February 15, 2006 16:54
I will put an AIS receiver on my 24' sailing boat because the regions I sail in the Netherlands are frequently crossed by bigger cargo ships.
When I first read about AIS 2 years ago, this terrorism arguement was the first to come to my mind.
Every surveillance idea is excused by the thread of terrorism.
OFF TOPIC
IMHO I think all this digital surveillance systems just do bring us a step closer to "Brave New World". If the US wants you to have AIS senders, the EU will do the same for us. We already have biometrical ID cards and passports, on every corner surveillance cams etc. Mobile phone are trackable with a 50 m accuracy. SMS, IRC and internet traffic is scanned by the ECHELON system.
All this because of terrorism? I can't beleive it.
Nothing is eaten as hot as it has been cooked. I mean the terrorist thread isn't as worse as politicians make us believe.
There is a theory which says globalisation (which makes the big companies bigger and these companies are the leaders of the world) will have millions of people travel (work) from one country to another. These masses have to controlled. Therefor we need global surveillance. And the excuse of terrorism just comes in handy!
:evil:
Today I read that the list of suspected individuals by the US gov is more than 375000 people. Hey that's nearly the complete population of our country.
The easiest way would be to implant everybody a GPS chip when he/she's born, so we wouldn't need all these surveillance bullshit. :evil:
When I first read about AIS 2 years ago, this terrorism arguement was the first to come to my mind.
Every surveillance idea is excused by the thread of terrorism.
OFF TOPIC
IMHO I think all this digital surveillance systems just do bring us a step closer to "Brave New World". If the US wants you to have AIS senders, the EU will do the same for us. We already have biometrical ID cards and passports, on every corner surveillance cams etc. Mobile phone are trackable with a 50 m accuracy. SMS, IRC and internet traffic is scanned by the ECHELON system.
All this because of terrorism? I can't beleive it.
Nothing is eaten as hot as it has been cooked. I mean the terrorist thread isn't as worse as politicians make us believe.
There is a theory which says globalisation (which makes the big companies bigger and these companies are the leaders of the world) will have millions of people travel (work) from one country to another. These masses have to controlled. Therefor we need global surveillance. And the excuse of terrorism just comes in handy!
:evil:
Today I read that the list of suspected individuals by the US gov is more than 375000 people. Hey that's nearly the complete population of our country.
The easiest way would be to implant everybody a GPS chip when he/she's born, so we wouldn't need all these surveillance bullshit. :evil: