Big Brother Is Consolidating Control Incrementally

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Black Boxes, or “mandatory event data recorders” will now be installed in your “new” car in 2015, they will record your mileage, locations, and speeds before and during accidents. Of course, it takes no electronic genius to imagine this information being enlarged to provide the government with continuous information concerning you and your transportation, and there is some speculation that the law will become inclusive of all licensed cars since the technology is rather simple and doesn’t require the advanced technology of computerized systems. The bill has been passed by the Senate in March and is expected to be rubber stamped by the House.

This bill — known as “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act,” or MAP-21 is conspicuous with the “Moving Ahead for Progress” phrase as a clever way for the Progressive Socialists to hide their intent at control in plain sight. It becomes only a short step for the Progressives of the future to institute mandatory “carbon footprint” control by limiting individual mileage and imposing huge fines for those who exceed their limits. Is it hard to imagine, the technology is in place and it is conceivable that Obama and Pelosi will still be in power in 2015.

The bill has a right to privacy provision, but we have seen how easy it is for the tyrants of Progressive Socialism and their stooges in the Supreme Court to circumvent rights in the implementation of control, control is good if it is for the good of society or the environment through the prism of Global Warming Heresy, is the philosophy of the Progressive Socialists. The very word “Progressive” suggests that the spirit of progressive revolution among the International Marxists is an ever advancing and relents assault on freedom. It is their profound belief that an incremental approach will eventually consolidate their tyranny of control over an unsuspecting public. The “Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act” is a major victory against a naive and unsuspecting public, and the sleeping representatives in Washington.

Obviously, the bill wouldn’t pass if the opportunity for abuse was blatant, but Obama has demonstrated how easy it is to manipulate the law, in the future it will always be there for the Marxists to use for control of the masses.

The same bill would allow the IRS to revoke passports of citizens accused of owing more than $50,000 in back taxes, according to PrisonPlanet.com, a website of radio show host Alex Jones – described by Rolling Stone as “a giant in America’s conspiracy subculture.”

How ironic, now that Americans are renouncing their citizenship to avoid the US tax laws, the same bill will now revoke the passport of those owing back taxes, and I am sure Buffet who owes a billion will have his passport rescinded, oh sure! As some one who has been caught in this trap of working internationally and paying taxes in two different countries, it is tempting to want to tell the IRS to take their oppression and stuff it where the sun doesn’t shine.

‘SEC. 7345. REVOCATION OR DENIAL OF PASSPORT IN CASE OF CERTAIN TAX DELINQUENCIES.
‘(a) In General- If the Secretary receives certification by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue that any individual has a seriously delinquent tax debt in an amount in excess of $50,000, the Secretary shall transmit such certification to the Secretary of State for action with respect to denial, revocation, or limitation of a passport pursuant to section 4 of the Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate the issue and validity of passports, and for other purposes’, approved July 3, 1926 (22 U.S.C. 211a et seq.), commonly known as the ‘Passport Act of 1926’.

‘(b) Seriously Delinquent Tax Debt- For purposes of this section, the term ‘seriously delinquent tax debt’ means an outstanding debt under this title for which a notice of lien has been filed in public records pursuant to section 6323 or a notice of levy has been filed pursuant to section 6331, except that such term does not include–

‘(1) a debt that is being paid in a timely manner pursuant to an agreement under section 6159 or 7122, and

‘(2) a debt with respect to which collection is suspended because a collection due process hearing under section 6330, or relief under subsection (b), (c), or (f) of section 6015, is requested or pending.

‘(c) Adjustment for Inflation- In the case of a calendar year beginning after 2012, the dollar amount in subsection (a) shall be increased by an amount equal to–

‘(1) such dollar amount, multiplied by

‘(2) the cost-of-living adjustment determined under section 1(f)(3) for the calendar year, determined by substituting ‘calendar year 2011’ for ‘calendar year 1992’ in subparagraph (B) thereof.

If any amount as adjusted under the preceding sentence is not a multiple of $1,000, such amount shall be rounded to the next highest multiple of $1,000.’.

This same bill wants to prevent those who owe $50,000 or more in taxes to have their passports revoked. Please tell me why this isn’t an Orwellian attack on your freedom.

