“A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power.”—Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle
If we haven’t learned by now, we should beware of anything the government insists is for our own good.
Take the Biden Administration’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
Given the deteriorating state of the nation’s infrastructure (aging highways and bridges, outdated railways and airports, etc.), which have been neglected for years in order to fund America’s endless wars abroad, it would seem like an obvious and long overdue fix.
Yet there’s a catch.
There’s always a catch.
Tucked into the whopping $1 trillion bipartisan spending bill is a provision requiring automakers to prescribe a “federal motor vehicle safety standard for advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology, and for other purposes.”
As Jason Torchinksky writes for Jalopnik:
It’s pretty clear that the goals of this section of the law are to reduce drunk driving fatalities and crashes via still-undetermined technological tools that somehow are able to “passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired,” and/or “passively and accurately detect whether the blood alcohol concentration of a driver of a motor vehicle is equal to or greater than the blood alcohol concentration described in section 163(a) of title 23, United States Code,” and if either or both of these conditions are proven to be positive — if the car thinks you’re drunk, then it may “prevent or limit motor vehicle operation.”
As expected, the details are disconcertingly vague, which leaves the government with a wide berth to sow the seeds of mischief and mayhem. For instance, nowhere does the legislation indicate how such a so-called “kill switch” would work, what constitutes a driver who is “impaired,” and what “other purposes” might warrant the government using such a backdoor kill switch.
As former Rep. Bob Barr explains:
Everything about this mandatory measure should set off red flares. First, use of the word “passively” suggests the system will always be on and constantly monitoring the vehicle. Secondly, the system must connect to the vehicle’s operational controls, so as to disable the vehicle either before driving or during, when impairment is detected. Thirdly, it will be an “open” system, or at least one with a backdoor, meaning authorized (or unauthorized) third-parties can remotely access the system’s data at any time.
This is a privacy disaster in the making, and the fact that the provision made it through the Congress reveals — yet again — how little its members care about the privacy of their constituents… The lack of ultimate control over one’s vehicle presents numerous and extremely serious safety issues… If that is not reason enough for concern, there are serious legal issues with this mandate. Other vehicle-related enforcement methods used by the Nanny State, such as traffic cameras and license plate readers, have long presented constitutional problems; notably with the 5th Amendment’s right to not self-incriminate, and the 6th Amendment’s right to face one’s accuser.
Once again, the burden of proof is reversed, and “we the people” find ourselves no longer presumed innocent until proven guilty but suspects in a suspect society.
These “vehicle kill switches” may be sold to the public as a safety measure aimed at keeping drunk drivers off the roads, but they will quickly become a convenient tool in the hands of government agents to put the government in the driver’s seat while rendering null and void the Constitution’s requirements of privacy and its prohibitions against unreasonable searches and seizures.
Indeed, when you think about it, these vehicle kill switches are a perfect metaphor for the government’s efforts to not only take control of our cars but also our freedoms and our lives.
For too long, we have been captive passengers in a driverless car controlled by the government, losing more and more of our privacy and autonomy the further down the road we go.
Just think of all the ways in which the government has been empowered to dictate what we say, do and think; where we go; with whom we associate; how we raise our families; how we live our lives; what we consume; how we spend our money; how we protect ourselves and our loved ones; and to what extent our rights as individuals can be displaced for the sake of the so-called greater good.
In this way, we have arrived, way ahead of schedule, into the dystopian future dreamed up by such science fiction writers as George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick.
In keeping with Dick’s darkly prophetic vision of a dystopian police state—which became the basis for Steven Spielberg’s futuristic thriller Minority Report, which was released 20 years ago—we have been imprisoned in a world in which the government is all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful, and if you dare to step out of line, dark-clad police SWAT teams and pre-crime units will crack a few skulls to bring the populace under control.
Minority Report is set in the year 2054, but it could just as well have taken place in 2022.
