California and North Carolina appear to support the Real ID Act.

Homeland Security is bribing states with $79.8 million to "assist with Real Act implementations." This action was announced by big brother on January 29, 2008 (Fox News, January 11, 2008).

My next blog will examine RFID implants.