by Anthony J. Marsella, PhD
II. National security abuses and excesses
“There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”
— Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) , The Spirit of Laws, 1748
A. Technologies for omnipresent surveillance
- Bill-Board photography and monitoring of automobile drivers
- Airport body scans [“Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away. From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level in your body—agents will be able to get any information they want without even touching you. And without you knowing it.” (Gizmodo, July 10, 2012).
- Brain wave (EEG) readers
- Bugs (intrusive car, phone)
- Bugs (intrusive computer)
- Collaboration between massive corporations (e.g., Amazon, Face Book, Google) and government agencies (algorithms for sharing information)
- Drones (Used to photograph, monitor house odors, disable equipment)
- Facial recognition
- Finger prints, hand prints, footprints
- Genetic DNA sampling
- House-Air Sampling (Drones)
- Monitoring, copying, and retaining all phone, email, texting communications:
- Source number,
- Target number,
- Time of communication,
- Date of communication,
- Precise location of source and target numbers,
- Record conversation,
- Archive data in Fusion Centers
- Neuroimaging technologies (e.g., CAT, PET, EMR, SPECT, X-Ray) [Medical imaging information gathered via CAT scans, nuclear magnetic resonance, SPECT, and other methods reveal the distinct and unique pattern of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from your various organs. Everyone has a distinct pattern, and knowing that pattern makes one vulnerable to specific controls using low radio wave frequencies and other invasive technology methods. This is especially a source for abuse using brain information.]
- Radio-Frequency Identification Inserts (RFID)
- Satellite monitoring
- Vision data [Vision identification is more accurate than fingerprints. Thus, when you stare into optometric equipment to determine both your visual equation and your eyes disease, a permanent record is photographed and maintained. Whether access to this record can be gleaned or shared willingly remains a question.]
- Cameras at traffic intersections [The ubiquitous camera at many traffic intersections has already recorded your face and upper body for security reasons. If you wear sunglasses, efforts will be made to affirm your visual identification.]
- Wire taps (proximal and distal)
B. Sources of information
- Brain wave (EEG) readers
- Catholic confessional (bugging & taping)
- Medical information (EKG, blood tests)
- Facebook data
- Fake photos and videos
- False accusations, requiring court and legal responses
- Finger print data base
- Foreign nation surveillance (e.g., USA, UK, China, Russia, Israel)
- Garbage analysis
- Google, Amazon, Facebook monitoring
- License plates readers on streets and highways
- Neighbor & friends as informants (Project InfraGard)
- Photographs
- Political ideology organization surveillance (e.g., AIPAC, Anti-Defamation League, Southern Poverty Legal Fund, Anti-Boycott Laws https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/04/23/us-states-use-anti-boycott-laws-punish-responsible-businesses, White and/or Black, Latino, and Islamic extremists and radical groups)
- Private Investigators (PI can be ruthless and relentless in acquiring data, bugging cars and phones, planting rumors, calling police, eluding laws.)
- Project ImfraGardarted by FBI, 1997, Cleveland, Ohio. Involves recruitment of stores, malls, professions, etc. to report on targets.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfraGard Expands FBI data-gathering system. Numerous sources of information regarding individuals or groups are now available to local, national and foreign security groups via (1) shopping expenditures, (2) restaurant preferences and expenses, (3) hair stylists/barbers conversations, (4) grocery purchases, (5) gasoline purchases, (6) automobile information, (7) travel information, (8) hotel records, (9) publishers, and (10) medical/mental health services. Yes, what you say to your physician and/or therapist is grist for the mill that has been created.]
- Pupillometry (eye parameters)
- Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID)
- Records acquisition: HIPAA, medical, schools
- Records: family history, pedigree, family tree mapping
- Smart and interactive TVs
- Smart medicines (Track Use)
- Smart meters (Utility Usage)
- Store security officials [While you shop, photos are taken, your preferred products identified, your shopping behavior; recall FBI Project InfraGard.]
- Stingray computer email monitor.. [btains your email from a close distance. Illegal but used by authorities, foreign nations, and suspicious neighbors]
- Subliminal perception on TV and EMR messages (Can also be used for behavior control)
- Television program monitoring
- Use of consultants, collaborators, cooperatives, cronies, informants, plants, shils, and other forms of collusion to gather info, and to assess or create risk for investigation and persecution/prosecution [Think East German STASI.]
- Use of law (e.g., Section 215 of Patriot Act authorizes FBI to interview friends, family, professionals, and to swear all parties to silence)
- Video records
- Window vibration decoding of conversations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_microphone
C. Behavior control and harassment methods
- Make annoyance phone calls
- Engage in baiting [monitoring open purses, money on floor, wheel-chair elderly, flirtations to facilitate arrest]
- Exercise behavior control (Think Manchurian Candidate)
- Control brain waves
- Develop and foster hostility for certain groups (e.g., Target Muslims, African-American protest groups, drug cartels)
- Develop “pseudo” Face Book, Twitter, and other social network services to entrap individuals or groups
- Distribute drugs (e.g, LSD) causing depression, mania, confusion, dulling, feeling stoned, amnesia
- Engage in defamation of character
- Entrap [e.g., use promises of reduced prosecution to get desired information]
- Abuse the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA Court) system. [e.g., Designate critics of government or political candidates as individuals warranting FISA Court listing as terrorist, criminal, or spy.
- Harassment—e.g., planting false evidence to facilitate arrest
- Harassment, abuse, and/or prosecution of whistleblowers
- Hypnosis
- Identification implants
- Infiltration of listservs, media services, groups
- Informants (e.g., use of prior offense people to entrap)
- Microwave stun gun (proximate & distance)
- Rumor planting and monitoring with friends, neighbors
- Use of paid private investigators to stalk and harass individuals
- Use of citizens as research subjects (injections, drugs, sprays) without consent (hundreds of examples by government agencies)
- Use of toxins (e.g., spraying toxic substances)
- Use of spoiled or toxic foods when shopping. Exchanging similar foods in shopping carts with toxic foods.
- Misuse of voice recognition systems (e.g., monitoring, samples and recreating offensive messages)
Data from mass-surveillance technology methods and techniques are distributed to DHS/NSA State Fusion Centers, and a Computer System named AQUAINT, standing for “Advanced Question Answering for Intelligence.”