Incredibly, as the various nascent technologies employed and shared by the government and corporations alike—facial recognition, iris scanners, massive databases, behavior prediction software, and so on—are incorporated into a complex, interwoven cyber network aimed at tracking our movements, predicting our thoughts and controlling our behavior, Spielberg’s unnerving vision of the future is fast becoming our reality.
Both worlds—our present-day reality and Minority Report’s celluloid vision of the future—are characterized by widespread surveillance, behavior prediction technologies, data mining, fusion centers, driverless cars, voice-controlled homes, facial recognition systems, cybugs and drones, and predictive policing (pre-crime) aimed at capturing would-be criminals before they can do any damage.
Surveillance cameras are everywhere. Government agents listen in on our telephone calls and read our emails. Political correctness—a philosophy that discourages diversity—has become a guiding principle of modern society.
The courts have shredded the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and seizures. In fact, SWAT teams battering down doors without search warrants and FBI agents acting as a secret police that investigate dissenting citizens are common occurrences in contemporary America.
We are increasingly ruled by multi-corporations wedded to the police state. Much of the population is either hooked on illegal drugs or ones prescribed by doctors. And bodily privacy and integrity has been utterly eviscerated by a prevailing view that Americans have no rights over what happens to their bodies during an encounter with government officials, who are allowed to search, seize, strip, scan, spy on, probe, pat down, taser, and arrest any individual at any time and for the slightest provocation.
We’re on the losing end of a technological revolution that has already taken hostage our computers, our phones, our finances, our entertainment, our shopping, our appliances, and now, our cars. As if the government wasn’t already able to track our movements on the nation’s highways and byways by way of satellites, GPS devices, and real-time traffic cameras, performance data recorders, black box recorders and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications will monitor our vehicle’s speed, direction, location, gear selection, brake force, the number of miles traveled and seatbelts use, and transmit this data to other drivers, including the police.
In this Brave New World, there is no communication not spied upon, no movement untracked, no thought unheard. In other words, there is nowhere to run and nowhere to hide.
Herded along by drones, smart phones, GPS devices, smart TVs, social media, smart meters, surveillance cameras, facial recognition software, online banking, license plate readers and driverless cars, we are quickly approaching a point of singularity with the interconnected technological metaverse that is life in the American police state.
Every new piece of technologically-enabled gadget we acquire and technologically-boobytrapped legislation that Congress enacts pulls us that much deeper into the sticky snare.
These vehicle kill switches are yet another Trojan Horse: sold to us as safety measures for the sake of the greater good, all the while poised to wreak havoc on what little shreds of autonomy we have left.
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, we’re hurtling down a one-way road at mind-boggling speeds to a destination not of our choosing, the terrain is getting more treacherous by the minute, and we’ve passed all the exit ramps.
From this point forward, there is no turning back, and the signpost ahead reads “Danger.”
Time to buckle up your seatbelts, folks. We’re in for a bumpy ride.
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Screw it. We will all be forced to electric vehicles in the future anyway. It is best to get some old vehicles and keep them running. It is tough living in a state that uses salt, so some preventative measures have to be taken. I have run plenty of old Corollas well into the 250k mile mark and had to get rid of them simply because they rusted to shit. Luckily I have a connection in the south so will keep getting them in the near future. My next plan is to get a pre-EMP multi-fuel old military truck. Searching for either a 2.5 ton or maybe smaller like an old GM made green camo pickup with the 6.2 diesel.
Good ol Jeeps with the 4.0 x 6 cyl. Just put new plugs in mine last weekend. Took 20 minutes and 36$. I been getting offers for it but no can do. Some years ago I traded in my old Commanche for a newer jeep. As I was getting in the newer one, the mechanic ran outside pointing at the Commanche yelling at the salesman, “That’s Mine!”…. I knew I screwed up…..
The batteries will run out and then there will be no place to put the old ones and it will be game over for the EV scam.
