In an article from RT today titled Seattle police deactivate surveillance system after public outrage, the police said they had disabled its spying mesh system. There is a problem with this statement in that the Seattle Police until today had said that the system had never been activated in the first place, and was not being used. Just another lie by the state!
Police Chief Jim Pugel said:
“The wireless mesh network will be deactivated until city council approves a draft policy and until there’s an opportunity for vigorous public debate.”
The city council said:
“Our position is that the technology is the technology,” but we want to make sure that we have safeguards and policies in place so people with legitimate privacy concerns aren’t worried about how it’s being used.”
What does all this mean? It means that due to massive pressure by the citizenry, that pressure applied due to the reporting by blogs and other non-mainstream sources, (the mainstream media, another arm of the state , has been mostly silent) that the Seattle Police and the city council had to back away from this obvious surveillance invasion. But the pressure from the masses will need to continue unabated, because the police and city council are doing this only as a temporary measure until they can resell it to the public by appeasing their privacy concerns.
In other words, the position of the Seattle politicians is that this is just a temporary setback, and the spy system can be re-activated soon. No one should let that happen, and this travesty should be buried for good. Continued strong resistance and dissent should be the rule, and whatever pressure is necessary to stop this Nazi style spying should be affected by the people of this country, especially those in and around Seattle.
The state will not give in voluntarily. The state will always lie. The state will attempt to continue its assault on liberty, and therefore the state must not under any circumstances be allowed to continue with this totalitarian voyerism!
“The state lies in all the tongues of good and evil, and whatever it says is lies, and whatever it has, it has stolen, everything it is, is false, it bites with stolen teeth, and it bites often, it is false down to its bowels.”
~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra [1896]