Wednesday, May 23, 2018

The Police State Solution To School Shootings

Amid the highly-publicized spate of mass shootings in America, one public school district is set to impose unprecedented police state tactics to ensure “security” and safety for students.

Starting next school year, schools in New York’s Lockport district will be equipped not only with bulletproof glass and surveillance cameras but also with facial recognition technology used by police forces and military units.

“We always have to be on our guard. We can’t let our guard down,” Lockport Superintendent Michelle T. Bradley told Syracuse.com. “That’s the world that we’re living in. Times have changed. For the Board of Education and the Lockport City School District, this is the No. 1 priority: school security.”

You can read the rest @
https://www.activistpost.com/2018/05/ny-schools-to-install-facial-recognition-tech-used-by-police-and-military.html

We've had "homeland security" for going on 17 years now. Has it made us any safer?

We're no longer on the "slippery slope" of totalitarianism; we've gone into free fall.

2 comments:

  1. As investigations such as this one prove, our "homeland security" apparatus exists mainly to ensnare fools who otherwise would pose no threat to our security:

    https://theintercept.com/2018/05/23/texas-teen-isis-mall-shooting/

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  2. Amazon et al. want us to live in a prison camp:

    https://www.activistpost.com/2018/05/amazons-plan-to-help-police-identify-citizens-in-real-time-and-predict-crimes.html

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