I have a 92 Ford F350 with the 7.3 diesel. This thing runs on just about anything you put in it. I can run it on old cooking oil or even reclaimed engine oil(if thin enough). Plus, it has a mechanical injector pump and mechanical fuel pump. All you need if an EMP hits is to replace the batteries(if hooked up) and a starter. I will be rolling while a lot of other people are riding bikes.
I have a 97 F350 with the 7.3. It is my work-truck and plow truck. They switched over to a hybrid injection system I believe in 95, so it has electrical components. I have plan to switch it over to an IDI system like yours.
there is an easy answer to this invasion of our property,
do not buy one of these cars. In a few years our hi ways will look like the roads of Cuba and Venezuela but we will be in control. Or we could throw the bums out of office in 2024.
There is no escape . Find that hill to defend !
It’s for the greater good , LOL
Pull a Gandhi on their WEF , NWO asses !
Just remember that armed badge wearing LEO plain clothes or uniformed , Fed , State and local are just doing my job drones following orders like good little mindless statist NAZI idiots !
Are not your friend !
They proclaim to be serving and protecting , sadly far to many only harass & collect $$$$!
I like to let them know I know they’re watching, then remind each of them how their individual role in the destruction of humanity and Christians in particular is duly noted by my Lord savior and protector Jesus and how they will soon be burning in hellfire and then I like to give them one of these along with a few choice imprecatory prayers..
The FBI recruit the local police and crack heads to compartmentalize and to do all their dirty work for them. That doesn’t exonerate them in my book. They’re all going down. Everyone’s culpable for the small role they play however innocuous it might seem. Yall just remember that.
Until people understand that tyranny can only come at the end of a gun and the end of tyranny can only come at the end of citizens guns, nothing will change.
The above-mentioned technology has been in our class 8 or over-the-road trucks now for many years electronic logs electronic truck controls… Trucks can be shut down NOW buy a mere keyboard stroke from a remote location… All for your “safety”
We’ll have to see where this goes….
Board of Health Issues First Known U.S. Cease and Desist Order for Cell Tower Due to Ongoing Residential Health Complaints
On February 2, 2022, the Pittsfield, MA Board of Health unanimously voted to issue a cease and desist order to Verizon to shut down its tower located at 877 South Street. Families living in the neighborhood near the tower reported wireless radiation-related health issues soon after the tower became operational in 2020 and since then, have been working tirelessly to turn the transmissions off. This action is the first known cease and desist by a Board of Health in the United States…
Over the past few months, the Board of Health held two meetings with Verizon Wireless to discuss the possibility of having Verizon relocate the tower away from the neighborhood to an alternative, less intrusive site. In the last meeting, Verizon stated that it would not move the tower and it would not power it down….
Throughout the year, Verizon has contended that the tower radiation emissions were “compliant with FCC cell tower radiation limits.” However community advocates and experts repeatedly presented evidence that compliance with FCC limits did not mean safety was assured…..
In August 2021, a federal court ruled in favor of organizations and petitioners that sued the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for NOT adequately protecting Americans from wireless radiation exposure from cell towers and other sources including 5G. More recently non-profit groups petitioned the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to declare wireless radiation an “imminent” health hazard and to start warning the public about this.
https://www.activistpost.com/2022/02/board-of-health-issues-first-known-u-s-cease-and-desist-order-for-cell-tower-due-to-ongoing-residential-health-complaints.html
Make lemonade – start a business fixing up & reselling older vehicles. The demand is there.
there has been kill switches and cars for at least 20 years.
I’ve witnessed it. cars that all of a sudden can’t start and have to get towed from our parking lots because the owner didn’t pay a car payment so it was remotely deactivated.
In another word, it’s more than for drunks. It’s about getting YOU three different ways. The car manufacturers must REFUSE to listen to the commies up there and NOT be afraid of them for they are illegal to be ruling you in the first place and secondly this is a VILE-lation of your Constitution.
Just tell them UCKFE YOU, commie.
all of my vehicles are more than ten years old
all my vehicles are at least ten years old, now you know why