SEC. 31406. VEHICLE EVENT DATA RECORDERS.
(a) Mandatory Event Data Recorders-

(1) IN GENERAL- Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall revise part 563 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, to require, beginning with model year 2015, that new passenger motor vehicles sold in the United States be equipped with an event data recorder that meets the requirements under that part.

(2) PENALTY- The violation of any provision under part 563 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations–

(A) shall be deemed to be a violation of section 30112 of title 49, United States Code;

(B) shall be subject to civil penalties under section 30165(a) of that title; and

(C) shall not subject a manufacturer (as defined in section 30102(a)(5) of that title) to the requirements under section 30120 of that title.

(b) Limitations on Information Retrieval-

(1) OWNERSHIP OF DATA- Any data in an event data recorder required under part 563 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations, regardless of when the passenger motor vehicle in which it is installed was manufactured, is the property of the owner, or in the case of a leased vehicle, the lessee of the passenger motor vehicle in which the data recorder is installed.

(2) PRIVACY- Data recorded or transmitted by such a data recorder may not be retrieved by a person other than the owner or lessee of the motor vehicle in which the recorder is installed unless–

(A) a court authorizes retrieval of the information in furtherance of a legal proceeding;

(B) the owner or lessee consents to the retrieval of the information for any purpose, including the purpose of diagnosing, servicing, or repairing the motor vehicle;

(C) the information is retrieved pursuant to an investigation or inspection authorized under section 1131(a) or 30166 of title 49, United States Code, and the personally identifiable information of the owner, lessee, or driver of the vehicle and the vehicle identification number is not disclosed in connection with the retrieved information; or

(D) the information is retrieved for the purpose of determining the need for, or facilitating, emergency medical response in response to a motor vehicle crash.

Obama and the Marxists impose this type of legislation with the intent of imposing totalitarian control in the future, that is obvious, but our Republican legislators allow it to proceed under cover a veil of stupidity.

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This bill, rather that being the responsibility of Marxists, will not pass without the help of the Right-wing Fascists.

1) Fascists were a type of socialist.
2) The “right wing” is very much against the black boxes.

They are uneeded and will add thousands to the price of vehicles. Plus, your socialist/communist bretheren will use them to tax people for the miles they drive. Yet they want to pretend they are the friend of the middle class.

If they can jailbreak an iPhone, they can jailbreak the black box.

I used to live just north of Chicago and my job there required me to travel all over the city and state, and the neighboring states. We acquired the I-Pass for traveling the toll roads around Chicago, and for a while, it allowed us to get to places a little faster and we didn’t have to carry around change all the time.

I should have known then that some moron in Springfield (IL) would get the “bright” idea to write a law allowing use of the toll road data from the I-Pass to electronically write speeding tickets and send them in the mail to people. I got away from IL before the law ever passed, so I don’t know if it is in effect yet, but I do know that many of the residents of IL who had the I-Pass were quite pissed off about it.

Another item of interest related to this story is the fact that many people, either through choice or circumstance, choose to drive much older vehicles, including those that have little to no engine-, or vehicle-, management systems. I, myself, happen to be one of these. I own an 86′ Chevy shortbed pickup that is more of a hotrod, and drive it back and forth to work every day, as well as using it for errands around town.

There is an entire industry of aftermarket automobile parts for performance and appearance that people mingle in and build hotrods, rebuild 60’s and 70’s muscle cars, and most of these have no electronic management systems of any kind on them. I see this bill as a stepping stone towards a requirement that any and all vehicles using the roadways have an adaptable management system that a “black-box” can be retrofitted into (at the owner’s expense, of course), or the vehicle is junked or parked. No more sunday hotrod shows at your local event. No more driving your vehicle to the dragstrip. And a large industry, again, will be shackled and gutted by “well-meaning” busybodies who have nothing better to do than to limit your freedom and liberty, just because some idiot utters, “There ought to be a law!”

@Skook:

Keep the old vehicles running!

Exactly. I just picked up a 350 engine block for rebuilding and transplanting into my truck. Assuming I ever get to finish it, my old truck will be the envy of young “motorheads” in the town I live in.

@Liberal1 (objectivity):

You do realize that “Right wing” and “Fascist” is an oxymoron? Right wing has been attached to conservatives, who stand for limited government. Fascists are statists, who demand that the state guide and dictate industry, in spite of not actually owning it.

