Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, the new way to light streets is using computerized street lights that include speakers, cameras and motion sensors, all aided through government funding in the interest of "Homeland Security."
Particularly spooky are the LED banners hung from lampposts that change to whatever signal they get; the image projected as an example is an Amber alert. The child's image is featured in a rotating message.
Imagine a scene such as Fahrenheit's Burning Bright scene, where the protagonist Montag is pursued by the police; his image is projected on every TV and, of course, everyone has their televisions on, his scent is tracked by a mechanical hound and even the radio projects the GPS tracked location of the runaway.
This is a summary from Spark Notes of the passage:
Montag is able to watch the Hound track him by glancing through people’s house windows into their TV parlors. Literally everybody is watching the televised chase. Montag sees the Hound hesitate when it gets to Faber’s house, but it quickly runs on. As Montag continues to run toward the river, he hears an announcement on his Seashell radio telling everyone to get up and look out their doors and windows for him on the count of ten. He reaches the river just as the announcer counts to ten and all the doors in the neighborhood start to open. To keep the Hound from picking up his scent, he wades into the river and drifts away with the current. He avoids the searchlights of the police helicopters, and then sees them turn and fly away. He washes ashore in the countryside.Later when they can't find Montag, an "anonymous scapegoat" is murdered to make the audience think that the police community has done its job.
It's all very clinical, very personal and very vicious because law enforcement officials are swollen with their own importance, pride and power.
Who's to say this isn't happening now? Who's to say where this will lead?
The most interesting part of this video is in the last 2 minutes. Homeland Security is only mentioned once.
Infowars has more on the xray scan technology being developed to see through clothes looking for "weapons." It's not like we haven't seen that before at the airport and now the streets of this country.
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