Anything Trump might say supporting civil liberties and the Bill of Rights is contradicted by what he actually does. He’s just as hostile to individual rights as his predecessors, maybe more so. From Leo Hohmann at leohohmann.com:
Will pay defense contractor $128 million a year to upgrade the system, but don’t worry, it’s all to ‘keep America safe’
We are living in the midst of a historic, accelerating convergence of biometric surveillance and national security infrastructure, capable of sweeping up endless reams of personal data on immigrants and Americans alike.
In the latest evidence of that trend, Biometric Update reports that the FBI has awarded a $128 million one-year contract to a company called Leidos, to modernize the agency’s sprawling biometric and criminal history database known as the Next Generation Identification, or NGI, system. The FBI will have options to renew the contract for up to another four years.
According to the article:
“The contract, announced Tuesday, marks the latest evolution in a decades-long effort by the FBI to centralize and enhance the way federal, state, local, and international partners identify individuals suspected of criminal activity or are flagged for national security reasons using rapidly advancing biometric technology.”
Roy Stevens, president of Leidos’ national security sector, said:
“Leidos has long partnered with the FBI to deliver mission-critical biometric systems, including NGI, the largest, most efficient electronic repository of biometric and criminal history data. Leidos’ work with the FBI to improve the system’s accuracy facilitates many more criminal identifications, helping to keep America safe.”
According to Biometric Update, NGI is much more than just a fingerprint repository.
Reading the ekpyrosis (conflagration) article regarding the Fourth Turning and Final WAR when the everyone walking with sailfawn (cellphone) on a nice day caught my eye.
Kind of like the Huxley quote about making them love their servitude.
We’re all in this together comrade and only kulaks shirk but keep your hands off my stack.
Albert Pike said that the Final WAR would be about erasing the world religions.
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