In fact, those people who constantly criticize Obama for being a socialist are wrong. He has not called for wholesale nationalization of key industries, which is the hallmark of a socialist. But he does want government to control it, and uses the labor movement as a key pawn. That makes him a fascist.

Back to the subject – You are right in that Republicans will have to sign on for this for it to pass the House. But as you can see bills like this contain laws that are completely unconnected. The passport thing is completely unacceptable. The black box would be fine if it was ONLY for accident investigation, or if it records no more than 30 seconds or 1 minute of data (sufficient for accident reconstruction), and can only be accessed, pinged, or located by plugging into it with a wire, not wirelessly and remotely. But I see no such limitations.

Skook,

If I understand the bill correctly it goes even further as it also mandates video and audio in the cabin and video out of the cabin. As such, it will be recording every thing one says. Theoretically, the Storm Troopers could be monitoring ” ONSTAR” like 24/7. First anti-Obama thought voiced, oops hate crime! Tge sad part is, this isn’t a joke but in fact another step towards “Big Brother”. A bit like the “Truman Show” one could say, isn’t it?

Progressive Insurance (they really are progressives) is offering a discount on your car insurance if you will install one of these snitch boxes in your vehicle.

Participants in the TripSense program initially receive a 5% discount for signing up. In subsequent policy periods, they receive the discount only if they choose to upload driving data to Progressive. Then they may get additional discounts of up to 20% based on how much, how fast, and when they drive. Drivers are rewarded for driving fewer miles, keeping speed below 75 mph, and staying off the roads at higher-risk times of day. The TripSensor must be installed 95% of the time to qualify for the discount.

http://electronicdesign.com/article/components/big-brother-in-the-back-seat-tripsense-records-you

Big Brother is consolidating control incrementally . . . and at every level. Chicago has 1,500 surveillance cameras scattered around town, Seattle and North Little Rock have their own drone surveillance helicopters, and so on.

If you want to see where it’s all headed, look at Europe–and, especially, listen to the EU’s Future Group and their Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security:

http://crybelovedcountry.com/2012/04/big-brother-wants-to-watch-you-more-and-more/

Scary stuff!

I just would like to point out that the US government has developed a habit of taking technological leaps originally intended for one thing, and then stretching it elsewhere.

Example: Under the Patriot Act, the government was allowed to wiretap and otherwise surveille people strictly for the purposes of counter-terrorism. But, ever since Obama has been in office, NSA surveillance has been made available to the IRS to monitor suspected tax cheats (basically any American living abroad) and other non-terrorism related stuff.

I know of a few people (retired Americans living overseas) who, much to their surprise, are being prosecuted using NSA material – not necessarily to convict them, but their conversations with their Swiss bank officer was used to tag the officer, they listened in on his phone calls, and ID’d other Americans who had accounts with the bank. The banker (a Swiss citizen who never broke any Swiss laws) is now under indictment by a US court, who have served an international extradition order through Interpol. He is safe in Switzerland, but can be arrested if he sets foot in another country with an extradition treaty with the US, and can be brought by force to the Federal Circuit court in New York, and put on trial for money laundering, aiding and abetting tax evasion, and a number of other charges I can’t racall. Basically, he is now trapped in Switzerland. He has broken no laws, and was simply doing his job.

This is no hearsay in a bar. I know this banker. I’ve known him for over 30 years. He’s never broken the law as far as I can tell , and now he’s being targeted by the US government as if he were some kind of gun smuggler (oh wait – they don’t go after them any more, do they). And never mind his customers who are being targeted, who are generally US citizens who earned their money overseas, or who married a foreign national who had some money, and their money has been fully taxed in their place of residence. One of his clients (I know him very well) is a US citizen, but married a Swiss woman 40 years ago. She inherited quite a bit of money from her Swiss family, and now the US Government has essentially said they want half of everything, including her family’s money, in spite of their having lived in Switzerland since the 70s. He also has an international arrest warrant out for him with Interpol. He can’t leave Switzerland. (by the way, he’s no retired drug smuggler – he’s a retired mechanical engineer)

We allowed the US government unprecedented powers with the Patriot Act, and trusted them to use it wisely. With a change of administration, that trust has been thrown out the window.

