In Britain, you won’t drive without being watched from the air. Cameras everywhere. You are going over the speed limit, you are watched immediately. You are driving without a license, you are caught. That’s the way it will be in Big Brother’s Overview, according to Mary Jordan of the Washington Post Foreign Service.
Millions of vehicles will come under the surveillance eyes. Not one wheel will miss the eye scan.
License plates are read. They are put into a national detail bank. Within a second or two, vehicles will be tabbed and marked. Is the car stolen? Is it wheeling cocaine? Is it on its way from a crime scene? It will all be marked and scrolled.
Human rights bugs are going nuts. And they should.
Imagine thousands of lenses picking up your every road move. Those lenses will be tacked to poles up in the air and on mobile police vehicles. It’s not only the main thoroughfare but the village street and countryside trail. All will come under the Big Brother Eye Scan.
There is nothing like it, as far as the police departments are concerned. They are elated. No more scouting about around corners. Now it’s sitting in the office, watching the scan, signaling a vehicle pull over via communication hook ups.
"Our aim is to deny criminals the use of the roads."
That’s what John Dean, national coordinator of the Automatic Number Plate Recognition System says. And he’s quite the popular gent among those of like mind. He’s the enemy of those who claim their private lives will be invaded maximum. They are squealing like pigs caught between the rails.
"The technology is already being used on the M25, which rings London and is the country's busiest road. The system, scheduled to begin operating nationally by June, will employ thousands of cameras on fixed poles or in mobile police vans on major highways, key back roads and vital intersections throughout England and Wales.
"Dean said the idea is to make it difficult, if not impossible, to travel by road without being captured by the cameras.
"In recent years, the British public has accepted a generally high level of surveillance in public places to counter terrorism and common crime. Thousands of closed-circuit cameras were installed on city streets during the Irish Republican Army's bombing campaigns."
My thoughts roam to the Islamic killers international who want to make Islam world rule. Will such a Big Brother Eye Scan catch them up to their neighborhood blow up schemes? Will they detect Muslim murderers global in a plot via roadways? I hope so if the system ever crosses the ocean. Otherwise, I agree with those who are scared out of their wits.
As the philosophers conclude when thinking through this latest road oversee, the insight is that mortals can be very corrupt. They can start off nice and loyal, even legal. But we know that in time power gets to their innards and they turn a nice system into a surveillance for control, might, and loss of power to the little fellow.
Yes, it could happen. In the End Times, biblical prophets say that Big Brother will control everything up until the Second Coming of Christ. The AntiChrist political ruler will have such sway around the planet that he will know everything. His perverse nature will set loose persecutions againsst the believers. Hell will break loose in many places so as to make no corner safe for a faith person.
Therefore, could this Big Brother Eye Scan be just the puzzle piece that the coming AntiChrist will need to watch over the transportation routes of the planet? One can let the imagination run loose at this point—without guilt or question. Anything can happen. Anything is possible.
"People in Britain are already monitored by more than 4 million closed-circuit, or CCTV, cameras, making it the most-watched nation in the world, according to Liberty. The group said that a typical London resident is monitored 300 times a day.
"Cameras keep an eye out throughout the London subway and bus system, on street corners and in stores, and around public buildings. The closed-circuit camera industry has quadrupled in a decade and is now a $1 billion-a-year business, according to the British Security Industry Association, a trade group.
"The extent of London's CCTV network became well known after bombs exploded in three subway cars and a bus last July. Fifty-two passengers were killed in addition to four bombers, and more than 700 people were injured; a similar incident two weeks later failed when the attackers' bombs failed to detonate.
"Almost immediately, police were able to release still photos of men suspected of carrying out the bombings. CCTV had captured them in the subway system and on the bus.
"Raymond Ajakaiye, 26, a graduate student in international business in London, said he didn't mind the ever-widening use of surveillance cameras. He was interviewed as he rode a train on the subway's Jubilee Line, where he was filmed on CCTV cameras.
"It only bothers people who have something negative in mind,’ he said. ‘I say, if it makes the city safer, go ahead.’"
Copyright © 2006 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.