In Manhattan, Big Bro Lost On Congestion Pricing But Intends To Track All Cars Under Terra!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

For about a year, NYC tried to pass a plan for "congestion" pricing for all cars entering midtown Manhattan. The stated intent was to cut down on pollution and trqaffic congestion. The plan was to photo all license plates in midtown Manhattan and send bills. The plan did not pass the state. At that time I thought that it had nothing to do with pollution and traffic jams. I believed it was to track people's movements. My tinfoil hat is never far away.

I just woke up and heard this on the local NBC News... I was right.......


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/nyregion/12cars.html

City Would Photograph Every Vehicle Entering Manhattan and Sniff Out Radioactivity

By AL BAKER
Published: August 11, 2008

The Police Department is working on a plan to track every vehicle that enters Manhattan to strengthen the city’s guard against a potential terror attack, the department’s chief spokesman said.

Police Want Tight Security Zone at Ground Zero (August 12, 2008)

The proposal — called Operation Sentinel — relies on integrating layers of technologies, some that are still being perfected. It calls for photographing, and scanning the license plates of, cars and trucks at all bridges and tunnels and using sensors to detect the presence of radioactivity.

Data on each vehicle — its time-stamped image, license plate imprint and radiological signature — would be sent to a command center in Lower Manhattan, where it would be indexed and stored for at least a month as part of a broad security plan that emphasizes protecting the city’s financial district, the spokesman, Paul J. Browne, said. If it were not linked to a suspicious vehicle or a law enforcement investigation, it would be eliminated, he said.

“Our main objective would be to, through intelligence, find out about a plot before it ever got to a stage where a nuclear device or a dirty bomb was coming our way,” Mr. Browne said. “This provides for our defense after a plot has already been launched and a device is on its way.”

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[hobbit709]

1. You can tell which has a higher priority

"part of a broad security plan that emphasizes protecting the city’s financial district"
Evidently that is more important than the lives of the people.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

2. It was with that same "reasoning" that the White House made the EPA say that the air was safe to

breathe right after 9/11, and now you have thousands affected by respiratory disease.

[Clovis Sangrail]

3. temporary

tire pressure monitoring systems have been mandatory on new cars for a few years now
these are rfid devices inside your car's tires that wirelessly broadcast unique id's.

At some point the govt is going to formally start keeping track (they connections are already there to trace an RFID back to an owner in some cases).
Then they will be able to monitor what cars - belonging to who - pass by certain points.
Readers capable of picking them are already *cheap.

I think this is how they will monitor the location of cars.
It's cheap and not obvious.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. Do you know if these RFIDs are being placed in replacement tires too?