Archive for August 3, 2023

License Plate Scanners plus AI Tracking Software equals an all powerful police state plus travel restrictions

Posted: August 3, 2023 by Jon Fournier in Uncategorized
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License plate scanners have been used by police departments across the United States for more than a decade.  I know the police department in the town I live in uses them constantly.   I here them using them on my police scanner.  They routinely stop a vehicle because the registered owner’s license is suspended, or something similar. 

License plate scanners, on their own, are a grave threat to the right to privacy of each and every American.  They are a gross violation of our most cherished constitutional rights.  Every single American has a God-given Natural Right to move as we wish, completely free of any government snooping or surveillance.  .

Thanks to Artificial Intelligence, this gross violation of privacy has become much worse, as you can see from this Breitbart article: Breitbart – Police Use AI-Powered License Plate Recognition to Track ‘Suspicious’ Travel Patterns

American law enforcement are now using AI-powered license plate recognition systems to identify “suspicious” patterns of movement by analyzing billions of license plate records. However, this new technology raises significant concerns about privacy and potential misuse.

Forbes reports that by examining billions of license plate records, AI is now assisting American law enforcement in locating “suspicious” movement patterns. This new technology raises serious concerns about privacy and potential abuse. 

When you combine the gross violation of license plate scanners and AI with this article, Breitbart – Climate of Fear: U.N. Chief Guterres Warns ‘Era of Global Boiling’ Is Here, all of the recent hysteria over the supposed hottest temperatures ever becomes more ominous.

Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday night rolled out some of his most apocalyptic climate rhetoric to date declaring “the era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived.”

He went on to lament how “terrifying” it is seeing children “swept away by monsoon rains, families running from the flames, workers collapsing in scorching heat.”  He said “short of a mini ice age” over coming days, some scientists estimate July 2023 would shatter records across the board.

Could it be possible that license plate scanners and AI could be used to curtail the movement of Americans to fight a made up dire climate change emergency?  Absolutely.  The hysteria over climate change is already beig used to curtail air travel in a very back handed manner: In the Name of Climate Change: Travel Restrictions and the Great Reset – American Thinker

In 2022, the 193-member nation International Civil Aviation Organizations (ICAO), a U.N.  agency, agreed to a goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.  Ironically, the call to reduce the use of aviation fuel is accompanied by a boom in private air travel, as airline travel becomes more difficult.  Private jets constitute 25% of U.S.  flights and increased by 17% in the first half of 2022.  Clearly, despite purported concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, the Great Reset does not restrict travel for the elite.  The agenda obviously has more to do with politics and control than science.

This year, summer air travel was subjected to massive delays.  More than 11,000 flights were delayed or cancelled on June 25; some 8,000 on June 26; and there were 35,000 flight delays and 7,000 cancellations on July 4.  Candid airline employees confessed this had nothing to do with the weather, and that pilot and ATC understaffing was responsible for the chaos.  In late June, I found myself stuck in New York for three days with no available flight options to the West Coast.  I was also trapped in Reykjavik for four nights because of the cancellation of flights to Ilulissat, Greenland.  An Icelandair captain revealed the reason: a tower at an adjacent airport, required for potential flight diversions, was unmanned because of an ATC shortage.

And So The Selling of the Draft Begins

Posted: August 3, 2023 by datechguy in Uncategorized
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For a very long time I’ve been warning that the policies of this administration (and the Obama admin) would lead to a peacetime draft.

Well while some might question if we’re in “peacetime” or not we’re finally seeing it being discussed publicly.

Today, the military needs only about 160,000 youth from an eligible population of 30 million to meet its recruitment needs. But after two decades of war — both of which ended unsuccessfully — and low unemployment, many experts believe the all-volunteer force has reached a breaking point. And American confidence in its military is at a low.

The fastest and most effective way to resolve this recruiting crisis is to change how we recruit.

Instead of an “either an all-volunteer force or a fully conscripted force” model, I propose a both-and solution.

We should have our military recruiters sign up new troops for 11 months out of the year, and then have the Selective Service draft the delta between the military’s needs and the total number recruited.

The most interesting about this article to me personally is it twists a point concerning the military that I made almost 20 years ago at Instapundit the very first time leftists called me a Nazi:

While the all-volunteer force had the effect of lowering discipline problems and professionalizing the force, it also created a vast gap between American citizens and those who serve — effectively creating a military warrior caste that now appears more like a multi-generational family business than an organization that represents the true makeup of our democratic republic

emphasis mine

Seriously? The people who have been volunteering for decades and fought when others stayed home are the problem? Well if the goal is a strong military that can stop China then I guess it is.

Kurt Schlichter sums the reality up as to why people have not been joining:

Let’s look at the attitude of the military towards the people who they want to enlist. Many are white males who know which bathroom to use, but if you’re a white male who knows which bathroom to use, you’re an extremist and a racist and an enemy and you’re going to get passed over for promotions and assignments for people based not on anything that you did, and not because of merit, but purely because of your race, sex, and normality. “Come, join an organization that actively hates you!” is not much of a sales pitch. 

I can see how this might put a damper on recruiting from military families (Funny how Col Plenzer the author of the piece never mentions this as a possible cause of the numbers falling short.) On the bright side for Col Joe this might decrease the number of those icky military Caste people there.

Kurt Closes thus:

Here is the hard reality. If you choose to join this military, you’re putting your lives in the hands of people who, at the highest level, don’t care about you at best and hate you at worst and are grossly corrupt and grossly incompetent. When you die, likely because of their utter failure to adequately perform their duties at even the most basic level of proficiency, your families going to get shafted and you’ll be forgotten or disrespected. And if you think this makes me happy to write, you’re dumb or dishonest enough to be a modern general or admiral.

The real question is this:

You can have an elite fighting force of motivated volunteers or a draft army lead by woke leaders, you can’t have both. The Biden/Obama admin has demonstrated most emphatically it does not want the former

The only question is: Are they doing this because of ideology, because of payment or both.

I’m betting both.