The Highways Of America Are Being Transformed Into A High Tech Prison Grid

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10 Signs That The Highways Of America Are Being Transformed Into A High Tech Prison Grid

#1 Surveillance Cameras

#2 Automated License Plate Readers:
With virtually no public debate, police agencies have begun storing the information from the cameras, building databases that document the travels of millions of vehicles. A lot of police cruisers are being outfitted with this technology around the nation as well. So if you see a police car pull up behind you, there is a very good chance that a computer has already read your license plate and is giving the officer all of your information.

#3 Ridiculous Regulations:
Some of the new "auto safety laws" going in around the nation are absolutely absurd. For example, do you buckle up your pet when you go for a ride? Well, in New Jersey you can now be fined up to $1000 for not having your pet properly restrained while you are out driving.

#4 Outrageous Fines:
In many areas of the country, unpaid traffic tickets can rapidly become a major financial burden. For example, the new tolls on the 520 floating bridge in Seattle are absolutely killing some commuters..... Registered vehicle owners who do not pay their toll within 80 days or more will be mailed a $40 civil penalty for each unpaid toll transaction in addition to a $5 reprocessing fee. WSDOT confirmed some tolls plus penalty fees have added up to more than $1,000.

#5 Oppressive Toll Roads:
Toll roads have become one of the favorite "revenue raising tools" for our politicians. At this point the tolls on some roads have become so incredibly oppressive that many people simply cannot afford to drive on them anymore. And for some reason the toll increases are coming especially fast and furious this year.

#6 Red Light Cameras:
Red light cameras are another favorite "revenue raising tool" for the control freaks that run things. Unfortunately, these cameras don't always work right so a lot of innocent people end up getting ticketed. But politicians love them because they can raise a lot of cash. The following is from a recent Business Insider article.... According to U.S. PIRG (Public Interest Research Group), nearly 700 U.S. cities and towns installed the cameras, which accounted for more than 90 percent of tickets issued for illegal right turns, or rolling stops. In one New Jersey town, PIRG found 2,500 tickets were issued at one intersection within the first two months of installing a camera.

#7 Speed Traps:
In the old days, speed traps were mostly about making the roads safer. Today, they are mostly about raising money. One police chief up in Michigan has even admitted that the nature of his job has fundamentally changed.... "When I first started in this job 30 years ago, police work was never about revenue enhancement, but if you’re a chief now, you have to look at whether your department produces revenues."

#8 Government Spying:
It has been revealed that the federal government has been secretly putting GPS tracking devices on thousands of vehicles in order to track the movements of people that they are interested in watching. Most of the time the people involved have not even been charged with any crimes.

#9 Extraction Devices:
If you get pulled over by police, you never know what to expect these days. Previously, I have written about how law enforcement authorities in some parts of the U.S. are using "extraction devices" to download data out of the cell phones of motorists that they pull over. The following is how a recent article on CNET News described the capabilities of these "extraction devices".... The devices, sold by a company called Cellebrite, can download text messages, photos, video, and even GPS data from most brands of cell phones. The handheld machines have various interfaces to work with different models and can even bypass security passwords and access some information.

#10 VIPR Teams:
If all of the above was not bad enough, now we have to deal with TSA "VIPR teams" terrorizing us on the highways. If you regularly travel across the country, there is a good chance that you have already encountered one of their "unannounced security screenings". The following is from a local news report down in Tennessee about how local authorities are working with VIPR teams to fight "terrorism" on the interstates.... You're probably used to seeing TSA's signature blue uniforms at the airport, but now agents are hitting the interstates to fight terrorism with Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response (VIPR). "Where is a terrorist more apt to be found? Not these days on an airplane more likely on the interstate," said Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security Commissioner Bill Gibbons. Tuesday Tennessee was first to deploy VIPR simultaneously at five weigh stations and two bus stations across the state. TSA VIPR teams now conduct approximately 8,000 "unannounced security screenings" at subway stations, bus terminals, seaports and highway rest stops each year.

