Population Control, RFID, Cameras-Big Brother jumps onto world scene
Pastor Dale Morgan
Population Control, RFID, Cameras-Big Brother jumps onto world scene
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By Judi McLeod
August 16, 2007
While the world turned on its axis, Big Brother slithered out of the
closet in China this weekend.
Population control will cover the whole of Shenzhen City and its 12.4
million souls by August's end.
Even their personal reproductive history--in sync with the enforcement
of China's "one child" policy"--will be included on new "residency
cards" fitted with foolproof computer chips.
Population control, guided by sophisticated computer software--from an
American-financed company--will one day jump the Pacific Ocean to land
foursquare in North America.
China, Big Brother Britain has already been lost to the trend.
The grim news was heralded on Drudge, via the New York Times.
But the news that population control was about to make its debut was
ignored when originally predicted by Steve Watson and Alex Jones back on
April 18, 2006.
While their prediction of a "Controlled Police State Surveillance
Dictatorship" in China seemed to have been taken with the proverbial
grain of salt, how can camera surveillance control of the 12.4 million
residents of a single city, well on its way to control 150 million
Chinese people possibly be ignored?
Branded as conspiracy theorists Watson and Jones were trying to tell us
that the mayor of Shenzhen was already sitting back looking to Britain
as a blueprint for mass population control.
"Chinese authorities (were) learning lessons from the Orwellian
surveillance capital of the world." For the uninitiated, that would be
London, England.
"In this regard we've taken particular note of England, where basically
everyone lives under the electronic eye," Mayor Xu Zhongheng of Shenzhen
has said, remarking how important surveillance cameras were in tracking
down the perpetrators of attacks on the London transport system last
year." (www.infowars.net, April 18, 2006).
In Britain, the police have already installed surveillance cameras
widely on lamp posts and in subway stations, and are now well on the
road to developing face recognition software as well.
At least 20,000 police surveillance cameras are being installed along
streets in southern China and will be hooked up to computers by month's end.
The faces of police suspects and unusual activity are the reasons
authorities give to justify spying on the entire population of Shenzhen.
But it's the 150 million people--10 million of them peasants economies
force to migrate to cities--that the authorities are out to control.
Since 2003 China has recorded details of more than 96 percent of its
population on a police database, supplementing Internet and other
state-sanctioned surveillance. Before its system is up and running, the
state want to issue 1.3 billion RFID identification cards.
In Britain, there is a program currently underway to add 100 percent of
the largely unsuspecting population to a national database. The ID card
act has been passed, and by 2008, anyone who requires a passport (and
access to health care and education) must be registered and must carry
the national ID card.
How did the watching world, waiting since 1984, miss the overnight
arrival of Big Brother?
On one continent, the mainstream media distracted the sheeple with
stories about Paris Hilton sans undies while on another pictures of the
alleged skirt-chasing British Prince Harry sitting on a throne in his
boxer shorts were being oogled on Radar magazine.
"Security experts describe China's plans as the world's largest effort
to meld cutting-edge computer technology with police work to track the
activities of a population and fight crime. But they say the technology
can be used to violate civil rights." (New York Times, Aug. 12, 2007).
The 12.4 million Shenzhen citizens are only the beginning. The Communist
Chinese government has ordered all large cities to apply technology to
police work and to issue high-tech residency cards to 150 million people
who have moved to a city but not yet acquired permanent residency.
"If they do not get the permanent card, they cannot live here, they
cannot get government benefits, and that is a way for the government to
control the population of the future," said Michael Lin, the vice
president for investor relations at China Public Security Technology,
the company providing the technology.
"Incorporated in Florida, China Public Security has raised much of the
money to develop its technology from two investment funds in Plano,
Tex., Pinnacle Fund and Pinnacle China Fund. Three investment
banks--Roth Capital Partners in Newport Beach, Calif.; Oppenheimer &
Company in New York; and First Asia Finance Group of Hong Kong--helped
raise the money.
Every police officer in Shenzhen now carries global positioning
satellite equipment on his or her belt. This allows senior police
officers to direct their movement on large, high-resolution maps of the
city that China Public Security has produced using software that runs on
the Microsoft Windows operating system.
"We have a very good relationship with U.S. companies like I.B.M.,
Cisco, H.P., Dell," said Robin Huang, the chief operating officer of
China Public Security. "All of these U.S. companies work with us to
build our system together."
Censorship is widespread in China, particularly since the advent of the
Internet.
"The role of American companies in helping Chinese security forces has
periodically been controversial in the United States. Executives from
Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and Cisco Systems tested in February 2006 at a
Congressional hearing called to review whether they had deliberately
designed their systems to help the Chinese state muzzle dissidents on
the Internet; they denied having done so."
Meanwhile, the watching world just got a gander of what Big Brother
really looks like. He comes replete in stars and stripes with generous
pieces of the Union Jack, and ‘Made in China' is stamped all over him.