If we allow these devices in our cars for any purpose whatsoever beyond simply recording the last 30-60 seconds in a buffer for accident analysis (like an aircraft’s FDR), if we allow these units to have remote location and monitoring technology, we WILL live to regret it.

I wonder if the state legislatures still controlled the federal Senate if we’d have the threat of Congress possibly ordering black boxes to be put into our vehicles? Also note that I don’t think that there is anything in Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution which Congress can use to justify these black boxes, not even the Commerce Clause (1.8.3) imo. When are Constitution-impaired citizens going to wake up to our Section 8-ignoring Congress?

@Skook: Skook: Me thinks that Liberal1 (aka BOHICAman1) enjoys the perpetual toe touch position in his adherence to the progressive screed.

We pray we never need to fire up our remi 770 .300 mag which can get up to 4cpm and also has an extra black box attachment. A lot of little pushes eventually add up to a great big shove with less risk of being shoved back.

@johngalt: #5
I have come upon hundreds of accidents. I am guessing a lot of them were from speeding. Let’s get rid of speed limits and let people drive as fast as they think they can safely? Would you want to drive on those highways? The reason we have to have driving laws is because, when the roads were first being built, people were allowed to drive the way they wanted to until they started causing accidents. If everybody drove the way they are SUPPOSED to, I believe the speeds would be faster. The speeders are slowing the rest of us down.

@John Cooper: #10
The way I understand it, Progressive is the only one who receives the info. It is a driver choice, not mandatory. You reminded me to look into it. I am retired, drive little, and obey the driving laws.

I look at the “black boxes” just like I do the street cameras. The only ones who have to worry about them are the ones who are doing something wrong. I would love to live in an area where everywhere I go is monitored, so that if something would happen to me, it would have a high chance of being recorded.

For most of my 20 years driving a truck, the trucks had tracking systems. The only ones who could access the info were the owner of the truck or trucking company. The Federal government couldn’t even have access to the info to check it against the driver’s log book.

I’m guessing that most of today’s vehicles already have a “black box” so that the mechanic can tell a lot about the engine and other parts of the vehicle.

As long as the info stored in a vehicle can only be accessed under certain situations, I don’t have a problem with it. If I am involved in an accident that isn’t my fault, I like the idea that info from my vehicle and others involved, can be downloaded and analyzed. I don’t think it should go any further than that.

Obama and the Marxists impose this type of legislation with the intent of imposing totalitarian control in the future, that is obvious, but our Republican legislators allow it to proceed under cover a veil of stupidity.

As I have mentioned before, we no longer have two political parties, just one party with two branches. The republicans not acting on Obama’s fake birth certificate is more proof of it. They could have him and most of the democrats in prison, but they choose not to.

@Smorgasbord:

I used to think the same thing about the Patriot Act, of which I was a supporter. But then you get a government who decides to use it against “class enemies”…

#23
This is another good reason for term limits. At least we would be able to take out the trash on a regular basis if needed and, possibly, correct things that need correcting. There are three other things that need to be done:

(1) Find a way to run the elections so that the politicians can’t spend any money. This way the only people who the politician has to pay back are the ones who voted for them. There are different ways to do it.

(2) Someone came up with the brilliant idea that politicians should be paid a percentage of the GNP. Economy up, pay goes up. Economy down, pay goes down.

(3) Take away ALL of the extras that the politicians SHOULDN’T have. For example, put them on ObamaCare if it stays in effect.

Remember that one way for duplicitous politicians to sneak things past the public, is to do things in a way that they don’t appear at first to be connected. I think that the CISPA Bill, H.R. 3523, that has already passed the house, is partially connected with the legislation mentioned above, (and probably many other pieces of legislation that we still don’t suspect.)

@Ditto: CISPA is the green light for internet monitoring a la ‘Blackbrier’. It appears to me that red herring legislature of a particularly onerous nature is offered with one (visible) hand to distract us from the equally burdensome intended piece held behind the back. This political sleight of hand is a threat to our liberty and freedom.

I must agree with Skook: Big Brother Is Consolidating Control Incrementally! I just finished re-reading 1984 by George Orwell. That is a rather scary look at where we are headed.

