----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesus E Moses" <jesusemoses@...>
To: <sterlingda@...>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 12:27 PM
Subject: Check this out!!?


Hey Sterling,

I got these two things in E-mail yesterday & today.
You might want to link to this one.
I can't get on line to contact them.
Below is my re; to yesterdays post, then the two E-mails.

JEM
PS; I have been scaned by one of these machines.
I closed my eyes though. Our County Jail has one.

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Hi. Who are you? Well doesn't matter.
Can we post this at www.greaterthings.com
Right up our ally.
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Re; Anyone who does not appear in the system ie:
>whose info is not "an open book" in this database,
>is already viewed as a potential dangerous threat.
>Unless people can be willingly monitored,
>they are not to be trusted. This mind-set will soon infect
>the whole population and apply to everyone whether
>driving(walking?) down the road, buying a coffee, bubble gum or
>committing any other act.

I can bear witness to this already, Brother.
Police treat me as a criminal even after they find
out my old name. And I'm clean in any name they choose.
But the fact that I refuse to give the Name that is in the computer,
makes me a criminal in there eyes. I refuse to worship their god
and give them the name of the beast that I used to be. I will not even
give them my address. Texas is a Police State now, thanks to G.W. Bush
Jr..
We have another King George. I quit.

Released Prisoners are forced to give SS# if asked by police for it.
If they refuse,........... Back to Jail they go.

Ever been arrested? They give you a criminal ID number,
even if you have never been tried and convicted. Labeled a criminal
without a trial. And that is your number for life.
This has to stop!!!

Well I am their worst nightmare. Time to wake up.

JEM



On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:43:25 -0500 "Bothwell" <farmrgeo@...>
writes:
> Hello:
>
>
> Hamilton Spectator Home Page at
> http://www.hamiltonspectator.com
>
> Gaming boss says we didn't need to know about spying at
> http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/news/353839.html
>
> Smile when you bet, your privacy is gone at
> http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/editorial/353532.html
>
> Check out these stories on scanning of citizens and biometric
> identification, by Joan Walters and Robert Howard from the Hamilton
> Spectator.
>
> What is overlooked in all these stories is if or where the
> driver
> licence/health facial recognition databases fit into all of this.
> We are
> eventually told that the OPP, a government agency, have become
> involved in
> providing the casinos (private sector) with information that
> Ontarians have
> been assured is protected.
>
> Who "protects" the driver licence database which is "shared" with the
> OPP and sold to Equifax, and no doubt on a reciprocal basis. I am
> referring
> to your driver licence and health data bases from which the
> "protectors"
> sell information; information that correlates with the "facial
> recognition"
> software, and which can be accessed without "your card, your
> knowledge,
> or your participation."
>
> The OPP & MTO say that access to this database is "in a very
> controlled
> environment"! Yes, in their control and out of your control. (Did
> the
> majority of the people want public casinos in the first place?)
>
> In the near future the easy solution to the problem of criminals
> hiding
> their identity will be simply the converse of what we are now told
> is the
> current practise. Instead they will scan and verify all casino
> entrants
> against the same health/driver's license database, and deny entry
> to the
> casino to everyone that the system is unable to verify in the
> database.
>
> This practise of requiring enforced fraternity in the database is
> the "thin
> end of the wedge", one death knell of liberty which the banking
> industry has pursued with a religious fervour since banking's
> inception.
> Who today thinks they can function ie: survive without a bank?
>
> This universal inclusion, is a prerequisite to religiously
> enforcing third
> party(bank) control over every individual's financial transactions.
> This
> drive comes from the supernatural realm and a desire to emulate the
> god of
> banking symbolized on the one dollar Federal Reserve Note in the USA
> as well
> as in every temple of the Masonic Order world wide; an all pervasive
> "all
> seeing eye".
>
> Cameras as an embodiment of this "enlightened all seeing eye"
> from the
> top of the pyramid, is which masons world wide are evangalizing men
> to
> secretly accept as their personnal "supreme being". Soon, follower
> or not,
> everyone will fail to even breath against such surveillance systems
> for fear
> of being targeted. As a god, this eye professes to provide
> increased
> "peace and security" to the whole world, but first he needs your
> co-operation. ALL, both small and great, rich and poor, free and
> bond,
> need to "didomi a charagma"(give an express image,or exact
> representation)
> from in their right hand or face for such a system to operate.
> Anyone who
> does not appear in the system ie: whose info is not "an open book"
> in this
> database, is already viewed as a potential dangerous threat. Unless
> people
> can be willingly monitored, they are not to be trusted. This
> mind-set will
> soon infect the whole population and apply to everyone whether
> driving(walking?) down the road, buying a coffee, bubble gum or
> committing
> any other act. They will be perceived to be "dangerous" to the
> peace and
> security of the state/Global Village. Everyone will soon come to
> appreciate
> the need for everyone and in particular themselves to be under the
> constant
> gaze of "the all seeing eye the great architect of the universe!
>
> Athough the worldly will be deceived it is of course no
> suprise
> for Remnant Christians who know tomorrows news yesterday. We are
> clearly
> told that when mankind waxes cold with Christ it will give rise to
> such a
> beastly merciless transaction system, with images and all, to enable
> enforcement of "the great(FALSE)architect's" designs.
>
> There is nothing new under the sun. As in Joshua's day you are
> still
> being challenged to "choose you this day whom ye will serve". Time
> waits
> on no man!
>
>
> Hamilton Spectator Home Page at
> http://www.hamiltonspectator.com
>
> Gaming boss says we didn't need to know about spying at
> http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/news/353839.html
>
> Smile when you bet, your privacy is gone at
> http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/editorial/353532.html


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UPDATED: Fri Jan 19, 2001 02:10 AM


Cops scan Pearson travellers

Joan Walters
The Hamilton Spectator



Face recognition technology matches photographs taken by surveillance
cameras with photos stored in a computer database. Imagis Technologies
has a Web site at www.imagis-cascade.com.