Are you starting to see what I am talking about? All of this "security" is becoming extremely oppressive. We don't need "Big Brother" constantly watching us, tracking us and fining us on our highways.

http://endoftheamericandream.com/arc...ch-prison-grid

[SilverKnight]

This is not shocking with the exception of some information I read in this article you posted. Too much control isn't good for freedom but at the same time I like this kinds of enforcements taking place, because it prevents the real criminals from doing any harm to us law-biding citizens. About the police cruisers, I have noticed how they pull behind you while driving at 55 mph at speed limit using automatic plate readers, I guess it's just to make sure...

[Supreme American]

In certain "high crime" areas here in this city, the cops have installed HALO cameras that they watch from police HQ to pick up crime... And everything else.

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All Over America Government Control Freaks Are Forcing Preppers Back On To The Grid

It has been estimated that there are now approximately 3 million "preppers" in the United States, and many of them just want to be left alone so that they can take care of themselves and their families on their own land. But that is not the way America works anymore. In many areas of the country, government control freaks have essentially declared war on preppers and are attempting to force them back on to the grid. In some states, "nuisance abatement teams" are conducting armed raids on off the grid properties. Property owners are being cited for "code violations" and are being told that they are "bothering the neighbors". In some cases, trees and gardens are being forcibly removed. In other cases, entire structures are being relocated or torn down. And in the most extreme cases, property owners are actually being forced off of their properties completely by these control freaks. You see, the truth is that in America you don't really own your property. You are essentially renting it, and you can only do with it what the government allows you to do. And the government does not like people disconnecting from the grid and living an independent lifestyle. So these battles over property rights are probably going to get even more intense in the years ahead.

These days, many Americans are choosing to grow "survival gardens" as a way to help feed their families and become more independent of the system.

But in some areas of the country these survival gardens are being forcibly ripped out by government control freaks.

A Tulsa woman is suing the city's code enforcement officers after she said they cut down her garden with no cause. Denise Morrison said she has more than 100 plant varieties in her front and back yards and all of them are edible and have a purpose. She knows which ones will treat arthritis, which will make your food spicy, which ones keep mosquitoes away and treat bug bites, but she said none of that matter to city inspectors.

The government agents left her with nothing. They ripped her garden to shreds. She was relying on that garden for her food and her medicine. Because she is unemployed, she doesn't have any money to go to the store and buy all those things.

Oh, but at least the government agents can report that "everything is now up to code".

Sadly, most Americans do not even realize that the United States is slowly but surely being transformed into a giant prison control grid.

For example, eventually all of us will not be able to go anywhere without our faces being recognized and recorded.

Yes, just like the movie "Minority Report". In fact, facial recognition advertising billboards are already being used in Japan.

Facial recognition is even being used on the Internet. Facebook recently purchased a facial recognition startup company called Face.com. This startup company has technology that can positively identify you in any photo and can even guess your age.

We still have a lot of freedom to say what we want on the Internet, but that window is rapidly closing as well.

Internet censorship in the United States is growing at a very fast pace, and it is only a matter of time before entire websites start getting shut down for political reasons.

"Amerika" is becoming a prison state.

If the wrong person finds out, an armed "nuisance abatement team" might just show up at your door one morning and hit you with several dozen "code violations".

http://endoftheamericandream.com/arc...on-to-the-grid

[~Elizabeth~]

There are all types of cameras in Florida too.

http://www.ezwatch.com/security-came...n-cameras.html

[Quorra]

We've had this in Australia for years. It's a police state which does not tolerate self sufficiency or living for free.

I was always fascinated with England's "traveling people" or Gipsy's because We aren't allowed to live like that here. The police just fine you.

In the past, this mentality was nationalist in nature, that is, everyone should be chipping in for Australia. Now, they've tightened their grip so much more, for the debt system.