Warren, I think Alinsky and Orwell are the two guiding lights that Obama holds next to his heart. He doesn’t realize Orwell was condemning the statist philosophy, but Obama sees it as an example of what authoritarian control can accomplish. To him it is a playbook for establishing another North Korea or Cuba. He knows best, after all he has become a pop icon for the wit less semi-literate masses of academia.

Obama waivers Congressional hold on funds to PA ! And the Jewish Folk go ‘Du-du-du-dududu-du-du-du’.

IMAGINE GIVING HIM 4 MORE YEARS, it cannot happen,
it will not happen,

Obama has finally said something about China and that blind Chinese dissident, Chen Guangcheng, who escaped house arrest and is hiding in the US Embassy while seeking political asylum.
Obama wants to strike an “appropriate balance” between advancing human rights and maintaining U.S. relations with China.
Chen exposed forced abortions in China.
Obama LOVES abortions.
Obama could dither all the way to the next president and really spike a football.
It wouldn’t be his first dither.

Obama has also approved the selling of upgraded F-16s to Taiwan as well. It’s totally out of character for Obama to annoy our enemies and support our allies. My only explanation for this anomalous behavior is that the Chinese have failed to contribute to his election like they did the last time around.

Ditto
why should he make all this trouble, he is on the way out anyway,
the more trouble he make the more he will be hated by the PEOPLE
FOR CAUSING THOSE TROUBLES, HE is almost half way out now.
he should leave in an honorable way like PRESIDENT BUSH DID
BYE

@Nan G: #31
What Obama does or doesn’t do will depend on how much China donates to his campaign fund.

@John Cooper: #32
Maybe Taiwan topped China’s bid at Obama’s auction house.

to cancel the passport of a born AMERICAN IS CRIMINAL TO MY MIND,
it’s so awful that it gave me a dream of a terrible action done to an born AMERICAN.
YES I had a bad dream because I could visualyze the person who spent his life working abroad and want to come back at the later time of his life with his family to live in a house they already own
to be enjoying their RETIREMENT years in their beloved AMERICA, AND REFUSE FOR MONEY PROBLEMS
IT IS TO ME AN ABHORATION TO EVEN HAVE IT THOUGHT ABOUT DOING A LAW ON IT.
AMERICA THINK OF IT NEXT NOVEMBER, DON’T YOU FORGET IT. AND SPECIALLY THE YOUNG STUDENTS AT AGE OF VOTING, YOU DON’T YET KNOW WHERE YOUR FUTURE WILL TAKE YOU IN THE WORLD WHICH IS OPEN TO JOBS ON FOREIGN SOIL FOR A TIME AND YOU WOULD BE DENIED YOUR REENTRY IN YOUR BELOVED AMERICA, WHERE YOUR ROOTS ARE,
IT IS AWFULL TO ENVISAGE BY THIS DANGEROUS GOVERNMENT,

John Cooper
hi,
CHINA is very angry about the chineese in the EMBASSY, they are known to be unforgiving of the one helping their antigonist, if we think about how angry they where of the USA inviting the DALEE LAMA
IN THE WHITE HOUSE,
BYE

@CharlieGee:

I disagree, CISPA is definitely not a red herring, and the internet community has been fighting such legislation, (somewhat successfully by raising the public ire) for some time now. There has been virtually no reporting on CISPA which has already passed the house without the public being made aware of the bill and it’s implications. It opens the door for the government to completely monitor and control all internet communications.

As with other authoritarian attempts at censorship that have come through Congress in recent times, of course, the wording within the CISPA allows for the government to interpret the law in such a number of degrees that any online communication or interaction could be suspect and thus unknowingly monitored…

…the bill, as written, allows the US government to involve itself into any online correspondence, current exemptions notwithstanding, if it believes there is reason to suspect cyber crime. As with other authoritarian attempts at censorship that have come through Congress in recent times, of course, the wording within the CISPA allows for the government to interpret the law in such a number of degrees that any online communication or interaction could be suspect and thus unknowingly monitored.

By creeping incrementation a very similar bill can be written having the same government intrusion into wireless communications of electronic devices, including these vehicular data recorders. In fact laws passed many decades ago already allows for the government (and others) to eavesdrop on most communications without a warrant so long as they have the capability of intercepting the transmissions. Your cell phones and wireless telephones are insecure, and even an educated amateur can listen in on wireless telephone conversations. This yet another concentrated abridgment of our fourth amendment rights.