American Conspiracies - Jesse Ventura [117]
I asked one buyer, “Well, you live in Florida, if the shit hits the fan, how are you going to get here?” He told me, “We have contingency plans.” But if all the electricity’s gone, you’re going to walk? “If we have to,” he said. And you figure people are going to stand out there and hand you food while you make your journey? “We have contingency plans,” he said again.
A different fellow I interviewed has been a bunker builder for 20 years, for rich people who want a safe shelter under their house to safeguard against hurricanes or tornadoes. He told me about a certain material that only a couple of vendors sell. In the course of the last decade, when he’s tried to get it, he couldn’t. Because the government has bought them out. He said the government is building massive bunkers as fast as they possibly can. Why? What do they know that they’re not telling the rest of us?
I’m not suggesting that President Obama is a part of such a scheme. He may not even be privy to it. But in the event of a “national emergency,” the bunkers would ensure Continuity of Government. Meantime, in a martial law scenario, all the technology is in place to impose government’s will on the people. James Bamford, an author who specializes in what the National Security Agency is up to, says they’re even developing an artificial intelligence system designed to know what people are thinking! Here come the thought police!59
Think about what our so-called technological advances really mean. Early in 2009, the National Security Archive in D.C. obtained an “Information Operations Roadmap” under a Freedom of Information Act request. This was signed by Rumsfeld in 2003, and it calls for electronic warfare, in the form of computer network attack specialists and Psyops troops whose specialty is manipulating the beliefs of an enemy. At the Pentagon’s request, a private company called the Lincoln Group planted hundreds of articles in Iraqi newspapers in support of U.S. policy. “Information intended for foreign audience, including public diplomacy and Psyops, is increasingly consumed by our domestic audience. Psyops messages will often be replayed by the news media for much larger audiences, including the American people.” (CIA and FBI computers have already been used to edit Wikipedia entries on things like the Iraq War and Guantánamo.)60 If that’s not Big Brother enough, the document closes with the recommendation that the Pentagon ought to pursue an ability to “provide maximum control of the entire electromagnetic spectrum . . . disrupt or destroy the full spectrum of globally emerging communications systems, sensors, and weapons systems dependent on the electromagnetic spectrum.” Which translates into being able to KO every telephone, networked computer, and radar system anywhere on the planet.61 Darth Vader, your time may be coming.
Under the radar, a provision was slipped into the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization bill at the end of 2005. It’s the DNA Fingerprint Act, meaning that if you get arrested at a demonstration on federal property, they can take a sample of your DNA and keep it on permanent file.62 This fits nicely with a billion-dollar FBI project to have a massive computer database containing individuals’ physical characteristics. They call this biometrics, and it gives the government a brand-new opportunity to identify folks at home and abroad. They’re storing digital images of faces, fingerprints and palm types in a climate-controlled underground facility in Clarksburg, West Virginia. They’ll soon be crime-stopping even by analyzing the way we walk and talk.63 At some airports, people who aren’t line-standers at the metal detectors are taking advantage of the “opportunity” to have their irises scanned to prove they’ve passed