The RCMP is using face recognition at Canada's largest airport to
identify drug dealers and other criminals. The system, similar to one at
Ontario casinos, lets police feed a suspect's image into a criminal
database, looking for mug-shot matches.
The facial-scanning system at Pearson International is believed to be the
first in North America to operate at a port-of-entry airport.

RCMP confirm they use face scans when a suspicious person is spotted and
then detained to check his or her identity and criminal record.

There is no general video scanning of travellers at any time, according
to RCMP spokesman Michele Paradis.

But the RCMP did not respond to questions about whether it submits
videotape of a suspicious person to the mug-shot database without the
subject's knowledge, or the exact circumstances in which the technology
is used.

The system is from Imagis Technologies Inc., a Vancouver firm whose
chairman of the board is Oliver (Buck) Revell, former deputy director of
the FBI and an anti-terrorism expert.

Company advisers include Norman Inkster, former commissioner of the RCMP
and a one-time head of Interpol, and Reid Morden, who was director of the
Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in the late 1980s.

Morden was not able to speak about how the RCMP system works, but said
face scans are an effective tool against drugs, terrorism and organized
crime.

"I bet every time you went through Heathrow Airport, you didn't know that
if you walk up a certain ramp, somebody is taking a good look at you,"
said Morden, chairman of the corporate intelligence unit for KPMG
consultants.

"But if you were faced, as the British are, with the kind of random
violence of the IRA, is that a justified invasion of your privacy? I
think it probably is."

Even so, rules will be needed soon for what he calls the "Wild West
that's out there" in new technology.

Huge political pressures and the fast pace of identity technology
development raise the risk of privacy invasion, said Morden, the former
CSIS boss.

"There's been a lot of criticism about our extremely porous border, which
has certainly raised the political temperature in the U.S.," he said.

"I don't think we've had that same level of criticism from the people who
are counterparts of the Canadian agencies, the American immigration
service, the FBI, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency."

But political heat is on, and for Canada to change its reputation as a
gateway for illegal and often criminal immigration, borders must tighten
-- even while budgets are cut.

Low-manpower solutions like biometrics might prove irresistible even
though privacy advocates say they are invasive.

"People with privacy concerns, and legislators, will have to turn their
mind to what is an appropriate use of the technology and where it can be
used," Morden said.

Biometrics refers to the electronic identification of a person by
measuring distinctive biological characteristics such as faces, fingers
or hands.

Face recognition is popular because so many photos of individuals already
exist. But it is controversial.

Ontario's privacy commissioner launched an investigation into face
scanning at Ontario casinos after The Spectator revealed police were
secretly using their own high-tech system to find cheats.

That technology, from a different U.S. supplier, lets the OPP compare
images from live video surveillance inside the casinos to a digital
database of criminal mug shots.

As with all such systems, the image of a suspect can be captured on
video, digitized and then scanned against a database of facial images for
hits. The systems can search thousands of faces on file to produce
matches, according to what police have asked for.

The system is not foolproof and not as sophisticated as it is about to
become in the next six months, says Iain Drummond, chief executive of
Imagis.

Matches still need to be visually checked, but finding out who someone is
or whether they have a record can be done at near light speed.

"We use a mathematical process that picks up about 250 areas of the face,
looking for difference in gradation, things like curvature of the eye
socket," Drummond said.

A criminal might be able to change appearances, things like mustache,
hair colour, even some features with plastic surgery. But bone structure
does not change, making it possible to nab suspects who otherwise would
pass.

"They must sound to the public like they're engaged in some sort of James
Bond activity," says Gary Jonosko, a Lakehead University professor
specializing in surveillance.

"But this is a fairly common practice around the world. It's new to
Canada, perhaps, but not exactly new."

Face recognition emerged in the past decade, at first because England
needed to identify leaders of soccer hooliganism in the early 1990s.

Then it became evident how powerful a tool face scanning could be, both
to confirm identity and do surveillance.

For the past two years, the English community of Newham has scanned faces
in a pilot project with more than 300 cameras. They are hooked up to a
control room that scans passersby for matches with criminals.

Many businesses already use face scans to confirm customer identity, and
scans are emerging as a security check for automated bank machines.

Face scanning is also used internally by law enforcement agencies across
North America, including the RCMP.

About 30 regular RCMP detachments, including Newmarket, western Canada
and the Maritimes, use a different computer system from Imagis, which
includes face scans on booking.

When a suspect is fingerprinted, photographed and processed, the system
enters the data digitally into each detachment's database. This means
officers in a cruiser can later take a digital picture of an offender and
compare it with the local database.

You can contact Joan Walters by e-mail at jwalters@...
or by telephone at 905-526-3302.

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